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“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

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Anonymous 2 days ago

Wtf

21points

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

Prov31_7 , freepik Report

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Sofia 1 day ago

could be that gramma told her something/showed her the drawings?

38points

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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.

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Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 day ago

I’ve heard several stories similar to this. I hope they make people feel better about their miscarriages

40points

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

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Natalie Bohrteller 1 day ago

I wish them all the best. Good call on the parents.

50points

unknownsliver , Rachel Tayse / Flickr Report

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

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Alro 2 days ago

a warning could have been nice

73points

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

raistliniltsiar , freepik Report

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Mari 2 days ago

Maybe she was dreaming?

23points

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

anon , pvproductions / freepik Report

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Mari 2 days ago

You have to taste at least 10 times to know if you like of dislike something.

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“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

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Alro 2 days 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

54points

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#10

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.

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Red PANda (she/they/he/ze) 1 day ago

Glad that she tried it on Peaches and not her mom first!

43points

monkey_soop , Racool_studio / freepik Report

#11

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

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Mjskywalk 1 day ago

Um…did no one notice the part where he let his kid outside with a knife?!

12points

#12

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.

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Ava Lemar 2 days ago

I still wouldn't have a family pet in the home, just in case this kid takes a turn for the behaviotal worst.

70points

#13

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

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I'm.Just.A.Girl 1 day 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.

31points

calyxte212 , Racool_studio / Freepik Report

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“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do She dipped her chocolate muffin in ketchup. And then she ATE it.

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Ace 2 days ago

Not the worst flavour combination I could imagine.

17points

#15

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.

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Dumb teenager 2 days ago

Jesus f**k keep a watch on this kid, especially if this is in America!

36points

#16

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

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Ava Lemar 2 days ago

Hmmm. Maybe the parents need to watch that kid pretty closely. Sounds like it might be antisocial behavior.

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JasonBob , gpointstudio / Freepik Report

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“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

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Zoe's Mom 2 days ago

Sometimes Charlies are real.

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#18

“Yes, We Are In Therapy”: 30 Parents Share The Most Disturbing Thing They’ve Seen Their Child Do 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.

anon , katemangostar / freepik Report

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StPaul9 2 days ago

We need to talk about Kevin vibes

22points

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#19

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.

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Icomefromthelanddownunder 2 days ago

Live across the street from a graveyard? No thanks

14points

#20

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.....

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Me 2 days 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.

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What do you think ?

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Data1001 2 days ago

Alternate article title: 66 Reasons Why I'm Glad I Never Had Kids

19points

Neb 13 hours ago

I would say "66 more Reasons". These definitely aren't first.

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Jaya 1 day 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.

16points

Nikole 1 day ago

That, and dreams.

0points

Rachel Pelz 2 days 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.

15points

Sanne 1 day ago

The rest can be explained by creative writing exercises and the need for external validation (likes).

9points

Lara Verne 1 day 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.

6points

kansasmagic 1 day 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!

6points

Mari 2 days 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?

5points

Jessica SpeLangm 1 day ago

Hardly any of these are creepy. They are mostly stupid s**t kids do or say, because they don't fully understand what they're saying means. These parents either need to read books on stupid stuff kids say and do, or ask their own parents about this before making themselves look like idiots on social media.

4points

1 day ago

I did weird things as a kid, I used to draw monsters and then fantasize about how I was murdering them in a whole other world. I genuinely thought that the world existed and had multiple dreams about it. Me mum also told me I used to hold my hand over my head and talk, but not directly to it?

4points

1 day ago

It seems pretty normal for kids to do weird things

3points

COCO puff 1 day ago

So people will say anything for attention. Not believing a thing.

3points

Koalafied to komment 1 day ago

So you neither have met any children nor have you been a child yourself? 😉 Stuff like this happens everyday, the stories sound realistic.

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Queeqec 1 day ago

I never thought that so many grown ups are craρρing there pants and even admit it on the net.

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Monica G 2 hours ago (edited)

My mom, as a very small child used to construct models of a specific kind of fountain that is found in my country in a far away region. They were dirt poor then, just after the WW2 and the ensuing famine, so no access to TV or paintings.

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Heather Atwood 1 day ago

So we lived with my parents in 1996 for a bit while building a house. My son was 2.5 and had never seen Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck etc (it was not on TV then and we had no videos etc). One morning he told me that Daffy Duck was in his bedroom the night before. He referred to Daffy several times but no idea why. Fast Forward 3 years and we were at an amusement park where there were costumed actors in Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck suits. He saw the Daffy Duck and just took off running and screaming. My folks' house is notoriously haunted and I think something manifested like Daffy Duck. Creepy.

0points

Nikole 1 day ago

Kids absorb more than you know.

0points

Schnitzel 1 day ago

*I* need therapy after this post. Holy moly :-/ Also, ONE of the reasons I don't want children. I don't trust my genes and I don't have any philosophies about being a good mother. I don't trust myself either.

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Karl der Große 1 day 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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Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 1 day ago

Or that, you know, they're just perfectly normal human beings?

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Data1001 2 days ago

Alternate article title: 66 Reasons Why I'm Glad I Never Had Kids

19points

Neb 13 hours ago

I would say "66 more Reasons". These definitely aren't first.

0points

Jaya 1 day ago

16points

Nikole 1 day ago

That, and dreams.

0points

Rachel Pelz 2 days 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.

15points

Sanne 1 day ago

The rest can be explained by creative writing exercises and the need for external validation (likes).

9points

Lara Verne 1 day ago

6points

kansasmagic 1 day 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!

6points

Mari 2 days ago

5points

Jessica SpeLangm 1 day ago

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1 day ago

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1 day ago

It seems pretty normal for kids to do weird things

3points

COCO puff 1 day ago

So people will say anything for attention. Not believing a thing.

3points

Koalafied to komment 1 day ago

So you neither have met any children nor have you been a child yourself? 😉 Stuff like this happens everyday, the stories sound realistic.

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Queeqec 1 day ago

I never thought that so many grown ups are craρρing there pants and even admit it on the net.

2points

Monica G 2 hours ago (edited)

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Heather Atwood 1 day ago

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Nikole 1 day ago

Kids absorb more than you know.

0points

Schnitzel 1 day ago

0points

Karl der Große 1 day ago

-2points

Did I say that out loud? (he/him)cis/het 1 day ago

Or that, you know, they're just perfectly normal human beings?

4points