Poll of the Day > What's the worst parenting you've seen in public?

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I saw a lady who let her 4 toddlers run around screaming at the top of their lungs in Costco a week ago.
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Nothing wrong wit dat

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some woman being oblivious as her small child play with a plastic bag, and started to put it over her head.
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I took my kid to the park and a lady with a 4-5 yo and a toddler told the older kid to watch his sister while she grabbed something from the car. Fortunately I was right there because the little girl started to follow her mom into the parking lot and I took her back to her brother. The little boy told his mom she almost got hit by a car and that dumb cow started screaming at him.

I was mad. You can't expect a child that age to watch a toddler, and she could have easily taken both of them back to the car with her.

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Just kids running around unsupervised, like leashless puppies.

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Seen? Mostly people letting their kids run wild.
Experienced? My old man who used to wack me and my siblings about and if we cried he would hit us again. I've not seen anyone do to their kids what my dad did to me and my siblings in public or otherwise. This is why most peoples parenting pales in comparison. He's not a bad father but he isn't a great one too. My mum is/was the worse of the two though.

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Guy driving in a car with his two kids, the older kid sitting in the front seat with the toddler on her lap. Neither of them wearing a seat belt.

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I saw a woman put her baby carrier on top of a car and almost had the thing fall onto the floor with the baby still in it.

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One of the restaurants I worked at someone thought it would be fun to let their 3-4 year old go back into the kitchen to see food being made

restaurant kitchens are not a safe place for a child in any way. Its usually a very small area with a lot of high heat, knives, sometimes hot oil will splatter. Very stupid parents

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General parade of parents letting their kids run around like heathen, just to come yell some variant of how they 'need to get their fucking asses over there right now before they get beat' when the parents finally collect their offspring.

It's kinda no wonder the kids are little shits that throw stuff at people and steal people's bikes and stuff.

And the less egregious just letting them run around without the angry collection.

These kids tend to be really nice, but also needy and probably need to be taught that talking to strangers willy Molly probably isn't the best idea.

Nothing in particular but any parent who lets their kids run around a store/restaurant and dont so much as even acknowledge they brought them.

Probably some woman that scolds their 4 year old for no reason other than them being in a bad mood.

Mom what's that?
Quiet!

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Though now that I think the one that takes the cake in recent memory is the woman who, in the middle of a pandemic, went on a flight with her and 5 kids.

Now I can't say why they were there. Maybe they had a legit reason for flying. Certainly, I was out as well visiting family so I don't have a particularly good excuse.

But thank god I was loaned a pair of noise cancelling headphones a few days before this because when I had them off I could tell this woman wasn't even bothering to supervise he family, which literally made up over half the passengers on the plane.