Nate Armbruster
I’m fortunate enough to have pretty chill parents but not everyone is as lucky as me. By the standards of my friends (and the people in this thread) all of the things my parents did to try and be “strict” were pretty milquetoast.
I had my driver’s license before I had a cell phone. I could go wherever I wanted as long as I couldn’t communicate with them. That was my version of coming home before the street lights came on.
In a new subreddit called, appropriately, “Insane Parents,” kids are calling out their moms and dads for less than, umm, “acceptable behavior.”
Some are kinda funny, some are kinda sad, but yea, I think all qualify as “insane” to a degree:
1. “Should’ve stayed home.”
2. “I synced my calendar with my mum and forgot I have my birth control implant replacement date marked 3 years from now. She saw it and texted me this while I was at work. I’m 20.”
3. “I’m immunocompromised and my mom refused to let me isolate. Now I have the coronavirus.”
4. “My mother dearest, whom my sister and I JUST let back into our lives, talking to my sister about her daughter (my niece). Behold the kind of person she is…”
5. “An insane mom.”
6. “Never thought my mom was that insane but I guess Jesus is anti-metal straw. Sorry if it doesn’t seem serious, I can’t take anything seriously.”
7. Chill, mom.
8. “Mom just asked me for $600 when I work a minimum wage job then tells me to stop spending?”
9. A nice back and forth between a father and son.
10. “My mum is abusing our brand new security system.”
11. “Father tries to say he put me through college. My 1k monthly loan payments say otherwise.”
12. “My father tracking me while I’m on a date.”
13. “My mom thinks I’m on drugs because I left the toilet seat up and got a C in one class.”
14. “(In university) Parents track my location and know I didn’t go to class (because I had already turned in the project we were working on and didn’t need to work in-studio)”
15. “The nerve of this mom…”
16. “Wow, passive-aggressive much mom?”
17. “Literally happened today.”
18. “My mom’s response when I came out to her. Haven’t talked to them for two weeks now.”
19. “Back at it again with another veggie insanity photo!”
20. “Insane parents destroy their child’s art tablet for…not getting up on time.”
21. “Found this on Instagram. Poo kid.”
22. “I’m the bad guy now, apparently, for asking my father to make sure his whooping cough vaccine is up to date before he snuggles up to my son who is due soon.”
23. “My dad thinks he is entitled to my money (which I don’t have much of) because “it’s Christmas”
24. “I’m the only kid in the family who didn’t become a doctor. My mom forced my dad to post for my graduation since he always brags about my doctor and dentist siblings. This is what I got.”
25. “So this what I have to endure through this Pandemic. Not sure which is worst…and yeah she’s an anti-vax…”
26. “A girl with over 125k followers posted this.”
27. “I’m going to an Iron Maiden concert. I’m also almost 30.”
28. “I was taking a test…”
29. “I’m on a school trip…on my way to the school.”
30. “My mom texts me and all my siblings every Sunday to tell us to go to church. The youngest one of us is 19 years old and we all live hours away from her now. I had to do it to her.”
