Hey Pandas, What Is The Most Embarrassing Thing Your Parents Have Done To You?

As a young child, I was adopted. My adopted mom was an elementary school teacher, and my adopted dad was a heating contractor. They were well known, and respected in the community. They adopted my brother as when we were 11 and 10. My adopted mom had some serious baggage from the death of her own father, when she was 16. He died of diabetes diabetes heart issues, related to over eating. She had insane rules behind food, and was fearful that I would grow up to be "fat". I was always a chunky kid. Not fat, but not rail thin. Turns out this is just how my bio family is built. My adopted mom made up all kinds of weird, fake "mental illnesses" that I had, all surrounding food. She would do things like introduce me to new people with my name and than whatever "food illness" I supposedly had at the time. It mortified me. When I would go and get a snack from the fridge she called it "theft". When I would eat dinner she would call me "keiko the whale" she would even call me that in public. It seriously messed me up in my head. I KNEW nothing was wrong with ME. imagine trying to defend yourself to grownups. Who are they going to believe? A respected child educator, or a former foster kid? I have now come to realize that I was probably a victim of munchausen by proxy. It took me YEARS to forgive her, and even longer to love myself. I did grow up to be a thick girl. Im a size 14. I work in a critical care ward, and am always on my feet, caring for others. As a mother. I would never do what my mom did to me, to them.

When I was 17, I sprained my back lifting boxes while working at a fast food restaurant. My mother had to take me to the ER to appease my boss. While the doc was talking to me and asking hope it happened, had I lifted anything else in recent days, etc, my mother speaks up and says, " she's recently started having sex with her boyfriend, could it be from him, you know, too hard?" I was mortified, and the even the doc looked startled. I swear his lips twitched when he answered her, " well, while it could potentially happen, I don't believe that is case here". I couldn't believe she asked that, and that she still thinks it was perfectly fine to ask.

That my grandparents used to get very wasted and do threesomes with the neighbors 😳 I mean, they all were adults and as long as it was all consented that's their business, but I seriously didn't need to know it!

I was about 10 years old and my mom insisted I go out into the snow naked where she took a picture of me from the back, slightly bent over. She then sent that picture out to the whole family on the front of a Valentine's Day card. This was around 1985 and she still talks about and shows that picture to anyone that will listen.

They suspected I was using drugs (I wasn't) and told our GP about it as if I already had a drug problem. You can't believe how embarrassing it was to face her knowing that she won't believe me.

I was always pretty much allowed to have friends over on a daily basis.
But my mom, who had dentures, used to "keep me in line", for things like doing my chores, homework etc. by threatening that if I didn't toe the line, she would take her teeth out and smile at my friends. She would have done it too!

I was about 14, during the late 80’s/early 90’s when hanging out at the mall was THE place to be and be seen. My dad offered to take me because I wanted to shop for back-to-school outfits. So we are walking through Dillards to get to the middle of the mall where all the cool boutique shops are, and I am walking ahead of my dad because I couldn’t ACTUALLY be seen with a parental unit, right? Only I gradually notice he is no longer following me so I stop and turn around to see what he’s up to. Big mistake. He has stopped at a table displaying underwear, and has found the largest pair of granny panties/WWII parachute that I had ever seen. Seeing me looking, he holds them over his head and yells, ‘Hey Amy, ARE THESE THE ONES YOU WERE LOOKING FOR???’ Cue me, letting out a single dramatic sob and running for the cool part of the mall like my social life depended on it.

My mother once told me that her first boyfriend after she and my father divorced was the ONLY man to ever give her an Orgasm. I was 20 at the time and could have gladly gone through life Not knowing that...

My mom beings me to church one day and gave me a piece of cinnamon gum. I was three at the time and I thought almost everything was spicy except for spaghetti and lasagna. I spat it out and the sacrament got passed out and my mom was using a napkin to wipe off my tongue. The brothers saw me and snickered very slyly. Thanks a lot mom!!

My mother thought she was hilarious. Woman mooned my tween girl scout troop, froze all of our bras at a sleepover. When I was 13, in a small town where EVERYONE knew my mother, in the middle of the only store, strapped a giant black bra to her head and ran through the store toward me screaming 'look I'm mickey mouse'.

We walked to moms work after school every day and waited for her to finish up. On my first period, I showed up like normal and her and all the women she worked with presented me with a cake and clapped. All these women had kids I went to school with.

I was a shy nervous kid, my mom lived very loudly, embarrassment was a common occurance.

My ex's parents ran a florist shop where he worked as a delivery driver. When I moved into a new home with my husband, my mother decided to purposefully ask that shop to deliver a bunch of flowers to my new house, knowing my ex would be the one to deliver them to me in my new house with my new husband. She thought it would be a "nice" gesture for all involved. I was less than impressed.

My late mother, bless her heart, was quite the alcoholic. When I was about 10, we went to a wedding. But not in the regular "being a guest at a wedding" sense. See, we used to live across the street from a church. One day, there was a wedding going on, and as usual, my mother was drunk. She made me go with her into the church, and we actually attended the wedding, sitting in one of the rear pews, wearing jeans and t shirts. Everyone was starting at us, naturally. Right then, the bride and her father entered the chapel and started the walk up to the altar where the groom and minister were waiting. The bride glanced our way and looked very puzzled at the sight of my drunk mother, who by that time was sobbing because she was probably thinking of her own failed marriage, and me, red as a beet and mouthing the words "I'm so sorry" to her. To my surprise, the bride flashed me a radiant smile and continued her way up there aisle. I like to think that was her way of letting me know it was ok. Soon after, I left, with Mom in tow. I practically had to drag her out of that church. It was a very sad, completely cringey, and, now at least, kinda funny experience for me. Thankfully, Mom did quit drinking eventually.

This isn’t something my parents actually did, but what some people had thought they had done. This was back in the early 90’s and before I got my braces put on, I had to get 4 teeth pulled. Unfortunately it happened on my dads birthday and later in the day we were going out to eat. My face was still completely numb and swollen when we got to the restaurant and of course I couldn’t eat, so I ordered a milkshake. Well, I couldn’t even drink the shake, so I just sat there drooling while everyone else ate. There was an older couple close to our table and I heard the woman tell her husband, look at that poor child honey! Her family isn’t feeding her! That’s terrible!! It didn’t help that I also had an eating disorder at the time, so she probably thought they didn’t feed me often! My dad had to tell them what actually was going on and I wanted to crawl under the table or just disappear!! In the end they all laughed about it but I was completely embarrassed.

My Dad used to volunteer at a local preserved steam railway, and when they did Thomas the Tank Engine Days for the kids, he put on a top hat and played The Fat Controller. All fine and good fun until the regional newspaper ran a billboard advertising campaign about "The Exciting Things Happening in Our Area" which used photos from the newspaper from over the last year. The billboard right outside the entrance to my Sixth Form (Senior High School) had a huge photo of my Dad dressed as The Fat Controller on it for a month. The ribbing I got from my classmates, and the nickname "The Fat Controller's Daughter" was only to be expected. I responded by nick-naming each of my classmates after the Thomas the Tank Engine character they were most like. (Although there were two big jock-type guys who were particularly mean, so I called them Annie and Clarabel.)

My mom calls one of my guy friends my 'not boyfriend' (Not in front of him thank goodness but I still want to stab her)

My mom has a phrase I think most mothers can relate to; “From mother hen to mother bear in a nanosecond.”… well this is very true to her. I was bullied in middle school and mom and I were in the mall once when three of my bullies started calling out to me, the usual slurs and insults. Mom lost it, got in their faces but knew she couldn’t hit them, and they knew it too, so basically just laughed at her which made it worse, both in that moment and for weeks later when I was in school without her.

Oh, also, she decked my first boyfriend straight in the face on my best friends lawn as the ex was trying to convince my male best friend to talk to me to get me back. She hit him because he had written a bunch of really nasty, sexual things about me on the fences of our complex. She literally jumped out of my stepdads moving vehicle when she saw him on my friends lawn (same complex). He had to bear-hug her to the ground to prevent further damage. Ex was laid out, friends parents watched the whole thing from the kitchen window and found it hilarious… friend and I had known each other since kindergarten and our parents were very familiar with one another. Still… holy hell mom.

(Very much love that woman though, she’d go to war for me)

Faith in humanity restored (at least for me) but even after a long thought about it I couldn't come up with one single thing my parents did to embarass me.
And I'm on and about visiting them and thanking them for it. ♡

Went to the mall with mom and her BFF. We're on the 3rd floor. While they were in a store, I was standing at the railing watching this really cute guy on the 2nd floor. Mom comes out, stands next to me and sees who I was watching. Then YELLS "Hey, (guy in whatever jacket)! My daughter thinks you're cute! She's available. Are you?" I never left the mall so fast! I was mortified! But he gave my mom his number so I could call. Never did

Well, just last night my Mother showed my crush and our friends a video of little me playing with funny filters that morphed my face... I know it's not that bad, but come on mom

I was a late bloomer. At 15, when I finally found blood in my undies, i went to my mom, who was chatting with a male neighbor in ourlivingroom. Hadn't uttered a word. Mom shreiks out, "you got your period!!" I was so mortified