I'm baffled at the lack of trust and deceit in these families. I gave my kid a credit card linked to my account when he was 8, and he's never abused it. He's nearly 16 and still calls to ask permission to buy stuff.

My dad's parental lock required restarting the computer to break the lock, then before it had fully finished loading up you kill the program with the task manager. Took nine-year-old me five minutes to figure out, took my dad six months to realise.

I wish i was this smart lol

raised my son in the 80s when home computers and gaming systems were just coming out so didn't have the issues that these parents have. but, even with the old school groundings my son got creative so i had to do so as well. when it was taking the gaming system i took all the controllers, including the knobs off the telly. as for other things like the stay home grounding (we lived in rural area) he didn't lose his bike; just the front wheel.

Kids are downright clever about hacking. It will be interesting to see how they try to stop their own offspring.

I love most of this! Actually, most of these are ... either getting the school to take missing as excused, gain access to computers or TV programs ... this is harmless and shows they're creative and willing - the exact same way any law is enforced ... these are society's rules anyway ... or, even the better ones.

A lot of these sound troubling... Yet another reason I’m never having kids. I’ll just add that to the pile of 3578 other reasons...

And people still refuse to believe that smartphones (or whatever) are evil? Mindblowing, really.

Also..if you hang your full body weight on a combo lock and turn it opens right up. Never took anything but I got into everyone's shed. Lol

In h.s. I hardly ever skipped class..but when I did it was fine since my signature of my mom's name was on every paper ever signed for my h.s.. screw asking mom..I did my own paperwork. Hot free lunch too.😁

I've done similar things myself. Everything from using Tor to get around router and DNS imposed restrictions, to using msconfig to disable monitoring programs, to even setting up my own private wifi network by bridging Ethernet connections and plugging in an old router. Maybe I shouldn't be posting this here...

When I was eight, I got a little kid tablet fir Christmas. It had screen restrictions, web restrictions, reading book restrictions, and I couldn't access the internet. But, my parents also had an account on the tablet, solely for changing settings and helping me watch piano tutorials. So, eight year old me asked to watch a piano tutorial, while my dad was playing. Of course, since he was already at the piano, he just had me bring it to him instead of going on him room. I stood in the corner and watched him put in the pin(back when I had good vision ) and I entered it the next day to get in. Then I went and lifted every single restriction, and even though my account was now free reign, I converted entirely to using my parents' account. I have had the tablet for six years now and they still don't know that I use it sometimes very late to watch YouTube or whatever. I also once hacked into my mum's phone and added my fingerprint. It still works.

I'm smarter than my 6th grade friend. I'm in 4th!

My friend in 6th Grade is dumber than me. She said so herself. I'm just in 4th.

This was back in the 'before internet' times, but when I was about 12, I knew where Mum hid the Christmas presents before Christmas. When I discovered that I was getting Kings Quest V for Christmas, I couldn't wait, so I took it down, installed it, and started playing early. This was back when you had to have the first disk in the drive, but I didn't want to get caught, so I would put it back after I finished playing each time. In the 2 hours after school before Mum and Dad got home each day, I completely finished the game before Christmas and had to fake excitement when I opened my present.

Not too long ago I caught my niece holding my brothers phone up to a family picture and unlocking his phone using face recognition. When I see her I whistle the mission impossible theme and she giggles. No, my brother still does not know.

I get that kids are supposed to push the boundaries, but I'm a bit shocked at all these families who seem to have no communication with each other, and serious boundaries are flouted with no repercussions.

Once at my dads office (hes an engineer) i learnt the keycode just by the mount of grease on each key. This was an office of engineers and scientist with phDs and Masters degrees and an 11 yo cracked it.

I don't understand a lot of this

What ever happened to children doing what their parents told them to?