r/InsaneParents - Bad Parenting Bingo 

The "having gay kids ruined my dreams about their wedding" thing would make me shoot back, "well, I wanted nice multi-millionaire parents, but you couldn't deliver on that either."

A middle row to add to the bingo card: “threats of slander to family/friends,” “making an issue out of nothing,” “shaming of significant others,” and “utter insanity”

That mother being so mad about a smoking stick of sage which is used for cleansing bad energy/spirits etc is extra hilarious

'Why does my child hate me?' 'Why did my child buy a gun?' 'Why is my child throwing darts at a picture of me?'

I think it's funny how a lot of parents are like "no sex or anything like that" and then at a certain point they switch over to "where are my grandkids?! when will you finally give me grandkids?!" 1. it's just stupid 2. Creepy posessive over their childrens bodies and their (perhaps one day existing) grandkids

For the next bingo card, "Treating underage offspring like an adult" would be a nice complement to "treating adult kid like a child"

My mom once told me she'd consider it a moral failing on her part if any of her kids were queer. Meanwhile I'm bi-ace and nonbinary just sitting there like 😐 I can't even count the amount of times I've had to be homophobic to save myself from being evicted. The number of women I've had a genuine connection with over the years who I've had to turn down because I was relying on my mom for housing and couldn't live on the streets with two dogs. I'm luckily free now! Just moved in to my new apartment a few days ago, and I'm looking forward to getting back into being social after two and a half long, long years of isolating myself so I don't have to deal with my mom's behavior if she, say, saw I was dating someone who isn't male. No more do I have to pretend to be grossed out by other nonbinary people to appease my mother! No longer do I have to suffer through her rants about "in her day people were just gay!" Not once more will i have to put up with her calling people on TV slurs because they're not cishet, white Christians! I'm ashamed of myself for having to blend into her style of thinking to survive, but I made it out, boys! A free man!

I hate the “so my son won’t be impressed by your daughter” garbage. It’s the toxic mother version of the dads that push modesty/purity BS for their daughters. Please stop trying to decide control your child’s lives and future.

My father screamed at me in high school for "hiding" my birth control from him. Which I was on for bad periods. Where did I hide it? Oh yeah, right out in the open on the kitchen table a whole foot from his elbow. Three months, it took him three months to find it. Also my mother was literally in the room when it was prescribed, do you ever talk to each other?

I'd strongly recommend adding a "children are property" square to the bingo card, if you ever do this again.

So here's the sad thing with my mom. I decided to do this bingo without her knowledge about a week ago and I have filled out almost the enitre card. The only ones I did not fill out were drunk texts, anti-vaxx, and transphobia. This is all within a week. Everyday just something different though I have noticed a pattern. I plan on enlisting into the U.S Military and I ship out to basic training 2 weeks before Christmas. My mom is unaware of this but knows that I am in my process. The really sad thing is that I am not going to tell her when I'm leaving till I am literally at the airport. If I tell her beforehand, the arguing is just going to get worse and I personally don't want to live with that. Btw before anyone asks, no I do not live with her I actually live with my dad who is fully supportive of my decision and has vowed to also not tell her when I'm leaving. Edit: Hiiiii. I didn't realize I'd be getting a lot of comments on here but thank you all for the kind words. I'm currently in the Air Force and I've actually already finished basic and tech training. I'm already on the working side of things. Now with my mom, it has gotten worse. I blocked her number, so she started calling my dad every single day while I was gone and has been honestly threatening to call the police and all that. I did in fact call her and tell her I'm fine but to leave me alone because I'm already out here doing my own thing. She has left me several voicemails over the last couple of months varying from "I love you" "You're an idiot for joining" "Why do you hate me?" "You need to call me now" etc. I have yet to actually call her again as I don't plan to. I'm enjoying my life right now and I'm stationed on the east coast while my family (including my mom) live on the west coast. So luckily I'm also on the other side of the United States. Thank y'all again for the kind words and Aim High... Fly-Fight-Win.

The mom showing her son stuff so he’s not impressed by “Your daughter” has to be satire.

Just imagining my religious conservative parents finding out I'm a gay furry. I'd 100% be able to make it onto this subreddit.

I feel like something like "rules for thee, not for me" or some other form of hypocrisy should be in the Insane Parents Bingo board, alongside 7 more with a free space in the middle.

A good square to add if you do this again would be ‘insulting the child over having a mental disorder.’ Two other squares could be ‘Favoritism over sibling’ and ‘Harsh comparisons to others’

The creepy, overbearing parents remind me of the "boy moms" funky frog bait covered It's really weird and it's kind of emotional incest and they say things like "his mom is his first love" and try to compete with their son's spouses when they're older

parents going through their kids rooms, especially when they’re 18+, is so mind blowing. that’s a one way ticket to the old folks home

Insane parents bingo def needs a "give me your money" square. Too many parents taking their kids financial gains.

I started crying half way through this because almost every one sounded like something my mom did to me. Until you hear exactly how crazy it sounds happening to someone else, you don't realize how much of a monster your own parent was.

a tip for anyone else with gaslighty parents, think of something theyve done thats wayyyyyy on the end of the spectrum and hold onto it. my mom loves gaslighting (including when she tried to gaslight me into thinking gaslighting wasnt real?), but it really only takes me remembering her sexting my father while me and him were in the hospital after my suicide plan was discovered to say nope im definitely not just crazy this lady is actually insane

It is always EXTREMELY concerning when a parent (usually the mother but not always) sees every potential future partner of their child as a threat to their place in the child's life. Like...the parent position and the romantic or life partner position ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO OVERLAP!!!

My mum used to regularly ask if I was still a virgin until I was 25 when I finally started telling her it was none of her business. Then when I came out as bi/pan at 33 her first question was whether I've "done things" with women. I again told her it was none of her business. Why are parents so creepy?

That father ranting about how his kid needed to "stop blaming him" for their problems triggered this insane flash bulb memory in my mind. My mother screamed pretty much the exact same thing at me during a shouting match once. I can still see her red face and buldging eyes. The ironic part is when I was 14-15 she was pushing my doctor to diagnose me with Borderline Personality Disorder, which is caused by long term on going abuse from a primary caregiver often the MOTHER. By that logic my problems were her fault. Most personality disorders aren't diagnosed until someone is at least 18 because you need an on going pattern and an actually developed personality. As a side note, there's other reasons to be taking birth control. Athletes take the pill so they can skip a period during competitions, it can help treat skin issues, can reduce period pain and irregularly etc. I know I started taking the pill at 15 because I was sick for 2 weeks with period pain and other symptoms. To attack someone over a choice they make for their health is unhinged.

lol The "traumatize your grandfather" one made me laugh the hardest. That would not be possible with MY grandfather. The man is biggest horn dog I have every known. If he saw any "inappropriate items" laying about, I'm sure he'd have more than a couple tips on how to use them better and would have NO issue telling you them. Thankfully, he always toned it down with the grand-kids, but now that dementia is setting in...

I think the thing that irritates me the most about people who hate Pride month because “the military only get a day” is that they clearly have no one in their life actually in the military. If they did they would know that there are numerous days for the military as well as the entire month of May being Military Appreciation month.

We need to make the bingo card a 5 by 5 at least. Could also add "oddly specific insults," "contradictions," and "nonsense logic"

I keep laughing at the "showing my son ... so your daughter..." because I always wonder what if they turn out gay😂

13:00 "not perfect" more like "you should get a restraining order and an automatic weapon."

As an American, a good percentage of my fellow Americans seem to think that abstinence only isn't a patently absurd obviously ineffective method. So yes, I totally expect a parent to flip out at the idea that their legal age daughter is sexually active and being responsible about it. Our country has a fuckton of issues, none of which we're actually addressing.

Here's two options you can add to your next bingo card: •Obvious favoritism towards a child •Passive aggressive guilt trip

The main reason that these awful parents constantly stalk and harass their children after they try to cut off from them socially, due to how they act, is because they desire the control over their kid. They complain a lot about the child being horrible to them, but they also fear them leaving because that means that they don’t have that control over their lives anymore.

21:15 FIRST BINGO OF THE DAY! the 2 other bingos:...

44:20 "Do you expect your mid-20s daughter to be celibate?" Yes. They expect EVERYONE to be celibate until marriage. Period. No exceptions. And then after marriage they expect no birth control because they expect them to just pump out babies without any preventative. They don't see it as being responsible, they see it as inappropriately encouraging sex before marriage and inappropriately preventing children after. It's why these people are opposed to contraceptives being covered by insurance - they believe NOBODY should be using them period.

We need a "treating offspring like a spouse/Significant Other" on a future card, because of parents like the lady begging for her child's acknowledgement over a cabin and whining about said child having to work.

Thank you Click doing these videos. Finally a place as a 30assyear old adult I can learn why I was feeling miserable at home, what behavior I should not tolerate and what I should be looking for. Thank you for your teachings Clicky sensei. Ps: new bingo square ideas: blackmail, harrassment, projecting, slander, being a Karen, F yeah get yo' heels down kid, actually illegal, worth a straightjacket

As a queer veteran, I DO love it when folks think they're somehow uplifting veterans by putting down pride month. Like... do ya'll not realize the military is gayer than we are most of the time? Oh yeah and obv there are gay veterans.

The mom one where she doesnt want her son to be impressed with “your daughter” is so weird to me. Like, does she expect the wife to take care of her son like a baby? Most of them are not “I’m teaching my son how to take care of himself” but “I’m giving my son high expectations for his next caretaker”

speaking as someone poly, you absolutely *can* send your partner "stop fucking and reply" in several contexts that are funny or relevant

About the one with the phone being hijacked around the 20 min mark: the second (rude) text messages are from the OPs mom’s boyfriend. The mom is dating a horrible pos who takes her phone and makes awful comments about her children and verbally abuses them.

15:22 THIS TIME? THIS HAPPENED BEFORE??

😂my mom found my birth control when I was 16, went wild and jumped to so many conclusions and instantly shut up when I told her the reason I took them was to help regulate heavy periods and the nurse at the family planning clinic was monitoring me every couple months. 😂

My dad struggled with alcoholism and I saw him drunk most days. NEVER did he make disgusting comments about me or my sister or say anything bad about us. That drunk texting dad 100% has those thoughts when he's sober. What a creep.

Thanks for this! As someone who related a lot to the poor kids in these texts, it felt oddly validating to watch someone witness this and go WTF. That little confirmation, that this shit aint normal, and no one should treat another human this way. It really helps when faced with similar guilt trips, or random guilt over standing up for yourself, or stepping away. Distance gets easier with time, but family is always tricky. I feel for the people in the posts and for everyone else in a similar situation. It usually takes a lot to grow up with such parents and get to place where you're able to stop letting this behaviour hurt you. It was also pretty healing to just laugh at the absurdity of it all. All the takes were so on point!

44:44 “someone who god approved of…” The kind of argument I have for those types is: “Sweetie, God is not homophobic. You are. Please stop projecting your hate on your deity and take responsibility for your own hatred and ignorance. Also stop believing the edited mistranslated version of the Bible.🤦🏻”

Some of the wildest things my mother has said to me was when my friend passed away from cancer her response was "if only you had a husband to comfort you", and my favourite "if you're so depressed why don't you kill yourself?". Gotta love them emotionally immature parents

Click may not be pregnant but he never fails to deliver❤✨️

13:11 my best friend had this happen to her, but not over text. She has no contact with her dad and he left her and her mother when she was a baby. He literally did not want her and left her and her mother behind because he didn't want a girl. He then came back years later with his new family just to taunt my friend by telling her that she'll "Never be his family". I can't imagine how much that must have hurt. But with someone like that as a dad? I'd prefer him to leave and she's told me she's happier now that he doesn't have contact w her anymore. It's really horrible that people like this exist, but sadly they do.

If you do this again you should add a category of “emotional incest”, that’s definitely the vibes the second one is giving me.

Fun animal fact: Horses like to drink and drink and drink: on average, a horse drinks up to 8-16 gallons (30-60 litres) of water a day.

I can just imagine that as soon as the father at 24:46 says this the victim of this bad parent hears “beep, beep, beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep”.

I zoned out and thought I heard him say “stop breeding” at 23:35 and got very confused for half a second

5:23 White Sage (as seen in the photo she provided) literally _wards off_ evil- no wonder she hates it so much. Black cats do the same (ward off evil), but you bet she probably thinks they’re “the devil” too and refuses to take two seconds to look in a mirror

Some things that can be added to bingo: -I brought you into this world I can take you out. -using children as blackmail or guilt -funny name for parent in messages (like calling the parent spawn point in contacts” -less mature than children -shouldn’t have had children/free space -ends an abusive or manipulative message with “I love you”

Asside from "satanic", "actually Wholesome", "come to church" and "Drunk texts" my grand mother fits into all other categories. How my mother managed to fight her awful ways and her monstruous influence is beyond me.

It's kind of wholesome when the kids stand up for themselves.

I love the section about "teaching my son useful life skills", but making it about showing up his potential girlfriend. Instead of just teaching him these things because they're useful.

The comment about OP’s diary being “boring” kind of reads like the mom was disappointed there was nothing in it that she could justify getting mad at OP for.

I'm pretty sure that comment section of those tiktoks where mother teaches her son to "not be impressed by your daughter" is filled with jokes like "Showing my daughter your tiktoks so she'd ignore your son on purpose in the future" 22:04 Actually, it's fine to not let your child to vaccinate at school, but only if you vaccinate them somewhere ELSE later, like a clinic. My mom doesn't let me vaccinate at school because once I felt extremely bad after school vaccine along with some other children (which was pretty much 90% of the vaccinated. A few even went to hospital). Turned out that they vaccinated all children of my class with the same syringe + they messed up and put God-knows-what in the syringe. After this all children in my school prefer to get vaccines from clinics, where we can be SURE the clean syringe and checked vaccine is used.

20:20 I could’ve gotten a bingo! Has two bingos

You needed a golden child category on the bingo card. For all the times one child gets excused at the expense of the other.

As a medicated schizophrenic, I would like to apologize for my unmedicated counterparts.

Teaching both my female and male children unconditional love, how to cook, and take care of themselves so that they know they're supposed to be respected/respectful and won't have to deal with terrible mother-in-laws!!(or anyone else)

4:38 omfg this is exactly my grandma. “Are you using it RIGHT THIS MOMENT?! NO?!?! TO THE TRASH IT GOES!!”

I recently made the mistake of coming out to my mom as nonbinary, and it became a whole argument. At one point, she said “Life’s hard enough without you doing all this extra stuff to be different and complicating things.” So I looked her in the eye and said “Yea. Life is hard enough when you’re cishet. So why would you purposely go out of your way to insult and belittle me and make it more difficult for me to feel loved and accepted? Why wouldn’t you use that exact same amount of energy to show kindness and love and respect, which would make my life easier?” She genuinely had no response to that and instead defaulted to her usual “I saw a story on the news last week about an evil trans person” so she wouldn’t have to address the point I made. There’s simply no winning, it seems.

"Why does it feel like theyre all drunk." Easy. Difficult for your average person to believe a sober person would act like this.

16:40 op should have called the cops immediately

my mom says shes an ally but every time i bring up something about a girl that i am interested in, or just complimenting a girl in general, she'll stop talking to me for the next few days and say stuff under her breath like "you better have kids with a man" or some shit like that its so confusing 😭

The “teaching my son” post just makes me want to go, “Teaching my kid to spot toxicity and set healthy boundaries so they’re not intimidated by their a-hole mother in law.”

Giving kid raw milk. Raw. You do know why they invented pasteurization in the first place, right? Because raw milk can give you serious digestive issues and transmit disease. I can’t. 🤦‍♂️

“Why doesn’t my child like me?” Yeah I wonder why.

THE LAST ONE WAS SO CUTE😭THAT WAS WHOLESOMENESS AT ITS PEAK, PEAK I TELL YOU! THE LITTLE GIRL WANTED TO BE ADOPTED BY HER STEPDAD AND MADE THE CUTEST LITTLE SETUP I CANT-😭😭😭😭

I think the saddest thing about that one anti-vaxx woman being off her meds is that chances are she's convinced her meds themselves are poisoning her too. I've suffered from paranoid delusions to the point that I haven't drank water for weeks because I was 100% convinced I would die the moment I drank it (/hyp) and it was really hard to break out of it.

I think "public shaming" or "threat of public shaming" needs to be on there, along with "golden child". Then my mom might be able to win a bingo!

The stepdad at the end though had me tearing up. Absolutely beautiful. Hope he is her actual dad now 😊

31:25 In highschool, I rarely texted my friends. But whenever I did, they'd be doing naughty stuff. Had I been in need of an urgent answer, I'd most likely be sending a text like that dad xD

With the veteran argument of “tHeY oNlY gEt OnE dAy”, they dont. In the US, we have three months dedicated for them. April for Military Children, May is Military Appreciation, and November is Veterans Month. Those who argue that veterans have one day to discredit Pride Month have no business talking about veterans and they don’t actually care about them. ~a child of a veteran

Click should also add "Emotional Incest/incestuous" to his bingo. We had a couple of big examples in the video.

The 2 bad parenting bingo videos I've watched from you are very entertaining and validating. I also really enjoy hearing your view when discussing these subjects. I have a few (bio- and -In-Laws) awful parents myself and, while I won't get into specifics, these videos have helped me to further a lingering conversation with myself about my relationship with my parents and family. I appreciate that subreddit and the people who post there as your sharing of your experiences have helped me feel less alone in this world.

43:12 bruhhhhh “WeLl sORry fOr HavEInG a DiFf meNTal GenDer ThaN My PhYSiCaL GendEr” like bro how tf am I ruining society by EXISTING ;-;

I’d argue for the first post also hitting the “ignore the main issue” box, since she kept avoiding the question of “why are you going through my things?”

All the dads jumping to talking about their daughter's sex lives/insinuating that their romantic relationships are for nothing but sex is such a disturbing depiction of men not seeing women as anything other than sex objects, even their own children 🤢

There was an AITA post where a parent caused their child an eating disorder and they were like mmh well at least they’re not eating junk food these people disappoint me so much it’s amazing my parents when I told him about my depression they said “iTs JuSt ThE WeAtHeR” five months later I was pushed to sewer slide I now have 7 attempts I’m still struggling and trying to recover 😢

I employed operant conditioning to get my family to accept the reality of my transition and pronouns when I transitioned 23 yrs ago at 20 yrs old. They lived too far to visit more than once a yr, it was before phone pics (I dont even think they had email yet). Not seeing me yet made it harder for them to grasp/accept. So when they deadnamed me, went through all 5 stages of grief etc etc I would just interrupt and say, "Love you Ma, gotta go." Click. No exceptions. In order to be successful with this type of technique you really have to be the one with the power in the relationship. In my case my family was zero financial help (sometimes i even helped them), they were way more emotionally attached than I, and much more verbose. (My mom always wants to chat on phone way too often and for way too long and she can talk 15+ min without noticing you exist so I was already used to having to extricate myself). I didnt begin it with the intention of operant conditioning her, so much as setting and maintaining my own boundaries, but once I realized how it worked ....😈

My father tried to confront me about me "doing drugs" once because he mistook my stretch marks (I was making an active effort to lose weight) as injection sites. This is also the guy who couldn't believe I wasn't able to make ends meet on £250 per month (with him taking £120 of that for rent) and wouldn't let me eat until the every transaction on my bank statement for the past 2 years was explained. Parents truly are insane. (: Going on 8 years NC at this point.

As a mom of 2 adult daughters I've always tried to teach them the importance of respect when it comes to intimate relations. Sex is a natural and healthy part of life. Sometimes we choose to explore romantically and some people choose to wait. Neither way works for everyone. But respect is something that always works. Respecting themselves and their partners and having a partner that respects you and your choices is best.

Many of these, in some shape or another, reminds me of my boyfriends' parents. They're so bad, in fact, it went full circle and managed to raise an absolutely amazing human being that both I and my family absolutely adore lol. Almost impressive

46:55 wow we might actually have a wholesome thing in this subreddit for once

The one about the service dog reminds me of an uncle of mine. He's a real "holier than thou" type, and sent "anonymous" letters to my entire family *while I was in hospice* telling all of my aunts, uncles, my mom, etc that I was faking my illness, faked my disability so that I could "take my dog everywhere with me," etc. He also told my mom in her version of the letter that it was her fault I was dying because she didn't somehow force me to get better, and that if I died she would have to live with that guilt the rest of her life. Imagine saying that to a mother who has been told by multiple medical professionals that she has a very real chance of losing her adult child soon. For the record, I have a condition that is very slowly progressive and eventually terminal, but also highly unpredictable in terms of the exact path it will take. I've been admitted to hospice three times on death's door, but each time my illness - while it did worsen - leveled out enough for me to be discharged for "living too long." This uncle didn't seem to care that it takes an entire medical team (doctor, nurses, a social worker, etc) to admit someone to hospice. He didn't care about the variety of tests done when diagnosing me, or since then. In his mind, my illness is "too bad to be possibly true" and must therefore be in my head. So yeah. Anonymous letters sent to everyone in my life he could possibly contact, insisting I'm faking everything, and that my highly trained service dog was "just for fun" and to inconvenience others. Needless to say, I no longer consider that man family.

A lot of these more negative subreddits have been too upsetting for me to enjoy in the past, but the new bingo format manages to make it a whole lot more bearable where I'm actually able to enjoy these too now, glad to see it's seemingly sticking around.

26:30 They never want to find solutions or resolve the actual problem. It's always a jumping off point to start an argument.

My dad and some of the things he’s done to my sister could fit in this video. She and her husband have cut off all contact with him and told him that he can’t see their kids because of how he’s treated both of them since they were dating. They’ve been married almost 10 years now and there’s no sign of him ever reconciling with them

Just got back from vacation with my roommate's family and i am amazed because they are genuinely loving and she's not afraid of them. The kind of parents who bring mushrooms to the party and watch you to make sure that you don't drown while tripping in the hot tub. 10/10, would never put in a nursing home.

As a non-Italian who has never lived in Italy and has never known any Italians, I can confirm that Click's Italian accent is completely accurate and has no flaws at all whatsoever

9:23 the mother has a mental illness and it’s when the mother is in love w her own kid

Your content is so addictive! I found your channel two days ago and I can't stop watching... I love your sense of humor and accurate comments 🙂

Oh man, the "cover your sibling's work" one unlocked a memory from my childhood. My brother was sick, and that meant he couldn't do his paper route. And so I had to do it, whether I wanted to or not. I was also sick. But I was just very depressed, so it didn't count.

boy moms who are like “ teaching my son this so he wont be impressed with what your daughter does!”is so creepy. ma’am you are shaming a toddler about something they probably won’t do in the future 💀💀

I remember talking with my mom and sister when my mom started talking about how she hates "the gay" and all that stuff. But somehow she forgot that my sister came out a few weeks ago, and i was questioning my sexuality. So we both were sitting like that: 😀🔫

The funniest thing I can imagine is if the kid that is getting taught everything by his mom comes out as gay so all of her slandering of imaginary women goes to nothing or better yet he becomes she so then the mom realizes she was slandering her own child

there should definitely be a square for "actual crimes".