Parentoid

Paranoid about meeting someone else's parents.

I don't want to pick up Ashley because she lives at home and I'm parentoid.

by One Man Two Minds December 11, 2009

Marvin The Paranoid Android

A cynical robot who doesn't think the best of most people. One of the main characters in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to open a door" - Marvin The Paranoid Android

by Mr Beeblebrox February 10, 2012

NMP Parenting

Not My Problem Parenting... a style of parenting where parents utilize natural consequences for children regarding their actions. Especially useful in parenting school age children who forget their lunch, forget to wear a coat or had detention because they didn't do their homework.

A very effective parenting style that can result in children taking more ownership of their actions and develops independence and self responsibility.

Teacher to parent: "Mrs. G, your son Eli has forgotten his homework folder three weeks in a row, and now he's going to lose his recess for a week."
Parent: "Sounds good to me. NMP. I did my homework. I have a good job. I get to chit chat with my friends at work at the water cooler. Sorry Eli, next time don't forget your homework folder. Not My Problem. NMP Parenting works!"
Child: "Waaaaa... I want my Mommy to rescue me. Oh well, I hate losing my recess so you know I'm not forgetting my folder EVER again!"

by Funny Moms August 11, 2014

Stuck-on-the-ceiling parenting

Trying hard to fit in with your kids, but failing miserably. Derived from Rocket League when parents play the game with their kids, but can't get their car off the ceiling as heard on What's That Word Podcast.

Teen 1: My mom got her 'mom' jeans out thinking she could fit in with us.

Teen 2: That is some serious stuck-on-the-ceiling parenting.

by Cori and Laura October 7, 2021

Jekyll and Hyde Parenting

A style of parenting that provides a full spectrum of emotional and psychological experiences to a child vis-a-vis the parents’ instability and addictions which lays the groundwork for years of in-depth psychotherapies in which the child, throughout their lifespan, has the opportunity to undo the warp and find some semblance of balance and potentially, a sense of a true self.

Yup, at our house it was nose-to-the-grindstone discipline during the week and then Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride when the weekends rolled around; my parents were practicing devotees of Jekyll and Hyde Parenting.

by Dr Bunnygirl October 12, 2019

paranoid

For someone to be in the constant state of Paranoia. Paranoia is the thought processm, which is heavily influenced by anxiety and/or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards ones own self. Greek translation of paranoia simply means madness (para = outside; nous = mind). Historically, this characterization was used to describe any extreme delusional state.

Someone who is crazy and thinks everyone is always out to get them, take them down, or cause them to fail at everything and anything they undertake.

Paranoid: Song by the Jonas Brothers from the album: Lines, Vines and Trying Times

Dude that lady is way paranoid! She keeps telling me that something is out to get her and it is lurking in the shadows.

by Qbancncer April 15, 2010

Parentoia

a parent's conviction that something horrible will happen to their child while they are not watching, or even if they are watching.

Jenny won't won't les her daughter play in the sand- she said it's "dirty!" If that's not parentoia I don't know what is!

by parentoid March 18, 2009