These adults let their kids do whatever they want. There are zero rules. They’ll just stand by and watch as their kids destroy an entire aisle in a toy store. They’ll give the kids a pass as they run around a restaurant like wild animals. And sometimes, the parents are even jerks themselves.
They’ll change the baby’s diaper and throw it on the ground or bring a portable potty seat on an airplane for the kid to use next to other passengers. Yes, that really happened. Social norms and common decency mean nothing to these people.
The parents couldn’t care less about how their disregard for the rules affects others, and their general lack of awareness is astounding. We can laugh at it now, but the people who took the pictures of the bad parents and posted them online weren’t laughing at the time. The only thing on their minds was calling these people out.
1. Health Code Violation
Changing a baby’s diaper in public is one thing, but how about doing it in the middle of a busy cafe on one of the tables? That is what this mom did. The only good thing is that she laid down a towel.
2. Thrift Store Chaos
At first glance, we thought that this might be a family’s messy basement. It turns out, it is actually a thrift store. The parents let their kids completely destroy all of the displays, leaving toys scattered everywhere.
3. Toy Avalanche
This thrift store experienced an even worse disaster. The two girls created total mayhem in the toys section while the parents just stood by and watched. We feel bad for the employees who will have to clean it up.
4. Flying Etiquette
These parents let their kid climb all over the seats of the airplane like it was a jungle gym. The other passengers were not amused, but whenever the fasten seatbelt sign is turned off, anything goes in this family.
5. War Monuments
The veterans can be seen trying to appreciate the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in the park, however, there are kids climbing all over it. It’s pretty disrespectful. The parents just let the kids go crazy.
6. Front Row Seat
Several parents were trying to watch their kids perform at dance class through the window. Then one mom pulled up a chair and blocked the view for everyone else. She wasn’t even paying attention. Her eyes were glued to her phone the whole time.
7. Dirty Diaper
This mom was busy changing her baby’s diaper on top of an Old Navy clothing display when someone tried to take a picture of her. She instantly became outraged. The woman couldn’t understand why other people thought what she was doing was wrong.
8. Disposing Of Refuse
This diaper changing mom just tosses the used Pampers outside of the stores. She doesn’t even bother to find a trash can. Someone else can just pick it up and throw it away for her later.
9. Coaching From The Sidelines
This youth baseball field had to put a sign up to control the rowdy parents. There was always some angry mom or dad getting in an argument with the umpires and coaches. It had to be stopped.
10. Cleanup In The Toy Aisle
It’s always frustrating when parents let their kids make messes in stores. Every decent person knows that it is unacceptable public behavior. We can only imagine what their houses must look like.
11. Potential Outbreak
It looks like some irresponsible parent took their highly infectious kid to the play area at IKEA recently. The sign was put up in the store to warn other parents. Catching measles doesn’t sound like fun for anyone.
12. Missing Letters
A mom in this electronics store let her child rip off several of the keys from a keyboard. It was on display so that other people could use it test out video games. Now, it is non-functional.
13. Restaurant Surprise
The customer at this restaurant left her kid’s gross diaper with the dirty dishes. She just figured that the server should have to take care of it. The mom changed it at the table while they were eating.
14. Affront To Nature
This bad parent left not one but two dirty diapers next to the stream. Talk about polluting the environment… Let’s hope that they don’t accidentally end up in the water supply.
15. Cranked Up Volume
In this restaurant, some rebel parents let their kid watch a movie on full volume. It quickly became annoying for the other diners who were trying to eat and talk with each other. It was such a peaceful dinner before that.
16. Bad Excuses
The sticker on this car is slightly obnoxious. The parent is using their child’s developmental disorder as an excuse for their poor driving. Something about the whole thing just rubs us the wrong way.
17. Playing With Legos
This dad lifted his kids over the guard rail so that they could destroy the Beauty and The Beast display. The art piece was built out of thousands of Legos and took hundreds of hours of effort. The kids wreaked havoc on it while the dad stared at his phone.
18. Absent Student
“Had my tutoring area all set up, and the kid didn’t show! The parents didn’t even call. I got up at 7:00 in the summer for this,” explains the tutor. The parents didn’t even have the common decency to let the tutor know that they weren’t going to make it.
19. Noisy Passenger
It was a night flight and many of the passengers were trying to sleep. However, this mom let her boy use his iPad on full volume the entire trip. It was blasting out noise constantly and disrupting everyone.
20. Selfish Recording
This parent used her iPad to record her kid’s class performance. She watched the entire show through the screen. As a result, lots of other parents couldn’t see their own kids.
21. Standing Tall
In this photo, we can see a kid actually standing on top of a table at a fast-food restaurant. The parents are fine with it. The fact that other people are going to have to eat there later never crossed their minds.
22. Movie Theater Mess
Someone is going to have to clean up the kid’s popcorn mess, but it’s not going to be the parents. They will be long gone by the time any of the movie theater employees discover it.
23. Potty Training
This dad brought his own potty seat on the plane. He pulled it out mid-flight to let his kid go to the bathroom in the middle of the aisle. Using the airplane lavatory was too difficult for them.
24. Joining The Band
In this photo, a renegade mom left the stands where the parents were supposed to sit to get a close-up video of her child performing. Now she is in the pictures of all of the other parents who were sitting in the correct areas.
25. Backseat Disaster
The car dealership often gives out loaner vehicles to customers while theirs are getting fixed. This one just came back into the dealership today. It’s obvious that some kids had been sitting in the back.
26. Library Clutter
It’s not okay to let your kids make messes like this in a library. The librarians have enough to do already without having to clean up young kids’ paper scraps. However, the parents just left it all lying there.
27. Shoes Full Of Trash
“Putting a used diaper in a child’s shoe is the hot new thing in my parents’ hometown,” explains the Redditor. Some people just have no respect for anyone except for themselves. It’s pretty gross.
28. No Parents Nearby
This shopper spotted a baby left at the entrance of a clothing store. There were no parents in sight. The baby was completely abandoned and unattended.
29. Taking Up Space
This family occupied the entire play table at the toy store. No toddlers were able to get in to play. The mom and her two kids just sat there endlessly looking at their phones.
30. Helicopter Balloon
This parent allowed their child to bring a balloon into the movie theater. It’s definitely a little ridiculous. Hopefully, they’ll make the kid pull it down once the movie starts, but somehow, we doubt it.
31. Train Mess
First, the dad let the kid drop his food on the floor of the train. Then he took his shoes off and crushed the food underneath his feet. It is some pretty trashy behavior.
32. Build-A-Bear Fail
This parenting story went viral all over the Internet. The mom made all the kids at her daughter’s birthday party give their bears to her daughter. None of them got to keep the ones that they made.
33. Parental Supervision
Here we have a couple of parents watching their kids take down a sign at IKEA. The kids are climbing all over the display. Yet, no one says anything to them.
34. Blatant Littering
It’s understandable that the man would need to change his baby’s diaper in the car. Public poops happen. However, he then tossed the dirty diaper in the parking lot and drove off.
35. Hungry Shopper
“Someone’s kid bit into my yogurt container and the parent put it back on the shelf. Then I bought it and had to go back to the store to buy a new one,” explains the man. He pulled out the yogurt to consume it once he got home and saw the little bite marks staring back at him.
36. Park Diaper
The trash can was ten feet away, but the parents didn’t care. They threw the dirty diaper right there on the ground. Now other visitors to the park have to walk by it all day.
37. Loud Sounds
This person was so annoyed by the kid watching a video on full volume in public that he decided to take a picture of it. He posted it online to shame the parent for allowing the frustrating behavior.
38. Ruining Historical Artifacts
This kid decided to walk all over the ancient Roman mosaic. It is called the “Bird’s Mosaic” and can be found in Italica, Spain. Now it has footprints on it.
39. Reading Material
In this dentist waiting room, two parents can be seen letting their kid rip up one of the magazines left out for people to read. It’s safe to say that no one will be reading them now. Half of the pages are missing.
40. Suffocation Risk
This mom allowed her daughter to cover her head with a plastic bag while they were shopping. It’s pretty irresponsible to encourage such a thing. Imagine what could happen if the mom wasn’t around…
41. Hitching A Ride
In this store, the mom let her kid hang onto the back of the motorized cart she was driving around. The kid was being drug across the floor while other shoppers looked on in horror. The floor is so dirty!
42. Risky Sports
This dad thought he was doing a good thing by bringing his kids out snowboarding with him. However, the other people in line felt otherwise. According to them, snowboarding with a baby on your back just isn’t safe.
43. Dangerous Position
This family is also taking a big risk. The dad has the baby’s stroller propped up on top of the railing so the kid can get a better view. It looks extremely sketchy.
44. Family Fun
They were in the arcade and the mom got so distracted with playing ski-ball with her other kids that she forgot about the baby. She could have easily stepped on the poor infant. He was lying inches away from her feet.
45. Getting High
It’s pretty self-explanatory why this photo might disgust a lot of people. The dad is smoking a giant joint while his daughter is on his shoulders. She does her best to swat away the smoke with her hand.
46. Wagon Ride Gone Wrong
These parents were trying to get a picture of themselves pulling their toddler along in a wagon. What they didn’t realize was that the kid had already fallen off the back. He was desperately hanging on for dear life.
47. Grocery Shopping
Instead of getting a shopping cart, this dad simply decided to pile his groceries on top of his kid in the stroller. The little boy was completely buried in the food items. It was definitely a jerk move by the dad.
48. Clothing Choices
It’s important to be a good role model for your kids. However, this dad never got the memo. He wore this sick shirt in public while out with his young son.
49. Action Shot
These parents were trying to take a fun Instagram photo using their kids as props. It didn’t exactly turn out as planned. Their quest for the perfect shot led to them accidentally dropping the one boy.
50. Little Bong
This mom thought it was a good idea to dress her daughter up as a bong for Halloween. It obviously caused some other parents to get a little upset. Marijuana-themed costumes should probably only be worn by adults.
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