Horrible things your parents did to you

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  • rejs1170
    rejs1170 Posts: 23 Member
    My mother used to strip off all of my clothes and rub oil all over me. She also used to put her boob in my mouth.
    SICK stuff, I was just a baby!
    That B1TCH is going down!

    Winner!!!!!!
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  • bequ
    bequ Posts: 14
    I can sooo relate to the 70's homemade clothes!!! The pictures of my sisters and me wearing dresses so short our underwear would show when we bent over. Aaarg!!! But that was the fashion and we were the poster children. AND we had really short hair because our mom didn't want to deal with snarls in our hair. And of course I kept my first daughter's hair short and she still hasn't forgiven me!!!

    But I have to say, we didn't have much money and my mom hated to sew, but she did so we would have "new" clothes every year. Thanks Mom!!!! I love you and miss you with all my heart <3
  • Cheechos
    Cheechos Posts: 293
    My mom liked to scare me when I was little. One of her favorite things to do was hide in the closet and scratch at the door, saying my name in this weird, whispery voice. She also enjoyed popping out at me from around corners and sneaking up on me in the hallway, jabbing me in the sides with her fingers and making me jump a mile before sobbing my eyes out. Another brilliant idea of hers was to take me to see Scream when it came out in theaters. I was so afraid that I tried to crawl up over my seat to escape (which she thought was hilarious, of course). .__.
  • rpphillip
    rpphillip Posts: 230 Member
    Me and my brother rode in the back of the truck just about everywhere we went. We had a spare tire to sit on. Seat belts? What the hell were those? LOL

    :noway: yea! well there 8 kids in my family and my mom didn't drive, so it was mom, dad and Grandmother in the front and all us kids in the back. We would sit on each other and we put my youngest brother in the back window, my youngst sister would sit on my mom's lap. we had set belts but no one used them!:laugh:
  • lexnaj
    lexnaj Posts: 6 Member
    I was the first and there for the tester. When I was in High School I went to my first dance and my mom gave me a strict curfew. We went out to eat after the dance, but because it was so busy it was taking a long time. I called my mom to ask for another 45 minutes. She said NO. I had to ask my date to take me home. I was so embarrassed.

    Or when I was like 7 I was really really pissing my mom off. We were standing in the parking lot of the store and my mom was putting things in the trunk and I was being a royal pain. Now my parents are not the spanking kind, so I was shocked when my mom took her shoe off and beat me with it. I so deserved it lol.
  • GabeRami
    GabeRami Posts: 210 Member
    I wouldn't call it horrible, but, my Pop would call me from the backyard, I mean yell from the front room "MIJO! MIJO! Come in 'ere!" So, I'd come running in from the backyard, and he would point at the TV, 'Change the channel, I want to watch the Brewers game!" Man, that killed me. Now that he's been gone 5 years, I miss hearing him say anything.
  • AmyMK
    AmyMK Posts: 164
    My dad taught me to drive a stick shift and as we went, if I started rolling backwards, he'd stick his head out of the passenger window and shout "BACK OFF! SHE'S STILL LEARNING!". I was so embarrassed I thought I was going to melt into a puddle on the seat of the truck.

    Haha exactly why I only lasted 1 driving lesson with my cousin...the first thing he tried to do was make me drive up a hill!
  • princeza9
    princeza9 Posts: 337 Member
    Well, my parents did name me Robin. I don't mind it now, but the kids in school had a great time tormenting me with that one. As for what my parents actually did... Can't think of anything. Nothing really embarrassing, they did the best they could with the one child they had. :)

    Though, to be fair, somehow I've acquired the nickname "Princess" and my theme song is "I Want It All and I Want It Now" by Queen. No idea how that happened. ;) I blame them.
  • I wore long sleeve turtlenecks and sweatpants (or wind pants) until I was in the 4th grade. Those pictures now embarrass me tremendously.
  • committomittxoxo
    committomittxoxo Posts: 339 Member
    No, this isn't a topic about child abuse.

    Recently I posted this little story on facebook but wondered if there are any amusing stories from MFPers and their parents:


    "All Mom's are evil.

    Not content with ruining my boyhood dreams of growing up to become Tarzan: "You'll have to pay TAX on bananas and those tree houses still have mortgages", my Mom also dressed me in T-Shirts with my name on them.

    According to the photographic evidence supplied in ye olde family albums, every T-Shirt she bought for me as a child has got my name emblazoned on the front.

    Even more evil than that? My name has two Ts in it. Every T-Shirt has my name with one T."

    durtydriscoll
    (maTThew)

    Ummmm... I think I might be in love with you.
  • My mom broke into my diary. Yelled at me for some things I had done two years prior. She told my family everything. My aunt gave me a "do you wanna be in the big girl pool" talk-a condescending talk that makes you feel like a horrible person. Then I was grounded for 3 or 4 months and berated by my family throughout the grounding.
  • When they named me Jaclyn which I don't like because it sound very feminine (I'm boyish though not a lesbian) & I hate girly stuff very much. Also many find it too rare that is hard to pronounce & spell. I don't like to be called by that name up to now.
  • NeuroticVirgo
    NeuroticVirgo Posts: 3,671 Member
    Honestly, I can only think of a few things, and most of them were my dad. I love that man, but sometimes he was just to open for his own good I think. LOL

    - I remember when I was in grade school he brought in a moving box full little debbie treats, which to a bunch of 10 year olds was awesome....then I got home, to find out he got hem out of a dumpster behind a Safeway. X.X Yep... His reasoning was "They were just throwing them away because they were one day past the sell by date, that means they are still good"

    -One time, when I was maybe 12, he was working on his car and I was helping him. He took out some petroleum jelly to lube up a part, and then somehow got onto the subject of how you should never let a guy have sex with you up your butt, because its disrespectful. Yes, my dad had this conversation with me when I was that young...I think I might be a little traumatized and that's why I can't forget it.
  • TinaDay1114
    TinaDay1114 Posts: 1,328 Member
    My mom worked for a vet for about 20 years, and thought she could do anything a vet OR a doctor could do.

    Sooooo...She didn't like the stray male cats in our country area pee-ing on her flower beds. She made me hold one down while she (ahem) neutered him with a razor blade. I was sobbing (I didn't know what she was gonna do beforehand), and she's saying, "Oh come ON, he's FINE...he'll just shake it off." :noway:

    She also used to trap squirrels who dug up her plants and then "disposed" of them.

    I kept dislocating my little toe after slamming it into a piece of furniture when I was a teenager. After the 3rd time, my mom said, "I can put it back in for you. Come here." Like an idiot, I let her try. She yanked on my toe, we heard a loud CRACK, and it still wasn't right. When we finally went to the doctor, he said, "Gee, looks like you BROKE IT this time." I just glared at my mother. :grumble: That toe still isn't right.

    Needless to say, guys I brought home had to worry about my MOM more than my DAD.
  • My mother insisted on saying to every boy I ever introduced her to--most of whom I wasn't romantically involved with-- that she would leave a ladder up against my bedroom window in case anyone wanted to elope with me. Oh ya. Because you know that all teenage boys are thinking about is running away and getting married.

    And the bangs. Why did she have to cut my bangs the night before every school picture was taken? I mean, she had photographic evidence from all the previous years that she couldn't cut my bangs evenly, but without fail, out came the scissors...
  • SafireBleu
    SafireBleu Posts: 881 Member
    I'm gonna have tons to pay in psychiatry bills to make up for the damage I am doing to them LOL.
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    I grew up a Real Estate brat...Oddly enough I ended up in the same field. My mom was the top producing Realtor in our city during my younger days and would drag us everywhere or leave us home alone all the time. We were either in the car for hours and hours while she worked or home alone at a young age. No middle ground :)

    I remember one time she got a waitress fired from O'Charleys because she was taking our orders and my mom answered a client's call and then threw a fit that the waitress didn't come back when she was off the phone. My brother and I HATED eating out because my mom was so hateful to people that worked in restaurants. She would make me diet and get me to work out because I was too heavy, from the age of 10 or so through my teens. In high school she would bring men home that were closer to my age and get me up to drink and party with her on school nights. I didn't like it much then and realize now how crazy that was. I am pretty wild now, just not into partying with 30 year olds when I was 17.

    As the market kind of tanked and is slowly recovering, my mom lost most of her business. Many rentals and her own home. She kind of got a big reality check and her ego was knocked down a few notches. She's a bit better now but I will always look at her as Celia from Weeds. Lol.
  • itgeekwoman
    itgeekwoman Posts: 804 Member
    My mother always threatened to call child services and have them take us away. I was looking forward to it with 6 brothers and sisters.
  • TinaDay1114
    TinaDay1114 Posts: 1,328 Member
    -One time, when I was maybe 12, he was working on his car and I was helping him. He took out some petroleum jelly to lube up a part, and then somehow got onto the subject of how you should never let a guy have sex with you up your butt, because its disrespectful. Yes, my dad had this conversation with me when I was that young...I think I might be a little traumatized and that's why I can't forget it.

    :noway: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: YIKES. My mom thought it was horrible that they had TAMPON commercials on TV 'cause she thought that was too racy -- I don't even think she knows about petroleum jelly OR (ahem) that other stuff. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • fbmandy55
    fbmandy55 Posts: 5,263 Member
    My mom worked for a vet for about 20 years, and thought she could do anything a vet OR a doctor could do.

    Sooooo...She didn't like the stray male cats in our country area pee-ing on her flower beds. She made me hold one down while she (ahem) neutered him with a razor blade. I was sobbing (I didn't know what she was gonna do beforehand), and she's saying, "Oh come ON, he's FINE...he'll just shake it off." :noway:


    OMG!!!
  • Kaa525
    Kaa525 Posts: 23 Member
    My mom used to put pigtails in my hair and "drive" me around the house for her own amusement. Also, she would make me sing "On the good ship Lollipop" every time I wanted a snack. Once, I snuck a popsicle out of the freezer and ate it without asking permission and when she confronted my brother and I about who ate it, she told us she would bring the stick (that she had pulled out of the trash can) to the police and have them finger print it. I ended up telling the truth out of fear of a criminal record.

    My father would chase us kids around the house and play "tickle monster". I frequently was tickled excessively until I inevitably peed my pants. He never learned his lesson. Also, my parents could be found "tailgating" out of the back of their station wagon during any soccer or baseball game my brother or I participated in.

    My father once dressed up as "Captain Fudgie" for halloween. This costume entailed him wearing a pair of tighty whitey underpants over his jeans. The "fudgie" part of the costume was a thick long streak of brown shoe polish up the back of those underpants. I will never forget that sight.

    My parent's had "nicknames" for my brother an I growing up. He was referred to as "Monkey Paws". I was in turn referred to as "Puffin Toots". They would call us by our "nicknames" in public whenever possible, trying to embarrass us for their own pleasure. To this day, they still call my brother "Officer Monkey Paws", now that he is a state trooper.

    I could probably go on...but I wont. Child torture is definitely genetic though, I can tell you that.
  • We told our kids we were actually aliens who had eaten their parents and we were just waiting for them to get fat enough to eat and then we could go back to our home planet.

    LMAO!!!! I told our kids almost the same thing. :bigsmile:
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    Well, I was 12, and I started my period for the first time. I freaked out and my mom gave me a tampon. Not knowing what to do, i tried to get the entire thing in there, applicator and all, and when I walked out of the bathroom funny, I told my mom it hurt and I didn't like it, so she went to get me pads. I finally found how to use a tampon about a year later by reading the little insert... thanks mom. (I still tell this to everyone as her "number one mom" story)
  • nakabi
    nakabi Posts: 589 Member
    they made me respect my elders.

    say yes ma'am and no ma'am and yes sir and no sir.

    they made me behave in public.

    they spanked me if I didn't behave in public.

    oh yes they were truly evil!

    we must have had the same parents :)
  • AlicynH
    AlicynH Posts: 201 Member
    My dad was a high school math teacher for years before getting his phD and becoming a professor in computer science. When ever I would ask him for help with my math I would hate it. If I didn't get it the first time he would start yelling at me. I would start crying and he would tell me that my bladder was to close to my eyes. That was more than 20 years ago. I have recently gone back to school and my first class was a math class. I was having a problem with a math question and after staring at it for an hour I finally scanned it into my computer and emailed it to my dad. When I called him, the first thing I said was I needed help but he couldn't yell at me. At least if he did I could hang up on him :smile: Luckily I got it the first time. Glad to say, I take my final test in the class today and am done with this math class. I still have two more.
  • KellyKAG
    KellyKAG Posts: 418
    I was the human remote control before televisions had them. I would have to stand at the tv and change the channel. Of couse you have to wait a minute at each channel to see if its interesting.

    He also used to lay out in the back yard in his underware and say it was the same as a swimsuit.
  • auticus
    auticus Posts: 1,051 Member
    My mother burned my music. Twice. She claimed she saw demons in the smoke crying out.

    She burned my D&D things. Because supposedly it was filled with devil worshipping pornography. Funny side note, I got into D&D because my mother warned me about those things and I thought that would be cool, and it turned out none of it was in there.

    They also became super religious about when I was 13/14 and we went from being conservative catholics to super pentacostals, which is a little bit more than my introverted and quiet self could handle.
  • RockaholicMama
    RockaholicMama Posts: 786 Member
    I never had a relationship with my mom until I was about 20. I never lived with my parents at all. At 8 months old I went to live with my Da's parents. My parents would come visit me there, but I never had a steady parent/child relationship until I was much older, my grandparents had passed and I wasn't even in the state anymore.
  • AmyEm3
    AmyEm3 Posts: 784 Member
    When I was little I saw my pregnant cousin and I asked my mom how she got that big belly. My mom told me she swallowed a watermelon seed. The next time I ate watermelon I accidentally swallowed a seed and started freaking out crying b/c I thought the same thing was going to happen to me.
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