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40 Disturbing, Weird Or Hilarious Finds Parents Made When Snooping In Their Kids’ Rooms
Once kids get to a certain age, they no longer need constant parental supervision. The adults might at first rejoice in their newfound freedom, but very quickly, they might get the unsettling feeling that now their offspring can do things by themselves, without a parent seeing or knowing.
Netizens wanted to hear parents' stories of the weird, unusual, and downright disturbing things they had found when being nosy in a kid's bedroom. The list runs the gamut from obvious, if unpleasant answers to twists and turns worthy of a true crime series. So get comfortable, make sure to upvote your favorites, and, perhaps, reconsider being nosy if the desire arises.
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#1
When I was 12 and in 6th grade, I got in trouble for basically just goofing off and being poorly behaved in class at school. The teacher made me write a note to my parents telling them what I had done and she signed it and I signed it, and I was instructed to give it to my parents. I did bring it home but realized that my parents didnt know to be looking for it. So I decided to hide it, because I feared it would be found in the trash.
So I unscrewed the cover of the Air Conditioner vent and placed the note in there, figuring in an emergency I could go back and get it if the Teacher ever somehow asked about it.
Fast forward like 15 years later or so, and my parents are having the air-conditioning in the house replaced and also having the ducts cleaned in the process. Worker finds the now forgotten note and gives to my parents. I get a call (was living in an apartment/in college at the time) that I needed to come home because we had to have a talk.
Came home to serious parents who sat me down at the kitchen table to "discuss the problems I'm having at school". I was beyond confused and so lost as to what they were talking about. They then bring out the now ancient note and we all had a good laugh about it. It was funny
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#2
I'm not typically a nosy parent - but I did have to clean out my child's closet once. (The breaker box was in it and we no longer had access.) After finding handcuffs, whips and chains I decided to let her clean it out herself! (She was 19 at the time. We had a discussion about protection and safe words. I did not share with her father!)
TrasElTiempo 2 years ago
Good for you! Letting your daughter pursue her passion as a prison guard
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I hid a malfunctioning vibe behind my wardrobe, as I wasn't sure how to dispose of it without my parents noticing. This was... not the best choice, because I forgot it was there. Until my mum found it when I was moving out and she was helping me pack up.
Liam Farranree 2 years ago
When you become the latest teenage protege of The Batman but have to go through with an embarrasing subterfuge in order to protect your loved ones.
StretcherBearer 2 years ago
Absolute power parenting move! You earned the beautiful poorly made mug!
#3
Drag queen son here.
Last month my mom found all of my drag stuff (wigs, corset, makeup. Etc.) And made me throw it all out. ALL OF IT. Like things I bought with my own money. She even threatened to kick me out if she caught me doing it again and told me that I needed help. She doesnt know the difference between a drag queen, a transgender, and a transvestite. Good news is I dug it all out of the trash, but hiding it way better.
Debra Robinson 2 years ago (edited)
RIGHT?!?! What an evil stupid rotten cuntvirus assholl shitpile!!!
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Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
That sucks. You should be able to express yourself however you choose.
Stannous Flouride 2 years ago
Given the recent scapegoating of all of those groups it sounds scary.
Beck 2 years ago
I have 3 boys ages 14, 15 and 22. If at any time I found that kind of stuff in their closet I would absolutely let them know that they should never have to hide that from me. I would hope that they know that they can be themselves around me. I love my kids no matter what and I will support them in whatever they want to do. They know I am open minded about things so I think they know this.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Good on OP for being him/herself (I understand the done thing is to use female pronouns while in drag), and being able to discuss it in an open forum. A shame their genetic donor isn't being a parent, though.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
This is so weird to me. Do parents think making their kids throw out all their stuff is actually going to make them stop doing it? That's really naive.
Gen X Feral (try/me) 2 years ago (edited)
Oh man wtf??? Whatever happened to live and let live they used to spout off way way back in the day. I'll admit I might need medical attention from the shock but I'd recover. I'd be like let me help you with your makeup and recommending YouTube tutorials. I mean hells bells if you're gonna do it, you need to do it right because you are my child ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
StretcherBearer 2 years ago (edited)
I'm sorry you have to hide yourself away. It is an art form and has existed for millennia.
Now, most of the stories here involve items, but there is also a distinct subset of children or teens that decide that they just want a pet and will get one underneath their parents' noses if needed. Pigeons, stray cats, and even dogs have all been featured in these sorts of stories, though naturally, smaller beasts like hamsters and gerbils seem like they should be a natural choice.
Besides being cute companions, children often bond with animals to such a degree that they will even tell them secrets and other private thoughts. Young kids in particular, for better or worse, might start to believe that their pet even understands them, which, inevitably, makes it a lot harder for the parent to get rid of it when it’s discovered.
#4
Our kids share a small bedroom so there isn't many places to hide stuff, they're young, 4 and 6.
We don't let them have much candy or sugary treats. A few times a week they will have some cookies or something but not every day.
So one day my wife is in there cleaning and she pulled one of their beds away from the wall to vacuum and found our eldests daughters stash of candy.
She had all kinds there, kitkats, twix, packets of potato chips. It was all unopened except for some bags of hard candy.
We were both quite surprised because we keep the candy out of their reach in high cupboards in our kitchen. So how exactly did she amass such a collection of delicious contraband?
Well it turned out she would take her candy when given it by us and sometimes save it. She would never refuse a treat even if she didn't particularly want it because she might want it later and so stashed it behind her bed in the gap against the wall.
I found it quite interesting that she could have such forward thinking to know she would maybe want some candy later and needed to secure her supply now.
So anyway we let her keep the candy but we put it in a bowl on her dresser and we explained to her she didn't need to eat it all, she could continue to keep it there for when she wants some candy. Neither of them have eaten that stash, just a few pieces.
So I guess it worked out pretty good.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
and smart parents for not freaking out. great outcome with this one.
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AndThenICommented 2 years ago
We found our kid’s ‘secret’ spot with her little stash. It was behind a chair in our living room. We didn’t tell her we knew, it was cute watching her try to be stealth. My partner and I agreed that part of growing up is having little secrets and thinking they’ve got one over on the ol’ parents
Marcos Valencia 2 years ago
Of course it is. I would never let my children know I found their secret.
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Sonnovab Kegeles 2 years ago
On the other hand, one of my 4 sisters would hoard her Halloween candy and then sell it to us siblings piece by piece. Smart young woman.
The voice of reason 2 years ago
I get this. Sometimes just knowing it’s there is all you need.
Elizabeth Butler 2 years ago
I did the same as a kid--I had an empty valentine candy heart box and I kept my candy treats in it for future enjoyment. My brother got jealous of it and complained to my mom, but she just explained to him.
SillyPandaBunny 2 years ago
We would keep all the Halloween and Christmas candy in a bowl in the kitchen in case anyone wanted any. Most of it would get tossed a few months later as no one really wanted that much candy.
Toni 2 years ago
actually its a good way to teach your child that sugar is not forbidden. they learn that it is ok to eat it and they dont need to fight for it or be ashamed and hide it. these parents are doing it right. they will most likely develop a healthy habit towards treats.
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While organizing my one year old's closet, an envelope with a hundred dollar bill fell down. Seeing as we just bought the house, I'm guessing it was left over from the previous owners and that my infant does not in fact have a side hussle going on..
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Hope OP put it somewhere safe for the kid. Nice start to the college fund
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
It's his cut for the infamous formula heist of 2022
Load More Replies... D Peterson 2 years ago
Did you contact your realtor, so he could pass the info to the sellers?
#6
When my son was 6 years old, I went into his room and found a live pigeon that he had been keeping as a pet. He was really sad when I let it outside
Snorky The Pig 2 years ago
Unless it was a domesticated dove, those won't last 3 hours outside.
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Zophra 2 years ago
At that age, I discovered my daughter was keeping a smelling bracket fungi under her bed as a pet. We did have a dog and 2 cats at the time - why she also needed this "pet" I'm not sure.
CwtchyMama 2 years ago
My daughter kept deciding the worms in our garden were her pets im glad it wasn't a pigeon omg
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
My mom got upset when she found my frog collection. And also my insect collection. But she was really happy when a little boy stole the snake I found. Sigh.
Of course, certain animals, like the aforementioned pigeon really shouldn’t be living with humans, despite whatever the child is feeling at the moment. On the other hand, it could be a lot worse. Let a bird run free, it’s probably happier in the long run and the kid gets an important lesson in the difference between a pet and an honest-to-God wild animal. Some parents have to deal with a lot more, from literal weapons to drugs.
#7
My mum found my contraceptive pill at one point. Never said anything about it but I got home and she’s tidied my room and left it nicely on my bedside table. Figure she was just pleased I was being sensible.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Points for not making a thing about it, just making sure OP knows it's okay. Minus points for going through OP's things.
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Karl 2 years ago
When I was about 18, I woke up after a particularly drunken Friday night to find my Ma had decided to wash my jeans while I was still asleep. She’d laid out the contents on my bedside table including 2 condoms, a packet of king-size Rizlas and a big lump of black hash. She never said a word. Thanks Ma!
Jill Bussey 2 years ago
Many years ago, I told my daughter I would rather she was on the pill than tell me she was pregnant as a teen.
Zophra 2 years ago
Sigh. Why should a mom be tidying the room? If you are responsible enough to have sex, why not responsible to clean your room? Argh.
Michi Lua 2 years ago
Maybe mom was just too picky about how tidy it should be/daughter wasn't good at staying on top of cleaning
Load More Replies... RavenTheCat 2 years ago
Not gonna lie i had to Google what that was to understand this. And honestly i agree its nothing to be ashamed of
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
My parents once stumbled upon one of my [quote] "bouillon cubes" in the kitchen, but actually it was a big piece of hash they found...
ProudBoy 2 years ago
She should’ve absolutely berated you about it. You’re being a s**t and trying to hide it and your poor mother finds it. You’re lucky she’s a patient person, if I’d have found that you’d be on the street.
Mighty_Condor (He/Him) 2 years ago
Birth control is also used to lessen periods, and if OP is in the U.S a prescription will be needed to get it anyways.
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Throwaway for reasons Cleaning teenage son’s room one day, using the broom to reach down and sweep under his bed. The broom clunks up against something hard in the back-middle area under the bed. I’m a dust freak (hardwood floors) so I use the broom and push the object out from under the bed so I can get aallllll the dust. I walk over to the other side to see what in the hell it is: before my eyes lay the absolute most massive, blackest-a*s d***o I have ever seen in my damn life. I said to myself “Good Lord, son. Enjoy, but...ouch!”—Pushed it back under and never said a word about it.
Temporary Dork 2 years ago (edited)
Mom? Edit: everyone seems to be assuming a mom. Am I missing something?
Load More Replies... Helena 2 years ago
Under the bed? I think I'd have to leave a note about cleaning and proper storage.
Upstaged75 2 years ago (edited)
My mom once found my brother's girlfriend's "toy" in our house and thought it was hilarious. She even made me go look at it while she laughed hysterically. I believe it was shaped like a mermaid, which is why she thought it was so funny. She made jokes about it with my brother for weeks - he was mortified. :)
D Peterson 2 years ago
You & son have a wonderful relationship. {You could have embarrassed & said horrible things, but you chose to be a good mother & a good human being. And he never had to try to forget or forgive. Thanks,}
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
Honestly, I think it‘s the other way around. She behaved like any decent human would. It‘s the idiots who „choose“ to be mean and humiliating
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#9
My mum's worst finds were when she used to read my Facebook messages, rather than go through my room.
She found messages where I admitted to a friend that I was worried I might be pregnant, read all the fights I had with my boyfriend(s as I never held a relationship for very long), all the messages to my friend about feeling like I had no privacy and my friend insulting her and me not defending her (my friend still hates her, this was after I'd changed my password and she told me that if I didn't give her the new one I would lose all internet access while I was trying to pass GCSEs), about not being sure about dating this guy (she then sat me down to talk about breaking up with him) and admitting to a close friend that I was experiencing gender dysphoria (she urged me to never stop being a girl)
As a child who had a very nosey parent, please just ask your kids about what is bothering them. To this day I can't have an open conversation with my mum because I don't trust her anymore.
Bryn 2 years ago
Gah I feel this. My mother found my diary when I was younger and because I written (written mind you!) cuss words about my brother (he was the favored child), I got my mouth washed out with soap. Have not told my mother anything of significance of my feelings on anything since.
Christina Born 2 years ago
Wish my hubby would learn to not tell his mom everything. She does the same thing. Over and over again. She's a horrible gossip.
Molly 2 years ago
I was 9 or 10, Mom sits me down to talk to her because she been reading my diary and doesn’t like the language I was using when writing. To this day I no longer trust her with anything. “You don’t tell me anything! Your best-friend tells her Mom everything!” Now I never said anything about it then but I was right when I was writing in my diary at 9 yrs old she was a b***h and still is a b***h.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I'm torn here. Mum is clearly trying to do the right thing, but not in the right way. A parent *should* be checking up on what their kid is doing online - it's sensible, and makes sure the kid is staying safe in an environment that is so open to exploitation. But digging into PMs with a familiar name? Absolutely NOT. Threatening to remove internet access to someone doing the most important exams of their lives? The ones that will decide their entire future? No. Talking about how to break up with someone? Yes, absolutely - that's something that should be discussed as part of a wider conversation about relationships. The gender dysphoria, though - again, another discussion that should be had. At the prompting of the child. And be supporting, not shutting it down completely.
becck 2 years ago
My mother has been like OP’s mom my whole life, and I ended up needing extensive therapy (still going at 27!) because she never got therapy 🥲
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DetongLhamo 2 years ago
I’ve never trusted my mother. By the age of 5 I recognised that she lied a lot, over big and insignificant things.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I really hate the thought of parents (or anyone) invading privacy, especially reading messages to friends, but I have to admit I did do it once. I was leaving home, moving 5 hours away and my sister was only 15. She had been acting unusual recently so I used her ipad code for the first time (I had known it for years but not even thought of using it) and read some of her messages. I discovered she was massively depressed and (trigger warning) cutting herself. I told mum about it and my sister actually thanked me for it because she was finding it hard to approach mum herself. She got help and is 5 years since she self harmed. I still feel guilty, because people (especially vulnerable people) need to feel trust or they will never open up to you. I just got lucky it worked out for the best.
Lydsylou 2 years ago
The exams you do at the end of secondary school in order to get into college or work
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Babs Ishkabibble 2 years ago
I can relate. It's a damn shi##y line between caring and invading privacy.
Parents can actually reverse engineer the child's logic when they find something hidden. First, the location. Like an ostrich with its head in the sand, kids have a somewhat comical idea of what “hidden” can mean. For example, a “clever” kid, when asked to clean their room, will often shove a lot of stuff under their bed. Out of sight, out of mind. Most adults, first of all, know this trick and, second of all, are pretty aware of a little idea called object permanence.
#10
Not the parent, of course, but this is a good one.
When I was in middle school, my dream was to become a medical examiner. I wanted to do autopsies and hints like that. My method of practicing/preparing was drawing ‘cadavers’ on pieces of paper, giving them names, ages, and causes of death, and then using the scalpel I got with my microscope kit to perform the Y-incision, as well as cutting along their foreheads.
Needless to say, my mother was incredibly disturbed and worried when she found those. The explanation made her feel a lot better, though.
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
You don't cut along the forehead when opening the cranium. The incision is at the back, it goes across from ear to ear and then you ease the scalp forward and peel it down exposing the bone. We use a band saw to cut through the bone (think of it like slicing the top off a hard boiled egg but without touching the eggwhite-the bandsaw has an automatic cut off if it touches softer tissue). Once you've removed the brain, the skull is reconstructed-we use clips to keep it in place-flip the scalp back over, sew up the incision and it's usually hidden by the hair (we keep it as low down as possible to avoid distressing incisions being seen by family). After an autopsy, any decent mortuary will ensure that the person is able to be viewed, and are reconstructed, cleaned and dressed etc.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
No, a medical examiner is not just a pathologist.
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My mom found my journal and read it cover to cover. I was a really prolific journaler at 15, I’m surprised she read the whole thing. There really wasn’t much in there, aside from losing my virginity and getting on birth control.
Anyway, I was in the hospital at the time and she came there to yell at me so much that they made her leave. Our relationship was never the same again. When she died a two years later, we were barely speaking.
Parents, don’t snoop through your kids’ s**t. Try being nice to them and they’ll *want* to talk to you about tough things.
Anne Jones 2 years ago
Surely the fact that the girl sorted out birth control would reassure her mother?
Bryan W. 2 years ago
A smart and realistic mother for sure. Can't speak for the religious nutters.
Load More Replies... brittany 2 years ago
my mom did this, a lot. i dont know why i compulsively kept a journal. she used to straight up beat me up for things she found, like me dating or crushes i had (especially if that crush was a girl) i learned in my teens that i could make up stories and change names. my mother wasnt a very proficient reader of actual books it would seem because she grilled me about who percy jackson was (i was supposedly dating him according to my journal) and if "lightning thief" was slang for drug use. i messed with her so bad it was comical. i began making codes, patterns that revealed secret messages, some real national treasure/davinci code type stuff, but like at a high school level. i kept it up, though i think she caught on sometime after the hunger games came out only because the ads for those movies were literally everywhere. it got better when i moved out. ya know, because i was gone lol
Gregg Bender 2 years ago
This kind of thing is exactly why I don't journal or keep a diary. I'm 65, BTW.
#12
When my sister and I were little, my mom would make us take multivitamins. You remember the ones. Small, shaped like animals, vaguely fruit flavored but with a texture like wet chalk. They were disgusting and we hated them. At some point, we hit on a pretty clever scheme of getting rid of them. She would give them to us just before we left for school, when we'd normally be sitting on the couch putting on shoes. So we began stashing them in the couch.
Of course, we didn't think it through. What was going to happen when too many vitamins got shoved between the couch cushions?
My mom got the surprise of her life one afternoon when she set out to vacuum the couch. A month's worth of children's chewables for two, stuck between the cushions. They'd begun to melt a bit, and some were bleeding into the fabric. Some were stuck together in a huge wad. A rat king of chewables, if you will. Still others had begun to crumble into dust. And worst of all, the smell. You know the way those animal shaped chalk tablets smelled? Well now the couch cushions smelled like that. I remember her standing in front of the couch after school and saying, "I am not angry, I just want to understand", her eyes pleading with us to give a rational reason why we would do such a thing. Sadly, all we could say was, "They're gross".
We were not allowed to leave the house without dramatically munching our vitamins in front of my mother for the remainder of the time we were required to take them.
Greenmantle 2 years ago
All I can say is... consider yourselves lucky you got those ones instead of Hypol (vaguely vanilla flavoured cod liver oil) by the tablespoon. It was vile
howdylee 2 years ago
My mom would give me & my brother our vitamins as we were heading out the door for school. I would routinely spit mine out when I got to the tree at the corner of the property line. One day mom decided to watch us through the window, and witnessed me spitting out the vitamin. I recall her yelling but I don't remember if she made us/me eat it in front of her or if she gave up. To this day I still refuse to take vitamins.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
Just asking, but why do first world parents feel that they need to give their children multi vitamins? If you are feeding them nutritiously (even if they don't eat it all) it's at the least a waste of money, and at the worst an 'overdose' (and yes, you CAN overdose on vitamins.)
Terran 2 years ago
Because many parents are idiots and are so brainwashed by advertisements, that they believe it's necessary. To be fair, if you only eat american style junk food, you probably need supplements to some degree.
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Bouche, Audi, and Shyla, oh my! 2 years ago
Flintstones chewables! I was always happy when I got Pebbles.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
I wonder if this is why my mother made us stand in the kitchen? That said, the ones we had were actually not too bad - they were palatable even to me, and I was REALLY awkward as a kid when it came to flavours and textures.
WildHoneyPie 2 years ago
My mother would give us half an aspirin with a little dab of grape jelly smeared on but not enough to cover the cut side! I can still make any of my siblings shudder just by mentioning that. Believe me, if we could have stashed that we would have! It still baffles me that she just wouldn't buy children's aspirin.
The choice of items can also be illuminating. Many parents do try to limit a child's candy, which can do two things. Kids start to overvalue candy and store it for the future, or develop shame around eating it, but can’t resist a sweet snack. And who can blame them, many adults suffer from eating disorders and an unhealthy relationship with certain foods. What a kid chooses to hide is as much a reflection of what they think a parent dislikes as the kid's own preferences.
#13
My six year old had a voice recorder. I asked him about it. He said that his mom (my soon to be ex), told him to record at my home. So messed up. My attorney said to not report it to CPS.
Monday 2 years ago
Good advice from the attorney though. She could have spun it as "I'm trying to make sure my ex isn't harming my child" and used it as some sort of "gotcha" thing. CPS in some places are really biased against men, even if they're excellent dads.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
The fun thing is that OP could probably have used this as part of a custody hearing - assuming it was being recorded. Mom was using her child as an information mule. Just so wrong
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Donna Peluda 2 years ago
My friends mother did that to his father. It was a very messy divorce. His parent's were still sharing the house while trying to sell it while going thru a divorce. His mother would start an argument with his father and when he lost his temper and ranted off she recorded it. She was planning to use it to make a case of abuse so she could keep the house (very nice house) and get his father kicked out. My friend told his mum that if she did that he would never speak to her again. In the end they sold the house and split the money.
Sinkvenice 2 years ago
My husband's ex wife is a total c*nt. during their divorce proceedings, she accused him of seriously endangering her and "her" children. He hasn't had any contact with her since they split which was three years ago, unless through their lawyers so how could he be endangering her. It had to be investigated and he wasn't allowed to see his children until they had a finding. He's a social worker. If they ended up believing her, he would've had to quit his job immediately never being able to work in that field again and could only see his son on supervised visits; they have 50/50 custody which she haaaaaates. Obviously it was thrown out but she's stopped at nothing to ruin his life. She's still doing it now, saying he's behind on child maintenance but he doesn't pay that as its 50/50.
Istvan Kozak 2 years ago
Yeah cuz if you would have reported it then she would have gotten in trouble Exactly why you never get married. Women are harpies
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Jesus, generic phrasing is bad. No, women are not harpies. If you have to make a claim like this *some women are harpies*. Would you like it if someone said "Men are rapists"?
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My mom found my list of sexual partners (I keep a list for personal reasons and also so I know who to call just in case I get an irregular test result, but I digress.) when I was 22 and lost it.
Mostly because she thought that was way too many partners for a woman to have. But also because there were women on that list.
She’ll never know that what she found was a super old and outdated list and that her daughter is, as the kids put it, a bit of a s**t.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
If she's truly a free woman, she's free to label herself as she chooses.
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
Amen. I have some male ex-friends of friends who would insult and mock girls who are sexually active one second and then be bragging about their own body counts the next. Pure hypocrisy.
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Rita Benkő 2 years ago
Promiscuity done well:-) I am truly amazed by the careful and responsible way you have all contacts. A notification in time saves many irregular test results.
FrostyJellies 2 years ago
She kept a list for personal records/emergencies. Smart! And she's not a sl*t. She's a woman who is enjoying her freedom. Bet a mother wouldn't call her son that.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
There is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying your body, or sharing that enjoyment with others, as long as you are responsible about it. And OP is definitely being that - she not only knows names, but she is keeping them just in case.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
There were only three names in it, but what really set her off is that the cover said "Volume 27" ;)
#15
We had to move our kid out of a bad living situation. She wasn’t in any condition to help. So wife and I go in and just start grabbing her stuff. We come across her adult baby fetish gear. Like two duffel bags of it, giant onesies, binkis, diapers etc. Wife looked at me, I looked at her, we shut each bag and have never spoken of it again.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Another excellent parent response. Including helping their kid escape: I hope she's okay now.
Felix Grace 2 years ago
Could've been age regression stuff too. idk but glad the parents didn't say anything
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
May not have even been something she was into. Could have been purely because her partner was into that. So yeah, having the discussion may not be helpful.
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But the downright most comical examples are those bits of information a parent will find out anyway, like, for example, report cards or notes from teachers. These days, schools use digital technology to communicate, so only the most tech-savvy children can intercept these messages. But in the past, nervous kids would stow away any information about them not doing so well in school, as if their grades would magically change by the end of the year.
#16
Am a parent...so one weekend wife and I are chilling out in bed watching whatever garbage on tv, when our youngest son (11) comes in and says oldest brother (13) is looking at p**n on his tablet. So we call for oldest son, he denies and denies of course, so tell him to bring me his tablet. He hasn't learned the art of incognito browsing or clearing history completely. Going through his history, well I'll be damned, he is looking at p**n. Not just any p**n though. Some anime stuff, some adult raunchy stuff. But the real kicker was the Scooby Doo p**n. So mom leaves the room to let dad and his son talk about this...starts with the usual, don't lie, you can't hide this s**t from me if I go through your browsing history, it's ok to m********e (in private of course), your growing up, yada yada yada. Finish the conversation, give him his tablet back, but as he's walking out the door, I can't but help do my best/worst Scooby impression "But Shaggy" followed by "Zoinks", "Jinkies" and "Ruh Roh found your p**n". His face got so red, and I just lost it, I was in tears. Now every so often, when he starts to cop an attitude with us, I just go "Zoinks" to him. Kicker of it all, youngest son comes into the room with "I was only joking, I didn't know he really was".
Debbie 2 years ago
Glad you didn't punish him or forbade sex stuff as it is part of growing up! Good on you that you normalized it instead of surrounding it with shame etc.
VioletHunter 2 years ago
S****y p*rn should absolutely not be part of growing up at age 13.
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EmBree 2 years ago
Our adult son once told us about the measures he took to hide his porn browsing history when he lived at home, and we got to tell him that he wasn't as smart as he thought. The look on his face was priceless. 😄
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
If the internet goes through a router it can be logged. Just because you hide the history on your tablet/pc doesn't mean there isn't a history log on another device.
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Susie Elle 2 years ago
He's just a kid, no need to ridicule him. I mean yeah it's kinda silly and funny, but he probably didn't even fully know what he was doing but just following on that weird hormonal flow that brings you from googling boobies to googling cartoon porn.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
@London you don't know the reason he was looking that up. It's pretty common for kids to first be exposed to porn not because they wanted to see it but because a friend showed them or told them about it. At which point curiosity kicks in. And honestly it's not surprising that he found Scooby-do porn because people have been fetishising them for a long time now. Hell, even the mainstream Velma cartoon is way out of line (nudity and sexual innuendo).
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Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
The only time that we had to talk to our kid about things found on his tablet was to not look up such things on his SCHOOL ASSIGNED tablet and that if we could find it easily, so could the school/teachers.
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 2 years ago
This is a valid observation and a helpful warning.
Load More Replies... Marion Vambre 2 years ago
I burst out laughing just reading the scene ! That's the best one XD
Peachblossom 2 years ago
Hey, before you start, please at least make sure you read it right 😬 mom already left the room. It's dad and his son, and little embarrassing jokes are part of having a close knit family.
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#17
So, have you ever had someone hand you something, usually trash or something insignificant, and say "Keep this forever, it's a token of our friendship."? It's a very high school thing to do, but a girl once gifted me a plastic spoon and told me to keep it forever. To own the joke, I was going to keep it for a long time and regift it to her.
I had it sitting on my dresser in my bedroom and my mom barged in and just started cleaning/throwing away what she thought was trash. She did this occasionally and it pissed me off. She grabbed the spoon and was about to throw it away, and I told her not to. She paused and asked "Why?" I didn't know how to explain this without seeming weird, so I awkwardly said "... just...don't."
I don't know exactly what she was thinking, but she yelled "You better not be doing anything weird!" and walked out.
I still have no idea what type of weird s**t one can do with a plastic spoon.
CouchChihuahua 2 years ago
Ok, first, go to a doctors office. Follow the car to the morticians. In the middle o the night,, sneak in, take ur spoon and steal samples of brain. Create a zombie army and conquer da world!!!!!
Load More Replies... Charity Angel 2 years ago
I had a note that said to keep it, because it would be worth a fortune one day. Signed with the surname "DiCaprio". I had it pinned to my noticeboard until I was in my mid-thirties.
AliJanx 2 years ago
My mom threw out ALL of my writings from HS that I had neatly and carefully stowed in my closet. They were organized and in a box, my closet wasn't overly messy or anything (a place for everything and everything in its place). When I asked her about it, she apologized because she truly didn't realize they were important to me. But it still hurt my feelings at the time.
Forrest McCanless 2 years ago
"And drove herself to madness with a silver spoon" - the Eagles; "Witchy Woman"
#18
Not snooping through his room, but stuff he was throwing out.....I found my son's journal from when he was about 9. In it, he chronicles how he heard me and my then- boyfriend have sex on multiple occasions. I probably died of embarrassment reading it.
General Anaesthesia 2 years ago (edited)
Even if my kid threw a journal out, I would not read it without permission. I'd ask if he was sure he wanted to dump it and I'd help him shred it. Privacy.
Zophra 2 years ago
I know I wouldn't read it - not just out of respect for privacy - but I know I would get my feelings hurt, be embarrassed, get angry etc. which would damage the relationship with my child. Maybe ignorance is bliss.
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Boris’ Mom 2 years ago
As an older adult who used to journal my angst a lot. And recent tossed some on my old high school journals; I don't think I would of minded if my mom read my journal. BUT, you don't tell me you read my journal! I you use it to understand Me and who I was, what I thought , my priorities, I really have no problems with it. But to act like you are "on my level" and confront me, you're crossed a line, especially if you are 'judgey' or 'belligerent' about it. You got to make your decisions when you were younger. Pysch stuff said it was helpful to process stuff when you journal - let it lie! And, in my case, I had a teacher that was having us do it; I think if it was anything major, she would of reported it to the "proper authorities".
But, at the end of the day, there is the elephant in the room. And it’s not the parents being nosy, although that is a whole can of worms in of itself. Many parents describe shock, surprise or their findings as “messed up,” which illustrates that at some level, they have not yet accepted that their child is an independent, sentient being that will grow up into an adult. One fun part of being an adult is not having to tell others what you do or keep at home.
#19
I don't snoop so I haven't stumbled across anything too crazy but when my kids were in 3rd and 4th grade I found a shoe box (without the top) filled with actual cash and "Jesus Dollars" when I grabbed their hamper to do laundry.
Jesus Dollars were something my kid's school gave out to kids for good behavior or high scores or doing anything Jesus like. My daughter was a top student and collected a lot of Jesus Dollars. They were allowed to be cashed in at the school store but my daughter didn't see anything worth buying. My son has always been the kind of kid who could sell ice to an Eskimo so they combined my daughter's ability to get a lot of Jesus Dollars and my son's car salesman skills to sell their fake money for real money during recess. They had 44 real dollars when I found their stash.
We don't pay for regular chores so finding that much money in their closet at that age was a little weird. They admitted to it right away and thought their plan was great but I did put an end to it because I didn't want parents to call the school complaining that my kids scammed them out of their snack money. I'm not religious but it also seemed anti Jesus like to encourage it.
My kids are teenagers now but they keep their rooms clean and have been in charge of their own laundry for years so their Jesus Dollars operation remains the most shocking discovery and I hope to keep it that way.
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
If you're not religious, why are your kids going to a school that hands out Jesus Dollars?
Jan Rosier 2 years ago (edited)
Wow, and I thought the catholic schools I went to (grade school 1972 till ending higher eduction 1989) in Belgium were messed up... 'Jesus dollars' ... not even the (last of the) teaching priests would dare to think this one up.
Crazy Cookie 2 years ago
We had a very similar system at my elementary school, but we called ‘em “high fives” because we were normal
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
Jesus Dollars, I would not take my dog to that school, let a lone my son.
Kalon Suszko 2 years ago
Gotta love the kids entrepreneurship at such a young age! Hopefully they carry that on into adult life.
#20
Kid here. When I was really little my parents bought an entire encyclopedia collection thinking I could use it later in life for school. Then a thing called the internet happened and they were basically defunct, but I still always kept them in my room. I used to hide random money in them, like from birthdays and forgotten. Fast forward 15 years, mom "snooping" through my old room for things to donate and books are still in my old room so my mom calls me to see if it is OK to donate my old encyclopedias to her church. I remember the money and laughingly tell her sure and you can even keep any money you find in them. The TL:DR version of this story is, I gave my mom almost $300................
Paulsible deniability 2 years ago
My parents had a set of encyclopedias. In the late 1970's, my brother asked them to buy a new set as the ones we had spoke of "American's someday landing on the moon."
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
I won a bet with a teacher in 1978 because she thought Queen Elizabeth II only had three children. (Prince Edward was already a teenager at the time.) She said "Well that's what my encyclopedia said." I said "Then you need a new encyclopedia."
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The old lady across the road from us (not our Nana but we all called her Nana) bought a childrens Encyclopedia series for me that came out weekly, with her pension. It's 50 years old now but I still have it for the memories and the little notes that she wrote in each. Thanks Nana Taylor😍
#21
I’m pretty sure my mom found my prescriptions I had from after having an abortion but she never said a word about it to me. I had hidden them in my laundry hamper for two weeks. Near the end of the pill cycle I came home and Mom said she had thrown some of my laundry into the wash. I panicked internally and ran back to my room. The pill bottles were in the hamper still under 1 layer of clothes. I’m still convinced there’s no way she missed that and I think she just chose to take it to her grave. It was 12 years ago.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Well done to mom for not making a thing of it, but what a shame they both felt they couldn't discuss the topic.
AnkleByter 2 years ago
In the mom's case, it's more likely that she wasn't going to bring anything up until the daughter was comfortable doing so herself. I think that was definitely a better approach than mom going to daughter about what she found. I doubt it had anything at all to do with shame, but instead respect for her daughter and what she might be going through (and the space she might need).
Load More Replies... Sinkvenice 2 years ago
They would've just been antibiotics and maybe something that helps the uterus shrink back to size (that medication can also be taken for migraines) but even then it's just a generic looking box or pill bottle. I'm really curious as to how the mother would know they were specifically for after an abortion.
rullyman 2 years ago
Yeah it's odd. When you have a medical abortion (pills), all the pills are administered at the clinic, including an antibiotic and codeine. At least that was my experience. Maybe she had a surgical abortion and required additional meds
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Joshua Moore 2 years ago
Being a dad and finding that, I would have never been able to keep my big mouth shut. So at the very least I would have said to my daughter "Whatever is going on, I'm always here for you, no matter what." and given her a hug and just held onto her for a few moments.
brittany 2 years ago
im very much pro choice and if my daughters ever need one, i hope i would have raised them to know they can trust me. they have my love and support always and dont have to do it alone like i did. even if they want to go alone, i'll bring them home and have lots of snacks, water and movies with a heating pad waiting
#22
My parents raided my older brothers room once .... The sock, oh my god the sock....
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago (edited)
Please tell me it’s something innocent. Please. Edit: TIL of the jizz sock. I have regrets.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
Oh no u poor child I'm so sorry :(
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Anne Jones 2 years ago
A sock where a guy masturbated into it. Apparently it’s a thing.
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#23
When my son was 3 I found an old banana peel in a clipboard that opened. We were battling a fruit fly infestation and couldnt figure out what they were after. It was so disgusting when I opened that thing and hundreds of fruitflies flew out
CouchChihuahua 2 years ago (edited)
AARRRGHHHHH I JUST HAD STRAWBERRY MILK AND A BAnANANANANANANANANANNANANANANNA ARGHGHGHGHH URGH bcs of the strawb milk it feels like there is smething in my mouth and banana bits
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Kat 2 years ago
I did this as a child once. There was a sandwich I didn't like in my lunch for school and I stuck it in a little cabinet in my bookshelf and forgot about it. About a month later our babysitter opened it and got hit with a cloud of fruit flies. I was grounded for the whole summer.
Fuzzdinkel83 2 years ago
Found an almost liquified apple in my sons closet. Luckily it was in a bag. Still gross though.
#24
My parents once found an intact slice of pizza in my little brothers drawer that had been in there for months
Plebbit 2 years ago
Oh no. When I was a young one, I was eating a bowl of cereal in my room, which wasn't allowed. I heard my mom coming, so I quickly hid it in a drawer. I don't remember how long it managed to stay in there, but it was a horrific scene when we found it. We thought the cat had brought in a dead creature or something. No, just a really old bowl of cereal shoved in a drawer. Kids are gross! Lol
Kalon Suszko 2 years ago
I did the same thing with a bowl of Spaghetti O's as a kid. was stuffed under the bed for a month or so. I Didn't know how so much multi colored furry stuff could grow from Spaghetti O's! The worst part, Mom made me wash out that bowl! Yack! I never did that again!
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Nay Wilson 2 years ago
About 20 years ago now I went to Macdonalds for lunch one day and I bought 2 cheeseburgers and fries. I got full after eating the fries and the first burger so I put the second burger in my bag to eat when I got home. I forgot about it and didn’t find it for about a month. I left it in its wrapper and threw it out very quickly
#25
Not quite on topic but funny all the same. I was about 18 or 19 and still living at home. One day my mom did my washing so a load of my clothes was loaded into the wash basket.
As they went in, I saw a condom wrapper fall onto the floor which my mom then trod on without knowing. It was stuck to her foot for ages before she noticed. I did everything short of pretending there was a fire in the house to distract her enough to take it off.
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
I hope she'd be pleased that her son was being responsible and sensible.
#26
An old, cheap revolver. Scared the hell out of me.
Sue Denham 2 years ago
So I'm wondering how old the child is and how the hey did they get hold of a gun? (If that's an ignorant question excuse me; I don't live in the United States.)
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
You get a free one for buying a case of 24 Bud Lights :-)
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Josephine Blogs 2 years ago
OP (goody-goody) said "I was terrified of what may have been done with it and why my teen had it. That was the only time I admitted to snooping around and I was considering taking it to the police. He was scared and crying and begged me to give it back to him so he could return it to its owner. He was pleading with me and said he'd be in bigger trouble if he couldn't return it. Reluctantly, I did. That was an emotionally awful day. We've never spoken of it, I must have blocked it out until now because I just never think of it. That was about 12/13 years ago. I still dont know why he had it or what became of it. "
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RosenCranzLives 2 years ago
When I was 12, a peer/friend of mine from school had some old stuff from his grandfather in an old shoebox. Inside was a Luger P08 - circa WW1. He let me look it over. I was actually in Cadets and had been very basically-trained in gun safety. I pulled the magazine - it was spotted with rust where the bluing had been scraped off, but to freak me out were 3 rounds of corroded (and seized) 9mm in the mag. We were lucky that nothing was up the pipe, as I'd never be able to get that out safely. More or less, it was an 'Unexploded Wartime Ordnance.' We were too young to know what else to do with it, and this was 48 years ago, so we just hid it back in the closet. Took the medals, though.
Mathieu Brouwers 2 years ago
In the picture an Arminius, a blast revolver. Often used for starting shots in athletics competitions.
#27
I was a bit of a hoarder, so my mum often insisted on going through my stuff with me and chucking out stuff I didn't use. She pulled this on me as a surprise, so when I was about eleven-ish, one of the things she pulled from under my bed was a pair of shorts that I had attempted, with my amateur sewing skills, to turn into a skirt - this being because I'm transgender, didn't know it yet, was fascinated by girls' clothes, and couldn't think of any other way to own some.
She just sort of looked confused at that sorry scrap of material before I snatched it away and put it deep in the black bin bag she'd brought up.
So far as I know, she never figured it out. She's not the kind of parent I could tell about being trans, so she'll likely never know. Luckily I'm now living in my own place and can wear whatever I like.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
This one is really sad to read. I'm glad OP has figured things out, but I wish she'd been able to talk to her mum.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
i hope that you feel comfortable and safe enough to tell your mom...good luck!
ThatGayBeans 2 years ago
Gotta love those egg experiences <3 as for mom, parents are often not amazing, there's this social pressure to love your parents, to have relationships with them, and that isn't always realistic. Both my parents respect my transition, and sometimes I forget how luck I am. You got this my friend
#28
I've told this story before but a year or two ago I slowly started cleaning my son's room--he was 13 at the time, I believe. I wanted to see how long I could do this until he noticed his room was magically getting cleaner. I would go in his room when he wasn't home and tidy the bookshelf one day. Another day I would go through the box that had his old schoolwork, etc. I knew I was opening myself to finding something I didn't want to find, and I was relieved and amused that all I found was candy wrappers. So many candy wrappers. We should own stock in Hershey.
WildHoneyPie 2 years ago
Our granddaughter was staying with us for a week one time when she was twelve. The amount of candy wrappers I found under the couch after she went home was amazing. The thing that got me is that our house is small. She'd have had to walk maybe thirty feet into the kitchen to throw them away, lol.
Brenda 2 years ago (edited)
I found months worth of soda cans in son's desk drawers and behind the bookcase. And chip bags, candy wrappers, etc. Too lazy to empty his trash can, so dumped them there. He found throwing everything out and scrubbing out the drawers and scouring the floors harder than emptying his trash.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I really think parents should understand puberty and be teaching their kid to clean the room *before* that starts. Otherwise they're pretty much guaranteed a nasty shock.
#29
My kids friends all hang out at my house to use my computer. Although my kids are younger, their older friend is 14. I found that he has been using my computer to look at p**n, which is like, eh. Big deal. His younger brothers came to tattle on him to me and I was like, do you seriously think I didn't know? They now think I'm a computer God.
HurlWurk 2 years ago
They were raised on social media, which requires low skills. Porn is common. No skill required
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#30
TL;DR below For context, my mother had a huge falling out with my aunt and grandma. Big enough that she cut off all contact, even though grandma has been in and out of hospital. We aren't allowed to visit, she gets angry if we even mention them, and she made us block them on Facebook. I had been out shopping with my mum and found a preowned plaque. It was a heart with a poem on it, basically saying "I love you grandma". I bought it secretly and hid it on the way home, and went to the post office alone to mail it to them (they live about 4 hours away, in Bendigo). Grandma sent back a little card saying thank you and that she loved me and she was sad about the falling out, and I sticky taped it to my bookshelf so that I would see it every now and again (the left side of my bookshelf faces the door, and the right side faces the wall of my room, where you only go to access my wardrobe) Somehow, even though she hadn't been that far into my bedroom for about 10 years, my mum found it and flipped. Her. S**t. You'd think I had personally threatened her. She refused to speak to me for a week and my father came in and spent close to an hour yelling at me, telling me how awful grandma was and how he looked forward to p***ing on her grave. TL;DR: Mum found a card from my grandma, who we weren't supposed to be talking to and treated it like I had slapped her.
Debbie 2 years ago
Now I am curious about what grandma had done. And why it wasn't explained to the child why they weren't in contact with her anymore.
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
OP stated that her mother had told her the following on reddit, "She told us what it was about; long story short my mother has a pretty intense victim complex and said that grandma and our aunt have been insulting and belittling her for her entire life."
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Sylvia Baker 2 years ago
If everyone...even the grandchildren have to go nc then tell them why or just let them see her.
Krst Trs 2 years ago
May cause more trauma telling her kids before she's ready. Either to the kids or her. Don't prejudge someone parenting without any bg information
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#31
The absolutely atrocious way her father and stepmother treat her. Small stories come to surface but she's sworn to secrecy and I can't actually prove anything. She's 11 and asks about very specific mental conditions she's "heard of in movies" she overeats constantly and sleeps with all her lights on here...
If you think I haven't tried everything in my power to protect her, you underestimate how good some people are at putting the fear of God in their children when it comes to hiding the fact that they torture their children emotionally.
Heffalump 2 years ago (edited)
Get her to a therapist. They will: A) know how to get her talking, which she needs to do and B) in most places be obliged to contact whatever your local child welfare is called. You will simultaneously get your child help and get yourself an unimpeachable witness when you ask the court for exclusive custody.
Shine Chisholm 2 years ago
Often, therapists think that the non-alienating parent is just overreacting or even making things up. Kids are very skilled at protecting adults who harm them. It's really terrible.
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Wheely 2 years ago
My parents were incredibly emotionally abusive, but to the outside world they were perfect parents and perfect people. Yeah it messed me up a lot, but now I'm messed up in a good way, I'm batshit crazy but emotionally strong and would never treat another human the way they treat me.
meow point1 2 years ago
There's clearly something she needs help with, even if it's not abuse. She might have some kind of anxiety disorder.
Tarryn Ball 2 years ago
OMG you just described my childhood. Hopefully like me she grows to realise there's beautiful things in life like best friends and an awesome husband. Ooooh and rainbows and butterflies and flowers. They're pretty cool too.
#32
My son is very honest with me, so I've never felt the desire to snoop on him.
Over the summer, I was looking for my tape measure, and remembered that I'd asked him to measure the space above his desk for shelving. I went into his room (he was away at camp for a couple of weeks) and looked high and low before spotting the tape measure under his desk. I couldn't comfortably reach it because of how the desk was constructed, so I pulled the desk away from the wall. While doing so, I heard a soft thud.
After I'd created enough of a clearance to shimmy between the wall to the back of the desk, I saw the gift box that we'd wrapped his birthday present in, splayed on the floor with what appeared to be an assortment of fabrics. Upon closer inspection, I saw what the "fabrics" really were - a box of washed and unwashed women's underwear.
I put the desk back, but couldn't recreate how the box was situated before. After thinking about what to do, I decided to broach this with him when he returned. More than anything else, I wanted to be sure he wasn't doing anything dangerous (so many thoughts ran through my mind, the strongest being that he was somehow buying them from or bartering with girls at school...).
When he came home, I told him that I needed to talk to him. He seemed nervous, and as soon as I mentioned the tape measure he started to cry. He knew I'd found the box and was crying not because of that, but because he thought that I'd found out that he was stealing his best friend's mother's underwear, from his best friend's mother. I'm not sure why he arrived at that conclusion, but such is the mind of my 13-year-old.
It turned out that over about 20-month period, he'd taken to swiping my wife's coworker's (mother of his best friend) underwear from her laundry basket, hamper, and even her bedroom drawer whenever he had a chance. There was a total of eleven pairs of underwear.
It took me a few days to have a heart-to-heart with him, and it was one of the most difficult conversations I'd ever had to have with him.
Maybe I stopped him from engaging in progressively more perverted behavior, maybe not. I just hope that he doesn't go down a path like that again, and that his sexual proclivities manifest themselves in more natural and non-illicit ways.
Seabeast 2 years ago
Worrying. Russell Smith was breaking into homes and stealing women's underwear, including that of a 13 year old girl, before he started kidnapping, raping, and murdering women. I hope this guy nipped his son's proclivities in the bud.
Susan De Nimes 2 years ago
Are you comparing a curious 13 year old with a man who committed serious crimes as an adult? That's one hell of a reach. Most teenage boys are curious about lingerie.
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Charity Angel 2 years ago
CONSENT! I'm sure there's a place on ebay for those who like used underwear, where the... um... users are consenting adults.
Wheely 2 years ago
100% but at 13 years old I'm not sure he realised how wrong his behaviour was (although he obviously knew it was wrong to some degree). I'm sure once the parent had the heart to heart with him, he was more informed on such matters (hopefully).
Load More Replies... Drinking my Covfefe 2 years ago
Meh, alot of kid's have done this. When I was in school the boys sometimes did it as a sport. See who could swipe the most. Yes, they hid it from their parents but all grew up to be respectable men. They were just curious. Keep an eye on it but don't freak out unless there is a real red flag.
Sarel Seerower 2 years ago
I always wonder how someone can know that their kid is always open or honest with them
Ace 2 years ago
All you needed to do was to allow hm to buy underwear of his own, just give him an allowance for it and never ask what he's got, let him keep it private as long as he wants to.
Wheely 2 years ago
I don't get the impression that he was stealing them to wear. Sorry if that puts a bad image in your head, I may be wrong.
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Boris’ Mom 2 years ago
You people do know that in Japan they have vending machines with girls underwear. Girls are hired, wear the underwear and turn it back in. They are paid for this work. Attraction to underwear alone does not a 'monster in the making' make.
#33
My son (35) lives at home and hid an opiate addiction for 15 years, fueled by my junkie mom. It was far more extensive than I could've imagined. I got wind of this when he admitted it, wanted treatment, and is now 2+ years clean and is still attending meetings. I am so proud of him but Jesus, they can be incredibly sneaky.
Wheely 2 years ago
My ex was an alcoholic (amongst other things). Jesus! The places I found vodka bottles!!
Racheal Valentine 2 years ago
My husband died from cirrhosis last year. I lived with him and somehow didn't see it till it was too late. When I was cleaning his closet out, I found many empty bottles of vodka. I can't stand to look at a Tito's bottle.
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AK to LV 2 years ago
My grandmother was an alcoholic but she wasn't supposed to drink because of her health. When we moved her out of her house, the amount of empty bottles we found in her bedroom closet and under the bathroom sink just completely bummed my Aunt out. My grandmother also had an incontinence problem. My Aunt refused to donate any pants, even though they were clean, and threw them out.
Tarryn Ball 2 years ago
I'm 10 years clean. Bless you and your son. Sending you both much love. I can confidently tell him there is light at the end of the tunnel and good times without using substances.
#34
The child of the story, but my parents have two houses, one main one, and a little beach place. I maintain a room in both. My fiance and I use an ammo can for storing our sex toys, rope, lubes, etc. Last take we were at the beach house, it got left behind. This time when we went there ... it was where we left it, but opened. If you don't know how to close it, and you're nervous due to the nature of what you found, it can be hard to close. So, one of my parents, assumably my mom, found the sex toys... Either that or the house keeper was snooping, and I doubt that.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
Don't they make one with sex toys written on it? This could be dangerous in a shot out situation. You think you are tooling up with guns and ammo and all you got is a rubber d**k!!!
#35
My mum was helping me pack up my house after my husband died earlier this year. I had told her I'd handle our bedroom, but she went in there anyway and opened all the drawers! She found sex toys, lots of lube, boxes of condoms from when hubby and I first started dating, all my lingerie, photos of me in said lingerie. I don't know what she expected but maybe don't open your 30yo daughter and her husbands personal drawers? I just about had a heart attack! Thankgod she didn't snoop much further because we had some c**e and V****m in the back of that drawer, I'm sure she would have freaked if she found it.
Cara 2 years ago
I have a friend who has volunteered to go to my house should anything happen to me and remove anything I wouldn’t want my family to find!
Peter Trudell Jr 2 years ago
Along with deleting your browser history, 'aight?
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Question: Are the drugs a common thing in younger people's things? Is it related to sex, or just a recreational use thing? Sorry, I got raised Catholic goody two-shoes. I didn't even tell my mom my husband and I were using birth control pills. She gave us permission to use it once she visited and realized we were sleeping the same bed. Birth Control use was a 'no-no' of sorts for us. Unless you are having sex for procreation, you shouldn't be doing it - pagen rituals. I think the lube or sex toys would of pushed my mom over the top, if we had them back in the my early 20s. She would be 95 if she were still alive.
Boris’ Mom 2 years ago
Question: Are the drugs a common thing in younger people's things? Is it related to sex, or just a recreational use thing? Sorry, I got raised Catholic goody two-shoes. I didn't even tell my mom my husband and I were using birth control pills. She gave us permission to use it once she visited and realized we were sleeping the same bed. Birth Control use was a 'no-no' of sorts for us. Unless you are having sex for procreation, you shouldn't be doing it - pagen rituals. I think the lube or sex toys would of pushed my mom over the top, if we had them back in the my early 20s.
AK to LV 2 years ago
My mom was helping me move. I kept all my 'intimate' stuff in a shoebox because I didn't want her to accidentally open my nightstand drawer and find it all. She saw the box and was ready to open it and I said 'Nope!, not that box.' She just said 'Okay' and handed it to me. We kept packing.
#36
I actually found some crazy stuff of my dad's when I was snooping around as a kid including a gun (I live in the UK, guns are most definitely illegal here) and huge plastic bag full of cash in the laundry basket. Turned out he was "away on business" a lot for a reason.
Shark Lady 2 years ago (edited)
Assassin, drug dealer, gang boss? Maybe all 3. Edit: According to Reddit, drug dealer.
Ace 2 years ago
The 'away on business' refers, I suspect, to time spent in prison.
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GhostlySnail (she/her) 2 years ago
I would like to move to somewhere where guns are illegal. That sentence made me sad, I don’t think it should have to be clarified :(
Hiram's Friend 2 years ago
Guns are strictly controlled in Chicago and Detroit. /s
Load More Replies... Sarel Seerower 2 years ago
I am not from the UK but cannot believe that guns are completely illegal there
#37
My daughter went through a phase when she was around 6-8 where she only ever put dirty tissues under her bed. I would regularly be on hands and knees sweeping boxes worth of tissues out from under there while going "WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS? WE HAVE A BIN!"
Thankfully she's past that.
Dingooo 2 years ago
My son used to leave cereal bowls with dried up milk and spoon and hash mark underwear shoved under his bed at that age.
John Carr 2 years ago
My 16yo stepdaughter does that......well, not the stained underwear. I've had to soak some of the bowls for hours before I could clean them.
Load More Replies... yellowphantom 2 years ago
Every time we moved or just moved furniture around, I would have to clean the booger wall beside my kids' beds. At least this one used kleenex.
#38
Not sure if this counts, since i never really had an own bedroom growing up. But when i started dating, mom went through my cell phone and found my sexts... All the sexts...
what made things worse was that as an Indian kid, I was never really allowed to date. Im 27 now. Still not really allowed to date ><
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago
And this (among other reasons) is why I have never and will never sext.
#39
My 13yo son is depressed. First off - No I wasn’t spying on him. We recently replaced his phone and the old one was still logged in to his accounts. Some messages popped up on the lock screen and it concerned me so I looked closer. He talks to his ex-gf a lot (He’s never admitted to having a gf) about how he’s been depressed for over a year. Now, I open the old phone once in a while to keep an eye on his mental state. I don’t care about the p**n or the weed references or anything else, I just want to make sure he’s ok. Is it wrong for me to keep checking up on him like this? And how do I help him without letting him know what I’ve seen?
Susie Elle 2 years ago
It would be better to establish a connection with him where he freely tells you how he feels, if that's possible for him. Or therapy. What if you read something that's really concerning and you have to confess you've emotionally been tracking him this entire time? It's still a breach of trust.
Max Fox 2 years ago
You don't have any kids do you? You also seem to have forgotten what it's like to be a kid. Kids will NOT speak of everything with their parents, because they are persons and they are sometimes ashamed of saying things, they sometime feel "the won't understand" because they cannot think of their parents as being 14, etc, etc, etc. A kid at 13 is a mess of raging hormones and a brain that is rewiring itself. They have issues with executive function and with understanding the consequences of their actions. When a 13 year old does something dangerous and stupid, you can ask them why, and they will answer "I don't know", because they actually don't really know. It just seemed like a good idea at the time. So only the most naive and delusional person will expect a kid in that condition and situation to freely tell their parents about the dangerous and stupid things that they're doing. Welcome to puberty from the outside.
Load More Replies... Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 2 years ago
I don't have kids, but I do have depression. Maybe telling him he can always talk to you about anything and nothing he says or does will make you love him any less might help him open up to you. Just don't be psuhy about it. That's a perfect way to make sure he never tells you anything. Like how I never tell my "mom" anything.
Boris’ Mom 2 years ago
And the "tone" you take when you tell the kid " they can always talk to you about anything" is important.....She's light adult content on TV, and then saying" I hope you're not doing that with (such and such), ISN'T the way to open the communication channel. Especially when dad is sitting nearby. A quiet, short, one-on-one, intimate talk would work much better. Short. No discussing, if that isn't what they want (at the time). And, if you're yelled at, lectured in the past, promise, they won't be in trouble for whatever it is.....Unless you want to "do what you have to", and Never want them to confide in your EVER again.
Load More Replies... Max Fox 2 years ago
Tio all of those who whine about "breach of trust". Kids at that age are extremely reluctant to speak to their parents, even if they have a wonderful relationship. Anybody who believes that "I would have the type of relationship in which MY kid would share everything" is either delusional, has never raised a kid, or both. So I'd rather have my kid be angry about a "breach of trust" and be alive, than miss something like suicidal ideation or drug addiction or sexual assault, all which kids will hide, and not have my child.
Clare E 2 years ago
Or actually has raised a child to be open about things via good parenting.
Load More Replies... Greenmantle 2 years ago
Yes. Stop it. Research ways to connect with him. Talk to a counsellor. Just stop invading his privacy because he will find out and it will destroy your relationship
AliJanx 2 years ago
Could the weed be fueling the depression? Asking bc I don't know. Get him into therapy - tell him you're concerned because of (fill in the blank here). A lot of workplaces offer employee assistance programs, your spiritual leader may know of places, your doc may be able to refer. Keep the lines of communication open.
Squirrelly Panda 2 years ago
May OP and another adult can talk about someone (fictional or real, but not that similar to the kid, and that both parties legitimately know about it, it isn't gossip) with depression in the kids hearing with the OP expressing both understanding about the condition and the need to get professional help. That both talk therapy and meds can really help someone battling depression. It might help the kid to open up about it if he knows the parents recognize it as a true health condition and won't judge.
#40
Letters from the school pertaining to grades and behavior issues.
PurpleUnicorn🇮🇪 2 years ago
Wouldn't happen here, school always calls to say there's a letter coming and giving the background
Sue Denham 2 years ago
Oops. Obviously these should have been made into paper darts and thrown off a tall building.
#41
Kid here; had sex with my bf when I was ~15 y.o and as luck would have it she was on her period. Stupid me puts my white briefs back on and the insides of my underwear look like I got a surprise genderectomy. Panicking, I hid it *well* in my room for ~2.5 years and the last ~0.5 I simply forgot about it. Returning home at age 19 I find the underwear washed, in my old wardrobe.
#42
I think my parents most messed up things they found in my room was my journal documenting all the crazy s**t I had to deal with. They were a lot more empathetic with my grades once they realized I was in a constant state of fear and danger on a regular basis.
Kat 2 years ago
The schools our kids have to deal with in America are atrocious and I'm assuming that's probably where this poor kid lives. You basically have to shell out thousands of dollars for private schools or move your whole family somewhere else to ensure your kids don't have to worry about things like this in school. Where I live, every public school that isn't a magnet school is a F school and the magnet schools have waiting lists a mile long. Im currently waiting to hear if my son got into a school on the other side of town that I'm going to have to find a way to take him to and if not then he'll have to do online school. It's ridiculous.
#43
Son had a sleepover with a friend. Went to an Easter egg hunt with friend's family the next day. Friend's mom put hard-boiled Easter egg in small side pocket of overnight bag. She didn't tell me, I didn't think to check. I put the bag away in the closet. Week or so later the stench made me snoop. Still gag at the thought of it.
#44
That he (15) and his childhood bestie(15M) are doing drugs together. Yesterday he asked me if bestie could come over this week and play GTA a game in which, up to now, he’s never shown interest. I said I’d think about. This morning I picked up his phone and spied on him. Sure enough, there is a message to bestie asking if he can come over this week because son has “kush and pills and my mom is working 9-6 everyday.” Haven’t confronted him yet. This isn’t our first rodeo with weed but pills are pretty f***ing concerning. Pretty stressed today and trying to figure out how to deal with this.
Susie Elle 2 years ago
At least they're planning on doing it at home, together, instead of somewhere at a party. Tricky stuff, but if they're curious then maybe offer to have the drugs tested for them for quality. Idk I have no idea what I would do if it were my kid.
AnkleByter 2 years ago
At 15, no, just no, there s no safe way to "use pills", there just isn't. Weed isn't going to kill them, pills just might. Getting them "tested" just encourages them to continue using them. It'll be a delicate matter to confront them about in the first place, but difficult is better than encouraging playing roulette with their lives. In no uncertain terms, parents need to find a way to nip that kind of drug abuse in the butt. Granted they shouldn't be encouraged to partake of weed either, but, again, weed is not going to kill them-ever-but pills today have a greater than 65% chance of doing so. It should NEVER be encouraged, ever, under any circumstances, tested or not, at 15.
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cdubaya 2 years ago (edited)
As a teen in the 80's (male born in 1969) I was always told if I was going to experiment to do it at home so I didn't get into trouble. They said they would never hold it against me. I did some pretty bad stuff back then but they only ever found out about weed. I didn't "flaunt" it or anything by they held true to their word when they found out. But, yes, my mom used to search my room almost on a daily basis. Good thing I never hid anything in my own room. It's amazing the places you can find in a garage or basement to hide stuff. We now laugh about it. I don't, nor did, search my kids rooms. I hope they come to me for any issues as therapy has helped me become a better father and husband. I have 5 kids ranging from 32yo - 11yo. I don't like locked doors in our house but I understand kids need their privacy.
#45
Poopy school shorts, the child in question is 7, and didnt want to tell me because he had been too busy playing at home to go to the toilet, the toilet connected to his bedroom. So hid his school shorts between his desk and drawers. Gross man.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
I think in this situation, apart from saying it's nothing to be ashamed of, I would teach the child the basics of a washing machine, or at least how to rinse that sot of thing off.
#46
My parents actually found beer cans under my brother's pillow.
His defense? He'd found the 'discarded can' in the yard and picked it up planning on throwing it away.
He maintains that as truth, even 18 years later.
#47
My wife was emptying the trash in the downstairs bathroom the other day and noticed that it smelled a little off. So, I cleaned out the can and sprayed it down with a lovely citrusy disinfectant. The next week, I noticed the same smell the moment I entered the bathroom. However, when I turned the can over to empty the contents, there was a generous amount of foul smelling amber liquid in addition to the usual tissues and empty toilet paper rolls. It didn't take long to identify this mystery liquid. It was old urine. The only suspect was my son, as the wife and I both use the bathroom in the master bedroom exclusively. We set up a sting operation. We both sat quietly in the living room pretending to watch the tv when the boy arrived home after school. After the usual greeting he slipped past us as he usually does and went straight to the scene of the crime. Since we were listening this time, we could hear him locking the door as carefully as he could. That was the moment we both knew for sure that our son was up to something... odd. The bathroom door is easily unlocked with a toothpick. In one quick motion, I picked the lock, turned the knob, and swung open the door to reveal the boy responsible for carrying on my family name, my one and only child, and the fruit of my loins, with his a*s fully exposed and his pants around his ankles, pissing right into the trash can. My wife took one look and left the room. I stood there with a blank expression as he turned around in shock and scrambled to pull up his pants. He sat on the toilet and put his head in his hand, refusing to acknowledge my existence. "Son.", was all I could say. It wouldn't be until the next day that he finally spoke to me. He said that it made him feel good for some reason he couldn't explain. Like, all tingly down there. I told him that he could piss outside all he wanted, but that he wasn't allowed to piss on anything inside the house besides the toilet.
Debbie 2 years ago
No, how weird his action were, that doesn't justify breaching his privacy like this. How can you think this is appropriate? Just sit down and talk to what you have found and how that is not an acceptable place to pee!
Seabeast 2 years ago
I'd make him clean it up. Why should his parents have to deal with his mess?
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#48
sometimes I let my 2 year old eat in the living room. One day we were cleaning under the couch and found a pile of old food. Apparently when she doesn't like something she will put it under there when no one is looking. She actually has several stashes of different types of objects around the house invluding one for toys, one for money/screws, and one for just random objects.
#49
My mom found a c**e bag and tasted it to see what it was.. SURPRISE
John Carr 2 years ago
Maybe they watched The A-Team when they were younger. All you had to do to test the drug was to taste it 😄
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Could be "cuke". Some people do have a thing for cucumbers, for reasons I will leave to your speculations.
#50
Kid here. My parents caught my older brother smoking pot in the house when I was 16 and he was 19 and they flipped out. My father went into a rage and went up into his room to find an ounce of weed which of course they thought was enough to kill him, and a big ol bong along with other basic paraphernalia like lighters and papers. They flipped out even harder, in the process of yelling at my brother my father stormed into my room and shouted “if you have anything in here you best come clean right f*****g now!” Stupid stupid 16 year old me tried to act innocent and told him I had nothing when in reality I was sitting on several grams of m**a, several dozen hits of acid, and a couple different pot vaporizers and a c**p load of pot. My father proceeded to tear apart my room as well and busted open a cheap lockbox I everything in with a hammer. I was on parental house arrest for quiiiiittteeee a while after that as well as made to do countless chores and punishments the whole time I was home. The level of trust my parents gave me was lowered significantly for the rest of my time living at home.
Awkward lady 2 years ago
I know that they are supposed to be careful, but bored panda is getting well over the top with the censorship now.
TrasElTiempo 2 years ago
if C**P is also censored, what are we supposed to use instead of S**T? poo-poo?
#51
My mom found my wife and I's strap on when she was letting our dogs out to potty one day (their kennels are in our room). All I can say is, thank God she didn't find the weed.
Awkward lady 2 years ago
Do people ever think that maybe mum and dad were ravers themselves back in the day, and they've seen and done it all before?!
#52
This happened to someone else but I was around... I worked at a large chain Take away place. One day the father of an ex-manager comes in with some old uniforms and an old wristband USB stick with the company logo on it. Assuming it had some old training resources on it, a young employee took the USB home as he was an aspiring young trainer. Turns out the manager used the USB to store a few candid personal photos on it probably not suitable for the 15 year old kid who discovered them. So within a few days a lot of people had seen a lot of her. I'm not sure on the legalities of what went on, but it was technically her dad that handed the photos over.
#53
On my freshman year of college my father, out of nowhere, texted me asking what Java's was. Java's is a coffee shop, similar to Starbucks. He was looking at the college food report to know when, where and what I ate, and since in 3 or 4 months I never went to Java's except that one time he was curious. The next semester I refused to get a meal plan and instead used my own personal debit card.
Bryn 2 years ago
You should have alerted the University. This, in the US is illegal as this fall under FERPA laws. Please note, that your parents are not allowed access to your records as a college/university student: "FERPA generally prevents an education agency or institution from sharing student records, or personally identifiable information in these records, without the written consent of said student" as it relates to college.
#54
Mum found the d***o. I’m a dude
Heffalump 2 years ago
This is B***d P***a. We must never, never use words that refer to any adult behavior, since this would normalize the lived adult experience to an impressionable teenager. This happens because the people running the site are too timid to exercise good judgement. They always err on the side of saying 'no', because that's what they imagine adults do. They genuinely are incapable of seeing a difference between obscenities, bigoted slurs, and dildos.
#55
I’m not the parent but when my aunt and her family was moving out of her house about 2 years ago, all my cousins and I had gone to help and her son found $2000 in his old closet.
#56
My nosy mother doesn't snoop through our things usually, but one time she happened to snoop through my brother's bedroom. She found condoms at the time my brother has been dating his ex for about a year. My mom assumed they obviously had sex. I know this post is about the bedroom, but my parents are always managing their refrigerators around our house. One time, my mother found a bunch of empty Mike's Hard Lemonade bottles in the basement fridge. My mom assumed it was my dad at first and then my mom said, "This is why your dad got a DUI once!" Actually, it was my brother, and my brother had to end up admitting the he himself did it. My brother left those empty alcohol bottles in the fridge, because he could not sneak it to the recycling bin while my parents were sitting on the couch or doing whatever in the house.
#57
My mom cleaned my room when I was out of town for a week or so. I was about 14, she found a pack of cigarettes, a bong and two of her credit cards.
#58
Damn, these are wild. The worst thing my mom found were some playboys my brother gave me. Thing is, I was still figuring myself out back then, so I also had a gay mag. Thankfully, I threw that out before she found them.
#59
My sweet innocent little boy is apparently a gangster rapper with a talent for violent p****graphic lyrics.
#60
I haven't snooped, but have helped clean/organize his room, and I plan to do a big reorganization while he's away visiting his grandparents this summer. I would be surprised if there was anything, anything at all in his room that he hadn't told me all about, that I didn't already know existed. It wouldn't matter what the secret was, I would be shocked to discover he had a secret at all. Sometimes I think he doesn't have a single thought in his head that doesn't eventually come out of his mouth lol.
Velveteen Worm 2 years ago
Oh boy I can almost bet op is unfortunately very wrong. I was brilliant at making my parents believe the same to be true of me and truthfully I was really a very sneaky child full of secrets.
Norm Gilmore 2 years ago
A warning notice needs to be given that on such a such date clean out commences. So that the secrets can be got rid of. And there WILL be secrets...
#61
Bottles full of p**s. Apparently the bathroom next door is just toooo faaarrrrr!
#62
A joint, we later smoked it together
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I used to confiscate any weed I found in my daughter's room and smoke it myself. Once she was 18 I stopped, I just didn't want her messing up her education while I was legally responsible for her!
#63
I found drug paraphernalia in my 16 year olds bedroom yesterday while making her bed. My heart is broken and I'm not sure how to approach situation
Shark Lady 2 years ago
In my experience, having an open and non-judgemental conversation with your teenagers is the best way to go. You want your kids to be able to come to you no matter what trouble they get into and one day that may save their life. I told my daughter I didn't care what state she was in, what she had taken or drunk, that if she was in trouble or scared she could phone or text me and I would be there as soon as I could.
#64
a LOT of gay p**n, like almost a terabyte
#65
My daughter is 15 and is already very sexually active. We took her to hospital and we found out she had genital herpes. She said she probably got it from dirty toilet paper from her camping trip that happened last month. I didnt belive in that but i told her i did. So a few days ago i took her phone (she was in detention for something else) and once while she was doing grocery shopping with my husband i told my older son to unlock it (he is a hacker). So i read some of her messages between her and some friend. They were talking about body counts. I didnt know what that means so i googled it. So my daughter slept with 7 scrampy boys and got HERPES from one of them + she is into some voyage thing can someone explain!!!
Susie Elle 2 years ago
Being sexually active isn't the problem, not knowing how to stay safe is.
Awkward lady 2 years ago
But at 15, she's still underaged, at least where I'm from. What does scrampy mean?
Load More Replies... Charity Angel 2 years ago
Herpes is a difficult one, because it's transmitted skin to skin rather than by fluids, so cøndøms won't do the trick. And that's not something that kids are usually taught. It can also be passed via a cold sore during oral fun, and vice versa, since they're the same virus: though a dental dam would help when pleasuring someone with female parts, there isn't much in the way of protection when male bits are involved. The only way to not spread it around is to abstain while the sores are active. (And this is why good séx ed is important)
Deborah B 2 years ago
If you feel like you can't discuss sexual health with her, at least find an accurate, sex-positive website or book, and give it to her. Tell her that the most important thing is that she keep herself safe, and her future partners safe, and you need to know that she knows how to do this, so she can read the info, or you will read it to her.
Norm Gilmore 2 years ago
Maybe predictive text was on and it was meant to be voyeur?
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DBear 2 years ago
Not me but my brother. Mom found a stash of porn magazines in his room. Playboy, Hustler, hardcore stuff and swinger mags. Worst part was that it had all originally been theirs. My brother had dug them out of the trash. The swinger mags explained a lot about the friendships my parents had with other couples.
EmBree 2 years ago
My parents never went through my things, if my room needed cleaning they made sure I cleaned it myself. Because of that I never felt the need to hide things, and just put them in my drawers. One year I visited my grandmother for two weeks and came to a completely new room. My dad had packed all my stuff, put in a new floor, painted the walls, put in new furniture, and put my stuff back in the drawers. I felt so violated. He never mentioned the stuff he found, but I knew that he knew.
Red_panda 2 years ago
I was helping my daughter clean her room once (not snooping, her room was a mess and she asked for help), she was probably about 7. In my house, I wash, drr, and fold their clothes and put them in a basket. All they have to do is put their folded clothes in the proper drawers. For some reason she HATED doing this. Anyway, we are cleaning her room and I start pulling clothes out from behind her bed. "Sweetie, are these clothes clean or dirty?" (Knowing her habit of not putting her clothes away, I can pretty much guess). "Those are my dirty clothes mom". Me: "I'm pretty sure these are clean, I remember washing these like 2 days ago". Her: "No they are dirty". "Honey (pulls out a pair of neatly folded socks) the socks are still folded". This kid, without missing a beat, "ya mom, thats what I do. When I take my dirty socks off I fold them". The thing that got me was how quickly she was able to respond with that. But no one in the world folds their dirty socks
Susie Elle 2 years ago
I had a little notebook as a kid that I used to draw 'raunchy' (for a kid) stuff in there. I left it at home when I moved out at 19, and I never found it again. It's possible my mom found it and threw it out. If she did, she never mentioned it :')
Gourdeous 2 years ago
We do a regular Sunday morning walk, from a coffee shop, to the park then along the river, feed the ducks, and back to coffee shop for brunch. Almost back to the coffee shop before we find my daughter has a duck hidden under her coat😆
Strawberry Pizza 2 years ago
That's the best thing I've seen throughout this entire article!! Hilarious
Load More Replies... Tim Nicebutdim 2 years ago
Ahhhhh, snooping parents, that brings back memories. The day after we (bunch of teenage boys) found a load of wallets complete with credit cards but no money my parents decided to "clean my room" while I was at school and the back of my speaker happened to fall off while they were "cleaning". Cue me being interrogated by CID (UK police) about robbery. We knew that you could claim £50 per card from the credit card companies for stolen cards but if you handed them into the police you got jack, we were trying to work out how to get the money (7 wallets, about 25 credit cards between them). So, my friends never believed what happened, thought I'd claimed the money for myself and refused to speak to me. On top of this, about a week later my mother said "I asked around and you were right, you can claim £50, why didn't you just do that?", As though somehow I hadn't told her that. At this point I was a straight A student who was bullied at school and the only friends I had were those ones.
Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
I (17 at the time) was away with friends for a couple of weeks and my Mum decided to give my room a tidy before I got home, she finds my block of cannabis resin, I return from trip, discover that my resin is missing, obviously can’t confront my Mum, it just didn’t get mentioned. My folks were 1960s students, they knew exactly what it was and I (48) now know they enjoyed a smoke or ten sat out in the garden whilst I was away, I don’t begrudge them one single bit of that enjoyment 😀
witchling 2 years ago
Horrible smell in the bedroom. We found a dead mouse in a baggie. My boys were about 6 and 8 and shared a room. At dinner I casually asked about it. 6 yo pipes up with 'oh yeah! That's mine!' Mmmhhmm. Why? 'I was gonna put it on my brothers pillow but I forgot about it.' Ooooook. Was it already dead when it went in the baggie? 'Yup!' Thank god for that. The look on his brothers face...
Mary Beheler 2 years ago
I was depressed, totally stiff from fibromyalgia, and had gotten hit by a train. I didn't even try to clean house for quite a while, but the stench from my middle school son's room lured me into it. He had been peeing into 2 liter soda-pop bottles instead of going to the bathroom, and had many uncapped bottles of stale pee sitting all over his room. I had the best Mom fit I could at the time and forbade him from creating such a condition again. I was healing up, and feeling a little better, so I decide to go in and do a little cleaning. No pee bottles in sight. I start picking up laundry from his floor, and discover a funnel. The funnel has a tube attached. The tube goes through his bedroom window and empties onto the front lawn. It didn't help my depression one bit. Thankfully, my bones healed, Prozac was discovered, and I found Myotherapy. I have been functional again for 40 years. He owns his own home now, and I hear he has become a neat freak, with no kids.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
Kinda the opposite, but almost fits... When I was about 15-16 my dad and sister were out and my mom found me in a frantic state, screaming, "there might be a bomb in my bedroom!" I'm kinda wondering what she'd like me to do about it, "no, come on! Why would there be a bomb in your bedroom?! Let's just get the heck out of here and call 911!" "No," she responded, "Can you check my nightstand? I'm scared! It's buzzing!" Gee, thanks mom, I'm the one to take the brunt of the explosion, then? Turns out it's a "personal massager"(and other adult stuff)... We never talked about it again or mentioned it to anyone, lol!
DBear 2 years ago
Not me but my brother. Mom found a stash of porn magazines in his room. Playboy, Hustler, hardcore stuff and swinger mags. Worst part was that it had all originally been theirs. My brother had dug them out of the trash. The swinger mags explained a lot about the friendships my parents had with other couples.
EmBree 2 years ago
My parents never went through my things, if my room needed cleaning they made sure I cleaned it myself. Because of that I never felt the need to hide things, and just put them in my drawers. One year I visited my grandmother for two weeks and came to a completely new room. My dad had packed all my stuff, put in a new floor, painted the walls, put in new furniture, and put my stuff back in the drawers. I felt so violated. He never mentioned the stuff he found, but I knew that he knew.
Red_panda 2 years ago
I was helping my daughter clean her room once (not snooping, her room was a mess and she asked for help), she was probably about 7. In my house, I wash, drr, and fold their clothes and put them in a basket. All they have to do is put their folded clothes in the proper drawers. For some reason she HATED doing this. Anyway, we are cleaning her room and I start pulling clothes out from behind her bed. "Sweetie, are these clothes clean or dirty?" (Knowing her habit of not putting her clothes away, I can pretty much guess). "Those are my dirty clothes mom". Me: "I'm pretty sure these are clean, I remember washing these like 2 days ago". Her: "No they are dirty". "Honey (pulls out a pair of neatly folded socks) the socks are still folded". This kid, without missing a beat, "ya mom, thats what I do. When I take my dirty socks off I fold them". The thing that got me was how quickly she was able to respond with that. But no one in the world folds their dirty socks
Susie Elle 2 years ago
I had a little notebook as a kid that I used to draw 'raunchy' (for a kid) stuff in there. I left it at home when I moved out at 19, and I never found it again. It's possible my mom found it and threw it out. If she did, she never mentioned it :')
Gourdeous 2 years ago
We do a regular Sunday morning walk, from a coffee shop, to the park then along the river, feed the ducks, and back to coffee shop for brunch. Almost back to the coffee shop before we find my daughter has a duck hidden under her coat😆
Strawberry Pizza 2 years ago
That's the best thing I've seen throughout this entire article!! Hilarious
Load More Replies... Tim Nicebutdim 2 years ago
Ahhhhh, snooping parents, that brings back memories. The day after we (bunch of teenage boys) found a load of wallets complete with credit cards but no money my parents decided to "clean my room" while I was at school and the back of my speaker happened to fall off while they were "cleaning". Cue me being interrogated by CID (UK police) about robbery. We knew that you could claim £50 per card from the credit card companies for stolen cards but if you handed them into the police you got jack, we were trying to work out how to get the money (7 wallets, about 25 credit cards between them). So, my friends never believed what happened, thought I'd claimed the money for myself and refused to speak to me. On top of this, about a week later my mother said "I asked around and you were right, you can claim £50, why didn't you just do that?", As though somehow I hadn't told her that. At this point I was a straight A student who was bullied at school and the only friends I had were those ones.
Gavin Johnson 2 years ago
I (17 at the time) was away with friends for a couple of weeks and my Mum decided to give my room a tidy before I got home, she finds my block of cannabis resin, I return from trip, discover that my resin is missing, obviously can’t confront my Mum, it just didn’t get mentioned. My folks were 1960s students, they knew exactly what it was and I (48) now know they enjoyed a smoke or ten sat out in the garden whilst I was away, I don’t begrudge them one single bit of that enjoyment 😀
witchling 2 years ago
Horrible smell in the bedroom. We found a dead mouse in a baggie. My boys were about 6 and 8 and shared a room. At dinner I casually asked about it. 6 yo pipes up with 'oh yeah! That's mine!' Mmmhhmm. Why? 'I was gonna put it on my brothers pillow but I forgot about it.' Ooooook. Was it already dead when it went in the baggie? 'Yup!' Thank god for that. The look on his brothers face...
Mary Beheler 2 years ago
I was depressed, totally stiff from fibromyalgia, and had gotten hit by a train. I didn't even try to clean house for quite a while, but the stench from my middle school son's room lured me into it. He had been peeing into 2 liter soda-pop bottles instead of going to the bathroom, and had many uncapped bottles of stale pee sitting all over his room. I had the best Mom fit I could at the time and forbade him from creating such a condition again. I was healing up, and feeling a little better, so I decide to go in and do a little cleaning. No pee bottles in sight. I start picking up laundry from his floor, and discover a funnel. The funnel has a tube attached. The tube goes through his bedroom window and empties onto the front lawn. It didn't help my depression one bit. Thankfully, my bones healed, Prozac was discovered, and I found Myotherapy. I have been functional again for 40 years. He owns his own home now, and I hear he has become a neat freak, with no kids.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
Kinda the opposite, but almost fits... When I was about 15-16 my dad and sister were out and my mom found me in a frantic state, screaming, "there might be a bomb in my bedroom!" I'm kinda wondering what she'd like me to do about it, "no, come on! Why would there be a bomb in your bedroom?! Let's just get the heck out of here and call 911!" "No," she responded, "Can you check my nightstand? I'm scared! It's buzzing!" Gee, thanks mom, I'm the one to take the brunt of the explosion, then? Turns out it's a "personal massager"(and other adult stuff)... We never talked about it again or mentioned it to anyone, lol!
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