People Are Cracking Up At These 35 Tweets About How People As Kids Misunderstood Simple Concepts
Kids’ logic is a thing of envy. The way they think isn’t bound to some particular reality or concept of reasoning that dictates the rules for the conclusions they have to reach. It’s beautiful because they have unrestricted freedom to be as silly and as adorable as they want without sweating or even understanding it.
Twitter user @sumerianbby shared a story of how she, being a mere 6-year-old, misunderstood the notion of an expiration date on her father’s ID and started crying—she thought it was a particular time for when dad was going to pass away. Kids.

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Soon a slew of people joined the conversation, sharing their own stories of how they confused simple concepts and reinterpreted them the way their x-year-old kiddy selves could—using adorable kids’ logic.
Check out the curated list of the best stories Tweeters have shared below and vote as well as comment on the submissions you enjoyed the most. And if you have your own stories to share, why not do that in the comment section below!
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When I was in kindergarten my Grandma took me to Tampa, it was my first time on an airplane so of course I was glued to the window the entire time. At some point we were above this huge cloud bank and I asked my Grandma "where's God"? Lol I thought that heaven was above the clouds in the sky. I'll never forget that.
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Load More Replies...Hahaha that's so sweet!sometimes i did that when they were cooking at the tv! I thought they will feel bad looking at me and give a piece! Never worked😭😭
I did this and tried talking to my mom in her bedroom. My dad came by and saw 4 year old me with my lips pressed on the tv saying "mom can you hear me?" Over and over.
Load More Replies...When I was 4 I used to wonder if I was to jump into the the TV screen. Would I come out in the studio that was on
I used to picture them as money, like person-sized dollar bills sitting in the audience chairs. I have no idea why.
LOL I'm sure some of the people that profit off of them saw them sometimes like that too
Load More Replies...I always remember when recording something I always thought you'd have to be quiet else it would come out in the tape!!!
There is a movie "Boyhood" which was filmed for like 12 years or so, cause creators didn't want to change actors across time frames so they were aging through the movie making.
I used to think that family relationships in movies were real. So only the mom's son in real life was allowed to play her son in the movie.
And if you said the wrong one she said the rifhtanswer and agreed with you even if you got it wrong ;-;
I remember when Kacchan and I were younger, he was watching Dora before bed, and when Dora asked a question, he would obviously answer. and when she took to long to agree with him he would get so mad (this is based off of a comic I saw)
my mom tells a story from when I used to watch Dora. the tv would be like “say backpack! Say backpack!” And I would just sit there silently. My mom would say “c’mon, why aren’t you saying backpack?” And I deadpanned at her “it doesn’t matter if I say it, backpack is gonna come out anyway”. I was like 4 lmao
I felt the same about Mr. Rogers. At the end he'd say "And you'll have lots you'll want to talk about, I will too." And would say "Yeah but you won't let me say any of it!"
If i thought that i wouldve let rats bite me and i wouldve regretted it
I used to tell people I was at my folks' wedding; that I was watching from my mom's tummy. I was born 9 months after the wedding, so my parents were always like "STFU!"
Well a woman is really pregnant for 10 months (40 weeks or more) so...
Load More Replies...So my brother would always cry if he sees pictures taken before he was born bcse he wasn't in the pictures. 🤣
Ah, but you see cows do make cheese... when they haven't been milked for a few days ;-)
i lost so many braincells trying to comprehend that just now
Load More Replies...I grew up in the early 80s so we had the old style TV. When we had the static on the screen my Dad called the static "Bionic Ants". I genuinely believed that that was what it was called. Fast forward a few years and I am 16 and in school where our History teacher is setting up the school's ancient TV so we can watch a video. The TV only works when it wants to or you thump it so our teacher is having problems with it. He asked us to tell him when a picture comes on the screen as you had to fix the picture first and then the sound as he was trying to fix the wires around the back of the TV. When he asked if we could see a picture I said no, just bionic ants". He looked at me with a surprised expression and asked me what said and then I repeated myself. He burst out laughing and said " well I never heard static called that before." I told him that was what we always called it in my house as that was what my dad called it. I genuinely that was the name of static until that day.
I used to think that the holes in the cheese were made by tiny little mice! LOL
Similar - only an older girl told me I was cancer (astrological sign) and I thought that meant I had cancer and was going to die.
"We just can't afford to feed Katie anymore, so we're taking her to the doctor to have her put to sleep."
I almost got shot when O went to the doctor office to get a flu shot sooooo…
It's not advised to do that! It's better to explain and reassure the child that you are coming back to get it!
Ummmm...tell your kid what's going on. Geez. Talk about childhood trauma!!
Replying to @Wifeofweasly: it's not just the daycare, its's leaving your child there for the first time and not telling them what's going on.
Load More Replies...Never dump your kid & run. No matter how much they cry or fight, just hug them, look happy & tell them bye. It just makes them insecure any time you are out of their sight if you keep doing that. My step-sister used to stand by the bathroom door waiting for her mom at 8-9 years old because she did that consistently. Don't try to comfort them beyond the hug & bye or else they'll think it is something to be really upset about.
Didn't work with me. Turns out, i just didn't want to be with other kids. Parents had to make special arrangements so i could stay in the teacher's lounge and do my work there 🤦♀️
Load More Replies...Your mum was an idiot! What did she expect? That you didn't realise she wasn't there?
People rarely explain stuff to kids, I think it’s an absolute disservice to them
It's cruel, and it creates a lot of insecurity in children, because they learn very quickly they cannot trust adults
Load More Replies...That’s why it’s best not to use expressions with kids 😂 they take things way too literally
He might have been tied up, but it had nothing to do with bad guys, if you get my drift.
It exists and doesn't exist. Only way to know for sure is to watch it
Load More Replies..."In case i don't see you good afternoon good evening and good night."
Load More Replies...Who knows, you may be right. For all I know you all exist only because I exist and when I die the universe will instantly collapse
I had this weird thought, too. And that everything that happens every day is scripted and I'm the only one truly alive. haha
My middle sister didn't want my mom's next baby to be a boy because she didn't want to BE a brother.
Pfffff, I got you both beat. I was 25 and my wife was pregnant with our daughter. I was so tired one night but we were talking about all the things we needed to get done before the baby came and what the first few days would be like. I asked my wife if we should get the baby circumcised. My wife told me to go to bed lol.
Load More Replies...Never would have happened if you were raised in the south. We say "awnt".
I thought they'd give death row inmates an opportunity to die on camera. That was the only scenario that made sense to me.
I thought when people kissed in movies, that they had a thin plastic film between their mouths because who would want to actually kiss strangers ewwwwww.
I thought this, it was really confusing for me because I had watched Titanic and Romeo and Juliet really close together... Couldn't grasp how Leonardo DiCaprio died twice
Sean Bean must be truly immortal then, or else some kind of cat...
When I was little, I imagined that credits would roll when someone died like at the end of a movie. What a little weirdo!
I was six when the nuns who owned our school told me that Jesus had died for my sins. Then I saw some used menstrual pads in the trash can at school......Ever since then, I've had this knack for making myself unnoticeable, just in case....
The eating the blood and body ritual sounds pretty cannibalistic. Fully understandable being scared.
These are the same creatures that believe you if you say I took your nose.. but suspicious of such things :-)
Load More Replies...You should show her pictures and ask her to point which one hace cars in it.
I remember seeing Hulk Hogan on a TV commercial when I was about 6yrs old. My sister turned the channel during the middle of the commercial and Hulk Hogan was also on that channel doing a different commercial. I looked at my family and said, "He must have been running at warp speed to get to the set of the next channel that fast!"
Oh, Mr. Bean. I would really appreciate that and be on the show every time.
My dad NEVER swore at all...unless he was fixing the car. Then I learned words that I never knew existed. It turns out that he REALLY sucked at fixing cars and this was the real reason I got to hear all those wonderful new words that I later found out shouldn't be repeated either at school or...ever. :D
In North Europe all tv shows and movies are dubbed! I found it so strange that i was wondering if people there know the real voices of the actors (edit: i rephrase that in some countries of North and central Europe I've seen this phenomenon.. haven't been to every country in Europe ok)
Watch "Stan's Mom's a Bitch" from the Southpark move in French. It's even funnier in French.
When I was a kid I had a serious crush on one of the characters in the series “White Horses” and was surprised years later to discover that the programme was in fact Yugoslavian with English dubbing 🙄
Yeah, when I was little I thought my dad was a really tall guy, but now I'm an adult I can see he's actually about average height. Of course, nowadays I don't have to stand on a box to look him in the eye. :p
Load More Replies..."She's so tall with her hands up, I'm so small whenever she's around . . .) Twenty-One by Marry Me Jane
As a kid i loved to go grocery shopping with my parents
Load More Replies...Well, at least they didn't accidentally go around bragging that their father got laid.
If you do not make a sacrifice to the fountain of dreams, YOU STARVE
There were parents actually saying that to their kids to make them not to swallow the seeds
My parents told me if I ate fruit seeds a fruit tree would grow in my stomach. I believed this for far longer than I should have and, even now, I have issues with watermelon due to the amount of seeds in it!
Btw, no seed can grow in your stomach. 1: Stomach acids 2: No sunlight 3: No soil. Idrc if I get downvoted for explaining, but someone asked.
I used to watch a show about teddys living in the woods (Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears) and one of them ate seeds so trees and leaves started growing out of his ears
My nana told us not to swallow watermelon seeds or they would grow in our tummies and we believed her because she was a doctor.
My dad told me it was push ups in the cucumber patch that would cause a watermelon to grow in your “tummy”. Took me a while to understand the metaphors within… I was like, why a watermelon?
I swallowed them on purpose so I could have babies that, in my head, would be hot pink with black freckles and green hair 🤣🤣
rather baby inside of her had a temper tantrum
Load More Replies...It’s kind of disturbing that these mothers had no support when they were in labor
Sometimes i also think I'm a cat! Don't want people to touch me, i like sleep and I'm picky with my food
if there is paper on the floor do you feel obliged to lay on it?
Load More Replies...You don't ruin your eyesight by reading in the dark, that's some stupid old thing to say for our great-grandparent to prevent children from doing exactly that. If you need glasses you do because of the form of your eyeball and you can't change that by ANYTHING you do - so don't blame yourself any longer. 😊
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I read in the dark all the time and the weirdest thing is I needed glasses in fourth grade and never actually got them but went back in with grade and didn't need them anymore
I'm a gifted/talented student (this is important trust me) and could read fluently in preschool. During naptime in preschool I would snatch a book and read silently in the dark without everyone knowing. I got glasses in kindergarten and still wear glasses to this day.
I have to say that I am responsible for 90% of the crises in my nursery. Most of the time, the reason was either rice pudding or custard. They just really underestimated how much I didn't want to eat those things...
Load More Replies...I was a year younger than my classmates, still sucked my thumb and forefinger in 1st grade. A girl had scraped her knee and was letting kids touch the scab. After I did, she said her mom had painted it with something poison (iodine?). I so totally freaked out cause I could no longer suck my thumb & finger that they had to call my mom to come get me. It broke my bad habit; my finger is still twisted from how I used to fit it in my mouth, so thanks, Cathy, or it would have been worse.
Yes it happens when you don't take your card after a set period of time so it doesn't get stolen. Here's a secret that the bank won't tell you. The card is stored in a lost card bin inside the ATM. No damage is done to the card. However, per policy most banks will cut up the card once they retrieve it and will tell the customer that the machine automatically shreds it. The ATM doesn't shred anything. But it's easier to just shred the card and print a new one than close down the whole ATM to retrieve a single card. Opening and ATM requires at least two people and that's only if the bank actually services its own ATMs. Sometimes that function is outsourced to security companies.
Load More Replies...An ATM ate my card once, too. I went straight to the bank to let them know, and arrived just seconds before a good Samaritan came in with my card, which the ATM had spat out when she tried to use it! Whew.
until around last year, my kids thought they controlled the back wiper on our car with their voices. if it started raining while we were driving somewhere they'd say "back wiper, wipe one time" and it would! "back wiper, wipe 2 times", and it would! it wasn't until pretty recently that they figured out the wiping mechanism is right at my fingertips, LOL. the way they figured it out was one would say it and turn their heads to make sure it happened, while the other would stare at my hands to see if i did something to trigger the wiper. :-D
When my son is with me I pretend to close my eyes and tell him he has to tell me which way to go while driving. Totally freaks him out. Truth is I only close my right eye (the one he can see) he doesnt realize my left eye is still open :) He learned the difference between right and left real quick
Load More Replies...My son got in trouble for eating a granola bar on the school bus. There was a sign at the front of the bus with an ice cream cone with a line through it (meaning no eating), he thought you just were not allowed to eat ice cream on the bus
My favorite aunt told us she had a magic fridge and had us doing incantations to make the door open. Turns out it had a foot pedal opener that it took us years to see. Good old Aunt Ginny- we all loved her
Maybe this person was just seeing the future we're now going to with autonomous cars, that will 'know' where we want to go.
ME TOO - I thought the driver used the blinker to remind themselves of an upcoming turn...
My grandpa would make me think wipers were magic and would run when he told them to lol took me a few years to figure that out.
My grandfather was an engineer at a factory when I was little. But I thought engineer meant he drove a train. :) Frankly, driving a train is a way cooler job. It was a let down when I found out.
I was at the ATM one day an the little girl who was with her dad in front of me in the queue asked her dad "did ATM stand for All The Money as that's where all the money came from".
The same lie when you meet someone at the street and say hey we should go for a coffee! Never happened ever
For real, it's actually a higher chance to go for a coffee with a person who says "I don't want to see you for the rest of my life" than with somebody who says "we should hang out sometime". This "sometime" never comes.
Load More Replies...When someone says that to me I always ask, "later today? Or later in life?"
When I moved to the UK, people would say "See you later" all the time. It confused me. In my language, see you later means a fixed date in the near future, mostly the very same day, just later. It took me a while to find out it's just a figure of speech.
Actually...my mom thought that too, until my dad clued her in...English wasn't her first language...LOL
I somehow thought Braunschweiger was called smorgasbord. I called it that all through my childhood. I still sometimes forget what it is really called and I am in my 50's. I have confused more than one person when I am hungry for smorgasbord.
?? What on earth is Braunschweiger?! I've been to Braunschweig and have eaten nothing memorable... But Smörgåsbord is a legitimate and extended (Swedish) breakfast, so no confusion if you are hungry for that.
Load More Replies...My dad called over easy eggs “dunkin eggs” (cause you dunk your toast in them) we all thought that was the name of them until I was a grown adult and tried to order dunkin eggs at a restaurant .. the waitress stared at me like I was an idiot so I asked for scrambled .. for ten years I only ever ordered scrambled cause I didn’t know what to call them .. I had heard the words sunny side up or over easy but didn’t know what that meant .. I can’t remember how I finally figured it out and could order the eggs I wanted but frig that still haunts me
But "dunking eggs" sounds exactly like what it is. More descriptive than over easy.
Load More Replies...Melongene. Patlican, Melatzana, Brinjal, bigan, mad-apple, aubergine, eggplant, and now bazooka too.
When i was a kid i didn't recognize farm animals being a city kid! I knew only goats! So when we were going on trips to the countryside i was naming every animal i was seeing! Cows were big goats! Sheep were fluffy goats and horses were goats with fancy tails!
Agreed! I much prefer these pure fun posts to the social issues posts that are so frequent on BP.
Load More Replies...When I watched old black and white movies when I was little I thought the world was really only black and white back then, and color wasn't invented until the 1960s.
My son asked his grandmother how it was to live in a only black and white world... 😂
Load More Replies...I thought "No, thanks" meant "no thanks" as in "I am not thanking you" and was therefore quite rude.
Reminds me of learning that "yes, I mind" means "no, you can't do that". I thought my parents were lying to me by giving me permission to do something and then getting mad when I did.
Load More Replies...Usually, we tell kids that old pets will be "put to sleep" because they were in a lot of pain, or not eating anymore. So naturally, they understand the term "put to sleep" to mean to pass away. So imagine the kids' panic when they heard the doctor tell me that he will need to "put me to sleep" for the operation. Poor things!
I remember getting confused with that terminology as a kid, and having to learn the difference between "put down" and "put under".
Load More Replies...I would always try to stay up long enough to see the Sandman. I am now an insomniac. Dunno if the two are related, but if I ever do run into him we will be having words.
The entry about the robot mom had me remember this one: My older brother told me when I was about 5 that my parents were going to replace my brain with a robot brain because mine wasn't working properly (brothers🙄) I told him that isn't true because they would have told me. He said they didnt tell me because they didnt want to scare me. They were planning to have the surgeon do it after I went to sleep one night. He said I would just wake up one day with a robot brain and I would never know. I thought he was lying, but then...maybe he was right...I thought about asking mum about it but...was she going to tell me the truth? I had a lot of trouble sleeping for a few nights 😅
Just take care of that robot brain. You can probably switch it up once power runs out.
Load More Replies...When I was in kindergarten I lost my sweater, knitted by my granny. Some nice older kid said “come with me let’s go look in the lost and found!” For some reason I thought “lost and founTAIN.” So as I was holding hands with her walking to the lost and founTAIN I was expecting a glorious large water fountain with my lost sweater perched neatly atop. I was not expecting a cardboard box with a bunch of other lost items. But, we did find my sweater.
When i was a kid i didn't recognize farm animals being a city kid! I knew only goats! So when we were going on trips to the countryside i was naming every animal i was seeing! Cows were big goats! Sheep were fluffy goats and horses were goats with fancy tails!
Agreed! I much prefer these pure fun posts to the social issues posts that are so frequent on BP.
Load More Replies...When I watched old black and white movies when I was little I thought the world was really only black and white back then, and color wasn't invented until the 1960s.
My son asked his grandmother how it was to live in a only black and white world... 😂
Load More Replies...I thought "No, thanks" meant "no thanks" as in "I am not thanking you" and was therefore quite rude.
Reminds me of learning that "yes, I mind" means "no, you can't do that". I thought my parents were lying to me by giving me permission to do something and then getting mad when I did.
Load More Replies...Usually, we tell kids that old pets will be "put to sleep" because they were in a lot of pain, or not eating anymore. So naturally, they understand the term "put to sleep" to mean to pass away. So imagine the kids' panic when they heard the doctor tell me that he will need to "put me to sleep" for the operation. Poor things!
I remember getting confused with that terminology as a kid, and having to learn the difference between "put down" and "put under".
Load More Replies...I would always try to stay up long enough to see the Sandman. I am now an insomniac. Dunno if the two are related, but if I ever do run into him we will be having words.
The entry about the robot mom had me remember this one: My older brother told me when I was about 5 that my parents were going to replace my brain with a robot brain because mine wasn't working properly (brothers🙄) I told him that isn't true because they would have told me. He said they didnt tell me because they didnt want to scare me. They were planning to have the surgeon do it after I went to sleep one night. He said I would just wake up one day with a robot brain and I would never know. I thought he was lying, but then...maybe he was right...I thought about asking mum about it but...was she going to tell me the truth? I had a lot of trouble sleeping for a few nights 😅
Just take care of that robot brain. You can probably switch it up once power runs out.
Load More Replies...When I was in kindergarten I lost my sweater, knitted by my granny. Some nice older kid said “come with me let’s go look in the lost and found!” For some reason I thought “lost and founTAIN.” So as I was holding hands with her walking to the lost and founTAIN I was expecting a glorious large water fountain with my lost sweater perched neatly atop. I was not expecting a cardboard box with a bunch of other lost items. But, we did find my sweater.
