Comments on: Rule #54: Demand Special Treatment For Your Child

By: Rule #74: Tell People Your Child Has Special Powers — Bad Parenting Advice

Rule #74: Tell People Your Child Has Special Powers — Bad Parenting Advice — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:51:51 +0000

[...] Naturally, you’ve mentioned to anyone who’d listen that your child is gifted and talented. [...]

By: momma of two

momma of two — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:23:35 +0000

i know parents like this-friends of mine.
also i work in the ER where, well, everybody is in turmoil. no one wants to be there. if i hear…”my bobby is a real hard stick for IV…” again, i may just say, “you are right bitch, he is. because he is two and you waited three days of vomiting before bringing him in! so now he is dehydrated, his veins are small, and he’s mad, because he feels like shit. he needs fluids and starting this IV ISN’T gonna be pretty no matter what i tell you so you may as well wait in the hall and talk bad about me later! have a great day.” ahhh…if our outside voices were permissible!

By: Kidgarbage

Kidgarbage — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:49:48 +0000

Make up a fake hereditary handicap for your child, complete with fake doctors note. Contact the school and demand that the school bus route MUST have a stop in front of your house because you child cant stand outside. This is guaranteed to work.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:48:20 +0000

Did I ever mention the time that bitchy Marcia called me up to tell me that Grayson ‘must have gotten food poisoning’ from the food I served at my son’s birthday? WTF? Can you imagine having the nerve or the time to make a mean, bitchy phone call like that? and Grayson — is that not THE most pretentious name you ever heard?

By: All Star Coach

All Star Coach — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:43:57 +0000

Thanks you all for making me laugh. I just finished managing my daughter’s all-start softball team, and throughout the district tournament was met with many of the parental compulsions alluded to. I Googled “coaching bad parents” and this was my first hit. Sweet. I am happy that I am not insane. It amazes me how parents will use filters to fit the emotional outcome for themselves that they are expecting. Before the championship game tonight, my beloved scorekepper mom became irate that her daughter wasn’t catching. Forget that she stinks, but was starting at left field and batting 6th, that wasn’t enough. I concluded at that point, that after 6 seasons in soccer and softball, it was time for a break. But now I’m the one rambling. Thanks for the laugh. The secret to life is thick skin!

By: Perry

Perry — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:19:43 +0000

I coached girls travel softball for a few years. Clearly you’ve had to deal with parents and a similar level. Before I got into coaching a friend of mine who had been coaching travel baseball once said to me “I love nothing better then cutting mediocre players and their gigantic pain in the ass parents.” I thought that was harsh at the time but I learned to totally understand where he was coming from.

By: Lula

Lula — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:20:01 +0000

hi there one things i want to tell guys
my parent treat me bad i dont knew why they doing this
sometime when he yell me he just call me the word

By: jason

jason — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:56:56 +0000

“Since young Timothy is far from average, it’s natural that you expect all authority-figures he encounters in life to instantly notice and embrace Timothy’s unique abilities and insight.”

Oh GOD. you must be a teacher. we face this with so many people.

By: bloggingmom67

bloggingmom67 — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:38:46 +0000

Great post, as always. I’d add on to your list:

If you child gets in trouble at school and get suspended, burst right into the principal’s office and demand an apology. So what if your kid blew up the boys’ bathroom. Boys will be boys. Why should your child get punished?

By: SillyDad

SillyDad — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:56:13 +0000

One way we let other parents know our child is better than theirs is by creating a gift registry at the local mall for her birthday – which she celebrates twice a year because her actual birthday is in the winter and we don’t want her to miss the fun of a summer party or the popularity inducing school time party.
Then, if/when a child brings a substandard gift to one of her birthday parties, we simply re-gift the item back to the original giver at their birthday. That way, they learn that giving low quality gifts, to our daughter at least, is unacceptable.
Also, when RSVPing to an invitation, we make sure that, if they expect our daughter to grace their common child’s mediocre party with her presence, they must bake a separate cake – whole grain, no sugar, and absolutely organic- provide guava juice, and have a sterile location for her to cleanse herself from contact with them before she returns home.
Hey, we’re only doing what’s best for our child, right?