"Parent to" - confusing and misleading I've long thought that the expression "Parent to" is being used in an inverse manner.

If I "Parent A to B" I make A the parent to B and B the child of A, but I often hear the expression being used to describe the opposite relationship.

Am I the only one being confused about this?

Here's an example @ 3:30 in an otherwise excellent video:
https://youtu.be/xdPMziIHFlU?t=209

Can we agree that he's really making the foot the parent and the head the child?
Given the fact that there are more than seven billion people out there, it approaches certainty that many might share a similar view, even among the Blender community right now.

Personally I never saw this as a two way street until you brought it up. I have never seen the word used in that particular manner outside 3D. Turn B into A's parent would be more obvious, I agree.

It all comes down to definitions and associations. You try to give the verb a universally applicable meaning. And Blender's use of the verb collides a  bit with previous uses of the word.

In Blender, parenting A to B should always mean: B is the parent, A is the child.

Just substitute 'parenting' with 'glueing'. Glue A to B. It's at least tempting to assume that B is somehow bigger, even if it's a bit biased.