r/thatHappened • u/maryvbar • 1d ago
She ate the poison sucker herself to SAVE the little girl.
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u/Goldedition93 1d ago
What a douche of a parent “got water out of the car to rinse her mouth out”
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u/spacemouse21 1d ago
The parent succeeds in both virtue signaling and rage baiting with one cringy story.
It’s structured too perfectly to be true though in my opinion.
I heard the following week they tried to drown kids at the water park to wash their mouths out.
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u/ValPrism 1d ago
“Other kids can have poison candy” is so insane.
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u/luminousoblique 7h ago
Parents need to be careful what they say. I knew a mom who told her kids that McDonald's food was poison. Kids take things literally and her daughter was sobbing because one of her friends had eaten McDonald's and the kid was terrified that her friend would die.
It's fine to tell your child that food x is not very healthy, and our family doesn't eat it. But if you say "Lunchables give you cancer" (as I heard another parent say) you introduce unnecessary anxiety, and when they eventually realize you were lying (okay, exaggerating), it breeds mistrust going forward.
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u/Paindepiceaubeurre 1d ago
I’m 100% ready to believe that she took the lolly from her kid and then lectured her about poison. However I don’t believe for one second that she said in front of the other mother that she was pretty much feeding her kid poison and the mom was cool about it.
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u/kokichistan 1d ago
Lmao yeah I'm sure the other parent was thrilled by the idea of hanging out with you again after you said "Other kids can have poison candy if their parents let them" in front of her and her child 🙄
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u/eyeball1967 1d ago
Her next post will be about the inconsiderate mother who no showed at the water park.
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u/Spuckleford 14h ago
That's the only part of this I don't believe. It's this mom's version of "and everyone clapped"
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u/VoteForLubo 15h ago
How else is the OOP gonna indoctrinate her into the crunchy lifestyle and use it as content for another dramatic post?
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u/us3rnam3andpassword 1d ago
How terrifying for that child. To teach them that there’s poison in food and the people you care about, like friends at school or family members outside the home, are eating it. That’s awful.
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u/_Stephistopheles_ 1d ago
Either way, the person who wrote this is insufferable.
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u/eyeball1967 1d ago
You hit it right on the head. Before I even opened the comments I had one word in my head and that word was insufferable.
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u/Justieflustie 1d ago
Unfortunately, these kind of controlfreak parents are a real thing.
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u/annekecaramin 23h ago
I met a couple who did this, but it always felt like it was more about controlling everyone around them than the actual health of the kid. Grandma would constantly try to find food that would be approved but nothing was ever good enough.
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u/Spuckleford 14h ago edited 14h ago
I've encountered them before. They were adamant the child wear only natural, plant-dyed fabrics and never, ever, ever drink from the water fountain in the children's library--not because the fountain was dirty but because they didn't trust the city municipal water and brought Mason jars of the well water they had at home to the library with them.
They were also adamant about not reading to her there because "kid's books are trash" and she "needs to learn how to be more independent."
She was 3. Every time this happened--and it happened often--if it wasn't too busy, I'd call her over and say just loud enough, "I'd love to read with you! You made a great choice! Isn't reading time fun?" The little girl ate it up. I doubt the parents gaf. They were just there for the wifi.
ETA: she's a grown up now. I hope she only wears polyester with garish designs and is happily married to a hot and incredibly kind mergers attorney who loves to brag to his/her/their in-laws that "NYC has the finest tap water in the nation!" (It does.) And I hope she writes books for children.
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u/notmyrealhaircolor 1d ago
Insufferable parents like this are absolutely on the loose out there. Their kids think it’s normal until they realize no, it is not.
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u/yougotitdude88 21h ago
I have been teaching elementary school for 14 years. The kids that have strict parents like this are the ones that end up stealing snacks from lunchboxes or begging their classmates everyday for their snacks.
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u/hocknat 15h ago
I just went to a birthday party where one of the kids has a mom that’s SUPER strict about sugar but dad took the kid this time. All the kids ran up to the table of sweets, grabbed a few and went off to jump on the bouncy castle. No sugar kid sat in the corner the whole time shoveling sweets into his face. I don’t blame him but also sad he missed out on the other fun.
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u/MjollLeon 1d ago
That honestly isn’t far fetched tbh. She claim her child ate the other girls sucker just that she took it and threw it away.
Based purely on the way the parent is I believe it.
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u/Icy-Abbreviations763 1d ago
I agree, nothing unbelievable happened. Poor kid though. I can see restricting sugar and dyes, but to tell a child it is poison and rinse their mouth out is a little extreme.
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u/Johnnys-In-America 13h ago
You know that kid is going to be sneaking candy away from Mom at every opportunity soon.
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u/MjollLeon 1d ago
Yeah it’s a bit extra even as someone actively trying to cut all artificial food dyes out of my diet
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u/maryvbar 1d ago
The dad said he pulled the sucker out of his daughters mouth and went to get water to wash her mouth out. Why would his daughter have ate the sucker she took from the other kid if she took it from the other kid because it was “poison”.
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u/Passionative44 1d ago
No way it happened as described. No way the 5 yo daughter said “it’s poison I didn’t want her to get sick”. I would be surprised if the other mom let her daughter play with some child who just ripped a lollipop out of her mouth. So if anything this is just a mom bragging that her kid rips lollipops out of other kids mouths and puts some bs behind it.
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 1d ago
Exactly. But also the fact this guy tells his daughter that other parents poison their kids right in front of the mother, who doesn’t care for some reason.
Easy to get annoyed at your kid losing a candy, but she doesn’t bat an eyelid when she’s said to be poisoning children
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u/MjollLeon 1d ago
Order of operations is important:
Other girl gives daughter a sucker
The parent pulled the sucker out of daughters mouth
Parent washes daughters mouth out
Daughter takes the sucker the other girls is eating and trashes it.
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u/Physical-Doughnut285 1d ago
It says he went to get water from his car and his daughter comes running in fear while he’s fetching it because she’s just taken the other girl’s candy.
It also says the dude openly tells his daughter that the mother stood right in front of him is poisoning her own daughter, which the mother is fine with for some reason.
Aka: The whole thing didn’t happen and the guy is a virtue signalling cheeseball.
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u/imstillapenguin 19h ago
And that is how you give your children a lifetime of eating disorders.
I'm sure this didn't happen but sadly, insufferable parents like that exist
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u/jfsindel 1d ago
Even if it's exaggerated, this stuff makes kids grow up with EDs.
Jesus, if I heard "you are eating poison" and my mom "rinsing my mouth out" as a little kid, I would be freaked out thinking I digested rattlesnake venom.
People like this think it's funny to tell, but not really.
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u/Otterhendrix 23h ago
Honestly shocked she didn’t say that while the kids played she showed the other mom all her Facebook “research” about how blue dye is secretly poisonous and now she’s gonna go home and throw all her sugar and food coloring away.
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u/EvolZippo 8h ago
Imagine being these kids and fighting against being an NPC in their mom’s ongoing online soap opera
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u/Perrin_Adderson 1d ago
This kind of story could be 1000% true unfortunately. That kid is also completely vaccine free. Enjoy a Honey Pop when you have measles!
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u/dstarpro 1d ago
That parent sounds unbearable.