The mom's story was tragic too. She was forced to neglect her son. She was working her butt off for her son and that a-hole. And in the end, she got this. I wish she didn't lash out and directly threaten him. That monster killed that innocent kid, and he still loved his monster of a dad.
@pxmpkxn6163 tbh in wondering if she knew the extent of her husband's abuse towards Ron or if she thought it was safe to take Ron. There's a lot of cases where taking the kid when you flee if you haven't fully moved out yet can cause more violence. My bets are on the mom not entirely knowing just how bad it gets because it seems she only comes back home by the time Ron should already be asleep.
Not to excuse her actions or anything I just have massive sympathy for her bc she lost her son and it seems like that the mom did love and care about Ron. She was pretty harsh in the intro though. Idk maybe it's just me thinking that losing her son is the biggest price to pay and that being absent and rude shouldn't be punished by your own son being killed by your husband. It's implied that she sold herself so to say just to provide for Ron and her husband who clearly was capable of getting a job.
The most horrific part of the game is that things like this do happen. There are countless children whom are suffering in these abusive or neglectful households. And...some do end up loosing their lives. I hate how accurate some parts of this game is.
There are also many other stuff like that like how at the beginning when the bottle is being emptied when Mr.redface appeared and the bottle broke, the same way the father slammed the bottle on the table towards the end.
Here is the full timeline I can get out of it. 1. Dad and Mom had an argument, which led to the mom leaving that night and the dad did him and hid him in the closet. 2. The dad left the house the next day due to guilt / to freed from his crime. 3. The mom came home the next day late as always but didnt't see the dad, so she thought he left due to her threat. 4. Ron's ghost could only be seen at night, which meant everytime she came home, her son was always there, so she didn't realize he was already gone. 5. The doll / Ron's inner self tried to have Ron made peace with what happened, but since the horror was too traumatized for the child to bear, he just repressed that memories again and again. This is why the mom talked about how Ron talked different stories everyday, but the doll had always been a part of them. 6. As a last straw, instead of having Ron experience the horror of what the dad did to him directly, the doll created the Mr. Red Face's version of his dad and made Ron defeat him to save his parents and establish a bit of peace of mind, so hopefully, Ron didn't break and reset once again. This worked and Ron finally realized what happened. 7. At the final day, the mom decided to stay home with Ron. However, when she woke up in the day, she didn't see Ron at the dad's bed ('cause he couldn't appear at day time). She searched for him and found him in the closet.
Side note: The pill bottles on the dinner table implies she's hallucinating her son still being alive at night, so she didn't find out he's dead. In the morning when she stayed home to take care of her, the drugs' effects wear off, and she couldn't find her son anywhere, until she looked at his closet.
@@oomfie_rhine Acutally, it's stated that the medicines are for Ron. The mom probably brought it for him either: 1. to cure his 'hallucinations'. She probably thought of his stories as nothing more than just a child's hallucination, hence the 'I don't know what's wrong with you' dialog. So maybe the pills were to treat hallucinations? 2. to cure his 'sickness'. The mom prepared food for Ron everyday, but since Ron can't eat for obvious reason, the food left untouched (or just a bit), hence 'Lately, I've noticed you've been getting lazy about eating' in the note. Maybe she thought he was sick or something, so she brought medicines for him in hope of improving his eating habit.
Just a theory but I think when the mom woke up on the final day and didn't see Ron and he didn't come when she called, she thought her husband kidnapped him and that's why she was talking to the police. When Ron's spirit helped her and the police find him, she realized that he didn't have him, and since he was traumatized by Ron's spirit, he probably rambled about it to the police. With the thought that her son could be a ghost, then she searched for him and found him in the closet. Just an idea though, sorry for the long comment
@@XArtificerx Abusive parents murdering their own children. For example Gabriel Fernandez is a case I thought of when watching this gameplay. It’s really sad.
The way i realized that the bottle scene at the end, how the glass smash was also the exact scene when the doll was using its powers mimicking the dad's drinking habits at the table just for ron to remember 😭
Such a simple story, but very effective. I look forward to what's next in the Bad Parenting saga. Looks like the dev is going for the self contained story approach in future chapters/games.
@@iaminsideyourwalls2021 or addiction. I kind of hope it is about addiction so I can make someone I know with one play it. Might convince them to quit!
Spoiler alert: In the ending of the game, there a detail about the 3 kids on where they place at, there's 1 little girl she's on her digged hole which si indicate that her corpe was buried when she get killed and there's 1 little boy was literally sitting in a campfire indicate that his corpe was burned or worst he was burned alive and that's cause of his death and the 3rd is another boy chilling at the back of a car, indicate that his corpe probably hid at the back of the car after the murder.
Honestly, the doll being Ron's "knowing part" and "trying to get him to remember" can be seen as Ron coping - children cope through playing out as what they experienced, often they do it over and over again. Also, since getting medicine for hallucinations isn't exactly immediate and in most places you'd need a prescription, I'm assuming Ron always was mentally ill, and that's why his father blamed him and killed him.
But it also exposes the horrifying truth. Abuse is common around the world and some kids die at the hands of their abusive parents either intentional or not.
I have a theory i want to share! Mr Redface is the spirit of drunkness or alcohol. Note how at the end of the game when the dad turns into Mr Redface, its only after he gets drunk. The doll states that Mr Redface takes away bad parents. Many bad parents turn to alcoholism, so that makes sense. Mr Redface probably takes away the children to his realm when they get killed by their drunk parents, explaining why Ron and the other kids are all dead and looking for their parents.
@@tylercoep0588 yes but why would he also take the other kids?? It was said that Mr Redface takes away bad parents and their kids, like how alcohol can take parents away from their children.
I may be wrong but I don't think that the object within the afterlife realm represents how they died but rather where their bodies are hidden. Since Ron got strangled to death yet his neck isn't broken in the afterlife part but is within a closet, which is exactly where the dad (Mr. Red face) hid him. So one of the kids was hidden in a trench, the other in a ruined car, and the last one was had probably his corpse burned
A theme of how the three kids appeared are all kinda like way to hide something you don't want to be found. I think the trench is like how in some shows and movies people who 'accidentally' killed bury the body of their victim in a attempt to bury their shame, like the kid may have been killed in a fit of rage and their parent felt guilty after, but couldn't handle the thought of going to someone and admitting what they had done. So they instead buried the kids body in a place they thought nobody would eve find it. The one who comes out of a car probably had their body hidden in the trunk of a car, and then maybe that car could've been scrapped with the kid's body still inside. I do agree with the thought of the one coming from the fire possibly having their body burned, as burning a body would be the easiest way to make the corpse unrecognizable and then only testing could be done to figure out who the corpse once was.
I don’t think the kids at the end are showing how they died, they’re showing where their bodies were left. The baby (I’m assuming it’s a diaper) was dumped in the trunk of a car. The girl was buried. The boy with the red hair was burnt. And Ron, our protagonist, was hidden in the closet.
I also noticed something, I mean why the portal to the other realm is the closet for ron is because that’s where he died. I mean maybe if we see in the perspective of other kids, the portal is where they also died… I mean portal to “afterlife”
The son's loyalty is crazy imagine still thinking your dad is good when in reality he literally has a inhuman behavior towards the son being drunk and strangling the son to death
When I finished watching 8-BitRyan play this I went to hug my dad, just to remind myself that I’m with a good family. I feel so bad for kids who have abusive parents.
these are some small details you might have missed: when Ron finds the doll in a light blue box with white polka dots, it represents his deathbed, at the start you see Mr. Red Face coming in and waving the doll by its neck with one hand, then going in the closet, it represents the murder of the poor child by the hands of "Mr. Red Face" aka his father. Edit: tysm for the likes, i never got this much likes :>
I like the symbolism of this game its fairly straightforward when you connect it to reality. I liked the bittersweet ending as well the child died and that can't be fixed both the Mom and Ron have to mourn the loss of the other and move on
Scene Selection 0:00 - Intro 0:19 - Part 1 - Bad Parents 1:22 - Part 2 - Mr. Red Face & The Doll 4:27 - Part 3 - A portal to another realm 8:57 - Part 4 - The horrifying truth 11:53 - Outro
Oh my goodness. I just realised. The first scene, and the scene where Ron got his parents back, were at the same timeline. Ron went to bed, and his parents argued. The mom left and his dad killed him in his sleep, stuffed him in the closet (when Ron awoke while sleeping at night, a figure put something in the closet.) That figure was Mr. Red face (the same person as his dad,) and the doll stops him from opening his closet because he was still inside it. Oh my goodness.
And then the doll came to remind him since it says “Whenever your memory resets you start from the night when your dad killed you”. So it tries over and over again for him to realize when his memory resets. And it says “start from the night when your dad killed you” you are right because you said in both scenes it shows Ron being killed. But in the first scene he doesn’t know what it is since the closet is locked. And the timeline, the closet didn’t open until he got killed so that means it happened over than 1 time
No demons,ghosts, monsters, psychopaths, cultists or mad scientists, and yet still managed to easily become one of the most disturbing games of 2024 thus far.
Something key in Bad Parenting intrigued me- the medicine scene. If said medicine had no relevance, there wouldn't be a full chunk set aside to call its existence out… so whose is it, and why is it emphasized? I think it’s actually the Mom’s medicine, not her son's, but it's hard to pinpoint when and why she is taking it. Is it a mental health pill prescribed after her son’s murder? Is she suffering from trauma-based delusions, hence her thinking he's alive and they're his pills? Was she already on them before the game’s events altogether, to help cope with financial stress from her alcoholic husband and unwanted son? Deliberate attention to a small element like this medicine is exactly what makes short games like Bad Parenting so interesting.
i think it’s really clever how “mister red face” represented how his father’s face got flushed red from alcohol, as many people’s do. didn’t see that coming!
I just want to quickly point out at 10:50 that it makes more sense if that's where the children were hidden, since Ron is seen inside a closet at the end of the game. Ron didn't die inside the closet his body was just hidden there, so it would make more since if the children are in the places their parents hidden their bodies. 1 had his body burned 1 got buried 1 was hidden in the trunk of a car I feel like this is more reasonable, considering once again that Ron is inside a closet sitting with them at the end but he didn't die inside of it
This guy always uploads scary vids at the perfect times, 10-11pm when everyone’s going to sleep 😂 (unless you’re not in Europe or Africa then you can’t relate)
Btw the little blonde kid's death was more leaning onto him being left in a trunk to die since he jumped out of it when they scared Ron whilst going for his father. And the little girl was also leaning more onto her being buried alive :)
That horrid dad should have just ditch his wife and son like any other deadbeat, neglectful dad instead of what happen in this game. 5:31-5:38 The blonde boy probably have loving parents, but they are reckless dare devils that caused his and possibly their demise in the car. The red head boy was likely burned to his doom in a campfire for a ritual or just neglectful on keeping an eye on him. The girl was buried alive for ticking them off, to cover up her illegitimate birth, or saw something that she shouldn't see.
I always love these Story Explained videos, it's been a few months since the last one! Great scripting and editing along with your smooth voice, as always!
I think the food disappearing and reappearing is the fact that his mom always made the same things for him everyday because she wants home to feed him.
FACTS ABOUT BAD PARENTING 1.- when Ron throws the “spell” to defeat Mr red face, he actually threw the hotel card where the dad was hiding when he 💀 Ron and that’s how the cops found where the dad was hiding 2.- when the game starts, the door opens 14 times, it represents how many days it took Ron’s mom to notice he was 💀 3.- the doll’s loose neck was a reference of how Ron 💀 4.- the kids that Ron met where in the place they 💀, the girl was burried, the blonde boy was captured on a car, and the third kid was burned alive LIKE IF YOU WANT MORE BAD PARENTING FACTS
This game was truly a masterpiece storytelling-wise. All of the little details from the broken neck of the doll representing what happened to Ron, the gift box the doll was in representing Ron’s coffin, the use of the closet, the other children, etc. just made this game that much more sad and impactful. There’s probably a lot more like the symbolism/meaning of the different radio frequencies and the cat. This game kind of reminds me of Among the Sleep where, in the baby’s eyes, his mom was/turned into a monster when she drank, but when she was sober, she was his loving mom. Here the dad is evil no matter what, but it’s specifically when he’s drinking that he turns into Mr. Redface.
For those who don’t know, this entire game is a giant symbolism, the doll is Ron’s conscious, Mr red face is the dad, the 3 kids are kids who died, one In a fire, one in a car crash, another was buried in the woods, the “closet realm” is the afterlife, the “prison” Ron’s dad was in is the motel room, the spell card is the motel card, and the game is based on a true story, or multiple accounts of stuff like this. This game points a finger at all the kids who deal with this stuff, and calls them out, but the game is still depressing, overall, really cool game
The spell being the thing that could defeat Mr. Redface is really cool cuz, it was actually the Dads motel card which he represents Mr.Redface in this situation, which basically "defeated" him aka exposing the location of the Dads hiding spot, so the spell defeated Mr.Redface while in reality, the police found out the location of the Dad because of the left out motel card, im pretty sure yall already knew tho cuz uh...
I really cried playing this. The son made me sad. The mom crying at the end really made me wanna cry the most. Also the end were he’s with the kids also made me a little happy cuz he wasn’t alone
All this because of bad parenting A young child murdered by his drunken father A mother crying over her sons dead corpse The fact that this was based of a true story is disgusting This world is cruel.
10:45 I don’t think that’s how the kids were killed, I think it’s meant to depict how the bodies were disposed of. Because Ron is shown is a closet, that’s not how he died but rather where his body was hidden. One child’s body was hidden in the trunk of a car, another’s was burned and the last one was buried in a shallow grave
the box the doll came in is the same as ron’s coffin, the doll’s master is rons dad and the doll is rons consciousness, redface strangles the doll foreshadowing how ron dies, the doll gets beaten by the master because „hes not happy with what happened” jst like how ron got killed because his dad was angry, in the intro the door opens 14 times because it took 14 days for ron to be found
If you think the moms a bad parent because it took her 14 days to find her child let me explain she works a lot and comes back at night which she hallucinates that her son is there. But she realized his meals/pills were untouched she looked everywhere but she finally checked his closet which there was Ron.. if u listen closely she says my baby my baby….😭
I feel like since Ron was already dead from the beginning, when the doll dose magic and tells him he can make his meal regenerate to its previous state, is refraining to how he isn’t able to feel hungry, he could eat forever, but not feel hungry.
I feel very bad for the mom because she just wanted to take her son and leave the house but before she was able to take her son with her the father killed ron😭😢
Honestly, it’s bittersweet but kind of nice that it ended with justice. It’s the least realistic but of the game, but I’m kind of glad that it’s there, because the despair still remains, but it kind of brings the mood back up just enough to remember the lesson: don’t just observe when abuse is happening, and don’t forget that it happens, and we don’t always see it. Remember to be observant, and if you see something, say something, because you may just save a life.
To be honest there's a morbid beauty to this game. The boy let's go and is able to move on, but not without his spirit helping his dear momma find his monster.
This game always makes me super sad because of how innocent Ron is. He still loves his father even after everything he's done and loves his mother very deeply. You can literally see how innocent he is in certain scenes like him wiggling his feet while inside the closet or waving his arms a little as he looks around at the end of the game
Ron might be the saddest game protagonist ever this game gave me goosebumps and tears like it's so sad that Dad totally deserved what he got the mom though I feel bad for her she's going to have to live with the rest of her life knowing what happened but at least one got friends in the afterlife but still science game ever 😢
I remember Mike playing this game on the channel, though wasn't expecting the story explained one. No matter, still captures the game to a T. If they do release another one, I wonder what kind of story it will contain. Will it be about a kid who died in a hospital from a bad parent(s) or something along those lines? Maybe in the afterlife, they'll see Ron there as well
2:21 i know why the doll say it a small mistake because other kid like the one who burned alive have a doll that on fire because we see the ron doll have a broken neck same situation as he dead and the situation of the kid i say before is burned so the doll will burned two
I know this sounds like kinda a stretch but the stitches on the doll's mouth 1:56 is restricting it from ACTUALLY telling the truth to Ron, and can only give hints to it, it's not until Ron sees himself getting choked to death that the doll finally tells the truth to him. It's also worth noting that the doll loses it's stitches on it's mouth when Ron saw his dad kill him, when Ron found out the truth, the doll then lost it's stitches and is now able to tell Ron the truth. For me, the stitches on it's mouth were also the one thing that adds up to the "knowing side" of Ron. Sometimes when we want to make something less traunatizing for children, we tend to only hint at it rather than tell it directly, like instead of telling a kid your dog died, it's always said that "they went to a farm with the other dogs" to make the pain of reality less painful:((( This game is so well made omg
Mister Red Face, is the drunk dad, cause when you drink you sometimes turn red, and that's why when Mister Red Face was seen drinking it was the dad attacking the ron at the dinner table at the end of the argument near the end we see the mom saying she will divorce the dad and later ron and the dad had a meal, which was the night ron died. Just my thoughts
i never knew the "spell" you use to defeat red face was actually the motel card, ron's spirit (which was ron in the afterlife) threw the motel card and got the dad arrested.
I clicked on the vid not knowing it was you, hearing your voice gave me the little nightmares nostalgia 😭✋ Also, thanks for explaining I can’t find anyone else saying it. Your vids are awesome
The mom's story was tragic too. She was forced to neglect her son. She was working her butt off for her son and that a-hole. And in the end, she got this. I wish she didn't lash out and directly threaten him. That monster killed that innocent kid, and he still loved his monster of a dad.
It is likely that arguement was the last straw for her and didn't think to take her son immediately after she left in her anger
@pxmpkxn6163 tbh in wondering if she knew the extent of her husband's abuse towards Ron or if she thought it was safe to take Ron. There's a lot of cases where taking the kid when you flee if you haven't fully moved out yet can cause more violence. My bets are on the mom not entirely knowing just how bad it gets because it seems she only comes back home by the time Ron should already be asleep.
Not to excuse her actions or anything I just have massive sympathy for her bc she lost her son and it seems like that the mom did love and care about Ron. She was pretty harsh in the intro though. Idk maybe it's just me thinking that losing her son is the biggest price to pay and that being absent and rude shouldn't be punished by your own son being killed by your husband. It's implied that she sold herself so to say just to provide for Ron and her husband who clearly was capable of getting a job.
What is even more sad is that stuff like this do happen😢
I know right. It was more of the dad's fault.
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As they say: "Every kid deserves a parent. Not every parent deserves a kid".
Yeah true.
True😢 that’s the sad fact
Yep
it's sad how he just wanted his family together and didn't know that his father was really abusive..
@@RabbitBeanieOSCwell he was just a kid. He didnt know any better.
The most horrific part of the game is that things like this do happen. There are countless children whom are suffering in these abusive or neglectful households. And...some do end up loosing their lives. I hate how accurate some parts of this game is.
Fr….
I think it a message
yes
That's just the crazy world we live in. And that's just the scummy people we have to deal with.
Yeah, I live that childhood. My mom would always emotionally abuse me. I’m so glad I’m an adult so I have to no longer. See my parents again.
That also explans why Doll Ron has a crooked neck. Its cause Rons neck is broken when he got strangled
Ohhh for someone who hasn’t played this game and just found out about this specific fact makes so much sense. Foreshadowing
Bro I now get it
That doll says its master has make some mistaken 😢 poor my baby still has respect his father
There are also many other stuff like that like how at the beginning when the bottle is being emptied when Mr.redface appeared and the bottle broke, the same way the father slammed the bottle on the table towards the end.
That is some sad foreshadowing
Here is the full timeline I can get out of it.
1. Dad and Mom had an argument, which led to the mom leaving that night and the dad did him and hid him in the closet.
2. The dad left the house the next day due to guilt / to freed from his crime.
3. The mom came home the next day late as always but didnt't see the dad, so she thought he left due to her threat.
4. Ron's ghost could only be seen at night, which meant everytime she came home, her son was always there, so she didn't realize he was already gone.
5. The doll / Ron's inner self tried to have Ron made peace with what happened, but since the horror was too traumatized for the child to bear, he just repressed that memories again and again. This is why the mom talked about how Ron talked different stories everyday, but the doll had always been a part of them.
6. As a last straw, instead of having Ron experience the horror of what the dad did to him directly, the doll created the Mr. Red Face's version of his dad and made Ron defeat him to save his parents and establish a bit of peace of mind, so hopefully, Ron didn't break and reset once again. This worked and Ron finally realized what happened.
7. At the final day, the mom decided to stay home with Ron. However, when she woke up in the day, she didn't see Ron at the dad's bed ('cause he couldn't appear at day time). She searched for him and found him in the closet.
Side note: The pill bottles on the dinner table implies she's hallucinating her son still being alive at night, so she didn't find out he's dead.
In the morning when she stayed home to take care of her, the drugs' effects wear off, and she couldn't find her son anywhere, until she looked at his closet.
@@oomfie_rhine Acutally, it's stated that the medicines are for Ron. The mom probably brought it for him either:
1. to cure his 'hallucinations'. She probably thought of his stories as nothing more than just a child's hallucination, hence the 'I don't know what's wrong with you' dialog. So maybe the pills were to treat hallucinations?
2. to cure his 'sickness'. The mom prepared food for Ron everyday, but since Ron can't eat for obvious reason, the food left untouched (or just a bit), hence 'Lately, I've noticed you've been getting lazy about eating' in the note. Maybe she thought he was sick or something, so she brought medicines for him in hope of improving his eating habit.
Just a theory but I think when the mom woke up on the final day and didn't see Ron and he didn't come when she called, she thought her husband kidnapped him and that's why she was talking to the police. When Ron's spirit helped her and the police find him, she realized that he didn't have him, and since he was traumatized by Ron's spirit, he probably rambled about it to the police. With the thought that her son could be a ghost, then she searched for him and found him in the closet. Just an idea though, sorry for the long comment
Mr red face was trying to keep Ron safe but Ron defeated him so ig that’s why his dad k1ll3d him
But since his dad is mr redface he killed him i think
You're not going to lie the ending of this game is pretty sad. That little boy did not deserve to die the way he did 😢
Really ?
Spoiler warning
If you dont want spoilers why are you looking at the comments?
@@andredorukgood point 😂idk why I checked
@@JupiterPluto35why tf are you here then??? This entire video is basically a spoiler if you haven't played it so I don't get the logic
Poor Ron, he didn’t deserve to die, and he definitely didn’t deserve a father like that! Glad he got what was coming to him.
Hopefully, he'll have a warm welcome in prison
@@multilad816you are right about that BTW I wonder who does the Cat in this game represents?
Rip ron
Could be a guide or helper for dead children
@@multilad816 that could be a possible explanation
This story was so twisted and the game isn’t scary per say but the theme and story behind it. The fact that this can be a reality(not the ghost part).
How can it be real? (Not hate)
The divorce and what truly happpened can happen not the ghost doll helping him
@@XArtificerx Abusive parents murdering their own children. For example Gabriel Fernandez is a case I thought of when watching this gameplay. It’s really sad.
@@fariibellax0224 oh my god
@@fariibellax0224it kinda reminds me of my half brothers dad, didn't like hit me and my older brother but SA'd us
This game is so fricking sad- but the little foot wiggle that lil Ron does at 00:06 is so adorable. He’s so smol, so precious.
hes just a baby too ☹️
Hes just a. boy
Damn i didn't notice that, it even makes it more sadder
Small*, learn to spell dummy.
I literally cried at the end
The way i realized that the bottle scene at the end, how the glass smash was also the exact scene when the doll was using its powers mimicking the dad's drinking habits at the table just for ron to remember 😭
I just realised aswell 😢
Such a simple story, but very effective. I look forward to what's next in the Bad Parenting saga. Looks like the dev is going for the self contained story approach in future chapters/games.
Watch the next one be about s****de or depression.
@@iaminsideyourwalls2021 or addiction. I kind of hope it is about addiction so I can make someone I know with one play it. Might convince them to quit!
Spoiler alert:
In the ending of the game, there a detail about the 3 kids on where they place at, there's 1 little girl she's on her digged hole which si indicate that her corpe was buried when she get killed and there's 1 little boy was literally sitting in a campfire indicate that his corpe was burned or worst he was burned alive and that's cause of his death and the 3rd is another boy chilling at the back of a car, indicate that his corpe probably hid at the back of the car after the murder.
Honestly, the doll being Ron's "knowing part" and "trying to get him to remember" can be seen as Ron coping - children cope through playing out as what they experienced, often they do it over and over again. Also, since getting medicine for hallucinations isn't exactly immediate and in most places you'd need a prescription, I'm assuming Ron always was mentally ill, and that's why his father blamed him and killed him.
This is honestly one of the saddest and most messed up games I’ve ever seen
But it also exposes the horrifying truth. Abuse is common around the world and some kids die at the hands of their abusive parents either intentional or not.
Of course not as messed up as my eyes decieve but definitely in the same category
It would probably be the other childrens story.
Not more messed up than dormitabis lore 😭 💀
The amount of foreshadowing the ending, is so cleverly done that it's honestly impressive
I have a theory i want to share!
Mr Redface is the spirit of drunkness or alcohol. Note how at the end of the game when the dad turns into Mr Redface, its only after he gets drunk. The doll states that Mr Redface takes away bad parents. Many bad parents turn to alcoholism, so that makes sense. Mr Redface probably takes away the children to his realm when they get killed by their drunk parents, explaining why Ron and the other kids are all dead and looking for their parents.
Mr Redface is Ron's father
Mr Redface is his Dad whenever he drinks. That was obvious when they showed that his father became red faced after drinking
@@tylercoep0588 Of course
@@tylercoep0588 yes but why would he also take the other kids?? It was said that Mr Redface takes away bad parents and their kids, like how alcohol can take parents away from their children.
@@Muffin_Master It's just a way to make Ron into the adventure to accept the truth
I may be wrong but I don't think that the object within the afterlife realm represents how they died but rather where their bodies are hidden. Since Ron got strangled to death yet his neck isn't broken in the afterlife part but is within a closet, which is exactly where the dad (Mr. Red face) hid him. So one of the kids was hidden in a trench, the other in a ruined car, and the last one was had probably his corpse burned
A theme of how the three kids appeared are all kinda like way to hide something you don't want to be found. I think the trench is like how in some shows and movies people who 'accidentally' killed bury the body of their victim in a attempt to bury their shame, like the kid may have been killed in a fit of rage and their parent felt guilty after, but couldn't handle the thought of going to someone and admitting what they had done. So they instead buried the kids body in a place they thought nobody would eve find it. The one who comes out of a car probably had their body hidden in the trunk of a car, and then maybe that car could've been scrapped with the kid's body still inside. I do agree with the thought of the one coming from the fire possibly having their body burned, as burning a body would be the easiest way to make the corpse unrecognizable and then only testing could be done to figure out who the corpse once was.
I don’t think the kids at the end are showing how they died, they’re showing where their bodies were left.
The baby (I’m assuming it’s a diaper) was dumped in the trunk of a car. The girl was buried. The boy with the red hair was burnt. And Ron, our protagonist, was hidden in the closet.
Yh, this is what i thought because ron is still sat inside the closet at the end with all the other kids so it makes more sense
Maybe the next games will be about THEIR deaths
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I also noticed something, I mean why the portal to the other realm is the closet for ron is because that’s where he died. I mean maybe if we see in the perspective of other kids, the portal is where they also died… I mean portal to “afterlife”
@@brrmbrrmm*next chapters
I didn't have bad parents growing up but this game hurts me because it reminds me that others do have bad parents, and it makes me sad.
Same 😮
Up until the point where the dad quite literally killed Ron, I even felt bad and sympathetic for him, because he reminded me about my own dad 💀
Same..
The son's loyalty is crazy imagine still thinking your dad is good when in reality he literally has a inhuman behavior towards the son being drunk and strangling the son to death
its a way of coping, not loyalty.
When I finished watching 8-BitRyan play this I went to hug my dad, just to remind myself that I’m with a good family. I feel so bad for kids who have abusive parents.
these are some small details you might have missed: when Ron finds the doll in a light blue box with white polka dots, it represents his deathbed, at the start you see Mr. Red Face coming in and waving the doll by its neck with one hand, then going in the closet, it represents the murder of the poor child by the hands of "Mr. Red Face" aka his father.
Edit: tysm for the likes, i never got this much likes :>
Your story explained videos make me way more interested in games I typically wouldn't be. Keep them coming.
Same
@@MrWhiteSuit17 same here, also do you think you could have your next story explained video on imaginary friend asylum?
I like the symbolism of this game its fairly straightforward when you connect it to reality. I liked the bittersweet ending as well the child died and that can't be fixed both the Mom and Ron have to mourn the loss of the other and move on
Scene Selection
0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Part 1 - Bad Parents
1:22 - Part 2 - Mr. Red Face & The Doll
4:27 - Part 3 - A portal to another realm
8:57 - Part 4 - The horrifying truth
11:53 - Outro
You are real acc to do this 💯
Outro?
Ur Brazillian?
@@GRGuide No. The word Outro means the ending of the video. Same word, different meaning.
Its kinda amazing how every moment in the game ends up coming together
It's just a puzzle in disguise
Oh my goodness. I just realised. The first scene, and the scene where Ron got his parents back, were at the same timeline. Ron went to bed, and his parents argued. The mom left and his dad killed him in his sleep, stuffed him in the closet (when Ron awoke while sleeping at night, a figure put something in the closet.) That figure was Mr. Red face (the same person as his dad,) and the doll stops him from opening his closet because he was still inside it. Oh my goodness.
Omg you’re so right😭😭
And then the doll came to remind him since it says “Whenever your memory resets you start from the night when your dad killed you”. So it tries over and over again for him to realize when his memory resets. And it says “start from the night when your dad killed you” you are right because you said in both scenes it shows Ron being killed. But in the first scene he doesn’t know what it is since the closet is locked. And the timeline, the closet didn’t open until he got killed so that means it happened over than 1 time
Least the mom wasn’t bad I’m glad she cared about her son the ending was pretty sad though
BISCUITS INBOUND!
1:27 something I’ve wondered about this scene is why Ron makes the jerking movements after a light is shined on “Red Face”.
Maybe it's the same motion when he was being choked?
@@fionnaartz5660yeah, it sorta looks like a representation of his neck being broken, falling straight down
No demons,ghosts, monsters, psychopaths, cultists or mad scientists, and yet still managed to easily become one of the most disturbing games of 2024 thus far.
There is a psychopath tho
Something key in Bad Parenting intrigued me- the medicine scene. If said medicine had no relevance, there wouldn't be a full chunk set aside to call its existence out… so whose is it, and why is it emphasized? I think it’s actually the Mom’s medicine, not her son's, but it's hard to pinpoint when and why she is taking it. Is it a mental health pill prescribed after her son’s murder? Is she suffering from trauma-based delusions, hence her thinking he's alive and they're his pills? Was she already on them before the game’s events altogether, to help cope with financial stress from her alcoholic husband and unwanted son? Deliberate attention to a small element like this medicine is exactly what makes short games like Bad Parenting so interesting.
Personally I don’t think the trunk kid was a car accident or he’d be in a seat. I think he was murdered and stuffed in the trunk ala Caylee Anthony.
i think it’s really clever how “mister red face” represented how his father’s face got flushed red from alcohol, as many people’s do. didn’t see that coming!
Ron: *dies*
Little misfortune: First time?
Ron: Yeah, you?
Little misfortune: No, no not my first time
Fran Bow: Hey, Misfortune, who’s your new friend?
Ron: Hi, I’m Ron.
1:50 this box is literally the casket at the end tooo nooo!! 😭😭
OMG😶🌫️
I just want to quickly point out at 10:50 that it makes more sense if that's where the children were hidden, since Ron is seen inside a closet at the end of the game. Ron didn't die inside the closet his body was just hidden there, so it would make more since if the children are in the places their parents hidden their bodies.
1 had his body burned
1 got buried
1 was hidden in the trunk of a car
I feel like this is more reasonable, considering once again that Ron is inside a closet sitting with them at the end but he didn't die inside of it
This guy always uploads scary vids at the perfect times, 10-11pm when everyone’s going to sleep 😂 (unless you’re not in Europe or Africa then you can’t relate)
Africa here. I can.
Really? I live somewhere else, but I always WATCH them at night 😅
Asia here
Btw the little blonde kid's death was more leaning onto him being left in a trunk to die since he jumped out of it when they scared Ron whilst going for his father. And the little girl was also leaning more onto her being buried alive :)
That horrid dad should have just ditch his wife and son like any other deadbeat, neglectful dad instead of what happen in this game.
5:31-5:38 The blonde boy probably have loving parents, but they are reckless dare devils that caused his and possibly their demise in the car. The red head boy was likely burned to his doom in a campfire for a ritual or just neglectful on keeping an eye on him. The girl was buried alive for ticking them off, to cover up her illegitimate birth, or saw something that she shouldn't see.
But the why was the boy in the trunk
@@NethersAight he was probably kidnapped due to the neglect of his parents.
@@NethersAighthis body was left there after he died
I always love these Story Explained videos, it's been a few months since the last one! Great scripting and editing along with your smooth voice, as always!
The title says it all. . .But in game it goes into that.
And to quote this that people know. Not all parents deserve to have children.
I think the food disappearing and reappearing is the fact that his mom always made the same things for him everyday because she wants home to feed him.
Or maybe because he never actually ate it cuz hes "dead"
@@IDIOTINYOURFYPyo you may be onto smth
Always enjoy when Mike does these types of videos. Plays the game, then a recap/secrets vid.
The major foreshadowing throughout the game and the story as a whole is just... wow.
I love this game. The story is fragile and well put together. It makes my heart ache.
FACTS ABOUT BAD PARENTING
1.- when Ron throws the “spell” to defeat Mr red face, he actually threw the hotel card where the dad was hiding when he 💀 Ron and that’s how the cops found where the dad was hiding
2.- when the game starts, the door opens 14 times, it represents how many days it took Ron’s mom to notice he was 💀
3.- the doll’s loose neck was a reference of how Ron 💀
4.- the kids that Ron met where in the place they 💀, the girl was burried, the blonde boy was captured on a car, and the third kid was burned alive
LIKE IF YOU WANT MORE BAD PARENTING FACTS
This game was truly a masterpiece storytelling-wise. All of the little details from the broken neck of the doll representing what happened to Ron, the gift box the doll was in representing Ron’s coffin, the use of the closet, the other children, etc. just made this game that much more sad and impactful. There’s probably a lot more like the symbolism/meaning of the different radio frequencies and the cat.
This game kind of reminds me of Among the Sleep where, in the baby’s eyes, his mom was/turned into a monster when she drank, but when she was sober, she was his loving mom. Here the dad is evil no matter what, but it’s specifically when he’s drinking that he turns into Mr. Redface.
I missed those Story Explained videos so much!!!
For those who don’t know, this entire game is a giant symbolism, the doll is Ron’s conscious, Mr red face is the dad, the 3 kids are kids who died, one In a fire, one in a car crash, another was buried in the woods, the “closet realm” is the afterlife, the “prison” Ron’s dad was in is the motel room, the spell card is the motel card, and the game is based on a true story, or multiple accounts of stuff like this. This game points a finger at all the kids who deal with this stuff, and calls them out, but the game is still depressing, overall, really cool game
I'm pretty sure the baby in the trunk got stuffed there after being killed
@@Yaansarii yea
The spell being the thing that could defeat Mr. Redface is really cool cuz, it was actually the Dads motel card which he represents Mr.Redface in this situation, which basically "defeated" him aka exposing the location of the Dads hiding spot, so the spell defeated Mr.Redface while in reality, the police found out the location of the Dad because of the left out motel card, im pretty sure yall already knew tho cuz uh...
My friend introduced me to this game a while back and seeing one of my favorite UA-camrs play and explain it makes me happy :]
I really cried playing this. The son made me sad. The mom crying at the end really made me wanna cry the most. Also the end were he’s with the kids also made me a little happy cuz he wasn’t alone
I’m showing this to my friend instead of explaining by myself because it’s just easier
A video game called bad parenting? This should be intriguing.
All this because of bad parenting
A young child murdered by his drunken father
A mother crying over her sons dead corpse
The fact that this was based of a true story is disgusting
This world is cruel.
It’s not even based off a true story where the heck did you even get this information from
Finally another story explained. It's the reason I watch this channel. I love the calculated explanation
10:45 I don’t think that’s how the kids were killed, I think it’s meant to depict how the bodies were disposed of. Because Ron is shown is a closet, that’s not how he died but rather where his body was hidden.
One child’s body was hidden in the trunk of a car, another’s was burned and the last one was buried in a shallow grave
It's been a long time since Mike did these Story Explained videos.
Welcome back, dude!
the box the doll came in is the same as ron’s coffin, the doll’s master is rons dad and the doll is rons consciousness, redface strangles the doll foreshadowing how ron dies, the doll gets beaten by the master because „hes not happy with what happened” jst like how ron got killed because his dad was angry, in the intro the door opens 14 times because it took 14 days for ron to be found
those r some facts i noticed, if u have any more u can comment them
So happy to see story explained again, was really starting to miss the lore based videos over lets plays
Thank you so much for uploading this video on my birthday 🥳
Happy birthday!
@@allanaisawesome1465thank you
Happy birthday🎉🎉🎉🎉
Happy birthdayyyy🎉
Happy b-day
Its So Much Loving that Ron cares about his family Even when he Knew he would get in trouble
The hardest part about this is that in the last cutscene all the kids are where they were found dead….
Great video! I just played this game and was SHOCKED at the actual revelation of the story. A great example of a great story trumping lower quality.
Something thats really sad is since you always start at the beginning of the loop, the day Ron died, he died on his birthday.
What a horrible present.
If you think the moms a bad parent because it took her 14 days to find her child let me explain she works a lot and comes back at night which she hallucinates that her son is there. But she realized his meals/pills were untouched she looked everywhere but she finally checked his closet which there was Ron.. if u listen closely she says my baby my baby….😭
I just like how the dolls neck is a foreshadowing what how’s that the end
Look at the gift 1:49 it forshadows the casket of Ron at the end of the game
I feel like since Ron was already dead from the beginning, when the doll dose magic and tells him he can make his meal regenerate to its previous state, is refraining to how he isn’t able to feel hungry, he could eat forever, but not feel hungry.
I feel very bad for the mom because she just wanted to take her son and leave the house but before she was able to take her son with her the father killed ron😭😢
Mr red face scared the shit out of me. such a sad story
Yeah
Honestly, it’s bittersweet but kind of nice that it ended with justice. It’s the least realistic but of the game, but I’m kind of glad that it’s there, because the despair still remains, but it kind of brings the mood back up just enough to remember the lesson: don’t just observe when abuse is happening, and don’t forget that it happens, and we don’t always see it. Remember to be observant, and if you see something, say something, because you may just save a life.
The first time you hear the song, you don’t really recognize it or notice it but then after that, it’s just a haunting daa da da da d-da
The fact that my dad was alcoholic in his past and I could end up like this scares me (not the game logic and and stuff)
That's actually kinda scary to think about 🥲
@@ItsYaGirlll4L1f3 he didn't hit me or anything he was chill and kinda dumb but in a funny way
@@yo-m0m-0 Ohhh mk glad your alright though
Ron didn’t deserve that.. even after all his dad did he still tried saving him out of the kindness of his little ♡ Rip
Yall go support the owner of the game so that we can get traumatized some more!
I used to watch your Bendy Videos and I'm glad I found your channel again after all this time. This video is really good too :)
There are bad parents in a game called "Bad Parenting"???? PREPOSTEROUS!!!
He wanted to save his father, damn.
To be honest there's a morbid beauty to this game. The boy let's go and is able to move on, but not without his spirit helping his dear momma find his monster.
This game always makes me super sad because of how innocent Ron is. He still loves his father even after everything he's done and loves his mother very deeply. You can literally see how innocent he is in certain scenes like him wiggling his feet while inside the closet or waving his arms a little as he looks around at the end of the game
Ron might be the saddest game protagonist ever this game gave me goosebumps and tears like it's so sad that Dad totally deserved what he got the mom though I feel bad for her she's going to have to live with the rest of her life knowing what happened but at least one got friends in the afterlife but still science game ever 😢
Classic explanting video back round song
Daddy issues - The Story explained
Fir the ending, the kids location isn't how they died, it's where thier bodies were left.
I remember Mike playing this game on the channel, though wasn't expecting the story explained one. No matter, still captures the game to a T. If they do release another one, I wonder what kind of story it will contain. Will it be about a kid who died in a hospital from a bad parent(s) or something along those lines? Maybe in the afterlife, they'll see Ron there as well
Dam Even Tho I Didnt Watch You Since Covid, I Still Get Nightmares After Watching Your Videos, Keep Up The Good Work Lad
2:21 i know why the doll say it a small mistake because other kid like the one who burned alive have a doll that on fire because we see the ron doll have a broken neck same situation as he dead and the situation of the kid i say before is burned so the doll will burned two
Why does just staying in a house with a drunk, and abusive father. Sound scarier than pretty much every horror game I’ve played?
When i wached your play through of this game i remember thinking that the kid in the car got kidnaped hence why hes in the trunk.
There’s something that remains unanswered, what does Mr Redface do to bad kids?
There are no bad kids, only bad parents
The reason behind bad kids lies in the fact that they have bad parents always
I've been waiting for a story explained video...I love binge watching these.
'' My master beat the shit out of me'' is way to funny
I know this sounds like kinda a stretch but the stitches on the doll's mouth 1:56 is restricting it from ACTUALLY telling the truth to Ron, and can only give hints to it, it's not until Ron sees himself getting choked to death that the doll finally tells the truth to him. It's also worth noting that the doll loses it's stitches on it's mouth when Ron saw his dad kill him, when Ron found out the truth, the doll then lost it's stitches and is now able to tell Ron the truth.
For me, the stitches on it's mouth were also the one thing that adds up to the "knowing side" of Ron. Sometimes when we want to make something less traunatizing for children, we tend to only hint at it rather than tell it directly, like instead of telling a kid your dog died, it's always said that "they went to a farm with the other dogs" to make the pain of reality less painful:(((
This game is so well made omg
it's very clever of you to find out the stiches foreshadowing. I didn't realized this!
Mister Red Face, is the drunk dad, cause when you drink you sometimes turn red, and that's why when Mister Red Face was seen drinking it was the dad attacking the ron at the dinner table at the end of the argument near the end we see the mom saying she will divorce the dad and later ron and the dad had a meal, which was the night ron died. Just my thoughts
Missed these Story Explained videos. Thanks for the video, Mike!
4:37 HFJONE REFRENCE 🤯🤯🤯
FRFR
Friggin finally almost forgot that you did these story explained videos
Called this one for story explained
i never knew the "spell" you use to defeat red face was actually the motel card, ron's spirit (which was ron in the afterlife) threw the motel card and got the dad arrested.
I like the video mike good work its very well made
I clicked on the vid not knowing it was you, hearing your voice gave me the little nightmares nostalgia 😭✋
Also, thanks for explaining I can’t find anyone else saying it. Your vids are awesome
Peoples face get red when they are drunk, that’s why his name is “Mr.Redface”