Parental Blindness

A parent’s inability to see their child’s athletic ability for what it is.

I just got a call from a parent of a kid that got put on the JV team. She was very upset that her child didn’t get put on the varsity team. That parent suffers from PARENTAL BLINDNESS.

by HScoach09 April 7, 2022

STEM Parents

These are the types of parents that over obsess about their children doing good in grade school and think that their child is some sort of child prodigy. Usually their child will be a tad brighter than most in actuality, but instead of viewing their child as bright, they view them as some sort of young Isaac Newton. These types of parents are likely going to send their child to some sort of STEM school as soon as possible, and hold little regard for their child's relationships or even mental well being, as to them, these "relationships" are meaningless and friends are not needed to achieve things in life. These types of parents tend to tell their children "mottos" to live by, which in reality is their own convoluted propaganda such as: "Educate, Educate, Educate".
While these phrases hold little actual meaning, In the mind of the parent, they are only doing what is right.
These types of parents often do not realize, or ever truly realize what they are doing by dictating their children's lives with the premise of; Education is Power, and most of the children who fall victim to these kinds of parents never do truly succeed due to the overwhelming amount of stress and ridicule they receive from their parent's dictation and manipulation of their entire childhood and early to mid teenage years.
You can be above average, but just because you are doesn't mean that you are the next Einstein..

John: Hey. Did you see how those parents insisted on how their kid would raise the school's success rate by himself.
Molly: Yeah, I did. Kid looked really nervous, almost like he was expected to do something he was incapable of.
John: Now that you mention it, the way that kid's parents talked about him made them seem an awful lot like STEM Parents..

by AlternateLoneSarge March 27, 2021

Parental Footprint

The term for how much of an impact you have on your parent's lives and money. Most poignant when living with parents at an age where you really should have moved out by now.
Derived from 'Carbon Footprint'

Guy 1: "Man, I can't believe you had to move back in with your parents"
Guy 2: "Yeah it's not so bad though, I have a well paid job and I cook my own meals so my parental footprint is pretty small"

by thejoyoflex March 14, 2011

Parent shopping

When children ask one parent for something and get a 'no', so they ask the other parent the same question hoping for a different answer. (This can also be applied to the workplace with subordinates and their bosses).

The kids did what? They have to stop parent shopping.

by G Ninja October 16, 2019

Alex Parent

Someone who has the worst opinions when it comes to anything

Alex Parent the n64 is not a good purchase

by GeckoGamer91 October 17, 2020

Parent Complex

The feeling that you have to be right no matter what. People with a Parent Complex feel like the only way to win an argument is to make sure that the other person always walks away dissatisfied.

Dude, I think Stacy has a Parent Complex.

by ThatOneControversy October 3, 2020

Empowering Parents

An American parenting website which advocates techniques amounting to emotional abuse, as well as a worldview which should have been left in the 1950s.

My child's not been behaving like some sort of mid-twentieth-century Puritain, but that Lehman bloke over at Empowering Parents said I should just discipline her and totally ignore the underlying issues.

by Gorillagramophone55 May 20, 2022