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Hey Pandas, What Is Something You Did As A Kid And Never Told Your Parents? (Closed)
What are some things you did when you were a kid and never told your parents about it?
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#1
I used the "invisible ink" markers to write on the walls. It was mainly hate speech from when my parents wouldn't let me go on the computer.
Final score:
26points
Chance Wilson 4 years ago
I feel u dude ;-; and I regret only some of it! well most of it.
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Pearl Of the SeaWing RainWings 4 years ago
I am currently shaming myself for not having thought of this.
pandaparrots 4 years ago
I did the invisible ink too but it was mostly little me attempting to deceive future historians into believing I was the supreme overlord upon finding the ruins of our family home. Not saying it was well thought out, but I tried
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#2
Let's start with the fact that it was a long time ago. One of "What would happen if.." things you do out of curiosity. I might have accidentally shoplifted cheap earrings when I was a kid. Ok, I actually did it on purpose. Earrings I didn't need and have never worn in my life. My friend, or shall I say my partner in crime, got caught stealing her unnecessary item with me. I somehow got away, but I was very close to wetting my pants. I have never stolen a thing since.
Sorry, mom, you didn't raise me like this and don't deserve to know.
Please, don't call the police.
Final score:
21points
#3
Where do I beginn... I shoplifted make up and jewellery more than once, I drank underaged (no biggie in germany, my parents would still not have been proud), I snuck out at night to hang around with people they didn't like. Oh and I smoked weed at a birthday party
Final score:
19points
#4
I was messing with a bow and arrow that I got as a kid and I accidentally put a hole in the wall. Found some tape and paint the same color as the wall, stretched the tape over the hole, and painted it over.
Final score:
19points
#5
When I was in 1st grade, I was in gym class. I left the gym to go to the bathroom and I ended up leaving to go to the bathroom at the same time as this other kid I hated. He was a boy and he kept peer pressuring me to go into the boy's bathroom. I kept saying no but he was peer pressuring me so much that I just gave into it. I knew that it was really bad but I was bad at saying no to people. Anyways, he threatened to go into the same stall as me but I kept telling him no and just walked into the stall and locked the door. He ended up crawling under the stall and did some not-so-appropriate things.
I should have told someone about this because I now know that this was a HORRIBLE thing he did. But, I just never told anyone..
Final score:
17points
#6
I took a Dump outside because both bathrooms where occupied
Plz dont hate on me it was the only way.
Final score:
16points
#7
they probably found out because it was obvious lol. I swallowed probably around 7 sticks of gum because I thought it was normal candy. I had stomach aches for the rest of the day.
Final score:
16points
CATMONSTER2018 4 years ago
really? I can eat like an entire pack of gum, then swallow it. And i dont feel a thing. (i dont reccommend it. after a while the gum starts to lose flavor and tastes like rubber.
#8
I mean, I'm still a kid, but I guess it's that I'm always on Bored Panda. Oh, and I'm not out to my parents yet.
Final score:
16points
#9
So, uh... I've got a pretty bad one, one that's much worse than a lot of the submissions currently here (because most of the submissions are shoplifting or peeing in trash cans):
For the longest time, literally ever since I was 3 or so, I've had a rather dirty mind. Of course, when I was 3, I didn't know anything about anything, so I didn't do much about it other than draw people kissing or something. But when I turned 8, I started searching things up. I learned a LOT behind my parents' backs, and to this day, they don't know that I have knowledge beyond anything I could've been exposed to. Guilt has been eating me up about this for years now, and I still don't know when or how to break it to them.
Final score:
16points
Emery Walters 4 years ago
Please don't feel guilty; I can relate as well. Your curiosity can be useful in many other ways as well.
#10
i was at the YMCA when i was like 9 and kissed a boy.
Final score:
15points
#11
My family are really close friends with our next door neighbors. My parents travelled a lot, so I spent most of my time there, even slept over on several occasions. So one day, my sisters and most of the family were all in the kitchen leaving me and their son in the living room. I was about 6 years old and he was about 10. Dude attempted to rape me, but I was pretty strong as a child so I managed to escape. I got so scared that I had to convince my parents to get me a self-defense teacher (kick-boxing). He kept sending weird and upsetting messages through my friends, until I went to college. All in all, I've been sexually harassed and almost raped about 3 times by unexpected people. I turned 18 a couple months ago, so I'm allowed to stay home alone with my siblings, which I am very grateful for. My parents still don't know about it, so his parents and my parents are still very close friends. I have developed anger issues because I bottled too much emotions in. My parents still don't understand why I'm overly protective and defensive of my siblings when we're around him. Sorry, this got dark really quickly🙂🙂
Final score:
15points
#12
I used to stay up all watching things on my phone and I started getting into the habit again but I stopped.
Final score:
13points
#13
My sisters and I would always take those little sugar packets that they have in coffee shops while our mom was in the bathroom...
We would then go to our rooms and dump them in our mouths...
Final score:
13points
#14
One time I asked my mom if I could walk my friend home and she said only if my other friend's mom (who was there too, we were all at the park and my house is like 1 min away) My other friend and her mom were leaving, but my mom didn't know that. Ended up walking my friend home, prank calling McDonalds and Dominoes. She tried telling me the way back, but I got insanely lost. I was crying and tried asking 3 different people for directions. One of them, a mom and her daughter in a car, came back and said they noticed I wasn't going the way they told me. So they drove me home. To this day, my parents have no idea this ever happened.
Final score:
12points
#15
idk why but i always put my mom's perfume in my eyes purposefully and sometimes she would find out cuz i was crying.
Final score:
10points
Mackenzie Maggard 4 years ago
why would u do that tho the chemicals in the perfume can damage your eyes
#16
So, the thing that makes mine worse is that this was in 5th grade.
It all started at recess, and I saw my friends giggling and laughing, so I asked them, "What?" and they say, "You wouldn't do it, you're too much of a nerd!" And so I said, "While maybe I am!"
Caught them smoking cigarettes behind the slide.
Final score:
10points
#17
When I was 2 my family went to Disneyland. My grandfather was watching me so my parents could go on Splash Mountain. My grandpa looked away for 3 seconds, and I had somehow gotten my head stuck in the gate of Haunted Mansion in those 3 seconds. A disney character ended up having to pull me out. It took about 2 hours to finally get my head out. I still have a scar on my neck from a scratch I got.
Final score:
10points
theoneand_only 4 years ago
That must have been scary!! I’ve gotten my knees stuck in fences, chairs, and at Disney World. 😆
#19
I used to drink these little colorful margarita things because I thought they were non-alcoholic... They were not non-alcoholic.
Final score:
10points
#20
I stole some of those stamps that have the pattern in the ink when I around 5. you know, those ones that get handed out at kids dentist offices, as kids birthday party favours, .e.t.c. I don't know if this counts because only my divorced biological father knows about it. I never told my mom or stepdad.
Final score:
9points
#21
i would annoy my brother so much that they would go crazy
Final score:
9points
#22
One time in first grade i saw my parents skipping a scene where a guy was peeing in a cup. Then when i was in my room one day i really had to pee, and i peed in a plastic cup i found in the kitchen. i am a girl. i never did that again because i had to clean up the mess.
Final score:
9points
#23
I use Bored Panda...
Final score:
9points
#24
Im still a kid... (12) . and i still do this.... :/ . I have. lit stuff on fire?
I would make a tinfoil bowl, put leaves and twigs in it. Use toilet paper as a starter. and set it on fire. Adding tree sap will make it burn longer.
Final score:
9points
#25
i peed in the trash can until i got cahght
Final score:
8points
#26
I discovered wattpad at a very young age- that is all I'm going to say and my parents still don't know.........................
Final score:
8points
Alexandria joy Kelly-Kane 4 years ago
omg yess i wasn't even a teen when i discovered wattpad and yagami yato
#27
Talking with people I don't know in real life on the internet. Like right now!
Final score:
8points
future_vet 4 years ago
My parents don't know about it either. I talk on here and students of the world which is a penpalling site.
#28
Untill I was 18 I've never told my parents if I liked someone or if I dated someone. It's all because I thought that I am too young to go into relationship. Anyway:
1. In kindergarden (I was 3 or 4) I fell in love with a boy and once when my mom left very fast I came to the room and saw HIM. I was so happy I jumped on him, we felt down and he hit his head on the floor and started crying. End of love story.
2. Later in kindrgarden I was dating a very handsome boy. We were sneeking to the toilet to talk and kiss. This is the longest relationship in my life so far - two years of kindergarden and for years of elementary school. I prayed every night to God to make him think of me.
3. When I was on a school trip with some older kids I fall in love with this tall gay. So we dated and I got a ring from him. Unfortunatly it was so small that I coudn't take it of and I panicked. I needed to brake it, so my love ended.
4. Then it happens - my super long requited love in secondary and highschool. But we just loved playing this love game. At the end of high school I decided that if we will never try we will never know. I asked him to date me. We dated for two months and I broke up because it was boring.
So yeah, my parents dont know about any of it and I still think that I was too young to too immature before 18 to be in a relatinship.
Final score:
8points
#29
uuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....... well they found out but I used to sneak straight up Jello packets (they were just powder) and Ovaltine... and eat it like devour it within seconds. even tho it was just powder. it was nasty af but i loved it.. oh and i snorted it... YEAH IT WASNT FUN TO HAVE JELLO DUST UP MY NOSE AS A 7 YEAR OLD.
Final score:
8points
#30
I was -and still am- a very big nerd and teachers pet when I was in 7th grade. (I'm in 8th grade now) I would get bullied a lot by other people for it, get told by a lot of people that I was annoying and too loud for a girl. I told my parents about it, and my friends and I (who were experiencing the same things) talked to the teachers and then everything got "sorted out". Sorted out basically means that my teachers told the boys that it wasn't nice, and that was it. They had physically hurt us and verbally hurt us. They didn't even have to write an apology note. Things never stopped. I would go into the bathroom and cry. Then, one day a boy slapped me on the butt. I blushed and tried to act like nothing happened. I have never told anyone about this. Not my teachers, not my parents, not even my best friend. I wouldn't tell anyone because I was afraid that they would tell me that they were just being boys. I now avoid all conversation with those boys and won't even go close to them. I now regret telling my parents. They could have helped me. If anything like this happens to any of you, tell your parents or a trusted adult. They can help.
Final score:
8points
Sarah (Submission author) 4 years ago
Wow Joseph. Sorry that my goal is to do good in school, and sorry that I get along with my teachers. I'm not like sucking up to them, I just get along with them because I try hard in school!
#31
I cut up their clothes whenever I got angry at them. They though we had rats and installed thousands of dollars worth of security cameras in every room to see what the problem was.
Final score:
8points
#32
ok so im still a kid (14) and im dating a 17 y/o (my parents know and are fine with it) and only a few friends know this but dec. 9 2020 i switched v-cards with my bf. (i took his and he took mine) and i don't really remember much of it but if my family ever find out about it i'm dead.
Final score:
8points
JustAWeirdoGirlChild (Submission author) 4 years ago
plz dont judge, it wasnt meant to happen. we both waned to wait... but then it just.. happened.
#33
Mom gave me an apple to eat on way to school and I would feed it to a cow I met on the way because I wanted to be rebellious. This went on for about a year.
Final score:
8points
#34
Stole my moms chocolate once. She figured out about 2 days later, Then said "I am never sharing my candy with you ever again". I didn't share candy with her anymore either.
Final score:
7points
#35
I went to 5 below and i stole some candy> im still not proud
Final score:
7points
#36
I stole lipstick for... well I’m not going to say.
Final score:
7points
#37
A long time ago, i went to a friends place when I wasn't supposed to
Final score:
7points
#38
made a bunch of accounts under the name RuralAnemone so that my parents would never find out about my social life
Final score:
7points
#39
Snooped to find out what I was getting for Christmas. BTW I'm 15 and am consistently checking amazon to know what i'm getting for Christmas.
Final score:
7points
future_vet 4 years ago
I do this too. I know most things I am getting for Christmas this year but I don't snoop on Amazon when my parents leave me home alone I look in their closet which is where they hide the presents.
#40
A thing my Parents never knew I did Was Go in there room and steal Gum from their drawers
Final score:
6points
Chance Wilson 4 years ago
Am i the only one that read "I stole gun from their drawers" cause thats what I read the first time
#41
Well one time i was at the park and found a pocket knife so i put it in my pocket and this is going to get weird but I when I got home I threw the knife at the wall and it stuck so I kept on doing it until I heard my parents coming up the stairs I put my cat that had sharp sharp nails by the little slits in the wall and I threw the knife out the window ;-;
Final score:
6points
Sassy bookworm 4 years ago
Upstairs-threw the knife out the window?......I hope no one was walking by your house outside....
#42
That I blamed the dog that she peed on a bean bag chair. Please don't ask
Final score:
6points
#43
i listen to yagami yato and read wattpad. i discovered it when i wasn't even a teen.
Final score:
6points
#44
when I was like 7, I was a terrible child. I would shoplift stuff from stores when I wanted stuff. basically, my brother would do it, and so I got the idea that it was okay to do it too, and I would do it all the time because no one suspects little kids. I stopped when I was like 9 or ten, and I had to force my brother to stop doing it too because I didn't want to be a juvenile and live with that guilt. oh, and when I was 12, my parents would take my phone and IPad away, for no reason at all. so, I would steal it from them all the time and get into a ton of trouble. I was a bad child...
Final score:
6points
#45
I shoplifted. Aside from the fact that we were pretty poor, there were things my parents, particularly my mother, wouldn't let me have that I needed. Things like razors to shave (at 15 my mother didn't think I was old enough), tampons (I was supposed to use pads, which are nasty), and deodorant (I was supposed to use my father's???). It went on until I got my first job and could afford to buy my own stuff. And then I had to hide it....
Final score:
6points
future_vet 4 years ago
I hate how some parents won't let their kids use tampons it kind of sucks
#46
still a kid(14) and I feel kinda depressed around my mom but act normal(our personalities don't mix well)Any advice???
Final score:
6points
#47
I'm a very good child but I kinda like a girl, and I'm a girl. She's my BFF and doesn't really like the LGBTQ+ community. I haven't even told my mom or dad yet, because I'm afraid of what they would say. She's beautiful and smart but I know it wont happen. But at least she's my BFF!
Final score:
5points
Juleigha Mills 4 years ago
Hey at least you're in the friend zone and not the severed ties zone
#48
I was a good kid growing up in the 70's. At around 8-9 years old, I got $0.50 allowance per week to clean my room and load and unload the dishwasher. One day my mother paid me $1.00 to wash the walls in the dining room. I spent hours on it and was very proud of earning money I could fold. My friend and I decided to ride our bikes to the nearest market (about 3 miles away, we lived in the suburbs) and buy some candy with my money. When I got to the cash register my dollar wasn't in my pocket. It must have fallen out along the way. I cried all the way home, but didn't tell my parents because I was afraid they would never trust me with that much money every again.
Final score:
5points
#49
My friends and I snort Baby Bottle Pop like it's f****** cocaine. We're 12.
Final score:
5points
#50
A few years ago when I was in Eighth grade I had this freind lets call her Eileen. Well my dad overheard me and one of my other friends talking about how she did "Witchcraft" (legit all she did was collect crystals and make protection bottles I later started collecting crystals too tho) So, my dad never let me hang out with her. But, because he had never seen her face we came up with the plan that i would say i made a new friend named Delilah and i would introduce my dad to Delilah. We literally did this just so we could go on Platonic dates to the Library and to the crystal shop in town. Anyway, It worked because we never hung out at each others houses so our parents never met. Pretty smart actually. Well those Platonic dates turned into real dates. until she moved away a year and a half ago :'(
Final score:
5points
#51
I adopted a stray cat when I was 7. I named her Motor because she purred so loudly. When she wanted attention she’d purr loudly. She ate birds and cat food left out (small town in Iowa). My dad was very allergic, he’d sneeze unknowingly when I’d sneak her into the basement. She was officially adopted by my next door neighbor 4 months later per my request.
Final score:
5points
#53
My father used to smoke, one time when I was around 7 or so, I took advantage of the brief moment his back was turned to pick up a cigarette in the ashtray and see what smoking was like.
Final score:
4points
#54
I mixed "potions" using paint, melted snow, and soap. I drank some too. It didn't affect me at all, but I like to think that if it were to become an official potion, its effects would be similar to cactus juice.
Final score:
4points
#55
We lived with one of my dad's friends for a while and they sometimes and he sometimes left dirty magazines in the bathroom and I would steal them. Not proud, never told anyone.
Final score:
3points
Chance Wilson 4 years ago
sorry but i have to say it i watched something related to that on my little amazon tablet once. (NOT ON PURPOSE THO OKAY PEOPLE IT WAS AD AND I TOUCHED IT ON ACCIDENT BECAUSE MY TABLET WAS SUPER GREASY BECAUSE OF THE bacon THAT I HAD FOR BREAKFAST)
#56
Shoplifting, smoking, drinking, breaking and entering, playing with Molotov cocktails, driving my dad's '67 Charger, playing with my dad's gun... They know about some of this stuff now. When you're an adult, you can tell them and they can't punish you for it.
Final score:
3points
#57
when i was 6 i used to espically get up at 2am just to get one of those little coffee packets called delight and i was just claiming all those cabinets like a boss
Final score:
3points
#58
I broke A LOT of glass cups and plates. Some of the times I was caught and others I was able to throw them away with our getting caught. Sorry mom
Final score:
3points
#59
Umm.. watching porn on Reddit.. Xd
Drinking Monsters(Monster energy drinks)
And yeah.. I'm a teen so... I haven't really done that much bad things.
Final score:
3points
I_Am_So_???? 7 months ago
Once, at 12, I was looking up 'fetish' because I'm f*cking dirty-minded, but apparently I wasn't dirty-minded enough: I accidentally clicked on a site that turned out to be PornHub (yes, I knew what porn was) and instantly was exposed to some stuff I can still vividly remember two years later...
#60
I Go on Bored panda XD and I ALLWAYS sneak any Candy luring around my mom has coauthor me a few times buuut I still do it Like even if it is in my Family’s drawersand last year at my school the Selled Popcorn at
School and ALL YEAR I WOUMD STEAL MONEY JUST TO GET POPCORN I don’t think I’m a bad child it’s just cuz I wanted to look cool XD
Final score:
3points
#61
When I was at hotels, I used to drink all those little flavored liquid coffee creamers. Just cuz they tasted good.
Final score:
3points
#62
I'm still a kid. I'm on social media (mostly Bored Panda) for a real long time everyday on the computer because there's no screen time here.
Final score:
2points
#63
I liked Kirby Games (but in secret.) I was too embarrassed to tell my parents, but I am not afraid to tell other people. I am still afraid of what my parents might say. (please don't judge me.)
Final score:
2points
Average Grizzlies Fan 4 years ago
People like what they like, so you are fine. I like Kirby too.
#64
SO, when I was around 8, I was on a camping trip in the middle of nowhere. One night, we were going to make s'mores, and I was charged with bringing the marshmallows to the campfire. To get there, I had to walk through a really dark forest, and when you're 8, that can be traumatizing. Anyways, I got lost, and started freaking out. Eventually, I made my way to the campfire, and nobody was there. I started freaking out, because I was worried that they'd left me. So I made my way back to the campsite after getting lost a couple times. Once I got back, it was like everything was normal. Parents don't know to this day. Also look at #6. Similar to me.
Final score:
2points
#65
I was doing homework in my room with my best friend and she started burning (for fun) some pieces of paper inside a small trash can. Suddenly, a piece of cardboard that was also in there caught fire and soon, everything else in it. We tried picking it up to put it outside, along with all the smoke it was making but it was made of metal and too hot to hold. She panicked, running around the room, not knowing what to do until finally, she sat on it (wearing jeans). When we were able to pick up the trash can, it was stuck to the carpet underneath, it had melted! My dad was worried about the smell and knocked on the door so my friend quickly threw all her books on the melted patch. Suspicious but satisfied we were not smoking something weird, my father let us carry on. In the end, we had to cut out the melted carpet and then prune the entire wall to wall carpet to even it out. No one ever noticed.
Final score:
2points
#66
Ok so this is pretty bad but I'm 10 and already know about umm inappropriate stuff.
Final score:
2points
#67
I flipped off my teacher when i was 7
went to juvie for breaking and entering
im 11 ://///
Final score:
1point
#68
1. Whenever i had an extreme cough or something, my mom let me take a spoonful of honey. Well, i took 3-4 spoonfuls instead. XD
2. One of my friends slapped me but i had no other friends so i had to lie that everything was fine and apparently that ¨friend¨ still thinks were good. (i actually need some advice about that..-///- can anyone halp meh?
Final score:
1point
Anarchy (they/them) 4 years ago
Confront them about them slapping you. Tell them that it hurt and you did not like it
#69
one time I was at a sleepover with a friend and we got a call from another friend saying her bf was gonna commit unalive and we didn't know what to do so we called him and he didn't answer so we call a suicide hotline and they told us to call the cops because he lived in a different state and we didn't want to do it on our own so we told my friend's mom and got yelled at ... and I never told my mom that happened
Final score:
1point
Phunny Philosopher 4 years ago
You absolutely did the right thing. It's hard to call the police about committing or wanting to be unalive. I called police about that once and I was really scared it was not the right thing to do. But they convinced me it was. Friend's mom should have helped you, not yelled at you.
#70
My parents would have cash sitting around soI would take 10 dollars and hide it in my room. Then a few days later I would pretend to clean my room and say look I just found 10 dollars and they would let me spend it.
Final score:
1point
#71
i also snort and smoke pixie sticks. and have a slight nicotine addiction. and got drunk with my mom. i hadn't seen her for like 5 years so, yeah.
Final score:
1point
#72
I was oh wait a second im 11 i mean I am very dirty minded and most of my dreams involve sex or sexual relations
Final score:
0points
#73
Win I was little I would drown snakes and watch them sit there trying to live... and I ripped bugs apart slowly and would go look for more things to kill I have personal problems XD
Final score:
0points
#75
sorry for posting again but i also am bi and am kind of dating my freind.
Final score:
0points
What do you think ?
Owen Salmon2028 4 years ago
dear karens if you wanna not wear a mask do it inside your home and order stuff from amazon
Sprinkled Donut 4 years ago
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dear karens if you wanna not wear a mask do it inside your home and order stuff from amazon
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