I will be honest. While I can deal with most parents. There are some parents I hate. I try not to get wrapped up other parents eccentricities and differences. But the seven listed below just get under my skin.

Unfortunately, being a stay at home dad, I come in to contact with a lot of these types of parents at the kids sporting events, on class field trips, at classroom parties, and in this blogs email account where I regularly get messages telling me how bad a parent I am because they didn’t get a joke from one of my blog posts.

Are you one of the parents I hate? Read below and find out.

7, The Perfect Parent

What better type of parent to start with the one I know everyone hates. Their kids never fight. The kids always eat whatever is for dinner. Bedtime is a snap and always has been.

Commonly found on Facebook and Pinterest the perfect parent spends all their time showing off pictures and talking about how perfect their lives are.

Why I hate them

I hate these parents because they are full of crap. Any person who has ever taken care of a kid for more than 10 minutes knows these people are full of crap.

There is no way any kids are that perfect. Even the best most well-behaved and tolerant kids still have tantrums and bad nights. It is all part of growing up. The perfect parent is just a lier trying to impress everyone else.

By the way, if by some small chance this parent is telling the truth and their kids really are that well behaved and perfect, well then I hate them just that much more.

6, The First Parent Ever

One of the more annoying ones on this list this type parent who assumes that no one can understand the stresses and challenges they face as a parent. They are always looking for sympathy for how hard it is for them.

Note, this person is almost never the first person in their friend group to have kids.

Why I hate them

If you have been following my blog for any amount of time you would know I hate it when my kids whine. The last thing I want to deal with is another parent whining about how much tougher it is for them to do the same things I do every day.

I don’t mind if you need to vent, but trust me you almost never have it worse then the other parents around you. None of have gotten enough sleep. No one has been able to go to the bathroom alone, and despite years of trying we too have never been able to actually get the laundry done.

Parenting isn’t a contest to see has it worst. It’s a contest to see which of our kids will need the least amount of therapy when they grow up. A game your parents obviously lost.

5, The Better Parent

The better parent knows what they are doing. They have solved all of the challenges of raising kids and would be happy to tell you everything you are doing wrong if you would just give them a chance.

Why I hate them

Based on the many emails I get from this blog you would think a lot of better parents read my blog. There is never a shortage of helpful advice in my mailbox to help me with whatever I decided to write about.

They always mean well, and surprisingly they all have almost the same advice.

If you would just put in a little more effort, all your parenting problems would be solved and you could be as good a parent as I am. about 95% of the emails I receive from this blog

It doesn’t matter what part of parenting you are struggling with. Maybe a picky eater, a bad sleeper, maybe your kids fight a lot or refuse to brush their teeth. This parent has the solution

Coincidently these parents hey never have more than one child. This is because when everything that worked on your first kid doesn’t work on number two you realize you have solved exactly nothing and your quit being the better parent.

4, The Social Media Parent

Not to be confused with the prolific use of social media by the perfect parent the social media parent is different.

They don’t try to make their lives perfect. In fact, they are usually very good at capturing both the good and the bad of their lives. Unfortunately, they have decided that we need to hear about every single event and see every single picture.

Simply put, I should not have more pictures of your kids on my computer then I do of my own.

Why I hate them

Look I get it. I also share way more than they probably want me to on my blog and on social media. Plus I know I take way too many pictures of my kids stored on the cloud and on external hard drives

But, just like my parents and the countless boxes of old VHS and Polaroid pictures of my sister and I sitting in their basement, I don’t show them to people because I realized long ago no one wants to see them.

I mean I don’t look through them more than once every few years why would anyone else want to see them.

So keep some of these private. Especially if your kid is ugly. Be honest with yourself, you know if your kid is model material or tends to take better pictures at night with the flash off.

3, The Pet Parent

Have you ever watched someone that treats their pets as if they were their children? Dressing them up, feeding them human food, pampering them? They call them something dumb like furbabies?

Why I hate them

This one is going to get me in trouble. Especially since it isn’t a secret how much I love the dog I swore we wouldn’t get before my wife told me we were getting a dog.

I get it you love your animals. I love my dog. They show you affection, have personality and can be a great companion. But they are not kids. No matter how much you love your animals you would love your kids more. It doesn’t compare.

As much personality as any animal may have it is still an animal. I get so tired of people comparing my kids to your dog. I know both can be loud, messy, and may poop on my floor.

But if you want to see the true difference think of losing your dog, and losing a child. One of the two is sad. The other will break you. As a parent who was forced to consider the possibility of that pain, I cannot put into words the anger and insult I felt when someone compares that horror to when they lost an animal.

Love your pets. Take care of them and appreciate all they offer. But they are not kids.

2, The Activist Parent

Whenever there is a new trend or fad the activist parent is a part of it. They just know this new way is better than however it was done before. Examples include avoiding vaccinations, the rush for organic food, letting your kids pick their names or trying to hide their gender.

Oh by the way if you don’t agree with them and don’t follow the newest trend you are not only a horrible parent, but what you are doing borders on child abuse.

Why I hate them

I am just so tired of people confusing social media posts and random blogs with real science. These parents buy into this nonsense and then through their arrogance endanger their kids and others.

But what is worse they will then vilify you for not buying into this BS. Just ask the experts. There isn’t any grand conspiracy.

1, The Missing Parent

I saved this for number one because this parent is just the worst. They have the opportunity and the means to be with their kid but decides not to.

I am not referring to parents that have to be away from their kids so that they can work to feed their kids. I am not referring to an at-home parent who escapes for a little break once their spouse is home.

Why I hate them

I am referring to the parents who just can’t be pulled away from whatever seemingly important thing to see their kids recital or ball game. The parents who can’t stop playing video games or leave Facebook to be with their kids.

There are thousands of parents who have to give up time with their families just to keep a roof over their heads. The people who do it voluntarily, and consistently, just seems unforgivable.

What type of parent are you?

But now this leaves the question. What type of parent are you? Are you one of the ones that I hate or are you another that I’m kinda ok with?

In all honestly if you made it this far into this blog post you are probably one of my favorite types of parent , the ones that read my blog. But I want to know. Catch me on Twitter and let me know what kind of parent you are. Or if you want to see something else that bothers me check out 7 Parenting Arguments That Never Go Away.





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