What is the worst thing your parents ever called you?

[Quixote1818]

I had AWESOME parents but when my Mom was tired and stressed she could come out with some really great insults! My favorite was: "You idiot child!" :7 She also liked to say "GOD DAM IT!" and "You Birds!"

My Dad never cussed us out but I once heard him call Ronald Reagan: "YOU FUCK ASS SHIT!!!!" Every time Reagan came on the TV my Dad would get irate and start cussing! It was hilarious!

[Breeze54]

1. Late for dinner.

:rofl:

[Bucky]

34. .

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[Breeze54]

40. LMAO! "My cheeky monkey!"

:rofl:

[Monkeyman]

2. Late For Dinner . Mine never called me anything

[Bucky]

35. Looking at reply times, your pause to type out "Mine never called me anything" made you a plagiarist

But I'll still give you a sympathy rimshot.

(Um, wait, maybe I want to rephrase that.)
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[HCE SuiGeneris]

48. ... plagarism... I'll give you plagarism

[Dogmudgeon]

3. A Distraction

Next trauma, please ...

--p!

[illinoisprogressive]

4. nothing like what has been used by Baldwin.

[shenmue]

5. "Ungrateful little brat"

Said as Mom was pulling me, by my hair, to the car so we could go to church.

[nonconformist]

6. I was never called a name. Ever. And I had the most dysfunctional family ever.

I have never called my kids a name either. When I am upset with them, I focus on the behavior... I don't personally attack them and demean them.

[Lex]

7. My dad once called me a 'birdbrain' but I was being one

at that particular time.

My brother and I didn't get called names but I have to say we didn't have the same kind of screwy dysfunctional broken-up estranged fighting divorced celebrity parents that the Baldwin/Basingers have.

[jobycom]

8. I didn't make a list. But I'm sure it was a string involving several FCC banned words.

My father is rather blue collar. Worked on the oil rigs. His father was a building engineer in New Orleans, and his grandfather was a riverboat captain who just disappeared. So there was a history of amusing, non-traditional language in my family.

My mother once tried to beat me over the head with an aluminum pot. Hard, too. I deserved it, though.

[alarimer]

9. My sister's name

the nerve of those people.

Actually thought my name was Goddamn it for a while.

[Breeze54]

10. LMFAO!

I (had) {scratch that} HAVE five older brothers and sisters
and it was a riot when my Mom would try to call one of us! :rofl:
She'd go through all the names and then sigh and roll her eyes!
She always said one day she's get it right! He,he! Never did! :rofl:

[Staph]

12. Our mothers must be related!

I have two sisters. Mom would go through all three names trying to remember which one you were. To this day, when I hear any one of our three names, I respond automatically.

It only became embarassing after the oldest sister got a dog. Mom began using the dog's name as the fourth in the list.

[alarimer]

15. Well eventually she just combined them all into one name

saves time.

[Breeze54]

20. I am doing the same with my 3 sons...

"Hey there, Nat, um Chr...um Sea....?"

My sons laugh at me for it now also! :rofl:

[slampoet]

22. Maybe it's like in big families.......Ma just goes down the list when she's pissed...

"Godamn it!!! Matt, Sara, Jacob, Frank, Peter, Franny, Vincent, Jeana, Whatever your name is!! Get off the fence before you break your neck!!"


{Billy stops playing on the fence}

[Berry Cool]

52. Did she ever yell your name in outraged fury first,

and then go on to the other names...with you heaving a big sigh of relief?

Or, conversely, yell the other names first mistakenly, and then get down to you--with you thinking "Damn, I thought she was gonna give it to one of THEM??"

[Critters2]

25. I do that with my cats....

Shamu, err, Leon, err, Sophie, ah hell--YOU!!

[Critters2]

24. People got my sister and I confused so often that

by the time I was 5, we were simply "the girls". Crittersbrother and the girls. Always. No wonder I have issues.

[Forkboy]

11. The family dog....The Hannibal Lector of freeloaders

(I actually liked that second one...too creative to get mad about).Probably others that I tuned out. :)

[Tom Joad]

13. "You are just like that Alec Baldwin"!

[Critters2]

26. That is just mean. nt

[uppityperson]

14. i don't remember. I remember the good things they called me though. eom

[riverdale]

16. you name it

and it was daily. Calling me a cancer was a favorite. Also, my dad used to tell me that they did not want me around and that I should move out ... this began at about the ripe old age of 10! German curse words were an old standby, but to this day I don't know what the fuck he was saying. Being highly religious, I think he wanted to avoid using regular American curse words and the usage of German was like some kind of loophole in his wached out mind. Not that curse words were totally prohibited though. I think the funniest one I can remember was when my dad was on some rant one time and called me a son of a bitch among other things... all I could do to stop from laughing.

[Breeze54]

18. A Welcome to DU and a hug...

:hug:

At least you are laughing about it. ;)

[riverdale]

30. not really laughing about it, but whatever

Both my parents got put on the Stephen Colbert "dead to me" list over ten years ago. With kids of my own now the treatment I rec'd only seems worse in hindsight.

[Breeze54]

31. If I misinterpreted your words, I'm sorry.

"I think the funniest one I can remember was when my dad was on some rant one time
and called me a son of a bitch among other things...all I could do to stop from laughing."

I thought you were laughing it off.

I'm sure it was and is a painful memory.

I'm sorry you went through that. That sucks!

[dweller]

17. to dinner

i was the picky eater according to them.

dp

[Colobo]

19. Dad: "I wish I had thrown you down the toilet"

My dad can be a despicable bastard when he wants to. I'll never forget him saying that to me just because he was pissed with mom and I didn't side with him.

[slampoet]

21. "Little Pig" maybe, "Spoiled?" When i was. Sometimes worse.

But i said MUCHO worse.

i figure that only the little pig line was over the line and only more so because it is a Hollywood family. Otherwise this is pretty par for the course on families that argue out things rather than have a central discipline figure or system.

Tempest meet teapot.

[Critters2]

23. Spoiled brat.

Which struck me as ironic, because, well, who would've been responsible for spoiling me? But my dad didn't seem in the mood for that sort of discussion at the time.

[Colobo]

27. Wow... American parents are very PC

In Latin America, parents don't hesitate to say very nasty things to their kids and, if necessary, incur in corporal punishment.

[Breeze54]

29. PC?

:shrug:

American parents can be just as abusive as any other parents.
After all, America is made up of many other countries, right?
But it's not acceptable behavior, usually.

[Colobo]

33. When "spoiled brat" is considered an insult...

You call a Puerto Rican kid "spoiled brat" and s/he will probably laugh at you uncontrollably. No kid would be offended by such thing, because they are used to hear parents call them much much worse things (and in other Latin American nations is even worse). I come from a culture in which people truly believe that hitting your kid with a belt in time will straighten him/her up. Over here any sort of corporal punishment is "child abuse" or something along those lines.

[Breeze54]

36. Yes, Hitting with a belt is considered abusive.

Some of the replies in this thread were made in jest.

On the funny side. ;) Some were serious.

But hitting in America, with a belt, is considered abusive.

Hitting, although used, is frowned upon by many in the USA.

[Colobo]

37. I know... very marked cultural differences

[derby378]

57. That depends - I've been spanked with a belt before

Always on the buttocks, fully clothed. That's it.

Some parents, however, simply let fly with the belt at their children's arms, legs, faces, or anywhere they damn well feel like. That is clearly abuse in my book.

[bling bling]

39. Please don't mistake this thread as being representative.

This seems like a thread for fun, light rememberances of when parents lost their cool.

Probably people who have darker pasts with parental anger aren't going to post here. The worst thing my parents said to me is something I wouldn't share on a thread like this.

And I only wish that corporal punishment was our worst form of child abuse. Babies arms and legs are broken by frustrated dads. Babies are shaken to death every day in this country because their parents go over the edge. In my city a couple of months back a dad shot his newborn kid with a bb gun all over his little body. And that's BABIES! So you can imagine what happens to older kids.

Americans may seem like we over-react to child abuse. But I have no idea why we have that reputation. If anything, it's exactly the opposite.

[melody]

51. It's not "PC", it's good parenting

The stuff my father howled at my siblings and me I won't even force myself to type in this space. I promise you, those words hurt every bit as badly as the belt he swung (and sometimes worse). My dad
can't be judge by American standards, he was from Texas. lol

[rosesaylavee]

28. Never called a name

but she did have an endearing way of threatening us to get our chores done or do whatever it was she wanted us to do.

Favorite threat came out one time when she was sputtering mad - she was going to 'rip off my arm and beat me with the bloody stump'. Second favorite - she was going to 'knock us into a week of Tuesdays'.

My mom was a shy sweet person and not at all strong - the irony of that first coming from her was very Pythonesque... which was not lost on her when she calmed down and thought it funny too.

[JohnnyLib2]

32. "Little heathens," but never a Republican.

Confession time: I once called our son "Alex P. Keaton."
Later, the damn kid DID become an R. :hide:

[Rosemary2205]

38. IMHO it's not the words spoken in anger that matter.

When the anger and disapproval are constant it gets to a point where a parent doesn't even have to say anything anymore to destroy the kids self esteem for the moment in question. It's the day in day out message of either worth or lack of it that make a difference.

Occasional words spoken in frustration quickly melt away when most of the time the atmosphere is good.

[Skarbrowe]

41. My Mother found one of "those" letters I had written to a girlfriend

when I was fourteen and back in those days ( and in some places, still the same now ) it was like I had committed the worst sin possible. My brother who was 8 years older than me and who would die in a drinking related car accident three years later, had been in reform school and had several minor problems with the law. After she read the letter, she cornered me in the basement one day and gave me this steely cold blue-eyed stare and said dripping with sarcasm, "Two great kids I've had." Thing is, I was a real goody two shoes. Got all A's and usually one B on every report card, never got into trouble...just happened to fall in love with another girl.

I always wished I had said to her, "Well, Mom, it was YOU who married the alcoholic, it was YOU who would pull us out of bed at four in the morning to run from good old DAD. It was YOU who finally left him after my brother had already been destroyed and it was YOU who married a man who just might have liked little girls more than grown women.

Uh, I never said any of that because I loved my Mom to death. Always thought she walked on water and it really hurt when she said that to me. She accepted (eh, what could she do?) my lifestyle a few years after that and I took care of her until she died in my arms. But, that was the worst I ever recall her saying to me. That and maybe that I reminded her a lot of my Dad. OUCH.

All is forgiven.

[Raine]

42. Nothing bad ever

the most critical thing my mother said to me was that my problem was that I thought I knew everything. My mother was verbally abused by her own mother and it was something that haunted my mother her whole life, so she always made sure she NEVER repeated that kind of abusive behavior.

[FloridaJudy]

43. My mother used to call me a slut

But English wasn't her native language. She thought it meant "slob", and actually "a slovenly woman" is the first definition in the dictionary. When she discovered the word had a second connotation, she was appropriately horrified and never used the word again.

Of course, I knew exactly what she had meant by it, but milked it for all the guilt I could. Turn-about is fair play.

[seabeyond]

56. that is funny. my parents didnt have the desire to hurt me, even in anger

they never called me names.

[wildhorses]

44. i was told to shut up

used to be quite the talkative child

and i think my dad told me i was dumb a time or two

and he used his belt...

times have changed

what was once acceptable is now considered abuse

[Chomskyite]

45. The worst

When I was a toddler, my dad called me, "Shoogeee."

But my sister got the nickname "Punkhead."

[spiderpig]

46. You don't wanna know...

...but I'm a loving, caring, responsible adult.

[leftofthedial]

47. 25 cent mistake

[Balbus]

49. "The hole in the rubber."

[Marr]

50. "Fucking retard".

I'm sure others would've found some of her other verbal barbs more offensive, but that was the one that got to me.

Having said that, I don't consider Alec Baldwin's family problems to be news, and I can't believe so many DUers are so gleefully caught up in this infotainment garbage.

[Mamacrat]

53. "you little bitch!"

Among other things... starting after my parent's divorce when I was about 8-years-old and a really tiny, little girl. To the public my mother is a perfectly acceptable woman who even once sat on the board of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children). Can you say Compensatory Facade?

I've often said to my husband that I wished I had a recording or video of my parents behavior in private, since they are so good at showing a perfect face to the world. When he first heard of this issue with Alec Baldwin my situation was the first thing he thought of. Because, while my father never called me a "name," his words and actions (or omissions) hurt just as much. And, I got so sick of hearing about how I didn't call him! I was just a child. It would never occur to me to "keep score" on my child in that manner. And, over thirty years later and two marriages later (Now, who really has the problem?) he's still doing it with my younger half-siblings!

Maybe it wasn't parental alienation at all. Maybe she was just being a normal 11-year-old who was too busy talking about boys or lip gloss, or maybe soccer practice with her friends, and forgot her father was going to call, or forgot to turn on the ringer (she's probably not allowed to have it on while in school) and didn't hear his call.

Really, it's not about the anger, it's about the contempt:

an·ger (ăng'gər)
n.

A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility.

con·tempt (kən-tĕmpt')
n.

1. The feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn.
2. The state of being despised or dishonored; disgrace.
3. Open disrespect or willful disobedience of the authority of a court of law or legislative body.


I don't care if this is a personal attack on Alec Baldwin for whatever reason. I do care that his child has to endure these types of attacks. If he'll leave a message like this on her voice mail, knowing that it will be recorded, then what type of things do you think he's saying to her in private? My guess is that he's been doing this for a long time and just never left a message like that to protect his own image and finally couldn't control himself even in that situation.

I read that just before he made that call he'd made fun of Ireland's dancing on David Letterman. I told my husband that before he'd announced his divorce from Kim I'd seen him on Letterman making fun of her accent and silly things she did. There was just enough contempt in it for me to think, "Well, that marriage is over." His contempt is absolutely palpable." I know this man. this issue. It's not a one-shot deal with people like him. This isn't about yelling at the children to do their homework or to get in the car to get to church on time. This is about narcissism, control, and contempt.

My mother never stopped treating me the way she did as a child until I broke off my relationship with her in my late 30's. (The night we brought our son home from the hospital a relative called me for her railing against me about not having a relationship with her. Who does that to someone the night they bring a child home from the hospital, esp. after a dangerous pregnancy and birth, of which this person was aware?! And, again, no one in our/their "social group" knows they did this to me. Unlike my father who keeps his problems in the family she seeks sympathy from others by sharing her sad "story.") To this day, even those people who do believe me that she treated me that way still can not grasp the magnitude and intensity of her words and actions because they've never experienced it with her and it's so at odds with her public image. (Of course, Alec Baldwin is at least known for his contemptuous and arrogant attitude with others.) At 40-years-old, if I found a recording today of her treatment of me as a child I would send it to every single one of her friends and associates. I'm so sick of being seen as an ingrate. I assure you most of them would be absolutely stunned at what they would see. Who knows, maybe Ireland is the one who leaked the tape!

Thanks for letting me post. It's was cathartic. :woohoo:

[Solly Mack]

54. eegit and heathen (both true)

and _____-looking ape (father's last name and not true - I look like my mom))- keep in mind my mom accepted evolution so ape wasn't an insult in our house... :)

[supernova]

55. Don't remember being called names

My parents were very careful to refer to behavior as terrible, or awful, or not what I expect.... but they did not call us names personally.

And I still do that today. If I have to dress someone down, I call out the behavior. I don't insult the person.


edit: code

[camero]

58. Burkhead

My mom used to call me that whenever I couldn't hear her and used it as a nickname of sorts. I later found out that it was an British? term for idiot.

[Joe Fields]

59. My folks never yelled or cussed at me.

[virginia mountainman]

60. Worst thing was...

Son, I am disappointed in you.

[salin]

61. When I was little my Dad would replace Lola with my name and sing "Whatever

salin wants.... salin in gets" in a bit of a mocking way. It made me even angrier. But it was in no way abusive.

[BuelahWitch]

62. My grandmother called me "a little shit" once

But mostly I knew I was in trouble if I got the full first name and middle name together.
I was pretty lucky in that I was a wanted child even though I was a "mistake."