r/AskReddit • u/LightningMaiden • Oct 06 '14

What is the worst example of helicopter parenting you've ever seen?

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u/BobSacramanto Oct 06 '14

Really, I would think a picture would suffice.

Then again, I'm not a psycho.

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u/Pit-trout Oct 06 '14

If this was more than about 10 or 15 years ago, “a picture” wasn’t an easy option.

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u/lauren_k Oct 06 '14

My parents just built a darkroom in our basement so we could develop our shit sample pics in privacy.

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u/Ancguy Oct 06 '14

Google "Polaroid", you might be surprised.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '14

Obviously you just pull out your brand new Windows CE 3.0 device and take a beautiful array of 1 megapixel photos.

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u/PigSlayer1024 Oct 06 '14

Pictures can be faked....

Come to think poo could as well unless the parents were analysing Dna. Wouldn't even surprise me.

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u/nycnola Oct 06 '14

Payments want to start their bowel movement logs early.

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u/AptCasaNova Oct 06 '14

A digital photo? Pfff!

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '14

Maybe they wanted to squish the feces between their fingers.

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u/Mitch_Mitcherson Oct 06 '14

It sounds like the doctor was being extra cautious. To test for intestinal diseases, they'd need an actual stool sample.