People Share The Most Unhinged “Helicopter Parents” They’ve Seen, Here Are The 30 Worst Ones

I had arranged to play golf with a few mates when we all about 18. One guy gets driven to the course by his mum, but rather than just being dropped off, she parked the car and decided to wait with us until it was our turn to tee off the 1st hole. And then she decides that she better stay and walk with us for the entire 4+ hours of golf.

A guy in the next group sees what's going on, and intervenes, saying "Hey lady, non-players are not permitted on the course, so you'd better just go home and let your son play golf with his buddies in peace".

My friend is dating a girl who is required, by her parents, to skype them every night at 9 pm sharp. She is 21 and in her fourth year of college.

Not the most embarrassing thing, but the only one I feel okay sharing:
She would constantly go through my phone and read everything when I wasn't around, and I'd find out when she brought up embarrassing information in front of friends, family, a crush. Once she found my crush on Facebook and messaged him a long-a*s message that I don't even want to know what it said (all I know is that he was super uncomfortable when he asked me if I knew she had contacted him).

As for the worst part about it: I never felt a sense of freedom. I always felt watched. I was never a bad kid, but I felt violated every day and night. I felt like I never had my own sense of self.

Probably an acquaintance of mine. I have posted about it on Reddit before but he is pretty bad, so I'll share it again. This guy "knows" that his son is going to be a great NFL quarterback. The kid turned 10 recently and is a decent player, but his father has him work with different trainers and spend hours each day practicing. He takes vitamins, has a special diet, and isn't allowed to play other sports because his dad wants him to focus completely on football and doesn't want to risk an injury playing another sport that would sideline him for football. He can't have sleepovers or do any normal kid things. I know for a fact that the kid has told his father that he doesn't want to play anymore, but the dad doesn't care. He says that as a parent, he has to do what is best for his kid. My sons play sports too and they don't always want to go to practice, so I understand making them stick with something they signed up for. My kids know that they have to finish out a season, but I am perfectly fine if they don't want to sign up the next season. I just don't understand why someone would continue to sign their kid up for something they clearly do not want to do. It's a situation that I can't see ending well, honestly.

A girl showed up to apply for a job. Her mom asked for the application. I ignored the mom and motioned for the girl to step forward and I asked her some questions. She looked at her Mom hesitantly and her mom told her to answer the questions. It was not a good sign that she didn't know if she could speak with us. She was 19 and this was going to be her first job. We decided to give her a shot. Her first shift it quickly became apparent that she was not going to work out and we let her go. The dad showed up the next day inquiring about why his baby girl couldn't work there. The girl looked so embarrassed, I felt bad for her but you could tell the parents never gave her any freedom to be herself or build up any sort of experience, life experience or work experience.

I was hired to "tutor" a home schooled 11 year old who was adopted from peru. He was home schooled because he was too rambunctious apparently.
His mom had the day off once and observed our lesson as she cooked lunch. He dropped his pencil on the floor, went to the bathroom, and came back. He starts reading from the text book and his mother notices the pencil on the floor. She faces me and says "can you help him pick up his pencil, PLEASE!?"
Was the pencil too heavy for an 11 year old to retrieve from the floor? Is he supposed to go the entire lesson thinking the pencil has miraculously disappeared from the universe and not look for it himself?
It was a perfect example of the fact that if you treat kids like theyre dumb, theyll behave that way.

I work in childcare. Little boy fell over outside and scraped his face. Nothing too serious but his parents brought in a helmet and asked to make sure he wore it at all times while outside.

I had a friend growing up whose mother was very protective. The father not so much, but she was so bad that my parents called her mama hawk. I invited him to my 10th birthday party, which was at a laser tag place. His mom came, which was fine, but then while we were playing laser tag, she stood with him the whole time. Didn't play, just stayed with him. Really? What was she protecting him from?

He turned out surprisingly normal and now lives 1,000+ miles away from her. I'm not sure how she does with that.

My friend decided to take the bus with me one day, and while walking there his dad's car followed, then he parked, bought him a snack at the bagel shop, and then proceeded to follow the bus with his car when my friend and I jumped in. The ride was about 15-20 minutes.

Eventual friend in hs, his mother was there every day, all day. Was a private school, day student. She walked him to class, rehearsal, music lessons, the freaking bathroom. Took the entire year to get her to stop, he ended up hiding from her. This kid was brilliant. Perfect sat scores, accomplished musician, amazing actor. We gave him his first soda, gum etc. Father was an ex priest who screwed the organist. Mother was a ex-nun. Both bats**t crazy. We were all so proud when he went to college 800 miles away. Then it went very bad.

Originally the story was he committed s*****e, which made no sense. Everything was going his way. Had full scholarship, escaped his parents and even more amazing, a beautiful girlfriend (he redefined awkward). His mother kept insisting it was m****r, that the mafia had k**led him, but nobody believed her in the slightest. Fast forward a few years and a few unrelated criminal investigations aaaand yeah it was the Russian mob. Apparently his gf's father took a strong dislike to him when he said something unforgivable (again, he redefined awkward) and had him k**led.