Parents Share The Moments They Realized Their Kids Might Be Horrible People (35 Posts)
People are very quick to judge a “bad parent,” often using only the most barebones of methods. A kid using an iPad, or perhaps loudly scrolling TikTok in a public place. After all, the parent is generally responsible for how a child behaves, but it’s also worth exploring the cases where children do really have a mind of their own.
Someone asked “Parents, what was your oh god I’ve raised a monster moment?” and people shared their stories. Be warned, some are a bit disturbing. So get settled in as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to add your thoughts and reactions to the comments section down below.
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I used my kid’s bathroom because my wife was in ours. The toilet paper was on the roll backwards. I asked them which kid did it, they responded it didn’t really matter which way it’s on the roll. I recoiled in horror.
The patent drawing shows the paper coming off the top. Just sayin.'
You share a bathroom with your children? I am genuinely sorry... That sounds awful
Load More Replies...Sarah, please excuse Crystal, she has no sense of humor.
Load More Replies...It doesn't matter until you're in a rush and end up punching the wall.
I've been in bathrooms where it was difficult to reach with it the right way. When it was on the wrong way it was almost impossible.
Load More Replies...If it’s over the top, and you have cats, they can unravel it really easily. It’s harder for them to do this when it’s under. But Colleen Glim is absolutely correct: as long as there is some.
My son's 13:
- Hates pizza.
- Likes Nickelback.
- Likes the Patriots
If he was on facebook Id unfriend him.
Finally a fun one amongst all the psychopaths on this post...
My thought exactly. When I had my daughter my mom had just one request. "Please don't let anyone give her any Dallas Cowboys toys." She was an Eagles fan. My mom passed away decades ago but I am proud to say neither my daughter nor my granddaughter have ever had anything related to the Dallas Cowboys.
Load More Replies...On the very, very rate occasions I've taken an interest in American football (because I was part of a group watching it in a bar) I've supported the Patriots. I mean, they have "England" in their name, so it makes sense.
My 11 yr old son recently called 911 and said I slapped him. CPS came, it was a cluster. It was so well orchestrated, he even took a picture of himself with a red mark on his face. I didn't slap him and it eventually got debunked although he still won't admit it. A couple months later, he told his dad I forced him to make the ol' dirty 2 finger licking gesture, take a pic and send it to him.
He lives with his dad now, and isn't allowed here until I can afford a camera system. Still unclear on a motive.
Was it because he was trying to manipulate situation to get to live with Dad?
Similar thing happened to me, child wanted to live with grandparents because they were more fun, were retired and never expected her to even put her things away. Child gave herself bruises and no one believed me for years, I lost custody for several years.
Ok this one’s defo along the lines of monster in the making, I hope dads got him in therapy ,cos if he treats his mum like that with zero f ks given , women ain’t gonna be safe on the streets when he’s around !
Do a peace sign but stick your tongue in between your fingers. If you need more context...ummm.
Load More Replies...That's such a terrifying situation. We used to have a kid (about 7-8 years old) like that in my old neighborhood. He used to just walk into people's houses and do whatever he wanted; watch tv, use the swimming pool, eat their food, whatever. One time, he went into our garage and turned on my father's power saw and tried to cut up a hammer handle. When the homeowner kicked him out, he would run and tell his parents that the neighbor assaulted him. They knew it wasn't true because he had called the police on them when they tried to discipline him for his behavior at home. He would routinely hurl himself into a door jamb or a pole to bruise his face and then tell his teachers that his folks beat him. The teachers would see him hurt himself, so they didn't believe him either. All attempts at counseling failed. The last I heard, the kid eventually ended up in prison for some unknown offense.
Not me but my parents. My brother was always the naughty one. Shoplifting as a kid, mouthing off at school etc. But I think when they realized he was a genuinely bad person was when he stole a bunch of stuff out of some old guys cabin and then burned it down so he wouldn't get caught.
Spoiler alert: He got caught anyways because he pawned it all at our local pawn shop and they had his name and caught him on camera.
It makes me laugh when people who failed in school and life in general, think they'll make master criminals!
Lol I knew a dude in high school stole a bunch of stuff, but was smart enough to know he would be traced back from a p**n shop. But he wanted cash. So he convinced someone else, one of his "buddies" to p**n it for him and split the profits. Buddy gets brought in a week or two later and immediately points a finger, they go and find other reported goods in dudes car. The duped seller got off scot free (not normal, police were being nice there for pointing the finger).
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When my daughter played Half-Life 2 for the first time, she immediately figured out you can pick up just about anything, exclaimed how filthy city 17 is and proceeded to pick up all the rubbish and put it in the bins before getting on with the game.
Same vibe as the kid who liked to play GTA by simply driving around while obeying traffic laws.
A little weird, but not disturbing. Hopefully she does the same thing in real life.
I did the same in Deathspank. There was a shiny trash pick up quest that I obsessed over until I completed it
While potty training my 2yo, she figured out she could pee a little, get a chocolate chip as a reward, then wait 2 minutes, go pee again and get more chocolate. She's gaming my system at 2. Years. Old.
My 3 yo conned me out of a full Disney princess get up with shoes, crown and wand!!!
We only gave our daughter princess shoes. She wore them to use the bathroom and called them potty shoes... she was potty trained in one day.
Load More Replies...My dog has learned to get two breakfasts by "waking up with me" and then running back to our bed and sleeping until my husband wakes up after I've left for work. So he feeds her again.
Load More Replies...That's quite common. The kid is definitely smarter than the adults. Why do you reward a kid for peeing????
That's how I house-trained both of my dogs... XD
Load More Replies...Yeah cause it's not like you work for a paycheck or anything....
Load More Replies...Now you say you only get chocolate if you finish peeing and don't pee again for half an hour
Every time my son is in his high chair and he gets cookies or candy, or really anything as a “treat” he will not eat it and throw it. proceeds to eat veggies, absolute monster.
My son was injured as a toddler. While in hospital he stopped eating. Doctors told him he could have anything he wanted (food). He asked for Broccoli and ranch dip.
Let him like what he likes. Healthy eating habits are becoming really rare
Reminds me of a video I saw of a little girl in a high chair getting upset and refusing to eat a candy bar, but brightening up and happily eating when presented with a bowl of broccoli.
We've got a one year old who will sit in her high chair, stare me out, and then casually reach her arm outwards and drop whatever food she has on the floor. All while maintaining eye contact.
My friend's daughter used to throw screaming fits if she didn't get a BIG piece of raw broccoli to snack on while her mom made dinner. A small piece would not quell the tantrum. This always left my friend with this dilemma of should she allow her child to have a healthy green vegetable that would probably fill her up or say no so the child would eat a full meal with a variety of foods.
What an odd conundrum! Two be happy that kid likes it enough to potentially spoil her dinner? I’ll bet other parents are kinda sorta envious!
Load More Replies...I would beg for Brussels sprouts as a kid and always picked salad or raw veggies over desserts. Still do.
We are not vegetarian, but my oldest decided at age 3 he was. Hates meat. Had to get a vegan friend to create recipes. My mom tried to pay him to eat a bite of meat. He spit it out and handed the money back.
Sounds like mine - broccoli and carrots were her favorites. Preferably raw.
My 6 year old has always had weird interests. She asked me to show her pictures of what's in our bodies. I showed her diagrams on Google, and she said, "no, I mean inside of a REAL body." 😳 I showed her some random picture of an arm surgery and she was begging for more.
Also she always asks me to stop so she can look at animals that were hit on the road.
We're really pushing for the medical field and not a serial criminal field.
Edit: I feel as though I need to add this to the original comment. She has never shown any signs of aggression or desire to hurt people/animals. She is a very sweet child and doesn't even like it when we squish bugs or cut down the weeds in our yard! She shows respect for life, but is DEFINITELY interested in bodies. I am a science teacher and my wife is a nurse, so we definitely encourage her interest in science!
i fear this was me when i was little. my dad ran over a lizard with a weed whacker when i was around 7 and i was FASCINATED. my mom was creeped out to say the least.
I think many if not most young children have a period like this to some degree. That's how we really learn about death and begin to comprehend it. Once you realize we are basically biological machines that can break down at any time just like a car, perspective changes a bit.
Load More Replies...We need ppl like this. My good friend is a surgeon and can describe the most gruesome medical procedures that make my stomach turn. She doesn’t do it for shock value, it just doesn’t bother her. And thank god bc you certainly don’t need ppl like me holding the scalpel
Nothing wrong with this either m she’s interested,I foresee a surgeon in the making x
I love watching real surgeries! The last one I saw was of a brain tumor being removed-incredible.
Can you recommend any YouTube channels? I love watching that stuff as well.
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I firmly believe my oldest is a sociopath. There’s lots and lots of things that make me believe it, but since there’s not exactly a black/white test, there’s no way to prove it. He has no conscience and hasn’t since he was old enough to feel guilt, near as I can tell. He is 30, twice divorced for beating his wives and totally ignores his daughters whilst giving everything possible to his son.
I blamed myself for years but my younger two are so different than my oldest, I just don’t know if it’s my fault or not.
Agree. Sociopathy/psychopathy seem to be physical neural traits, not learned behavior.
Load More Replies...My kid just got 10 years at 36 for heinous actions. Do I disown him? Send him a Christmas card? I'm so angry I could spit nails. He ruined two families. So, now what?
I'm so sorry you're going through that. I can't imagine what you're going through. Maybe just give it time, don't do either one and just sit on it, see how you feel in a few months. They say to never make abrupt, emotional decisions in situations like this..
Load More Replies...He sounds like a psychopath. Their brains are wired differently, and while you can definitely teach them what's right and what's wrong you'll never be able to make them feel guilty or ashamed for hurting others. It would be like trying to teach a blind person to see. Read "The psychopath Inside", by James Fallon.
Sociopath is raised. Psychopath is born. So if he's always been like this and parents didn't "damage" him, then he's a psychopath.
That seems like a pretty simplistic distillation of a complex subject.
Load More Replies...Interesting that he values his son (not a psychopathic trait, but sometimes associated with a 'only likes one person' tendency in sociopathy). Could be malignant narcissism, especially if he sees his son as a representation of himself, constantly forces others to praise them both, and destroys anyone who questions his superiority. A sociopath simply doesn't care about anything or anybody, and seeks to manipulate, subvert and destroy as entertainment.
There was an interesting book I read about Nancy Spungeon - Spurgeon? - , the girl who tried to k**l her mom with a hammer when she was 12. The book said she was a "blue baby". She was blue when she was born because she didn't get enough oxygen to her brain. That's what they figured turned her into a psychopath. Apparently a lot of kids that are screwed up this way are the way they are because of nothing more than brain damage they got before or when they were born. And it makes sense. People who have strokes sometimes change personalities, too.
Or it was just a coincidence. There is a very small correlation between being born as a blue baby and being diagnosed with psychopathy later in life. There is a connection, it can increase chances, but it's most probably not a deciding component.
Load More Replies...My older brother is the family sociopath. Same parents, similar upbringing (difference is that he was told he walked on water) to my brother and me ... some are just born this way. Thankfully he dropped out of our lives 40 years ago. Don't even know if he is still alive ... and don't care.
Years ago, my wife and I had a very heated argument. Our daughter overhears us and comes into the room just as things hit their peak. My wife rushes into the bathroom crying. I'm left sitting on the bed feeling low, listening to my wife sob on the other side of the door. Our daughter looks up at me with a smile and says "Mommy's crying" and proceeds to laugh loud enough for mom to hear. And with that, I was in trouble for something entirely new.
Stress response. Tell her all will be well, that you will reconcile.
That's what I was thinking. It's the same thing as when someone suddenly starts giggling during a funeral or something serious.
Load More Replies...I really hope she dosing get used to it, like me. I’m still legally a minor and my parents fight all the time my entire life (mostly because of my sister) and I have officially gotten used to it
Or maybe she's witnessed so many arguments and fights, it has become normalized to her and that is a coping response.
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When my son decided- in the grocery store parking lot- that it would be “fun” to scream “YOU’RE NOT MY MOMMY! WHERE’S MY MOMMY? YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MOM!” He had this evil smirk on his face as I panicked and tried to explain what could happen if someone heard that. He started yelling it louder.
Edit** Thank you for all the parenting tips, but we’re good :)
Trust me, he doesn’t get away with stuff.
No I’m not going to slap him across the face or beat him.
He *was* disciplined. He learned his lesson. I can laugh about it now.
He is a mini me and my parents often remind me that he is karma for all the troubles I put them through 😂.
My mom used to say this to me - so I showed her - never had kids! I win! 🤣
Load More Replies...Ah my precious daughter lol. When we would be grocery shopping she was always begging for candy. Which i always got her some, she would try to put extra in the cart when i wasnt looking. When id find it, she would, in that ear piercing little girl scream at the top of her lungs "Dada dont beat me, ill be good, please dada dont beat me". OMG. Every mother would descend on me. My daughter has me sh! t eating grin. My mom always said she hoped one of my children would be just like me, yep. Thats my daughter lol Edit: No i never beat her lol
Where TF do they learn this from? Genuine question as someone without kids
Load More Replies...My niece is definitely karma for everything my brother did as a kid/teen. 😂
All these posts make me so happy I dont have children! and will never have
That reminds me of an episode of Outnumbered where the little girl Karen has learned stranger danger, so when she doesn't want to leave a gift shop, she points at her dad and yells 'stranger, stranger, stranger'.
Our grandson aged 5 did this to us on an airplane just as we landed. Because it was too late to purchase a sandwich from the trolley.
My brother threw himself to the ground in the cereal aisle (he was told no to some sugary cereal) and screamed 'NO! DON"T BEAT ME AGAIN!' He would also hold his breath at the top of the stairs until he passed out. Not surprising that he has no sense of responsibility.
my son did this to me at a festival in front of a police officer working security . So i asked the officer where the child lost and found is and my son got a stone cold face lol
When my son was 13 or 14, we were chatting about how as kids get older, and parents become elderly, often the kids become a care-giver to some degree to the parent. My son offhandedly remarked that he’d be looking for the cheapest nursing home at which to park me.
I absolutely made jokes like that when I was a kid/teen, maybe even young adult. I'm in my 50s now. I was a care giver to my mother and now that she's gone, I would give anything for just one more day of taking care of her. I'm am effectively my dad's care giver now, though he is still fully mobile and independent. He just can't drive (neuropathy) which is fine because he can't shop either. Can't cook, do laundry or light house cleaning either, because he is a man.
Can't give you an up/down vote. I appreciate what you do for your father, but as a MAN I take offense at other men who use their gender as an excuse not to do general daily household jobs. I call BS.
Load More Replies...This is why we need to make provisions for ourselves and not lumber our kids with this nonsense. It's like buying a house, you want to make your own choices and you only get to make your own choices if you're paying.
My kids say stuff like this and I respond that I'll put them up for adoption....they're all adults
“Watch this: - this is me spending your inheritance"
Load More Replies...That’s a lot of stress to put on a kid that age. You haven’t even gotten a start in life or had a chance to be independent, and your parent is already implying they’ll hold you down (what a kid hears). My mom did this “Will you share your last bean with me” c**p all the time when I was a kid, and it flipped me out. Kids aren’t your insurance policy, and telling them that will be their job when they’re older is too much stress. Honestly, what your kid said is a way of handling anxiety.
When my sister and I were around 6 or 7 my mother would drive us by the city's largest nursing home and say, "that's where bad kids put their parents." She would then take us out for burgers and ice cream. Pavlov had nothing on her.
And that is why it makes sense to make sure someone you can trust will look after you through a POA. Your children are not always the best choice, reading a lot of stories about kids complaining that their parents spend 'the kid's inheritance' . No dear off-spring, while I live it's mine, all mine. When i'm no long amongst the living, there's an iron-clad will.
When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum I'd take care of her, and she always replied "No! Just stick me in a nursing home." Lol
Three year old daughter deliberately screaming to wake up her four month old sister.
For five hours. During a long car ride.
All that means is humans are inherently a**holes until taught to care.
Load More Replies...Make sure to remove the bits of glue around the mouth later on: leave no evidence....
Load More Replies...Five hours? After five minutes I would have given her something to scream about.
Five hours is a bit much, isn't it? I would have pulled to the side of the road and let the kid stand outside and scream - every time she did it.
It's called manipulation, they're born finding ways to meet their needs. Doesn't mean it was right, but they're 3 years old. They still need to learn boundaries.
So what on earth “need” is she filling by making sure the baby can’t sleep? Sounds like meaningless psychobabble to me.
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When I watched my younger son walk out on the porch, pick up a plastic whiffle bat, look at it, look at his older brother sitting on the porch steps, look back at the bat, and then haul back and crack his brother's head like Babe Ruth popping one out of the park.
I could watch his thought process in 5 seconds time: Bat. . .Brother. . .Bat. . .Hit. No hesitation.
Sooo OP watched the entire “thought process” and didn’t try to stop the kid before the other kid got hurt??
How fast can you move in 5 seconds? You think OP was The Flash?
Load More Replies...my sister was once trying to hit me with a metal baseball bat when she was 6 and i was 8. my mom, in her infinite wisdom, thought that reverse psychology was the way to a 6 year olds heart, so she explained to my sister that hitting me with the bat could k**l me, and explained what death was. she then said " so if you want to still hit your brother after i told you he will die go ahead" and luckily my mom has good reflexes because she was able to catch the bat about 3 inches from my face. my sister was fully going to m****r me at 6 years old because my mom said she could. dont use reverse psychology on a child, they dont understand it.
Also, don't assume that dead means permanent to a child. No matter how much you explain it to them, there are certain parts of the brain that just aren't ready.
Load More Replies...For those of you complaining-a wiffle bat doesn't even register on a household scale for weight. The worst it could do at a child's attempt at Babe Ruth would sting like heck, maybe bruise, and result in a cartoon chase scene with someone probably getting sprayed by a hose. I should know-I was the older sibling in this story at one time.
I’m so sorry, and I know this is wrong, but the way it’s written makes me 😂
God it's SO true though. My boys... I could envision this exact scenario happening with them.
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Today my 3 year old dipped her cantaloupe in ketchup and ate a whole plate of it.
Yep! I think I put ketchup on pretty much everything when I was aged 3-7 or so XD
Load More Replies...My son used to have ketchup on his roast dinner, which is grounds for arrest in the UK. 😆
If you ever see me reaching for the ketchup bottle for roast you can bet the roast is just dry.
Load More Replies...My god daughter used to dip her pear slices in the garlic butter at Pizza Express when she was about that age.
Oh, but apple + salty can be so good though XD One of my sister's friend's moms used to give us kids a plate of sliced green apples with salt on them. I loved them!
Load More Replies...When my oldest was about the same age, they liked to dip tortilla chips in strawberry yogurt.
Cyclist Mathieu Van der Poel eats pasta and ketchup. His Italian teammates and team chef are horrified.
🤮 My daughter ate ketchup and grated Parmesan cheese sandwiches for years. Gross
Okay, this is not my kid. but my mom found out she was raising a jerk. When we were out baby clothes shopping with my pregnant aunt, whose first baby didn't survive. A year or two earlier, and my brother says "what are you buying it clothes for when you don't even know it's going to live?".
The level of problematic this is depends on the kid's age. 6 year old, zero tact is to be expected. 10 or older, scary lack of empathy.
Good point about maturity. But also: lots of kids with ASD can make comments like this, not out of callousness, but as a result of an informational and logical mind coupled with lack of social understanding. Correct response? Teach them them social reactions, perspective-taking and expected phrases in these situations. Individuals with ASD often have huge amounts of emotional empathy, but they just don't process social conventions.
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When I was born I had two teenage sisters and oodles of aunts and uncles to smother me with attention.
Three years later my little sister was born and all that went away. I went from being a very happy child to being fairly dark and moody.
There is a family story that a few months after my little sister was born my parents were out and my grandmother was babysitting. The story goes that she caught me going into the baby's room with a claw-hammer. When she asked what I was doing I just stared silently at her for several seconds then answered sullenly "nothing" dropped the claw hammer to the floor and sulked off to my room.
My dad was assigned to Korea for 18 months 6 weeks after I was born. During that time my mom lived with her mom and grandmother. I had 3 generations of women to coddle me! Then Dad came home, got my mom pregnant right away, put us in a VW bug, moved us away and then my little brother was born. Can't say I threatened to end him, but I did run away a lot and once "helped" my mom by covering him in Vaseline. I was not a fan of my new life and it showed!
I knew a guy who tried to jam his baby sister in the garbage chute, at 3 yo
At three all they know is that's where you put things you don't want anymore
Load More Replies...When I was a baby my older sister (four years older than me) tried to put a fork through the soft area of my skull because she wanted me gone. When I was around four or five, she fed me cleaning chemicals from under the sink in our new house (the old home owners stuff was still everywhere). I’m not sure how or why I survived, or what she fed me. Within the next ten years, she would ‘fight’ me with slaps and scratches. After that, she turned to bullying. Weirdly, this is all discounted by my mother, who insists my sister loves me to bits. I don’t know if these things are common between siblings, but I can empathise.
A whole family who values babies over kids. I get that attention and needs change, but this person clearly felt abandoned and knew what had changed to cause it, by kid logic.
I find these stories so interesting because my experience has been the opposite. My kids have been excited and super happy to get a new sibling. When I had the second, oldest rarely left her side for months. The baby was like his new safety blanket. As long as the baby was near, big brother felt like the world was his oyster. When I had the 3rd both the older ones were over the moon and both asked to stay in the delivery suite to greet him. They both felt his head as he emerged.They would hold him and coo at him everyday. When my sister was born, I remember feeling as my kids did. I also remember being *extremely* upset that no one woke me at 1am when my mom went into lanor. I missed the first 5 or 6 hours of my sister's life. I couldn't stand being separated from her at first. She was such a miracle I wanted to cuddle with her as much as I could.
We had our young cat 'fixed" and she just slept and rested all day after coming back from the vet's. My 11 yr old son asked very concerned, after watching the cat lying around all day , " do you think she is sad because she can't have babies?" ( awww... so sweet). My 7 yr old son asked, "so, if she doesn't recover, would we get a cash settlement?".
Many years ago I started working for a guy who was a single dad with two boys, then aged about 11 and 13. The older one was a nice kid, the younger one was a problem. Shoplifting, truancy, lying, etc. My boss actually warned me to keep my wallet on my person when he was around.
One day he told me that when the boys were 2 and 4 he and his then wife were delivering a couple of cars to a city that was a couple of days drive. They had pulled off the highway into the scrub to sleep for the night.
In the morning found that "someone" had turned on the headlights of one car during the night and the battery was flat.
He went out to the highway and eventually flagged down someone who had jumper leads and was willing to drive off into the scrub with a rough looking stranger.
Got the car started and the guy drove off. He left the car to take a leak and the younger son reached over and turned off the key.
He said that was the moment when he realized that he had a problem child.
I worked for him for a couple of years and moved on.
A 2 year old is simply not aware enough of how cars work to purposely drain the battery or know that turning off the car after a jump will cause problems.
unrelated, but i've seen this particular stock image used on bp so many times
I don't even look at the pic anymore. I scroll right by them.
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My three year old was given a small fisher price trampoline for his birthday. It's like three feet in diameter. A few months later, we got invited to take him to Sky Zone, which is a giant indoor warehouse that is wall to wall trampolines. It's awesome. So my wife turns to my son and says, "Hey buddy, do you want to go to the trampoline place?"
Without missing a beat, my kid rolls his eyes at her, jerks his thumb towards the fisher price one, and says, in the most condescending tone a three year old could muster, "I have one.".
He probably didn't understand what was on offer unless he'd been there before
I was about 13 and desperately wanted to learn guitar. Trouble was, I didn’t have one. My father bought me a toy guitar. I refused to have anything to do with it. My father was not amused. I never learned guitar.
Before my son could crawl he learned how to climb the extra tall baby gate.
Before he could walk he climbed the window sill
Before he could run he climbed the bunk bed
Before he could open an applesauce container he learned how to unlock the front door
I’m not sure what moment made me think “yep. He’s a monster”
It might have been when I almost witnessed Harambe 2. I ducked down for ten seconds to tie his sister’s shoe and when I looked up he had one leg over the barrier ready to go say hello. He’s 2 by the way.
Or it might have been when I resigned myself to the leash. I brought it home, prepared for the protests. Instead he declared himself a puppy dog, made his siblings play police with him for two hours while he “sniffed out the bad guys” then gleefully showed me how easy it was for him to take the thing off.
I give up guys.
I tried a harnass with my little escape artist. She very quickly caught on to the disapproval of bystanders and would lie on the ground, clutching the straps, yelling, "Ow, mommy! Hurts, mommy!" She's 4o now and still a stinker.
Yeah, I used to train dogs that would lay down and roll over and refuse to walk on a leash. Dragging them a couple of yards was usually enough to change their minds. That would probably work on kids, too. But also, most people are gonna be a******s about leashes you put on kids. If you don't care about their opinions, chances are your daughter wouldn't either. But if you internalize someone else's disapproval, I'm not surprised she took advantage of that. If you're a parent, "I don't care..." (what someone else thinks, what Tony's mom does, what my mother says, etc...), has to be a big part of your vocabulary.
Load More Replies...This was me so so much. My mum said she used to have to strap me in reins, strap the reins in the high chair/pram and then put the high chair/pram straps on over the top because I'd be out the standard straps in a blink and either standing on the high chair tray or dragging my feet under the pram scuffing my expensive prescription shoes 🤣
I used to escape from childproof car seats and open medicine bottles for my parents. After a lot of stressing, mom finally figured out that I wasn't necessarily trying to escape, I just didn't want to be confined. I think I might be a cat in a human body. 😸
My son had a harness when he was 2. I used to get dirty looks from older people. Apparently they never lost their kid in a mall and had a panic attack.
My sister was like this. She had had two concussions by the time she was 18 months, from climbing and falling off things. My mum had already used the leash on my brother 7 years before, and she needed it even more with my sister. One day in church, she ran across the front towards my grandma in the choir pit and there was an audible gasp when she nearly knocked over a vase of flowers. Thankfully when she was prescribed meds for her ADHD, she settled down a bit. Mum wouldn't say she was a monster, but she still struggles to understand her because her ADHD and ASD affect her problem solving skills and ability to look after herself (she's in her mid 20s now).
this was me as a child. i literally had to sleep in a cage because you couldn't keep me in the cot
I have three sons. 8, 23 and 26.
The middle one, Andrew, boasted to me that he slept with "over 30 chicks" on Tinder. And with some of them in my bed.
He told me that pouring hot water on daddy would be so, so, sooooo funny.
when my daughter was much younger, she and my ex's son talked at great length about how fun it would be to chop me up, cook my body, and throw me away**.
Sounds like they’re parroting what adults have said around them. I have a cousin who did the same when he was younger. His parents hated each other and for the first several years of his life he grew up around that. One time during some island tour trip we took together with several other relatives, the men went off to buy the boat tickets while the women and kids stayed back at the beach. His mum was joking with the other women about how she wants to push her husband overboard once the boats are out at sea. My cousin who was around 3/4 at the time heard this and kept repeating it for the next several hours, saying “let’s push dad off the boat” and laughing at it. I was a kid myself but I felt so uncomfortable that a kid would say something like that about his own dad after hearing from his mom.
It's quite unlikely that he heard anything about cooking another person! Plus there's no indication what was the age of kids.
Load More Replies...My 3-yr-old told my husband that her friend was bad at preschool. He asked, "Did she get in trouble?" Daughter: "Oh yes!" Husband: What happened?" D: "We put her in a pot and cooked her!" H: "Did you eat her?" D: "Yes!" H: "What did she taste like?" D: "Chicken!" Kids have morbid imaginations sometimes!
Ahh young kids just let the intrusive thoughts slip out of their heads. Doesnt mean they actually would donit or mean what they are saying
When my daughter was naughty as a pre- schooler we used to put her in the kitchen for a timeout. We had a safety gate on the doorway and as long as nothing was cooking in there it was like a holding pen for her. Well she started to ask to go to the toilet as soon as she was put in there. At first she was allowed to go but pretty soon it became clear she was just using the toilet excuse to get out of the timeout early. The first time I told her she could go to the toilet after timeout (which usually only last a few minutes) she proceeded to pee on the kitchen floor in retaliation. She has a terrible temper. She's 15 now it's still there.
When I first read this, I thought you meant the pee on the kitchen floor was still there...
I'd let her go and then start timeout all over again when she gets back.
My youngest also had an extreme temper. There were multiple times when she was a child that I was sat out side her bedroom holding the door closed because I would not let her out until she calmed down. Too many people are missing the ability to calm themselves down
I'm not a parent but I remember when I was 6 and my brother was 4.5 we took a watermelon from the kitchen whilst our mum was on the phone and we managed to drag it up the stairs and then rolled it down. It smashed all over the CARPET at the bottom of the stairs. Our mum was so mad.
My mum was usually pretty lenient (though she did cry over spilled milk/broken dishes) but one time she was really strict was when my brother and I got hold of some blutac and it ended up stuck in the carpet. Cream carpet that now had black spots where the blutac had picked up dirt. We were banned from using blutac the rest of the time we lived in that house.
My six yo daughter told me to shave that thing off, my goatee. Couple days later I did, I asked her, "do you like it?" She makes a bit of a face and says" no I didn't know your chin was so small.".
When my son blithely told me he wants to play the documentary Under the Curve for his classmates because he is trying to convince them the world is flat. He admits he knows it is not, but he is trying, actively, to CON them into thinking it IS.
He'll have a wonderful career in politics. He may even become the president of the USA in some years' time... If there's elections ever again.
Oh, there will be another elections. Heavily armed ICE agents will be positioned at every polling place - to guard against election fraud, of course.
Load More Replies...I hate people like this. "For teh lulz" was great before idiots started believing the bullhonkey. The "it's fun to provoke"-crowd needs to go.
My 6 year old daughter punched my 4 year old son in the face and gave him a bloody nose. When I asked her why she punched him in the face, she looked at me and said. 'I didn't punch him in the face, I punched him in the nose'.
And has she done it since? I remember very clearly a time when I was 6: Playing with my best friend, I just hauled off and slapped him across the face. BAM! I still remember his look of shock, and then the hurt, and then the pain, and then the tears. In the moment I was just observing. But by the evening, I felt awful. I've never hit anyone again.
Oh man, too many to list. The most recent is when my son shot me with his Nerf gun directly in my eyeball. My eye still hurts a week later. A couple of weeks ago, my other son pooped on the floor (he's 3) and put a donut on top of it to hide it.
Normalise the expression 'put a donut on it' to describe awkward attempts to hide s**t situations.
Why does your son have a gun? Any gun. He clearly doesn't understand basic safety. It could have been much worse. I think those kids need limits NOW.
Neither my brother or I let our kids have ANY type of gun whatsoever. Grammy was sad about that when she once bought them a bubble gun, but rules are rules. I don't want any confusion about pointing a weapon at another person.
Load More Replies...Omg I have a story about a child like this that I just remembered because of this post. Except we were in office max and the mother just ignored it the kid left a trail if nuggets... Me and my husband got outta there.. that mom though... Also once had an old guy walking quickly to the restroom when I was managing a 711 he was a regular a big nugget fell out of his wife grandpa pants on the way. When he came out of the toilet we had already got rid of it as to try not to embarrass him further because ya know old guy and a regular... He went to look for it and we hadn't gotten to mopping the little bit of skid mark up so he just threw a napkin over it and left red as a tomato. He didn't come back for a long time ..
My 5 and 10 year old were having an epic verbal war in the living room which ended abruptly after I shouted various generic parenting noises in their direction.
My 5 year old son then walked confidently into the kitchen, took a picture of his brother off the fridge proceeded to dispose of it in the bin.
Utterly jerk behaviour of course but honestly I was secretly extremely impressed with his top passive aggression.
'Shouted various generic parenting noises' had me thinking of the Tuskan Raiders holding their spears and shouting in Star Wars
Reminds me of the scene in The Quiet Man where Squire Danaher tells his lackey to write down Sean Thornton's name in his little notebook. "Now strike it out!" That was a big insult in his world.
I love that movie! Will Danaher was a massive jerk, but so comical that you couldn't completely hate him lol besides, you knew the widow is gonna set him straight when she marries him 😆
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My 8 year old son had gotten a plastic baseball bat from me and my wife, this plastic baseball bat wasn’t just some weak plastic it actually was pretty hard. Well one day I walk outside to see my younger 5 year old daughter screaming and running from my 8 year old son who is holding the baseball bat and wacking her wherever he can, he was wearing my jeans, had a bandana on and a baseball cap on backwards. He kept calling himself a cool kid and wouldn’t stop wacking her. I ran over and stopped him and my Wife took our daughter inside to get an ice pack. I took the bat away and asked him why he was hitting her, and I repeat exactly what he said “because I’m a cool kid and cool kids show there siblings who’s the leader, daddy”. He got grounded for a week and after he was done with the grounding he told me he was very sorry, he wasn’t finished... A month later I find him running around with a plastic sword in a ninja costume from last Halloween and wacking my daughter again! I ran over, stopped him, my daughter ran off, and when I asked him why he hit her this time he said “because it’s fun”. He got grounded for a very long time, and I realized then he needed counseling. He is now 20 and my daughter is 17, my son had come over for dinner one night and some how that was brought up, he denied the entire thing even though before that he said he remembered counseling! I just hope he doesn’t raise his newborn son to be a karate master
My sister made several attempts on my life when I was a toddler and would beat me whenever she got the chance. It changed when she was about 10 and I was 7 as she realised that mental a***e was more effective.
He genuinely may not remember the incidents; people think memories are like photos stuck in time but they're not
I also learnt the other day that the brain can create fake memories! I have several memories, which I already couldn’t decide whether they were true or not, from when I was a small child, but now I’m questioning if they actually happened at all!
Load More Replies...My brother and I used to race to the hall closet to see who could get to the metal baseball bat first. My parents eventually got rid of that bat... we fought constantly and without regard for life or limb. Something changed when we were teens (not really sure what) and since then (now in our late thirties) we've been super good friends. We take hiking trips together, plan family trips together, he lent me money to move for my first job and is my first call for "adulting" advice. Grateful we didn't manage to k**l or maim eachother
My son is autistic, and therefore lacks a strong filter for his internal thoughts. Anyhoo, we were getting ready to leave the house a couple of years ago and he looks at me and goes, "Are you really going to work without any makeup?".
My 5 year old son didn’t like the babysitter we got for him on our date night. So he hid the car keys and my husband’s wallet, only taking out some cash to pay the babysitter..
Also one of my shoe, but that was poorly hidden.
Sounds like my eldest, she used to stand there barely a year old demanding the car keys off 6gtandoarebts every time they visited so they'd have to stay longer.
My dad told me when we were driving once , I was in the back and was trying to climb through to the front , he pushed me back to my seat, I was maybe 6-7 and apparently said ‘when you’re all old and weak I’m going to chuck you about!’.
Correct response is 42 then start quizzing them on their timetables. Either you'll have made it uncool or you'll raise a maths whizz. Either way win win!
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Not a parent, but an older brother of a young sibling. He poured paint thinner all over my moms flowers one summer after my dad accidentally left it on the deck (we were repainting the deck). More happy that he didn’t drink it but it was definitely an “oh my god” moment. She probably spends 100 hours+ and a lot of money gardening every spring/summer so it was a big deal.
My husband has a habit of messing with me. As I was stepping into the shower, he threw ice cold water down my back and I let out a shriek. My 18 month old comes running in from her bedroom, looks me dead in the eye and screams "AAAAHHHHaaaaaahhhhhAAAAAAHHHHHaaaahhhhhhh!" in this overly dramatic whiney voice. Then she did it 3 more times.
She ran in from the other room to mock me.
Yeah. I would not find that funny or endearing at all. And now he's teaching the 18 month old to do this c**p. Get rid of the whole man.
Load More Replies...He should be your ex-husband if he pranks you like that in front of your kid! He's teaching her to torment and mock you!
My 1.5 yo is a biter. Her literally runs at me baring his teeth trying to bite me.
Bite him back. Sometimes that’s the only way they learn. It’s not funny, it’s not cute, and they need to understand that it hurts
That’s how I cured my daughter of biting when she was little. She never did it again
Load More Replies...At first I thought it said 15 year old. Then I realized I wasn't wearing my glasses.
My wife took my stepdaughter (before we met) to the pet store, and told her to pick out a cone if she was going to keep biting people. That did the trick.
I have two sons. One is 11 and the other 7. The 7 year old is...special. Highly intelligent and very social. But also does a lot of deep thinking. Early one Sunday morning he came up to me, out of the blue, and said:
"Dad, how do ducks work?"
I was all "how to what? What? Ducks? Huh" in a half sleep state. Before I could work out what he wanted to know he said: "I guess if I open one up, I'll find out?" and walked away.
Honestly spent a good hour looking for ducks and watched him carefully when he went near the kitchen utensils.
EDIT: Oh yeah, there was also the time when he learned how to float in a pool after watching a documentary about ship wrecks. He could swim but never relax and float on his back. He can now, he just pretends to be a body floating away. Thanks YouTube.
Why is a seven year old watching random YouTube videos with no supervision? It's not YouTube's responsibility to bring up your kids, but yours.
Shopping in Publix and my 4 year old looks at an employee and calmy says "Your lips are ugly.".
Many moons ago when c*****e was medicinal my 3yr old sister had been given c*****e by the dentist to calm her before her annual check up. High as a kite she walks up to a woman in the waiting room, places her hands on the woman's thighs and says 'you got fat legs don't ya'
Bonus points if you're Scottish or Irish because I read it as so.
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When I realized that she is most happy when she's doing something that pisses someone else off like biting people, messing with electronics and playing with cat's stuff.
Usually this is a sign that they're not getting enough positive attention, so they'll take any attention they can get
I was picking my son up from daycare the other day. I've always known he's a bit of a flirt, but I got to see it in full action. One of his teachers came to give him a hug, and he brushed her off at first than gave her such a big hug after she worked for it a bit. She was all happy about getting her hug and escalated it into swinging him around and tickling him. He was going for just that though, I could tell. He knew exactly how to get what he wanted from her. He's 3. I was watching and just realizing this kid knows he's cute, likes attention from girls, and he isn't afraid to use his looks to get it. I'm in trouble when he hits his teen years. . .
He keeps saying 'hamburg' instead of hamburger.
That was a regional mannerism when I was in high school; all the locals said 'hamburg.'
Lovely little girl: "Daddy, you're fat" me: "yes I do have a big tummy" lovely little girl: "daddy, you're ugly". How does one respond to that from a 4, nearly 5 year old? Also told my wife she wants to put her in the garbage bin and never see her again. We're English and garbage isn't a word we really use! All this while we enjoyed a family holiday last week.
The response is "that is very hurtful, and I wish you would not say that to me."
Children aren't born with a filter. You, as the adult, need to help nurture and develop that filter, so that the child does not grow up believing that anything goes. I am not opposed to Freedom of Speech, but there are SOME societal rules that should be learned
No. Little kids just say what they think. You have to teach them we keep certain thoughts to ourselves bc it's not nice.
Load More Replies...I thought my middle stepchild was a monster. From pre-teen into his 20s, he was always getting into trouble, acting out, doing d***s... we put him in therapy as a teen and tried everything. Eventually, I banned him from our home because I told him he was either someone we protected or someone we protected from and he kept choosing the latter. He eventually got clean and I found out he had been suffering from horrible a***e from his bio dad and he thought we knew and permitted it. He wasn't a monster, he was under constant stress and in survival mode.
Gave up after 6 😢 This is the kind of world we are living in atfm; going to throw up now
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Load More Replies...when I was five, my mother fell down in a parking lot and got injured pretty bad and had to get stitches. the first time i saw her after this, i said to her "mommy, you look ugly"
One of the stories my mom told me. I was 4 or 5 at the time, and I was sitting in a sandbox playing with a toy while my mom and our dog (a Newfoundlander - think overgrown black Labrador) was sitting nearby keeping an eye on me. Supposedly, a kid had approached me and demanded I give him my toy, or he'd come back with his big brother and have him beat me up. And I had apparently countered with "You do that, and I'll get our dog (pointing at him) to eat you both." Needless to say, he did not return with his big brother.
Too many people forget that they are talking about children, they project their feelings onto children. Many of these children are simply exploring and trying to understand the world around them. They're not psychopaths, they're children. Try to remember what you were like.
I was really worried about our son because of what a manipulator he was from a very young age who showed little remorse about things he did, thinking they were "justified." He got into more than a bit of trouble growing up until as a young adult he figured out that manipulating people with kindness had a much higher pay-off and he valued being respected and loved by his bosses, friends and family much more than always getting his way. I swear, it could have gone either way, though ... whew!
When I was 6 I turned my mom in for child a***e for not putting a candy bar in my lunch. This was in the 80's when child a***e awareness was becoming more prominent and there were commercials on TV stating " If you are being a****d at home tell some you trust like a teacher" I went to school crying and told my teacher i am being a****d. My parents were called out of work. CPS was called and the police were ready to arrest my parents . When they learned what was really happening you could feel the tension lift and theyall tried really hard not to laugh hysterically until I left the room. I got a HUGE lecture on what child a***e really was. In my 6 year old defense i didnt really understand what it was i just saw commercials onTV about it,
I don't know if this is irrational (leaning towards it probably is), but these sort of articles are one of the reasons I overall don't want kids. I think I've reached the conclusion that I *would* like kids in a perfect world, but I know I don't have the emotional capacity to deal with a kid that is an inner sociopath, amongst other things, and it isn't like you can pick and choose what you get. Not to mention I have health issues I wouldn't want to pass on. I'll just observe from afar. Some of the actions of these kids are quite disturbing, however; just hoping it's not a 'We need to talk about Kevin' situation.
I thought my middle stepchild was a monster. From pre-teen into his 20s, he was always getting into trouble, acting out, doing d***s... we put him in therapy as a teen and tried everything. Eventually, I banned him from our home because I told him he was either someone we protected or someone we protected from and he kept choosing the latter. He eventually got clean and I found out he had been suffering from horrible a***e from his bio dad and he thought we knew and permitted it. He wasn't a monster, he was under constant stress and in survival mode.
Gave up after 6 😢 This is the kind of world we are living in atfm; going to throw up now
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Load More Replies...when I was five, my mother fell down in a parking lot and got injured pretty bad and had to get stitches. the first time i saw her after this, i said to her "mommy, you look ugly"
One of the stories my mom told me. I was 4 or 5 at the time, and I was sitting in a sandbox playing with a toy while my mom and our dog (a Newfoundlander - think overgrown black Labrador) was sitting nearby keeping an eye on me. Supposedly, a kid had approached me and demanded I give him my toy, or he'd come back with his big brother and have him beat me up. And I had apparently countered with "You do that, and I'll get our dog (pointing at him) to eat you both." Needless to say, he did not return with his big brother.
Too many people forget that they are talking about children, they project their feelings onto children. Many of these children are simply exploring and trying to understand the world around them. They're not psychopaths, they're children. Try to remember what you were like.
I was really worried about our son because of what a manipulator he was from a very young age who showed little remorse about things he did, thinking they were "justified." He got into more than a bit of trouble growing up until as a young adult he figured out that manipulating people with kindness had a much higher pay-off and he valued being respected and loved by his bosses, friends and family much more than always getting his way. I swear, it could have gone either way, though ... whew!
When I was 6 I turned my mom in for child a***e for not putting a candy bar in my lunch. This was in the 80's when child a***e awareness was becoming more prominent and there were commercials on TV stating " If you are being a****d at home tell some you trust like a teacher" I went to school crying and told my teacher i am being a****d. My parents were called out of work. CPS was called and the police were ready to arrest my parents . When they learned what was really happening you could feel the tension lift and theyall tried really hard not to laugh hysterically until I left the room. I got a HUGE lecture on what child a***e really was. In my 6 year old defense i didnt really understand what it was i just saw commercials onTV about it,
I don't know if this is irrational (leaning towards it probably is), but these sort of articles are one of the reasons I overall don't want kids. I think I've reached the conclusion that I *would* like kids in a perfect world, but I know I don't have the emotional capacity to deal with a kid that is an inner sociopath, amongst other things, and it isn't like you can pick and choose what you get. Not to mention I have health issues I wouldn't want to pass on. I'll just observe from afar. Some of the actions of these kids are quite disturbing, however; just hoping it's not a 'We need to talk about Kevin' situation.
