# Bad parenting skills **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960 "2011-02-28T19:46:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/22 "2012-03-28T16:51:37Z")
I’ve also seen people walking with their child in a stroller, and then they stop and wait at a crosswalk for the light, with the stroller with the baby in it stuck out in traffic. Ai-yi-yi! ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/23 "2012-03-28T16:59:32Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > I’ve also seen people walking with their child in a stroller, and then they stop and wait at a crosswalk for the light, with the stroller with the baby in it stuck out in traffic. Ai-yi-yi! At least they stopped and waited for the light. At least once I week I see someone push a stroller out into an intersection against the light. Sometimes the road is completely clear, and sometimes they’re just estimating that they can make it across before the cars get to them, but in either case, is it really so important to get across the street that you’ll risk your child? Fortunately, I’ve never seen an accident result, but I always feel like it’s just a matter of time. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/24 "2012-03-28T17:01:53Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > There was a really funny animal one that showed a duck being stepped on by his mom. I saw it on a parenting fail list a while ago. [Here it is.](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/06/15/article-1193151-0558B32C000005DC-864_634x462.jpg) I think he was probably OK after but still–poor baby! Somebody needs to call [DPS](http://mirror-us-ga1.gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/bizarre/_more2005/_more06/bad-parenting-mother-duck-leads-ducklings-over-drain-from-which-they-have-to-be-rescued-ANON.jpg) about her. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/25 "2012-03-28T17:05:40Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > At least they stopped and waited for the light. At least once I week I see someone push a stroller out into an intersection against the light. Sometimes the road is completely clear, and sometimes they’re just estimating that they can make it across before the cars get to them, but in either case, is it really so important to get across the street that you’ll risk your child? > > Fortunately, I’ve never seen an accident result, but I always feel like it’s just a matter of time. Oh yeah, the people jaywalking in traffic with their kids. I see that, too, and it enrages me - we have all kinds of inconveniences for drivers (neverending school zones and playground zones and crosswalks and crosswalks with lights and extremely high fines for drivers interfering with pedestrians in crosswalks) so people can put the onus on drivers to keep their kids safe, and then they just boogie on out in front of traffic with their kids NOT at an intersection. Heh - think you hit a bit of a nerve there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/26 "2012-03-28T17:09:45Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > At least they stopped and waited for the light. At least once I week I see someone push a stroller out into an intersection against the light. Sometimes the road is completely clear, and sometimes they’re just estimating that they can make it across before the cars get to them, but in either case, is it really so important to get across the street that you’ll risk your child? I’ve seen someone doing this deliberately, then lecturing/yelling at the driver for endangering her kid. And not at a crosswalk. She did this maybe a couple of times a week, for a few years. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/27 "2012-03-28T17:12:16Z")
> [@wonder\_lust](#): > > In scary rural PA, I once drove by a family gathered in their front yard for…for what purpose, I’m not sure… > > The dad, presumably, was showing a 3-4 year old how to use a chainsaw. I mean… the thing was ON. The kid was holding it. > > YIKES! I have video of my son when he was five, holding and revving a Stihl chainsaw that he barely was able to lift off the ground. Of course, there is no chain on the bar. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/28 "2012-03-28T17:29:57Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > That’s one I was wondering about. Can a thrown ordinary dart (as opposed to a lawn dart) penetrate someone’s skull? 😕 I would have thought it would just about need to be hammered in. That would count as bad parenting. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/29 "2012-03-28T18:28:04Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > I think the little boy next to the lion is my favorite. You mean the _half_ a little boy. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/30 "2012-03-28T18:50:46Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > That would count as bad parenting. “Yeah, so, we kind of hammered this dart into her head…can you get it out or something?” That reminded me of when a friend dared me to throw a dart at his head when we were kids, and I did - it stuck in his head, but it didn’t go in very far. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/31 "2012-03-28T19:19:07Z")
[The Littlest Briston](http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3443193365787&set=a.1180946891039.2028499.1449202104&type=3&theater) imitating her daddy. 100 _hur-de-dur_ points for whoever makes a “her daddy wears NY Giants dresses?” crack. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Woo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Woo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Woo)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/32 "2012-03-28T20:34:29Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > So. Where can I get my kid a ‘I love Satan’ tshirt? I’ll see if I can get my kid to make you one. He already has a return address stamp and a couple of bumper stickers that say “I’m Satan!”. Okay, my kid’s a grown ass man but I’m still proud of him. Especially the SATAN return addy that he uses for paying bills. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960/33 "2012-03-28T22:46:18Z")
If you look closely at the pic of the be-darted girl, you can see a raised line about an inch long, under the skin running from the puncture. Could the skull have bent the dart along its surface? Either way, ouch. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-parenting-skills/572960.md?page=1)