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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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#1
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.
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#2
My son's 13:
- Hates pizza.
- Likes Nickelback.
- Likes the Patriots
If he was on facebook Id unfriend him.
Ellinor she/they/elle 1 week ago
Finally a fun one amongst all the psychopaths on this post...
#3
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.
#4
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.
#5
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.
#6
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.
#7
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.
Oxford Ranch 1 week ago
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.
#8
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!
#9
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.
#10
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.
#11
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 😂.
#12
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.
Misha Writer 1 week ago
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.
#13
Three year old daughter deliberately screaming to wake up her four month old sister.
For five hours. During a long car ride.
#14
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.
#15
Today my 3 year old dipped her cantaloupe in ketchup and ate a whole plate of it.
#16
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?".
#17
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.
#18
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.
#19
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?".
#20
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.".
pineapple87 1 week ago
He probably didn't understand what was on offer unless he'd been there before
#21
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.
#22
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**.
Tempest 1 week ago
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.
#23
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.
Leah Woodard 1 week ago (edited)
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.
#24
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.
Babs McGurk 1 week ago
When I first read this, I thought you meant the pee on the kitchen floor was still there...
#25
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.
#26
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.".
#27
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.
patricia patricia 1 week ago
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.
#28
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'.
#29
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.
#30
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.
#31
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
Shark Lady 1 week ago
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.
#32
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?".
#33
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.
Gadaffi Duck 1 week ago
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.
#34
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!’.
amy lee 1 week ago
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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#35
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.
#36
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.
#37
My 1.5 yo is a biter. Her literally runs at me baring his teeth trying to bite me.
Colleen Glim 1 week ago
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
#38
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. . .
#39
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.
patricia patricia 1 week ago
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.
#40
Shopping in Publix and my 4 year old looks at an employee and calmy says "Your lips are ugly.".
Gadaffi Duck 1 week ago
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'
#41
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.
#42
He keeps saying 'hamburg' instead of hamburger.
#43
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.
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R Dennis 1 week ago
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.
Leanne Hailes 1 week ago
Gave up after 6 😢 This is the kind of world we are living in atfm; going to throw up now
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TheForrestGreene (he/they/it) 1 week ago
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"
Northlander72 1 week ago
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.
Peeka_Mimi 1 week ago
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.
Mel in Georgia 1 week ago
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!
Tonyah Mcanelly 1 week ago
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,
Emilu 1 week ago
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.
R Dennis 1 week ago
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.
Leanne Hailes 1 week ago
Gave up after 6 😢 This is the kind of world we are living in atfm; going to throw up now
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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"
Northlander72 1 week ago
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.
Peeka_Mimi 1 week ago
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.
Mel in Georgia 1 week ago
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!
Tonyah Mcanelly 1 week ago
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,
Emilu 1 week ago
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.
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