Old ass 2010-2012 Facebook memes that your cringey ass white parents show you to make them seem cool but you cringe instead
by RandomURBANDICTIONARYposter July 02, 2019
1: the act of your parents prodding you with question you have had no preparation for, leaving you left dumb-founded and them ticked because you don't have a ready answer for them
2: When you ask friends questions such as "how was school" or "did anything interesting happen" and such
2: When you ask friends questions such as "how was school" or "did anything interesting happen" and such
1: friend: dude, you look pissed
you: yeah, my mom was parent-prodding me all the way to school
2: last night on MSN, john kept parent-prodding me about my day
you: yeah, my mom was parent-prodding me all the way to school
2: last night on MSN, john kept parent-prodding me about my day
by SoNotTheCoolest April 02, 2009
A helicopter parent who, to promote their child, will proactively neutralize a person perceived to hinder their own child's advancement.
The effective target of a helicopter gunship parent is a child with more talent and better performance than their own, in a activity with limited opportunities or resources. By a range of overt and covert aggressive methods, the helicopter gunship parent will remove the other child's competition, or the third party who has control over allocation of opportunities and resources, from the activity.
Characteristic outcomes of helicopter gunship parent activity are unwarranted advancement of their own child, other more talented children and their parents/teachers/organisers declining to participate or contribute to the activity, and degraded performance of the activity due to loss of talent. The benefitting child may also suffer reputational damage due to their helicopter gunship parent's activity, even if the child is unaware of the activity or an unwilling beneficiary in the activity.
Common situations of helicopter gunship parent action are sport team selection and role allocation, school drama involvement, academic or sport prizes and scholarships, and school leadership roles.
The effective target of a helicopter gunship parent is a child with more talent and better performance than their own, in a activity with limited opportunities or resources. By a range of overt and covert aggressive methods, the helicopter gunship parent will remove the other child's competition, or the third party who has control over allocation of opportunities and resources, from the activity.
Characteristic outcomes of helicopter gunship parent activity are unwarranted advancement of their own child, other more talented children and their parents/teachers/organisers declining to participate or contribute to the activity, and degraded performance of the activity due to loss of talent. The benefitting child may also suffer reputational damage due to their helicopter gunship parent's activity, even if the child is unaware of the activity or an unwilling beneficiary in the activity.
Common situations of helicopter gunship parent action are sport team selection and role allocation, school drama involvement, academic or sport prizes and scholarships, and school leadership roles.
How can Adam's kids be in such high-level teams but be so doggedly mediocre and continually hold back the team performance? He is a helicopter gunship parent; over the years, he made all the better players walk away from the sport.
Tony's second-rate son got that top academic prize only because Tony is a helicopter gunship parent. I don't know how he did it but he got the award panel to quit then he got himself and his friends on it. The prize and the school is a bad joke.
Tony's second-rate son got that top academic prize only because Tony is a helicopter gunship parent. I don't know how he did it but he got the award panel to quit then he got himself and his friends on it. The prize and the school is a bad joke.
by Innocent Bypasser January 13, 2024
During a phonecall, or even a face to face conversation, a parent will randomly blurt out remonstrations to children in the background without warning or explanation.
It's easier to think of these as a disability affecting the group of people known as parents.
It afflicts men and women equally.
It's easier to think of these as a disability affecting the group of people known as parents.
It afflicts men and women equally.
"...and I was telling Cindy that there was no way she would find a dress in that size but would she PUT YOUR BROTHER DOWN RIGHT NOW!! He's not a toy.
I'm so sorry about my parental tourette's there. Where was I? Right, so Cindy is a size 8 and..."
I'm so sorry about my parental tourette's there. Where was I? Right, so Cindy is a size 8 and..."
by Stogi March 09, 2021
When you parentize somebody, you adopt them and raise them without them knowing that they are adopted.
by Shootier and shootiest March 27, 2022
Generally grand parents find them selves forced back into the business of raising kids, when their adult children become junkies, and are no longer able to care for their spawn.
Next door neighbors are now rewind parents, canceling retirement, to raise there grankids after its mother was declared an unfit mother.
by sword2fish June 19, 2018
“Conspiracy parents that bounce from conspiracy theory to conspiracy theory and hate thing to hate thing”
“She must be a pnly parent”
by DurhamWaffles April 27, 2023