People Are Cracking Up At These 35 Tweets About How People As Kids Misunderstood Simple Concepts
Kids’ logic is a thing of envy. The way they think isn’t bound to some particular reality or concept of reasoning that dictates the rules for the conclusions they have to reach. It’s beautiful because they have unrestricted freedom to be as silly and as adorable as they want without sweating or even understanding it.
Twitter user @sumerianbby shared a story of how she, being a mere 6-year-old, misunderstood the notion of an expiration date on her father’s ID and started crying—she thought it was a particular time for when dad was going to pass away. Kids.
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Soon a slew of people joined the conversation, sharing their own stories of how they confused simple concepts and reinterpreted them the way their x-year-old kiddy selves could—using adorable kids’ logic.
Check out the curated list of the best stories Tweeters have shared below and vote as well as comment on the submissions you enjoyed the most. And if you have your own stories to share, why not do that in the comment section below!
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My middle sister didn't want my mom's next baby to be a boy because she didn't want to BE a brother.
In North Europe all tv shows and movies are dubbed! I found it so strange that i was wondering if people there know the real voices of the actors (edit: i rephrase that in some countries of North and central Europe I've seen this phenomenon.. haven't been to every country in Europe ok)
If you do not make a sacrifice to the fountain of dreams, YOU STARVE
until around last year, my kids thought they controlled the back wiper on our car with their voices. if it started raining while we were driving somewhere they'd say "back wiper, wipe one time" and it would! "back wiper, wipe 2 times", and it would! it wasn't until pretty recently that they figured out the wiping mechanism is right at my fingertips, LOL. the way they figured it out was one would say it and turn their heads to make sure it happened, while the other would stare at my hands to see if i did something to trigger the wiper. :-D
I somehow thought Braunschweiger was called smorgasbord. I called it that all through my childhood. I still sometimes forget what it is really called and I am in my 50's. I have confused more than one person when I am hungry for smorgasbord.
?? What on earth is Braunschweiger?! I've been to Braunschweig and have eaten nothing memorable... But Smörgåsbord is a legitimate and extended (Swedish) breakfast, so no confusion if you are hungry for that.
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My dad called over easy eggs “dunkin eggs” (cause you dunk your toast in them) we all thought that was the name of them until I was a grown adult and tried to order dunkin eggs at a restaurant .. the waitress stared at me like I was an idiot so I asked for scrambled .. for ten years I only ever ordered scrambled cause I didn’t know what to call them .. I had heard the words sunny side up or over easy but didn’t know what that meant .. I can’t remember how I finally figured it out and could order the eggs I wanted but frig that still haunts me
But "dunking eggs" sounds exactly like what it is. More descriptive than over easy.
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Melongene. Patlican, Melatzana, Brinjal, bigan, mad-apple, aubergine, eggplant, and now bazooka too.
When i was a kid i didn't recognize farm animals being a city kid! I knew only goats! So when we were going on trips to the countryside i was naming every animal i was seeing! Cows were big goats! Sheep were fluffy goats and horses were goats with fancy tails!
Agreed! I much prefer these pure fun posts to the social issues posts that are so frequent on BP.
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When I watched old black and white movies when I was little I thought the world was really only black and white back then, and color wasn't invented until the 1960s.
My son asked his grandmother how it was to live in a only black and white world... 😂
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I thought "No, thanks" meant "no thanks" as in "I am not thanking you" and was therefore quite rude.
Reminds me of learning that "yes, I mind" means "no, you can't do that". I thought my parents were lying to me by giving me permission to do something and then getting mad when I did.
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Usually, we tell kids that old pets will be "put to sleep" because they were in a lot of pain, or not eating anymore. So naturally, they understand the term "put to sleep" to mean to pass away. So imagine the kids' panic when they heard the doctor tell me that he will need to "put me to sleep" for the operation. Poor things!
I remember getting confused with that terminology as a kid, and having to learn the difference between "put down" and "put under".
Load More Replies... I would always try to stay up long enough to see the Sandman. I am now an insomniac. Dunno if the two are related, but if I ever do run into him we will be having words.
The entry about the robot mom had me remember this one: My older brother told me when I was about 5 that my parents were going to replace my brain with a robot brain because mine wasn't working properly (brothers🙄) I told him that isn't true because they would have told me. He said they didnt tell me because they didnt want to scare me. They were planning to have the surgeon do it after I went to sleep one night. He said I would just wake up one day with a robot brain and I would never know. I thought he was lying, but then...maybe he was right...I thought about asking mum about it but...was she going to tell me the truth? I had a lot of trouble sleeping for a few nights 😅
Just take care of that robot brain. You can probably switch it up once power runs out.
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When I was in kindergarten I lost my sweater, knitted by my granny. Some nice older kid said “come with me let’s go look in the lost and found!” For some reason I thought “lost and founTAIN.” So as I was holding hands with her walking to the lost and founTAIN I was expecting a glorious large water fountain with my lost sweater perched neatly atop. I was not expecting a cardboard box with a bunch of other lost items. But, we did find my sweater.
I remember when I was like 4/5 my folks were getting groceries, but funding was a bit tight. I remember that checks were used for payment -- but didn't' fully grasp the concepts of checks. So I suggested we use checks and I got corrected from mum. So that's the day I learned how checks really functioned.
me and my smarter friend was talking about a serial killer thing (context was a skit for cops&robbers) and i legit thought it was a guy who killed cereal
i remember encountering a group of bandits while coming back from a trip. i was around 7 or 8. I didn't completely know what was going on but I just knew that some bad guys had made my dad leave the car. my grandpa had given me a toy robot and I thought it was a legit battle robot and I rummaged through my toys to find it and set it loose on the bad guys I really thought I was gonna be one of the heroes I saw on TV😭
When I was little my teacher told us about a relative of hers that died because she was peeing blood and didn't tell anyone, so it was a lesson about "if somethings wrong tell someone", and so a few weeks later I was talking to my mom in the bathroom and I looked in the toilet when she flushed and saw blood, and cried because I thought she was going to die, but she calmed me down and explained everything. And that's how I found out about periods!
I was making a cake when I was a kid and I saw 1 1/4 cup water. Well, we were learning fractions in school and I thought that was 11/4 and I had to convert the improper fraction. I ended up putting in 2 and 3/4 cups water in, lol. The cake did not turn out well.
But you learned how improper fractions work. When a cake fails, a fraction opens. Or something like that. 😅
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I had one of these much later in life. I started driving in 1993. You know how gasoline (petrol) has octane ratings of like 89-94. I thought those ratings were years when the fuel was processed (or something like that). So when I got a little older in my 20's and asked people why the numbers hadn't changed, I got thoroughly laughed at... also, as a kid I thought water polo was played on horses in the water
I thought the princess of Wales was the daughter of the king of Wales. I had no idea of what a principality is.
When I was around 3 or 4, I used to think there were actual little people inside the TV.
When I was a little kid the school sent me home with a permission slip. The teacher kept saying don’t forget to bring your slip tomorrow!! The only thing I knew as a slip was the one my mom put on underneath her dress!! I went home and told my mom I needed one of the slips that she were under her dress. It took a while to unravel that one
I've sat laughing at these for a good while . When I was like 5-7 (can't remember exactly ), my family was driving across the US for vacation. We stopped at McDonalds for lunch and I decided to stay in the car with our dog. It was the 80's people left their kids anywhere lol. A truck pulled up next to our car and there was a gun rack, with guns in the truck. I sat on the floor of the van hiding and crying because I thought he was there to shoot me. Eventually I got up the courage to run inside and get my parents. Not only did they laugh at me, but my dog ate my happy meal. I was so mad
Once I got so scared when the toilet got clogged I saw the water rising and thought OMG we are going to drown to death, ran out the house screaming HELP HELP LOL
I finally have somewhere to tell this story, because looking back I was a really stupid kid to believe this. When I was in K, 1st, and 2nd I thought that teachers were the really smart kids who graduated high school and came back because they really liked teaching little kids. Like I had no idea what college was, which is weird because I had an uncle going to school to be a pharmacist, but in my little kid mind teachers didn't go to college just got really smart and sort of just started teaching.
I never noticed anyone being pregnant. I thought a woman went to the hospital to buy a baby. I watched a TV show where a bunch of young people crashed on a mysterious island (The New People). There was a pregnant woman & then suddenly she had a baby. What is this? There is no hospital for her to get a baby, that can't be. That TV show was flop back then but it inspired the TV show "Lost".
When my husband was a kid he thought that when he had a headache everyone could feel it. He did not understand why his mother couldn’t feel the headache!
#11 Is pretty standard, i would say... Even though i think talking with your kid about going to day care is better....
If your reading this I hope you have a great day and know. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 NIV
My son told me when he was about 5 that the volcanoes are filled with dragons. Dormant volcanoes are sleepy, happy dragons. Active volcanoes are mad dragons that got woken up (he used different wording, I just clarified for the comment). Key to mention we lived in the shadow of Mt Rainier at the time. We agreed that those dragons should stay sleeping 🤣
I used to think that there was a man clapping his hands really loudly in storms to make thunder.
When I was like 4, my uncle's battery in his car was dead and he told my dad that he need him to jump his car. I thought that my dad was going to jump my uncle's car with his car.
I thought "don't drink and drive" meant ANY drink and freaked out when my mom had a cup of water. (We NEVER ate or drank in the car prior to this)
Watching Romeo and Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio one) as a kid I thought they were speaking in some foreign tongue as I had no idea wtf they were saying....turns out I still don't lol
As a child, I would drink hot water sometimes. (when we didn't have any ingredients for hot chocolate) If my pee was hot, I knew that it was the hot water that I was peeing out.
When i was a kid i didn't recognize farm animals being a city kid! I knew only goats! So when we were going on trips to the countryside i was naming every animal i was seeing! Cows were big goats! Sheep were fluffy goats and horses were goats with fancy tails!
Agreed! I much prefer these pure fun posts to the social issues posts that are so frequent on BP.
Load More Replies... When I watched old black and white movies when I was little I thought the world was really only black and white back then, and color wasn't invented until the 1960s.
My son asked his grandmother how it was to live in a only black and white world... 😂
Load More Replies... I thought "No, thanks" meant "no thanks" as in "I am not thanking you" and was therefore quite rude.
Reminds me of learning that "yes, I mind" means "no, you can't do that". I thought my parents were lying to me by giving me permission to do something and then getting mad when I did.
Load More Replies... Usually, we tell kids that old pets will be "put to sleep" because they were in a lot of pain, or not eating anymore. So naturally, they understand the term "put to sleep" to mean to pass away. So imagine the kids' panic when they heard the doctor tell me that he will need to "put me to sleep" for the operation. Poor things!
I remember getting confused with that terminology as a kid, and having to learn the difference between "put down" and "put under".
Load More Replies... I would always try to stay up long enough to see the Sandman. I am now an insomniac. Dunno if the two are related, but if I ever do run into him we will be having words.
The entry about the robot mom had me remember this one: My older brother told me when I was about 5 that my parents were going to replace my brain with a robot brain because mine wasn't working properly (brothers🙄) I told him that isn't true because they would have told me. He said they didnt tell me because they didnt want to scare me. They were planning to have the surgeon do it after I went to sleep one night. He said I would just wake up one day with a robot brain and I would never know. I thought he was lying, but then...maybe he was right...I thought about asking mum about it but...was she going to tell me the truth? I had a lot of trouble sleeping for a few nights 😅
Just take care of that robot brain. You can probably switch it up once power runs out.
Load More Replies... When I was in kindergarten I lost my sweater, knitted by my granny. Some nice older kid said “come with me let’s go look in the lost and found!” For some reason I thought “lost and founTAIN.” So as I was holding hands with her walking to the lost and founTAIN I was expecting a glorious large water fountain with my lost sweater perched neatly atop. I was not expecting a cardboard box with a bunch of other lost items. But, we did find my sweater.
I remember when I was like 4/5 my folks were getting groceries, but funding was a bit tight. I remember that checks were used for payment -- but didn't' fully grasp the concepts of checks. So I suggested we use checks and I got corrected from mum. So that's the day I learned how checks really functioned.
me and my smarter friend was talking about a serial killer thing (context was a skit for cops&robbers) and i legit thought it was a guy who killed cereal
i remember encountering a group of bandits while coming back from a trip. i was around 7 or 8. I didn't completely know what was going on but I just knew that some bad guys had made my dad leave the car. my grandpa had given me a toy robot and I thought it was a legit battle robot and I rummaged through my toys to find it and set it loose on the bad guys I really thought I was gonna be one of the heroes I saw on TV😭
When I was little my teacher told us about a relative of hers that died because she was peeing blood and didn't tell anyone, so it was a lesson about "if somethings wrong tell someone", and so a few weeks later I was talking to my mom in the bathroom and I looked in the toilet when she flushed and saw blood, and cried because I thought she was going to die, but she calmed me down and explained everything. And that's how I found out about periods!
I was making a cake when I was a kid and I saw 1 1/4 cup water. Well, we were learning fractions in school and I thought that was 11/4 and I had to convert the improper fraction. I ended up putting in 2 and 3/4 cups water in, lol. The cake did not turn out well.
But you learned how improper fractions work. When a cake fails, a fraction opens. Or something like that. 😅
Load More Replies... I had one of these much later in life. I started driving in 1993. You know how gasoline (petrol) has octane ratings of like 89-94. I thought those ratings were years when the fuel was processed (or something like that). So when I got a little older in my 20's and asked people why the numbers hadn't changed, I got thoroughly laughed at... also, as a kid I thought water polo was played on horses in the water
I thought the princess of Wales was the daughter of the king of Wales. I had no idea of what a principality is.
When I was around 3 or 4, I used to think there were actual little people inside the TV.
When I was a little kid the school sent me home with a permission slip. The teacher kept saying don’t forget to bring your slip tomorrow!! The only thing I knew as a slip was the one my mom put on underneath her dress!! I went home and told my mom I needed one of the slips that she were under her dress. It took a while to unravel that one
I've sat laughing at these for a good while . When I was like 5-7 (can't remember exactly ), my family was driving across the US for vacation. We stopped at McDonalds for lunch and I decided to stay in the car with our dog. It was the 80's people left their kids anywhere lol. A truck pulled up next to our car and there was a gun rack, with guns in the truck. I sat on the floor of the van hiding and crying because I thought he was there to shoot me. Eventually I got up the courage to run inside and get my parents. Not only did they laugh at me, but my dog ate my happy meal. I was so mad
Once I got so scared when the toilet got clogged I saw the water rising and thought OMG we are going to drown to death, ran out the house screaming HELP HELP LOL
I finally have somewhere to tell this story, because looking back I was a really stupid kid to believe this. When I was in K, 1st, and 2nd I thought that teachers were the really smart kids who graduated high school and came back because they really liked teaching little kids. Like I had no idea what college was, which is weird because I had an uncle going to school to be a pharmacist, but in my little kid mind teachers didn't go to college just got really smart and sort of just started teaching.
I never noticed anyone being pregnant. I thought a woman went to the hospital to buy a baby. I watched a TV show where a bunch of young people crashed on a mysterious island (The New People). There was a pregnant woman & then suddenly she had a baby. What is this? There is no hospital for her to get a baby, that can't be. That TV show was flop back then but it inspired the TV show "Lost".
When my husband was a kid he thought that when he had a headache everyone could feel it. He did not understand why his mother couldn’t feel the headache!
#11 Is pretty standard, i would say... Even though i think talking with your kid about going to day care is better....
If your reading this I hope you have a great day and know. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16 NIV
My son told me when he was about 5 that the volcanoes are filled with dragons. Dormant volcanoes are sleepy, happy dragons. Active volcanoes are mad dragons that got woken up (he used different wording, I just clarified for the comment). Key to mention we lived in the shadow of Mt Rainier at the time. We agreed that those dragons should stay sleeping 🤣
I used to think that there was a man clapping his hands really loudly in storms to make thunder.
When I was like 4, my uncle's battery in his car was dead and he told my dad that he need him to jump his car. I thought that my dad was going to jump my uncle's car with his car.
I thought "don't drink and drive" meant ANY drink and freaked out when my mom had a cup of water. (We NEVER ate or drank in the car prior to this)
Watching Romeo and Juliet (Leonardo DiCaprio one) as a kid I thought they were speaking in some foreign tongue as I had no idea wtf they were saying....turns out I still don't lol
As a child, I would drink hot water sometimes. (when we didn't have any ingredients for hot chocolate) If my pee was hot, I knew that it was the hot water that I was peeing out.
