PARENTALIATION 

When any Mother, Father or guardian/custodian, marches off to their children's school without an appointment to cause general mischief and mayhem. Ranting, Abusive language and trespass are among the minimum requirements for parentaliation.

'where's yer folks'?

'Off staging some nasty parentaliation with Ms Smith at St Johns'

PARENTALIATION by zebraboy777 September 9, 2010

pretaliation 

Getting your revenge in first.
Do unto him before he can do unto you, if you like.
A guy looks at you nastily across a rugby scrum; next maul, you tear his ear off, before he does the same, or worse, to you. You have completed pretaliation. Anything he does after that is retaliation, which referees always come down on harder than on the original malefactor.

"Did you see Tonto get his pretaliation in on that mean-looking winger?"
"Yeah, he'll be counting his ribs for a month! What a kick! Bet Tonto keeps out of his way for the rest of the game, though!"

pretaliation by railtracksurvivor November 1, 2007

parentflation 

(Noun)
The tendency of parents to become increasingly lenient with each successive child, often resulting in the youngest having fewer rules and responsibilities than the eldest. (Or “Parent-flation”)

Jake had a strict 9pm bedtime growing up, but due to parentflation, his youngest brother can stay up until midnight.

parentflation by TheSnake29 February 1, 2025

Parentflation

When the “cost” of being a parent keeps going up—not in dollars, but in expectations. The idea that you have a chorus of PTA Karens and amateur child therapists looking over your shoulder, ready to call CPS if your kid faces any hardship whatsoever, while your tiny, Wi-Fi-enabled know-it-all doesn’t want to see “a dinosaur”—they want to see a Parasaurolophus, accurate to scale.

Symptoms may include:
-Packing three separate snacks because one is gluten-free, one is dye-free, and one is “crunchy but not too crunchy.”
-Talking to your child in calm therapist-speak so you don’t go to jail while they’re actively feral in the grocery store.
-Scheduling your kid’s life like they’re training for the Olympics at age six.
-Staying within three feet of them at all times because God forbid they fall off the monkey bars.

“Bro can you imagine our dads confirming snacks, screen limits, and emergency contacts just so we could go to a birthday party? My dad would’ve just tossed me out of the truck at whatever house looked right, and said ‘don’t die.’ Parentflation is real."

Parentflation by ScaryFeet December 9, 2025