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“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do
Here at Bored Panda, we feature a good handful of stories about young children and the adorable things they say. But occasionally, we cover some oddities in a child’s innocent mind, some of which border on the realm of creepiness.
Today, you’re about to read firsthand accounts from parents who provided answers to the Reddit question: “What is the most disturbing thing your child has done?” Their responses were nothing less than shocking, with narratives about children talking to themselves, playing with a chef’s knife, and physically hurting another child over a toy.
Enjoy scrolling as you gain more insights about what goes on in a child’s mind.
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#1
Not my child, but a client's child. Before the incident I’m about to relay, she had been diagnosed with manic depression with psycho pathic tendencies. Anyway one day her mom is driving and she Realizes her daughter is super quiet in the backseat. She turns back to see what’s going on and her daughter is sitting there quietly with a pencil sticking out of her cheek. She literally stuck a pencil in her cheek without making a sound and then just sat there like it was normal. She was nine.
Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
Oh boy, the things we do to feel ourselves. How terrifying for everyone involved.
María Hermida 1 year ago
I feel sorry for both the mother and the child. How do you deal with something like this?
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Sue 1 year ago
My mother's cousin had that or something like it. She was mean, maybe because she couldn't feel pain. She was teasting a rooster one day & he attacked her & his claw got stuck in her eye. They had to cut the leg off the rooster & take her to the hospital with it still in her eye. I always wondered what happened to her.
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A. Ryan 1 year ago (edited)
I'd rather hear the term "manic depression" in lieu of the nonsense phrase "bipolar disorder" any day of the week.
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#2
My 3 year old stuck her thumb out on the main road as if to hitchhike I was shocked and I asked where she learnt that from, she said she used to do that to get around when she was a big girl. That was creepy well for me anyway.
Betsy Knox 1 year ago
That’s just a past life memory. There’s nothing creepy about it. Just let her know that it’s not a safe thing to do.
Immortal Jellyfish 1 year ago
Our son said something along the lines of "No not this (his name) the other one, the one before this one with the other mummy". My wife and I just looked at eachother.
Karina 1 year ago
This proves that some people are really blind to the hitchhickers along the roadside, big boys and all.
Nikole 1 year ago
Jesus, come on. Kids are also very imaginative and are like sponges when it comes to things people have said or done around them.
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#3
My daughter told me about her imaginary friend... details... dress color... hair color... on and on and on. I stood there saying "oh that's neat" at 3am trying to coax her back to sleep. Then she said "oh she says she knows you. Her name is Mischa!" Growing up i'd also had an imaginary friend named Mischa. Instantly awake. She fell back to sleep a little later and I figured it was a fluke.
Couple of months later mom gave me a box of drawings she'd found cleaning out the closet from when I was young- 3 or 4- and while going through them my daughter grabs my arm and says "see- Mischa!" and pointed to a drawing I'd done from school titled "my friends". Same color dress (yellow) same hair color (reddish black). Nearly s**t myself. I don't believe in the supernatural, and nothing remotely like this has happened since in the 4 years since this happened and her imaginary friend has come and gone, but her sister is turning 3 and I'm waiting for the name again.
I don't remember the "girl" I used to play with in the woods by my childhood house, but my daughter had backstory that sounded very familiar. Id try to press her for details when all this was going on and my daughter would just giggle and say "you know, dada, you just forgot. That's ok." and pat my arm and walk away.
frinny 1 year ago
I (F43) had an imaginary friend as a kid at about 4 or 5yrs old, A boy called Joe. and when I was about 14 or so, I found out my parents had had a stillborn son called Jodie about 18mths before I was thought about. It freaked my family out but they couldn't say much as i was so little , they is NO way I would have known that at 4!
Traveling Lady Railfan 1 year ago
There are logical ways to explain why this might have happened. I'd like to imagine that it's a protective and friendly entity that was OPs "imaginary friend" which has now gone on to protect their child....
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
Is it possible that Daughter played somewhere around Granny's closet?
#4
About 2 months before I got pregnant with her, I had a miscarriage. So here she is, about 3 years old and she starts to apologize, "mommy I'm sorry I had to leave you" I asked her what she meant, she said "I was in your belly but I had to go away, then I came back and stay and I'm here now." she didn't know about the miscarriage.
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
I’ve heard several stories similar to this. I hope they make people feel better about their miscarriages
Alice Platzer 11 months ago
Yeah, and you're the know-it-all measure of all things, we get it. Go away.
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I came here in hopes of feeling better about myself and my son (4yrs)..... But here we go.
My son, for over a year has been afraid of something green in the same spot on the ceiling. He continues to tell me, "shh, don't wake the Grinch."
At day care, he has face stomped a kid at nap time, because he took a toy horse from my son on day one at the day care.
Used a toy stethoscope to choke a kid ( because he wanted the toy) when I tried to explain how it hurt the kid, my son told me, well he didn't say anything.
No child, he didn't say anything because he couldn't breathe.
Yes, we are in therapy.
Jerry T 1 year ago
When I was little I had an incredibly violent temper. Once my friend wouldn't give me back my He-Man so I knocked him down, sat on his chest and ground a pinecone into his face. I would lash out at anyone who made me angry. Then around 3rd grade I figured out how to control the impulse to lash out and I've been a pretty peaceful dude ever since. I am often told that I have more patience than most people. Occasionally, when I've been in fights I would tap into it like some kind of psychopathic super power. The older I get, the less I feel the impulses, but I'm not sure if it's because I have mellowed or I've just learned not to listen.
Kare Deter 1 year ago
Great description! "I would tap into it like some kind of psychopathic super power"
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ConstantlyJon 1 year ago
My wife is doing clinicals in the psych clinic at our hospital right now. She was told not to bring her stethoscope.
KnightOwl 1 year ago (edited)
One of my nephews is going through something similar, he's 5 and recently started his first yr of school, he's autistic and us really struggling. He's the sweetest little boy 90% of the time but he's very stubborn and set in his ways, if anyone says or does anything that he doesn't like or agree with he freaks out and attacks them, punching, slapping and kicking them. He thinks everything is deliberate so someone accidentally bumping into him causes a meltdown/freakout because he insists they deliberately tried to hurt him and therefore he needs to hurt them back. It's awful for everyone involved, his mum and sister constantly get hit, his teachers are struggling, my poor nephew is struggling the most and doesn't understand why he has no friends, why he has to sit seperate from the other kids, why he can't go out to play in the playground with the other kids etc. He sobs himself to sleep some nights asking why he has no friends and why noone likes him. He's recently started therapy too.
Tristan J 1 year ago
It sounds like public school is making the situation worse - perhaps homeschooling for a period may be a better option?
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Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
Children cannot be diagnosed with personality disorders, as puberty changes hormone balances and brain chemicals. ADHD can present this way however.
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Woke up to my Mom's house mate's kid (5 years old?) sneaking through the house with a 10" chef knife at like 2am. He gave me the knife and I asked him what he was doing. He said he was afraid of "the man who walks around in the yard at night" and said he was out there now.
I hyped up both my dogs and we searched EVERYWHERE. Yard, shed, barn, under the house, ect. Didn't find anyone. Super worrisome.
The next morning I told his mom and she was like "oh yeah, he just does that sometimes. It's like his monster under the bed or whatever." She just put the knives on a shelf he couldn't reach.
WindySwede 1 year ago
I would still have put up some cameras if anyone in house would say that. 😅
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I'm.Just.A.Girl 1 year ago
I really am concerned that it was just nonchalant for mom. How far did those episodes progress to??
J C 1 year ago
I am actually a little concerned about the stock photo that BP used for this. I mean, I know there is a market for stock photos because I used to do some photography but this is a little weird. Why would you even take a stock photo like this, like when would you even think it would be purchased?
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Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
How bout asking this poor child details. Can u. Imagine how terrified this kid that he felt the need to carry a knife. Oh my sweet child. I hope he has forgotten all of it! Parents please listen to their children. If ur child is scared he probably has a good reason to be
#7
At four years old, she came two floors downstairs in the middle of the night and asked which of us was rattling her doorknob trying to get in her room.
Spoiler alert; it was neither of us.
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
Kids also have a vivid imagination. I remember I was terrified of the dark as a child and I "heard" a gorilla in my closet, pounding on the door to be let out. I definitely HEARD the pounding, but of course, no gorilla in my closet.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
I kept dreaming about Satan when I was about ten. Sometimes I couldn't distinguish between a dream & real life after a dream. It was terrifying & my parents weren't getting a lot of sleep. You can trash religion all you want but I'm trying to make a point. My parents sent me to stay w/my grandma for a weekend. She was a Pentecostal preacher, believed demons were real, and was an exorcist. I was excited to get one-on-one time with my grandma in a big family. She casually brings up the dreams & I tell her everything. We talk about it on & off all weekend. She told me to put a Bible under my pillow. I slept for years w/a Bible under my pillow. I didn't have another dream about Satan or demons as a kid. While I'm Christian, I know that the Bible wasn't an amulet but that the power of suggestion works. At least, it did for me. Talking about the dreams at length was a way to process them and helped as well. Sometimes I still put a Bible under my pillow after a bad dream & I can sleep again.
Moonie Pinkslip 1 year ago
Not sure about the incorrect use of "spoiler alert," but anyway....
#8
Put a very hot pepper in his mouth.
Cry. Wheeze. Cry again. Exclaim that he hates it.
Then proceed to do it again.
Didn't cry the second time.
The f**k.
Bart 1 year ago
Except Brussels sprouts, you're allowed to hate those from day 1
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Sherribobbins 1 year ago
My best friend once found a bottle of Tabasco sauce in her preschool daughter's bed, she'd been secretly chugging hot sauce in bed. She also loved onions, like we'd go out to eat and we'd ask her what she wanted and she'd say "onions". She is now grown with a child of her own and isn't really into spicy foods!
Philly Bob Squires 1 year ago (edited)
2 of my daughters, then 4 & 5 years old, came up on me eating some like... 4 alarm chili that a friend had made me. "Daddy! Can we have some?" No! it's hot, spicy hot. They insisted so I figured, OK, and gave them a taste. They gave me this look, went to the kitchen, asked Mom for some water (bad idea!) had a sip then came back and wanted more. To this day (they are now 37 & 38) they LOVE spicy foods, peppers, curry, horseradish etc. Go figure! I learned because I sucked my thumb when I was like 9, so my Dad stuck it in hot pepper sauce. Sucked my thumb anyway and learned I loved hot sauce! 66 years (and no thumb sucking! LOL) but I do love my spices!
maggie spencer 1 year ago
🤣 my folks used pepper juice to keep me from biting my nails and other things. Now I love spicy food! They gave me a jalapeno pepper tip to taste and I loved it! Backfire!
Karina 1 year ago
It was a shock to the system, then the body told the brain about all the stuff it could do with the chilli components
Sue 1 year ago
Too much heat will eventually numb your mouth. That's why they use capsaicin(sp?) as a pain reliever.
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DC 1 year ago
I once had a bottle of "Pain 100%", which I used to modify single dishes of stuff, in the ratio of less than a teaspoon per dish of ... some already pretty hot curry sauce stuff ... don't know it's name, yet I made it, ... anyway, sister and BIL come by, and had stopped at Burger King and brought some (way back, when they had one weird tasting, much costing, generally just not good, nor even trying seriously - vegetarian burger, and wouldn't have believed in anything near today's choice thereof, ...). While we were eating, he asked for hotter stuff than we had on the table, and I offered it to him, and before I could explain, he had already smeared one half full of it ... and after being warned, completed it by smearing equally too much on the other side. Yet, he ate it entirely, which was ... quite some ... I'd have offered taking a bit, but as it was a regular, therefore meat-based, burger, this wasn't possible. Can only imagine how his next ... rear discharge ... might have felt.
#9
I'm thirteen years older than my sister, so I basically functioned as a third parent, and I've always thought she was a touch off. When she was about four or five, she had a phase where she kept tying her toys together. I'd come in a room she had been playing in, and she'd have a string wrapped around a toy horse's neck, then wrapped around a lamp, then wrapped around a doll's neck, then wrapped around a chair leg--and there'd be several strings and ropes tied in this way.
Literally the entire room would be a web of toys and strings. It looked like a child's version of a SAW movie, and it was a pain in the butt to help her clean up. One day when I was watching her I told her not to do it, she agreed, and then I came back in not too long after and she had somehow done it anyway.
She was sitting in a chair looking at me indirectly, like she was nervous. I was irritated and asked her why she did it after she said she wouldn't, and she said the most future-serial-k*ller sentence I have ever heard: Sometimes I just do things and I don't really understand why I'm doing them.
Alro 1 year ago
well..... kids do stuff and they don't know why... that's what kids do, their brain is learning to be wired correctly, what do you expect, that they are already making only rational decisions? Kuddos to her being honest, and to the environment allowing her to be honest
KnightOwl 1 year ago (edited)
My neice went through a phase when she was obsessed with tying things together, it's just one of those weird things kids do, she'll move on eventually and find her next fixation. My neice went from tying everything up to balancing things, you'd walk around her house to find random items balancing in weird piles, she had so much patience and would concentrate really hard, I swear she could balancing anything anywhere, it was really impressive. She's 6 now, and a very intelligent, creative, unique and quirky kid.
Bookworm 1 year ago
I used to make harnesses and reins for my stuffed animals out of bendy Knex and tie them to the furniture; in hindsight, from an adult perspective, this was probably disturbing, but I haven't turned into a serial killer yet.
Load More Replies... Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
This is perfectly normal. Nothing out of the ordinary. I hope she didn't give the child the feeling she did something wrong...
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
When I was three or four, I used to tie strings onto the furniture legs. Not like an obstacle course, just lots of string with lots of knots. Drove mom crazy. So my great grandmother taught me to crochet. It worked.
Sue 1 year ago
Come on, really? She's making a chain. I've done that with all kinds of things. It's cool to link them together. She was nervous because you told her not to do it. You're going to ruin this kid.
35 cabbages in a trenchcoat 1 year ago
Chill out. This was written by her teenage sister.
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ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
Um….maybe don’t give her access to string? Do they live n a string factory or retail store? Is it that f*****g hard to not allow her to have it? Was she throwing a tantrum demanding string? OP never implies such, so this is on the older people for making string available.
Sue 1 year ago
I'm 61 & never been diagnosed but I have "chained" toys together because it seemed cool to be able to. I've not murdered anyone yet & I KNEW THEY WEREN'T REAL/ALIVE! Maybe big sister needs therapy.
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Not a parent, but me freaking my parents out--
My mom used to get migraines a lot when I was little. I had a small stuffed animal named Peaches, and I guess I was scared or nervous about my mom's health and trying to deal with it because apparently I decided that Peaches got a lot of migraines too. This went on for a while-- I had to take care of Peaches because he always had headaches. I must've been four or five at the time.
Then someone left the TV on by accident and I saw a news segment about acupuncture. I was overjoyed and went into my mom's sewing kit and stuck a whole bunch of push-pins deep into Peaches' head. Nobody noticed right away and I think it was a few days later when my mom or dad saw me carrying Peaches around and noticed a shitton of needles crammed in there. My uncle asked me why I did that and I was calm and content when I looked at him, shrugged, and said *"Peaches doesn't have headaches anymore."*
Since he didn't know the backstory, according to him it was the creepiest thing I've ever said, like a little pigtailed psychopath. It took my parents a bit of digging to figure out my rationale and where it came from, and that I'd been trying to fix, not kill, my favorite stuffed animal. It was pretty straightforward for them to explain "uhhh.... no, never do that" but hopefully they moved the sewing kit to a higher shelf anyway.
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
Glad that she tried it on Peaches and not her mom first!
Angela C 1 year ago
Why did I think this was gonna end with the mom's headaches going away like some kind of voodoo doll situation?
#11
My daughter ran into my room at like 1:30 in the morning and told me there was a man watching her through her window. I ran outside ready to beat the s**t out of someone and to my surprise, there was no one there. In confusion i looked through the window only to see her covering her eyes. I waited untill she opened her eyes to tell her that its alright but next thing i know she yelled "LOOK OUT DAD". I turn around and threw a punch, and hit absolutely nothing. She then ran outside with a knife and stabbed the floor and said "we did it , we k*lled it". I asked her to draw a picture of "it" and she drew something that resembled a red enderman. I was confused as heck but i played along and celebrated. She never did anything like that again but that was weird as heck.
Mjskywalk 1 year ago
Um…did no one notice the part where he let his kid outside with a knife?!
ManuelQue 1 year ago
He was already outside. He didn't "let" her do anything.
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Menacing Duck 1 year ago
SPOOKY RED ENDERMAN CAUGHT ON CAMERA?? MINECRAFT IN REAL LIFE AT 3AM GONE WRONG
The Commentator 1 year ago
Not to be mean or hateful, but it seems a bit fake. If it's real, it's strange.
I need a nap. 1 year ago
I’m no person who believes in that stuff, but I’d get my house blessed and buy a few crosses here and there. Just in case…
#12
She dipped her chocolate muffin in ketchup. And then she ATE it.
Pyla 1 year ago
My friend ate mayonnaise and jelly sandwiches. it was pretty gagtastic.
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Cronecast AtTheRisingMoon 1 year ago
Wow, this one is so tame compared to the other hair-raising ones. Weird food combo for the win in the no real reason for concern competition.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
sounds gross, but not automatically a sign of mental illness. ;)
#13
Not parent, but brother who is 14 years younger than me.
Our parents were out and my sister was looking after our brother. He had gone to bed, and she went to close his door. As she did, he bolted up and had a huge grin and he just told her, "The man is coming for us. He likes the darkness."
My sister kinda just froze, nodded, said okay, walked over to him and pushed him (gently) back down onto the bed, walked out of the room and turned on every single light in the house.
I'm.Just.A.Girl 1 year ago
Call me a wuss all you want, I'd do the same. I never believed in supernatural things until I saw some things that I couldn't explain. There is more out there than the material world.
S Mi 1 year ago
100 ish years ago people thought you were bonkers if you believed tiny bugs you couldn't see couldn't make you sick....
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Tabitha 1 year ago
He was just talking in his sleep. My niece did the same. It’s like sleepwalking, only they just sit up and talk. The first time I saw it with my niece, we actually had what I thought was a conversation! She didn’t remember any of it the next morning, and insisted she never even knew when I passed by her room, even though I only stepped into it because she was sitting up and said hi to me.
BarfyCat 1 year ago
Night terrors. My brother used to have them. He would get out of bed and run around shrieking about monsters, etc. The solution was to wake him up.
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I was a newly single parent, working on a divorce, first (very small) apartment I achieved on my own, post separation. I decided to get my kids a cat. My then 5 year old, who has a few behavioral disorders (adhd, odd, spd, ptsd). She’s struggling to cope and manage her disorders so she has to be watched closely at all times. One day she’s playing with the cat and I hear the microwave shut. She was not allowed to use any kitchen appliances on her own. So yup, if you guessed she put the cat in the microwave, you’re correct. Luckily as soon as I heard it I jumped up and ran. She didn’t turn it on, but she did find herself grounded, including from the cat.
Another time, almost 2 years ago. Still struggling with all of her behavioral disorders. I had moved into a bigger house, safety plan still in place for said child. We are about to watch a movie or something, and get everything ready (snacks, blankets etc) and child goes missing. She liked to hide in places and not come out until she was found. After searching all of her hiding spots, she’s still not found. After about 30 minutes of looking (felt like an eternity) and about 5 minutes before I called 911. She turns up at the front door. Absolutely filthy. Pupils dilated to the size of saucers. Her excuse was “the cat wanted to show how he gets in and out from the basement” I have no idea what kind of narnia a*s wardrobe this cat took her to.
Roughly same time, said child liked to draw, paint, and color. One day she brings me some of her art work. But this time, it is a story, or some sort of lyrics. At this time she was behind academically and didn’t know how to read, or write or words very well.. but here this letter talks about demons and how lost she would be without me. Some scary, eye catching stuff coming from your young child. I kept this letter, to remind all of us how far she’s come, hard times do get better
Needless to say, safety measures became more strict, psychologist was fired, meds put in place. She is no longer impulsive or defiant to this extent. She’s now struggling with sleep paralysis but we have made phenomenal grounds over the last year.
Ava Lemar 1 year ago
I still wouldn't have a family pet in the home, just in case this kid takes a turn for the behaviotal worst.
María Hermida 1 year ago
Sorry to say this, but *that* child should not be near pets. Pets are not toys or therapy stuff. They are living creatures who deserve to be well looked after. The kid is obviously struggling with much more then she can manage, but she is dangerous. People like this parent are the reason why I never give a cat for adoption to people with little children. Animals are not toys. They don't deserve such stress.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
I agree with you, with the exception of therapy dogs. Those are pets with a purpose.
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Verena Fiori-Jambor 1 year ago
Everyone is worried about the cat, which is well obviously, what about poor girl and mom….
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
ODD is complete bollox. It's diagnosis criteria is arbitrary and mostly crosses over with OCD, ADHD, bipolar, and anxiety disorder. Over 90% of children - and it's only diagnosed in children - diagnosed with ODD are re-diagnosed with one of those four conditions. In some communities, ODD diagnoses are given to children on the basis of dressing in a GNC way as 'defiance'. That a child with a diagnosis of ADHD also has this ODD diagnosis is even more nuts. Kid just has ADHD.
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
It’s crazy that ODD is still such a common diagnosis when after 12 over 2/3 previously diagnosed as such are re-evaluated with a different diagnosis. We need to not pathologize every single behavior into tight boxes. I’m not denying a prevalence of ADHD, OCD, generalized anxiety disorders and the like, given better diagnostic tools & better understanding of the brain. But treating every behavior that doesn’t conform to proper social constructs as ODD is inappropriate & lazy. Saw a study comparing socially acceptable behaviors in different cultures and how a kid would be considered developing normally in one & completely marginalized with defiant disorder in another. Kids being kids is a LOT of work. Especially when one has to manage 30 of them. But that doesn’t make everything they do or their imagination a disorder. Not denying there ARE children with psycho-social problems that are indeed disorders, and I hate the “boys will be boys” cop-out, but we need to slow down with the ICD.
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My son was learning about the body and how organs function. When my husband woke up from sleeping in that weekend, he ran up to him and shouted "I love your organs!", then skipped away merrily. My husband had no context and was super weirded out until I explained, lol.
Shelby Moonheart 1 year ago
I love my organs as well. I'm very grateful for the ones that work. The replacement is working well too.
#16
He gets in trouble for making fingerguns at a kid during recess. Gets in punished. A week later, he takes a Nerf Triad to school because he didn't think finger guns should have gotten him in trouble. After I pick him up from school, as I'm discussing his actions with him, I turn out his backpack to find MODIFIED NERF DARTS with THUMBTACKS inserted into the ends.
This little punk doesn't realize how close his idiocy was to making the local news.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Jesus f**k keep a watch on this kid, especially if this is in America!
Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 year ago
Exactly what I was gonna say (as an American myself)! This story does reveal some potential warning signs of a school shooter. Even if he was a kid that didn’t understand the permanence of death and just wanted to play real-life Fortnite, he could still hurt a lot of people if he managed to get his hands on a real gun, or even just with those modified bullets.
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Peter Bear 1 year ago
Finger guns gets you suspended. Real guns get you thoughts and prayers and a reminder that they're some kind of basic human right. We punish finger guns and pop-tarts more than we do real, actual gun owners that cause real, actual gun crimes. Make it make sense.
Sera 1 year ago
Right? Where the hêll was this parent when the child was shoving an entire nerf gun in their backpack; where were they when this child got access to thumbtacks; why does their child think this is how to deal with problems?
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Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
Yeah being called a little punk is definitely something that will scar your kid for life *faints dramatically while clutching pearls* please come off it. Parents are allowed to express frustration.
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#17
My wife’s sister stabbed her with a sharp pencil in the eye when she was 2 years old because “her eyes were too big”. Needless to say, my wife was bleeding from her eye and still has a small mark on her eye ball from the pencil 23 years later.
María Hermida 1 year ago
Lots of these posts remind me of that book. I think it's one of the most disturbing stories I've ever read. How many Kevin's are there, tic tic, tic tic, tic tic, like a bomb ready to explode?
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#18
We live across the street from a graveyard and we get up super early to catch the school bus. So here we are at 6am standing at the dark bus stop all alone. My son points across the street and says: "Why is that man sitting by himself?" 😱
There was no one there. Nearly s**t myself. Thanks, kid.
Annik Perrot 1 year ago
My brother does. He says the neighbors are very quiet.
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DuckDuckGooseberry 1 year ago
I've seen similar. I was on a bus a couple of seats from a mother & toddler, the child was old enough to babble & point etc but couldn't actually speak. The mum was holding her up to look out of the window, and at one point the little one perked up, started pointing, babbling & waving like crazy. To an empty (..?) cemetery.
#19
Perhaps not disturbing, but terrifying as a parent. We were on a vacation in Chicago staying at a random Fairfiled Inn or something downtown. Our bed was separated by a divider in the room and two of our kids were sleeping in a pull out couch on the other side. Around 3am awoke to sounds of velcro and it sounded like my kid was putting his shoes on (he was). Next thing I know I hear the hotel room door opening. I leaped further than I thought possible across the entire suite and was able to grab him just as the door was about to close and pulled him back into the room.
He was sleepwalking, but I shudder to think what might've happened if I wasn't roused by the sound of him putting on shoes.....
Me 1 year ago
Frightening indeed. Will close doors and may consider these portable alarms for the next time we stay away from home, as my son did the exact same thing, but at home. He was half asleep and said he wanted to visit his grandparents (who live downstairs) but fell in a deep sleep immediately when we put him in bed.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Another reason to set the deadbolt when you go to bed, assuming these parent's hadn't done so.
Hellcaste's Wife 1 year ago
Our youngest daughter did this, except she got out the door and down the hall, almost to the exit of the hotel before my husband caught her! It was terrifying!
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
My ex-husband was a sleepwalker as a kid. He had an in-ground swimming pool in his childhood home, so his parents installed deadbolts at the very top of their exterior doors (where he couldn't reach) so he couldn't accidentally get outside and drown.
GPawesomeness 1 year ago (edited)
Years ago my oldest brother (9 years old, had a fever) slept walked down a fire escape into a dangerous park across the street while in the hospital. The hospital immediately put alarms on all the fire escapes.
MirohLoome (he/she/they) 1 year ago
lol i tried to do that as a kid and my mom and nana had to blobk the door to keep me from getting out while sleepwalking. I've done some weird s**t in my sleep including but not limited to putting liquid soap in my mouth then spitting it our on my floor
Donna Drizin 1 year ago
That happened with my daughter in the Dominican Republic. Luckily, I woke up and she was in the hallway outside the room. I shudder to think what could have happened to her. She was 8
#20
3.5 year old threw literal rocks at his helpless newborn sister in her car seat because he was mad that we were leaving the park. Kids do some messed up stuff.
Ava Lemar 1 year ago
Hmmm. Maybe the parents need to watch that kid pretty closely. Sounds like it might be antisocial behavior.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
It's pretty normal at that age, which is why you need to watch them. Empathy is learned; children are all sociopaths.
Load More Replies... KnightOwl 1 year ago
A lot of kids do things like this, particularly when they're young. Sometimes they just figure out that the baby is important to the parents and they're protectiive of it so they'll deliberately disturb the sleeping baby or occasionally hurt the baby to get a reaction. This is very common in infants who are struggling to adapt to a new baby and may be feeling jealous, although it could just be a moment of anger and frustration.
Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
They usually don't develop empathy before the age of five. Some are a bit early, some a bit later.
Sojourner 1 year ago
I am one of those people who wish they never had empathy. It has only made me miserable af.
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Mohammad Zaeem M Samim Nazari 2 months ago
Allah akbar💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀. Guess what happened to to his newborn sister
#21
Not really done, but said. My daughter at 3 years old once woke me in the middle of the night crying and shaking. She said she saw a ghost. I asked what the ghosts name was, she said she didn't know, followed by "I ask the ghost its name". The next morning, she calmly tells me that the ghost's name is Charlie. It was particularly odd, because she's not the kind of kid that's creative with names (every dog stuffed animal is named "Doggie", dolls are "Dolly", etc. So the ghost having a very clear, real name was unusual for her. For months she'd tell me about Charlie and how he hangs out in the tree by her window.
Mari 1 year ago
If you give a lot of attention to things like that, kids will fantasize or dream about it. Kids just love attention.
BeesEelsAndPups 1 year ago
This age is also when kids start developing imaginary friends. All of my kids had a "Charlie". My son, who also named his stuffy rabbit "Rabbit" and his lion "Lion", had purple monster friend named Samuel von Tussle. My youngest just inherited hers from her older sister, who had a ghost named Cory (although that name changed so many times)
Load More Replies... Ash 1 year ago
Asking what the ghost's name was was a way to make it less scary and more like a person, implying to the kid that she doesn't need to be afraid of the ghost (whether it's actually there or it's imaginary or what), so now she has made friends with it. I think this is a highly healthy way to deal with things like this. (Also, I think that the best way to deal with actual ghosts is to make friends with them, so lol)
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Hangs out in the tree... is there a rope involved or does she mean he's sitting on a branch like a bird? I'd find out, and then if it's the former, I'd check around the neighborhood for any hangin's 😮
Crissy Newbury 1 year ago (edited)
My three year old had an imaginary friend called Richard. As far as I knew at the time, she was not familiar with this name. When I asked her to tell me more about Richard, she said “he’s the little boy who sits on the end of my bed.” Our house is 113 years old.
#22
My 8 month old son woke up at two in the morning laughing. Laughing hard. Staring right into the baby camera.
Tabitha 1 year ago
And a real relief after being gassy and bloated—-enough to laugh out loud about sometimes.
Load More Replies... Mari 1 year ago
My kids even laugh when they are sleeping. Suddenly HAHAHA middle of the night...
Kare Deter 1 year ago
I'm pretty old and I have woken myself up laughing, its a relief to know I have good dreams too, tho I only remember the bad ones.
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I remember when my daughter was about...four, and my son was about 2, she gave him this dark look. He chewed off the head of her favorite cat doll.
"It would take more than fire to destroy you."
It was clear as a damn bell! She had a slight shudder, couldn't pronounce certain word well, but she said that sentence clear as day in a real angry tone.
Menacing Duck 1 year ago
yeah, I can relate. Priests have tried using normal fire on me, and boy oh boy is it embarrassing for them when I'm unharmed. Just use blessed water people!
Charlotte A. 1 year ago
Well you can't blame the priests. Anyone would try fire before water if they wanted to harm a duck...
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S Mi 1 year ago
Probably a direct quote from some media. Sometimes kids will Parrot extremely well
Bryn 1 year ago (edited)
that's what i was thinking. a lot of these "disturbing" things are perfectly normal for kids that age.
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My son used to sleepwalk occasionally when he was little (6-8). One night he came over while his dad and I were sitting on the couch and told us “I don't like the people in the basement. They’re too loud.”
Good thing the couch was brown because someone may have pooped in my pants right then.
#25
I’m not a parent but I’ll be speaking on my parents behalf, as I did something pretty disturbing when I was a wee boy, much too young to remember. We were celebrating Christmas at my grandparents house in Louisiana and idk how it happened but at some point I gashed my hand wide open.
Usually a small child would scream and cry, but apparently I just waddled through the kitchen, completely expressionless, and into the next room over. In said room was a very old Bible, I think it was my great grandmas. My family noticed my lack of presence in the kitchen and went searching for me.
They eventually found me smearing my bloody hand all over the old Bible and tearing it’s pages to shreds. I’m not religious but this story has always creeped me out, idk what got into me, but I guess I was pretty metal back then lmao.
#26
My daughter has what I can only assume are nightmares. She doesn't recall them at all, and is still sound asleep when it's happening, but when it started I would hear her little voice getting louder and louder "no... No! Help [mom or dad]"
Daddy rolled in hot the first time it happened, I was ready to ventilate someone. She was sound asleep.
Me 1 year ago
I know how this sounds frightening for those who hear the kids scream in their sleep, but it could have been a dream like my son, who talks in his sleep often, has once in a while: He screams and calls my name and than he says something like: more butter, please!! Nooo cheese! We forgot Waui (toy)!!! Me first!!!
Child of the Stars 1 year ago
That was my thought. My oldest had night terrors, and they're different from regular nightmares.
Load More Replies... KnightOwl 1 year ago
My neice talks in her sleep, it can be very creepy at times but luckily most of the time it sounds like very happy and carefree kid stuff. She talks a lot about cats and bunny rabbits and her little brother. She dreams about her brother a lot, often asking if he needs help, reassuring him that she's right there if he needs her or telling him that everything's OK. It's incredibly sweet.
Kim Bailey 1 year ago
I had night terrors as a child too I used to scare my poor dad half to death apparently! Lol he used to say he would jump up so high his feet would be kicking before they hit the floor :D
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I used to sleepwalk and talk in my sleep when I was younger. Once when I was in college I sat up in the middle of the night and screamed "No, no, get out!!". My poor roommate nearly wet her bed. Apparently after I did that I laid down and went right back to sleep. It took her a bit longer for her heart to stop racing. :)
Farah the Turtle 1 year ago (edited)
My 10 year old sister screams in her sleep. So does my 5 year old sister. And my dad has sleep apnea, so in the middle of the night I would hear my dad heavily breathing and hitting the bed and yelling for help. First time it happened I was terrified. I ran into my parents room and woke my dad up (Edit: grammar mistake my bad yall)
Wysteria_Rose 1 year ago
I've had a few times where my husband has woken me up from sleep. I always just give him a weird look. In the morning, he'll explain that I'll be talking in my sleep, saying, "No, no, stop..." which is why he wakes me. But I never remember the dreams and am always just irritated at being woken up.
The Commentator 1 year ago
Apparently I had a lot of those when I was around 10, but worse. Sometimes I would wake both my parents up by screaming super loud, and I would be out cold.
Fox with a Dragon Tattoo 1 year ago
"Ready to ventilate someone" 99% chance thats accidentally shoot a family member.
#27
Not a parent. Older cousin who lives with younger cousin.
Hes a sweetheart and lovely. He was 4 at the time, hes now 5.
He said at breakfast, out of the blue, "Today is a good day to go on a m*rder streak." No one here is allowed to watch that stuff.
He showed me a drawing of him looking in a mirror and in the reflection a demon was there. He pointed to the demon and said "That's me." He ended up getting a mental evaluation. He's fine, just creepy. I don't have a picture. I can redraw it and post it if you wanna see it.
kansasmagic 1 year ago
If every kid who did something weird ended up a serial killer in adulthood, there would be a *lot* more serial killers.
Peter Bear 1 year ago
Nah. Kids have imaginations, and don't have the filters adults do. This is absolutely normal, and given that the poster says he was evaluated and found 'fine, just creepy', I wouldn't worry.
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Fox with a Dragon Tattoo 1 year ago
Sorry this sounds fake. Too much is far too conveniently written. Feels very 10 year old talking to friends
#28
My 2.5 year old daughter told my wife "grandma is in the curtains". My MIL died several years ago 😳.
Chewie Baron 1 year ago
Locked away in the attic. Just ignore the constant wailing, she’s just wanting attention.
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Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
If the MIL wasn't dead, this would be a normal and definitely not creepy thing to say since most grandmothers actually live in the curtains.
#29
My 12-year-old will occasionally scream while sleeping. It makes your hair stand up when you get woke from a deep sleep. I have also woken up in the middle of the night to see him standing right next to my bed. Sometimes just facing the wall or staring at me. He is always "sleep walking" and I can escort him back to bed. Trouble is, I never know how long he has been up. He never remembers any of it.
Matthew Savestheworld 1 year ago
That is exactly what it is. Had them myself as a child. My kid has them. Its terrifiying to the parents, completely unremembered by the kid and they grow out of it
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
Night terrors. My daughter had them between ages 5-10. I woke one night to a long, drawn out whispered "Mo-o-o-o-m" that was more like a hiss. She was standing over me and looking straight at me said, "I explo-o-ded" in that drawn-out whisper. So calm. I spoke to her quietly for a few moments and led her back to her bed. No memories of it the next day.
HurlWurk 1 year ago
No need, some kids sleep walk. Just need to secure the house, high slide locks on doors for instance
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My 10 year old hot wired the car and started backing out of the driveway.
Luckily I caught up to him and was able to hop in and stop it before it crashed into my neighbor's mailbox.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
From what I understand from the comments, he didn't hotwire the car, he just stuck a swiss army knife into the ignition and turned it, and the car turned on.
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Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago (edited)
I've had many dreams of me driving. I'm not allowed to drive. *sigh* in my dreams OM God at it too but maybe that's just wishful thinking
#31
I woke up in the middle of the night to hear a little voice softly repeating “it’s so dark”. Still half-awake, I briefly thought I was being haunted. It eventually registered that the voice was coming from my toddler’s bedroom across the hall. I went to investigate and found him awake in his bed and his nightlight burnt out.
#32
My son 4 yrs. Old loved watching the price is right, this was when Bob Barker was the host, anyway my son would clap, yell with excitement along with the audience. When someone would lose he would be so disappointed for them. Until one day he got so pissed off, i was in another room, hes yelling throw the old man in the dryer. I came out asking what wrong. The lady didn't win the washer and dryer, my son is pissed and wants to burn poor Bob in the dryer.
#33
I was currently pregnant, and I wanted to prepare my toddler for it, by getting him a baby doll, so he can "have his own baby"
Weelll he would hold the baby doll and kiss the baby doll, and then slam it repeatedly into the wall, and floor.
Fun times.
He and his brother get along fine lol.
#34
Back at the turn of the century my wife and I were sitting downstairs watching a movie. Our daughter who was about 4 was playing upstairs.
We hear her come down stairs and she walks up to the couch and tells us something weird. I don't remember what she said but it made one of us ask "Who told you that?"
She replies with "The little boy up in my room."
She is an only child and there was no friends visiting.
Karen Krause 1 year ago
That was the part of the story that got me. It does make you feel so very old!
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My daughter keeps talking about her great great grandma, who has been dead since I was her age. (2).
#36
When my son was away from the computer for about 20 minutes, my 7 year old daughter changed the Minecraft mode to creative, deleted his inventory, then brought him to the bottom of the ocean, and built a house for him there.
A tiny house with a bed. She set him to respawn endlessly in the bed at the bottom of the ocean and then set the game mode back to survival mode.
So, he starved to death repeatedly until he was able to beat his way out. Then he drowned and kept dying over and over… and respawning at the bed in the ocean each time.
He wasn’t happy… but s**t, I better never get on her bad side. He upset her, and she went through this elaborate prank that makes me fear for my future.
Negatoris Wrecks 1 year ago
When my kids were younger (about 4 and 6) if the eldest was being mean in minecraft the youngest would fill the world with kitties and bees until the game couldn't run
Julia Ford 1 year ago
Kids using electronics to torture parents.. my son was grounded and to get back at me he deleted my profile from Hulu, Netflix, hbo max, etc. That was EVIL!
#37
Not me, but a childhood friend.
She was 6 years old and tried to burn her house down super early in the morning when everyone was still asleep. Her parents woke up when the fire alarm went off, because she succeeded in setting the dining room table on fire.
My mom explained what happened to me and said that I wouldn’t be seeing her as much (she had a habit of hurting me and lying about it and other weird s**t and my mom finally just decided to withdraw because she was obviously disturbed, she would have done it sooner but I guess I kept begging to see her??).
The next time I saw that friend I asked her about it and she told me that she didn’t like sharing her mom with her stepdad/stepbrother and so she apparently just jumped straight to “m*rder/s*icide”.
What’s worse is the firefighters who responded *brought a f*****g Dalmatian plush with them and gave it to her after giving her a gentle talking about why arson is bad*.
Heather Atwood 1 year ago
We had a friend spend a weekend with us who had adopted a 9 year old boy and they were bringing him to a "hospital" nearby (they lived out of state and this place was apparently good) for residential placement. His bio mom was in the occult and this boy witnessed his infant sister sacrificed and other horrors. He unalived a litter of kittens on their roof and had to be locked in his room at night when they found him carrying butcher knives around in the middle of the night. The doctors eventually said that he didn't have a conscience. Apparently it's a learned thing and he missed the window of learning about compassion and right or wrong etc. He has spent his entire life in inpatient psychiatric care (40+ years). So sad.
#38
The other day, my 6 year old daughter and I were sitting on a bench and she started drawing shapes in the air with her fingers.
I guessed the shapes and we laughed. Then she got serious and drew: a circle, a triangle, and a ????
I laughed and asked what they were and she responded, "it was a circle with a triangle and eye inside... it's a demon circle." Then she laughed maniacally.
I was a little creeped out by the randomness, but I love my demon-summoning monster.
Dumb teenager 1 year ago
Slightly less likely theory is it could be from Harry Potter (deathly hallows sign)
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My son at 2.5 years old stole my premature newborn daughter out of her bassinet when she was 2 weeks old. twice. I woke up and heard her crying at 3am but her bed was empty. So I yell for my husband, jump up and notice the light is on in my sons room. Run in there and he's sitting on the bed with her, she's laying on his bed.. She seemed fine he was trying to explain as well as a 2yo can. then a couple nights later the same thing happens, except I go into his room and they're not there. he brought her all the way down the hall to our living room and she's on the couch. I tried asking him what happened and he just said yes to everything, even said yes to dropping her on the floor. She seemed unharmed but how could he even grab her from her bassinet, it went up to his shoulders. He'd have to reach over his head to pull out this tiny 5lb baby who has a floppy neck. it was so scary thinking about what could have happened to her. we put a lock on his door for a while and made sure he knew he wasn't allowed to carry her. I think he was doing it out of love but still... so scary.
Sue 1 year ago
Maybe she was crying? When I was 3, my newborn sister was crying & I couldn't find my mom, so I carried her outside to find my mom & grandmother hanging up clothes. I was almost holding her by the neck since she was sliding out of my arms. My grandma told my mother to turn around slowly & don't scream. She was ok. Once she was in the regular crib, I'd just climb in with her in the morning.
#40
Was having a house party a few months ago. My friends came over and brought their kids. My wife got a bouncy house for them to play on.
All the adults were inside eating food and chatting. Some of the kids were outside playing on the bouncy house. I realized that atleast one adult should be out there with them, so I left the adults and wandered outside.
As I was getting closer to where the kids were playing, I started hearing some rhythmic chanting coming from their direction. I got suspicious, so I decided to sneak up on them and see what they were doing.
Four of the children were holding hands and bouncing in a circle in the middle of the bouncy house chanting "Evil rules! Evil rules! Evil rules!" I stood there in amazement for a minute trying to figure out what game they were playing. One of the girls in the group suddenly looked in my direction and screamed "Oh no, he's here! Run!"
All the children scattered and ran away. To this day, my son still won't tell me what they were doing. :(.
Me 1 year ago
Reminds me of the time when my then 4 year old daughter sat in the backseat of our car with her doll Emma and out of nowwhere said "Emma, devil mode!"- when I asked her what that means she just laughed darkly and said I don't need to know... Never happened again but the doll is still a little suspicious
#41
I'm not a parent. But when I was younger I set my room on fire and tried to get my grandparents to lie.
#42
My son makes this funny noise with his voice every once in awhile. When my daughter tries to imitate the noise she sounds like Reagan from The Exorcist. The creepy part is she does it when she's in her crib, talking herself to sleep at night.
#43
Today my almost 2.5 year old started yelling: M-m-m-M*RDER! At the top of his lungs. His big sister asked him what he was trying to say and he calmly looked at her and said: m*rder.
Thankfully he knows ASL too and he was actually trying to say “grandmother”, but has a super strong diphthong when confronted with a hard “t” or “th” in the middle of a word.
#44
I don't believe in reincarnation, but both my kids that are old enough to start talking and making up stories have started many a story with, "When I was your age." And, "My other mommy..." Or "My other daddy...".
#45
My 3 year old grandson was acting like a 3 year old and I asked his 6 year old brother: What are we gonna do with him? 6 year old responded: Eat him up for breakfast tomorrow. He said it with a completely straight face.
Koalafied to komment 1 year ago
There was a time when I would joke about eating my dad. Even explaining which part would be fried etc. I was maybe the same age and I loved my dad very much. I just somehow didn't realise this was messed up stuff. For me it was kind of a loving gesture O.o btw I'm mentally healthy and never did any serial kîller stuff!
Damned_Cat 1 year ago
People are always telling babies, "You're so sweet, I'm gonna eat you all up!" and then pretend to nibble their feet or hands. I can imagine how a little kid might carry that with them for a while and perhaps change the meaning.
Sue 1 year ago
My mom would do that & then "nibble" on our necks or anywhere we were ticklish. We loved it. I haven't eaten anyone yet.
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We have a wood burning furnace. My three year old on Christmas Eve, "Mama, make big fire, And... and... and... make sure that the door is locked. Then Santa will be trapped and burn up."
#47
My 10 yr old son has started putting mustard on his watermelon. Gobs of it.
#48
Due to Autism/SPD so he has a dulled response to pain. One day, I had the morning off and school was on a two hour delay, so we went in the back yard to play before I dropped him off. He fell into a bit of brambles on his way to the car, but he said "I'm okay" and kept running to the car. I got him buckled in but wasn't really paying too much attention. When I got in the car and turned my head to back out of the driveway, I see blood gushing down the side of his face. Not a peep from him about it. He cried about me cleaning and dressing the wound but was a-okay with falling into a bunch of thorns.
#49
False imprisonment/kidnapping. When in 2nd grade, one day at the end of the day, he had the thought that it would be cool to spend the night at the school instead of come home. So he snuck out of line, went back to the classroom and locked the door. However, the teacher’s son who was in Kindergarten was waiting for his mom in her classroom. My son refused to unlock the door and go home for a few minutes, apparently (I’m in the car pickup line, so I didn’t witness any of this), and apparently the teacher’s son was getting distraught.
Oddly enough, despite that incident, so far she has been the only teacher he has had from K-3rd grade that seemed to understand him, teach him, and like him.
Annita Stephanou 1 year ago
I feel for this kid. The only teacher who understood my sin and really tried to help him only had his class for a year. All teachers say they love my son, but none of them seem to understand him or care enough to help him out of harms way.
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Our middle child pooped during his nap time, got completely naked, then proceeded to finger paint with feces all over his room. I’m talking carpet, walls, bed, even found poop in the T-Rex mouth. I had to disinfect the entire room and replace the bed. Middle children…..
Thee8thsense 1 year ago
My Mom left me alone for a very short amount of time and I reached into my diaper and created what she called a "village" of little poop figures and placed them around me on the floor. Call me Poopcaso.
Hellcaste's Wife 1 year ago
My oldest girls did this when they were little (2 and 1). I was pregnant and had to deal with it. Best part, they had a stomach virus when it happened.
Kathrin Pukowsky 1 year ago
Since this person is suggesting that being the middle child is the reason for this behaviour, they should take it up with the people responsible for the child being the middle child. I'm not the middle child, I'm the youngest, but I find it super annoying when people/parents act as if the middle child being a problem was unavoidable/normal when there are in fact hundreds of thousands of families with three (or more) children that have zero issues. Because the parents did the goddamn job they themselves chose to take on.
tarryn norwich 1 year ago
My lil sister did this upwards of 50 times... I had to bathe her and I was ~8.
Heather Atwood 1 year ago
It's one thing for a kid to do this, but I have witnessed it in alzheimer's patients.
#51
My son was k*lling villains on a Lego game and goes "heck yea! I love the sound they make when they die.."
um.......
Peter Bear 1 year ago
It's a video game, and this particular game series is fairly silly, and the death noise is objectively amusing. No big deal at all.
Skogsrået 1 year ago (edited)
Calm down, it's just a video game. My son used to steal cars and once also beat up a hooker and robbed her in GTA but i don't worry that he's gonna do it IRL.
Tempest 1 year ago
Lol I used to do the same when I played some GTA in high school. Stealing cars and aimlessly driving around was pretty much all I did in the game and yes, sometimes when stealing the cars you would have to beat up the occupants.
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Not the parent but the child. I have no recollection of this, so this is the story from my parents' perspective
One time I came downstairs in the middle-ish of the night, sleepwalking (not sure when they figured that out) and the dogs just *would not stop barking at me*, which was out of character for them, but I seemed unaware of it. Went to the front door, opened it, and just kept saying variations of "I can't come play right now" "I can't play with you" to some imaginary person until I was shooed back to bed. This was age ~13ish, much too old to be playing with the neighbors kids so no clue what that was about.
#53
Indy, 4, puts a cocked nerf gun to his brother's head and demands, "Look me in the eyes."
#54
Believe me or not, this is what happened before my eyes. I’m walking down Main Street Vacation Town USA with my family. My 4 year old kid comes to a dead stop at a kitchen store and says, “I want the robot!”
We look at the display window, the name of kitchen supply store and just think “oh, kiddo saw something he thought was a robot.”
No.
He repeated his demand when we walked in. The sales girl heard him and said “Oh, it’s right this way!”
We were floored. Alllll the way in the back was a wooden robot. I swear that thing wasn’t in the front display of the store at all. It was crazy creepy.
Annita Stephanou 1 year ago
They were vacationing in a town when he said that
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My daughter was like 4 and one day as I was putting clothes away she said “Mommy there was a boy on my bed….Don’t worry he had Skin”! The way she said skin was too much. Creeped the f**k outta me. She also told me a monster ate mommy. He had big red eyes and a black back. Yeah yikes lol.
#56
I caught my 2-year-old son with a toy hammer, smashing his stuffed animals in their faces, while yelling, 'GO!' This happened two hours after we bought him a toy tool set with a toy crafting bench.
BarfyCat 1 year ago
We were visiting friends in California. The kids were playing outside, and when we went out to check on them, they were merrily smashing lemons with a hammer. There was a lemon tree in the yard. My friend was fine woith it, she said they didn't know what to do with all those lemons anyway! 😂
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
Yeah, those things yield a LOT. There's lots of citrus trees around where I live. Even out in public, along the road. They're mostly oranges and grapefruit, but plenty of lemons, limes, etc.
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Puked on the stairs
"go back to bed I'll sort it out"
Sob "I can't, I was sick in my bed"
"OK, well, you can get into mum and dad bed while I sort that out as well"
Sob sob "I was sick in there as well".
Skogsrået 1 year ago
Awww, poor kid. Remember when my son got food poisoned and threw up all over himself and his bed. I gently washed him changed his clothes, tucked him in my bed while i cleaned it all up. What made me so sad was how scared he seemed like i was gonna yell at him or beat him or something. I have never done that, it just broke my heart.
#58
Our youngest would eat “jelly dogs”. A hot dog, on a bun, with grape jelly.
Guess it could be worse but I’m still disgusted to this day lol.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I thought it was with pickles? PB&J with Bacon sounds yummy!
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My three year old is currently terrified that Minions are going to crawl through our TV and requests that we unplug it every night before bed. What happens if the Minions get in anyway? He's "going to go find bad guys so they can cut them all up and throw them away!".
Matt Richardson 1 year ago
What in the name of Samara/Kevin? This sounds like a Minions/The Ring crossover... that should never exist, yet I kinda want to see it anyway.
SkyBlueandBlack 1 year ago
Meh. I was terrified of the yip yip aliens on Sesame Street.
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Very tame and funny compared to most of these but my son took a picture of his b******e with his iPad when he was about four. Best part is that we discovered it because the iPad was connected to my husband’s photo stream on his phone and he was looking for some pictures of a project to show a client when he saw a kid’s b******e pic on his phone.
When we asked him why he did it he said that he “wanted to see what it looked like.”
Matt Richardson 1 year ago
Wanting to understand how your body works is quite commendable, and more people need to take the time learn the basics of of anatomy. That aside, I recommend refraining from sharing pictures of certain things with certain family members. The best this to do with a pic of a b******e is send to your representatives with a caption saying "Dis is You!"
#61
My 3 year olds dad has a girlfriend with another 3 year old. The other day when it was my turn to have him, he pointed to the ground and said, “*GF’s kid* hide in hole.” Creepy enough. Then later while walking, we went passed a hospital. My son who hasn’t been in a hospital since he was an infant, started pointing to it and saying “booboo.”
I said, “yea that’s were you go when you have big booboos.”
To which he responded, “*GFs kid* go for booboo” while pointing at the hospital.
So he basically told me that GF’s kid both went to the hospital for a big booboo and is hiding in a hole in the ground. I was concerned.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago (edited)
That would be my first question... (Edit) Just read the original on Reddit. She saw the kid in person and they were fine lol. She thinks the son just made something up.
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Oh so many things…
1) They steal one sock…not a pair but literally one sock for no reason so I have just a memory of a piece of clothing to remind me of this heinous crime.
2) One daughter leaves dismembered barbies everywhere. Not usually all together but strategically placed body parts.
3) Gleefully states there is a demon in her sandwich.
This may scratch the surface.
#63
Pick up a mini pretzel dog he dropped on the floor in grand central station and put it in his mouth before we could stop him. Two year olds are gross.
Kelly H. Wilder 1 year ago
Highly unsanitary, yes, but gross? I don't know about that. Toddlers simply have no understanding of germ theory and its effects. They also have very little understanding of danger when there is something they want.
Bookworm 1 year ago
My younger sister used to lick handrails. My slightly germaphobic mother is still grossed out when she tells that story.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
My younger sister kissed a “baby” toilet in the mall once. (Just a smaller toilet for children in the family bathroom) She didn’t understand our reactions. 🤢
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Scribbled on her belly with markers and told me a ghost had done it.
There was a small part of me that believed her.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I put stickers all over the inside of the closet door and said stretchy aliens did it. I was like 5 lol.
#65
I was taking a p**s at like 2 am, hallway light was off and i had the door open. Shadowy figure comes racing towards me almost kicked my son in the faces while pissing on the floor.
Kira Okah 1 year ago (edited)
Dad having a pee at night and a shape charged at him from the dark. Half-asleep and startled, he moved to defend himself in a fight-or-flight response, but managed to stop his reaction upon noticing that it was his son. Of course, since he was having a pee, his move to defend himself resulted in him peeing over the floor.
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#66
My kids all talk in their sleep. One of them (14) can be pretty distressing because it almost always sounds like he's crying. Recently though, for some reason him and his brother (13) just go around saying "Among us" for no reason… constantly. One night last week, the 14 year old and my 6 year old talked in their sleep and just simply said "among us" and nothing else. I guess that's progress though.
Floeckchen 1 year ago (edited)
"Among us" is a pretty common online video game played by millions, especially in that age bracket
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
"Hey, remember the name of that game we secretly play, the one Mom and Dad mustn't know about?"
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What do you think ?
Neb 1 year ago
I would say "66 more Reasons". These definitely aren't first.
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
So many of these things are solved by realizing that little kids can't really tell the difference yet between reality, fantasy and dreams. And by realizing that kids are little copy cats who say random things they've heard others say, including on TV.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Many parents underestimate the things kids see or overhears, like TV or internet. Some of these can be explained this way. Not all of them, I guess.
Lara Verne 1 year ago
Kids says dumb s**t all the time. My cousin, who was 4 years old back then, always said that neighbours have huge scary dog and it's trying to jump over fence into their garden .Neighbours didn't have any dog, but cousin was adamant that scary dog was right there, behind the fence. When we talked about years later, he admitted he never seen any dog.
kansasmagic 1 year ago
Based on these examples, I should have been "terrified" about a thousand times over by now. Do most people think that kids are just small adults? Kids do weird s**t!
Mari 1 year ago
A lot of kids hear and see things they cannot understand. They will think about it, fantasize or dream about it. If it happens once or twice the best thing you can do is ignoring it. Only if your kid is really terified or the behaviour is alarming, you have to find out more about it. What can cause it? What can you do to help your child? Does your child need therapy?
whyamihere? 1 year ago
Once, when I was younger (around 7) I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like someone was watching me. I looked over to my doorway and there was a woman standing there. I just laid there staring at her till she went away, being a fearless/stupid kid, I followed her. Sadly she disappeared and I never saw her again. In the morning I asked my mom if she had checked on me in the night, she said "no." looking back I'm not surprised this happened, our door was never locked and we had multiple windows broken.
Karl der Große 1 year ago
I once had a reputation as a pedantic skeptic among people I knew, but seeing how my own children had very specific preferences, affinities, and talents from the time they were very small, it is hard not to believe that they may have been here before.
Neb 1 year ago
I would say "66 more Reasons". These definitely aren't first.
Load More Replies... Jaya 1 year ago
So many of these things are solved by realizing that little kids can't really tell the difference yet between reality, fantasy and dreams. And by realizing that kids are little copy cats who say random things they've heard others say, including on TV.
Rachel Pelz 1 year ago
Many parents underestimate the things kids see or overhears, like TV or internet. Some of these can be explained this way. Not all of them, I guess.
Lara Verne 1 year ago
Kids says dumb s**t all the time. My cousin, who was 4 years old back then, always said that neighbours have huge scary dog and it's trying to jump over fence into their garden .Neighbours didn't have any dog, but cousin was adamant that scary dog was right there, behind the fence. When we talked about years later, he admitted he never seen any dog.
kansasmagic 1 year ago
Based on these examples, I should have been "terrified" about a thousand times over by now. Do most people think that kids are just small adults? Kids do weird s**t!
Mari 1 year ago
A lot of kids hear and see things they cannot understand. They will think about it, fantasize or dream about it. If it happens once or twice the best thing you can do is ignoring it. Only if your kid is really terified or the behaviour is alarming, you have to find out more about it. What can cause it? What can you do to help your child? Does your child need therapy?
whyamihere? 1 year ago
Once, when I was younger (around 7) I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like someone was watching me. I looked over to my doorway and there was a woman standing there. I just laid there staring at her till she went away, being a fearless/stupid kid, I followed her. Sadly she disappeared and I never saw her again. In the morning I asked my mom if she had checked on me in the night, she said "no." looking back I'm not surprised this happened, our door was never locked and we had multiple windows broken.
Karl der Große 1 year ago
I once had a reputation as a pedantic skeptic among people I knew, but seeing how my own children had very specific preferences, affinities, and talents from the time they were very small, it is hard not to believe that they may have been here before.
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