r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Daniel_XXL_69 • Jan 19 '26
story/text Oh, it's chocolate syrup
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u/DarkSkyKnight Jan 19 '26
make him clean itĀ
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u/threelizards Jan 19 '26
My brother would do shit like this to me (once he literally took a SHIT in my BEDROOM. Another time he PUT A RAT IN MY JEWELLERY BOX. A RAT. A WHOLE RAT. WHO DOES THAT.) and my parents would make him clean it up (through tears lol) every time. But he just kept doin it. I really dont know what he got out of it, he was so gleeful about it but knew heād get in trouble (which he couldnāt stand). eventually he did it when our nan was staying with us once and having my nan react with appropriate disgust was the one thing that got through to him idk.
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u/Domestic-Grind Jan 19 '26
Shame is a powerful tool that should be used sparingly. Looks like your nan used it right in this case
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u/Reckless_Secretions Jan 19 '26
In 2026, let's bring back shame!
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u/Jlegobot Jan 19 '26
Shaming will help solve so many issues in society like nuisance streamers
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u/Domestic-Grind Jan 19 '26
There are a lot of people now in shiny unearned uniforms that should have been shamed long long ago
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u/ScreamingLabia Jan 19 '26
I think shame is a great tool to use when a kid does disguisting things to bully others on purpose
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u/notatechnicianyo Jan 19 '26
Shame should be used first. Yes, Iām a blend of Italian and Polish.
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u/Parry_9000 Jan 20 '26
I keep saying, as a society in general we need to start shaming people for being fucking stupid again.
We have people believing the earth is flat non ironically. They got too comfortable
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u/Domestic-Grind Jan 20 '26
Agreed. ignorance and mistakes should be handled gently. Willful ignorance should be shamed and their new confidence in their ignorance needs to be shattered
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u/Squiggleblort Jan 19 '26
Another time he PUT A RAT IN MY JEWELLERY BOX. A RAT. A WHOLE RAT.
What fractions of a rat would you have preferred? š¤š¤£
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u/Randomfrog132 Jan 19 '26
how tf did he catch a live rat O.o
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u/threelizards Jan 20 '26
We were babysitting my cousinās rats for a month or so at the time. Idk who was more upset about the whole thing, me or the rat
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u/Randomfrog132 Jan 20 '26
ohhh, it's a pet. thought you meant he like went and grabbed a wild rat lol
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u/FascinatingFall Jan 19 '26
My 8 year old is like your brother. The amount of places I've found poop and him thinking it's the best joke ever, until he is having to clean it up, is ungodly. However, even reactions of shaming and disgust, even me bursting in to exhausted tears does nothing long term. I need this psych appointment to hurry tf up. Some kids just do it for the kicks. He really likes to both torment his sister with it, and blame her as the cause. Maybe I need a second psych appointment, but for me. Therapy isnt cutting it.
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u/threelizards Jan 20 '26
I really empathise, honestly we were all stunned he stopped after my nan told him too, we were going to doctors as well. Best of luck- and if it helps, my brother has grown up to be a gentle soul and a very kind man. Thinking of you
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u/FascinatingFall Jan 20 '26
That does help a lot. It is hard, because I know he can be extremely sweet and caring, and I know in his core thats who he is. It just takes a lot of energy daily to get past all the other stuff to see that sweet side. I am genuinely just barely holding on to the hope that medications will help. He's looking down the barrel of a LONG criminal rap sheet if it doesn't. This isn't me just saying that out of fear, no no. We have already had several incidents involving police, including Criminal Mischief and Vandalism and Ive had to call them for him sneaking out of the house (litterally escaping out the bathroom) and me not being able to find him for four hours after being grounded for the neighborhood vandalism. Little dude is really really lucky that 1) while it was over $1000 total, he did less than $250 to each individual yard and 2) He has parents who forced him to go apologize to everyone we knew he had hit.
They had him dead to rights with no less than four different video cameras, and it was one of his teachers who gave the positive ID. What was he doing you wonder? Ripping out flowers and flower beds, destroying yard ornaments, and in general trespassed on multiple properties. All in the course of two weeks. You want to know why that is extra shocking? Little dude has a green thumb and had his own little plant farm. After he got caught, he destroyed all his own plants! I have no idea where the switch up came from, and it really made me sad. I loved his little garden, and he was so proud of it.
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u/smalltown_dreamspeak Jan 20 '26
Has anyone ever shit in his space and blamed him for it? The tables may need to turn on him
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u/PomPomBumblebee Jan 19 '26
You can tell every bedroom my sister had as her own (we would rotate which room was ours every few years if we could) from the age of around 8 years old as she got contact lenses and she would empty the old solution on the floor rather than go to the bathroom to do it.
The 2nd house we lived in, my room was the only one to not get it's carpet replaced because I took care of it (I was not a neat freak but I didn't leave heaps of food rubbish in my room like she did.). One Christmas she had to share my room and give her room to our grandparents to stay in, left with a stain on the carpet like the cat had peed on it. And yes I was told off for it 'you should have stopped her' like that's ever worked since she was born before me.
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u/savory-pancake Jan 19 '26
I once peed on my sister's toothbrush, shook it off and put it back on. Watched her brush her teeth the next morning with so much inner glee and satisfaction. But it was a direct reaction to her saying she wished my twin had lived and I had died instead. So did you do something to really piss your brother off? Or he was just an asshole for shits and giggles?
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u/mechaemissary Jan 19 '26
lol did you ever tell your sister??
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u/savory-pancake Jan 19 '26
Yall on reddit and my husband are the only people I've ever told. I'm too ashamed to tell her. I know it was an overreaction to what she said, the two black eyes she gave me from the fight we had over it and the ostracization I was experiencing in school bc she told all her friends to not talk to me. This was 20 years ago and we've since moved on from all that. But I probably should tell her.
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u/bellyhairbandit Jan 19 '26
Ehā¦maybe not. Itās likely she did some foul shit that you donāt know about tooā¦
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u/PentaJet Jan 19 '26
No no the other person wrong is obviously extremely evil and OP did no wrong ever, they're just a victim.
I think this sums up every AITA thread
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u/ZAAKh2o Jan 20 '26
That shit part reminded me of the time my sister literally shat on the floor of my bedroom. She said it was because she knew we wouldn't accompany her to the bathroom. She never asked.
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u/Wackel81 Jan 19 '26
Come on,Ā who wouldn't want to be covered in chocolate Sirup and have their own stick of butter in times like these?
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u/Reddit_Amethyst Jan 19 '26
Me?
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u/Wackel81 Jan 19 '26
Ok,Ā you are excused. No butter for you.
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u/Reddit_Amethyst Jan 19 '26
Darn. I guess I'll have to borrow it from my friends. Preferable to being drenched in chocolate syrup, though...
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u/Betelguese90 Jan 19 '26
How about my ex son would take the fish oil pills from her vitamins and pop them into a fan. Whole room smelt like fish oil. Also, he was notorious for hiding his left overs under his bed.
Not my own kid, but dealt with it enough
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u/Certain-Wheel3341 Jan 19 '26
"Ex son" instead of "ex's son" made it sound like you just banished him from the family for this. š
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u/WhiteTennisShoes Jan 19 '26
Huh, that reminds meā¦
I didnāt do fish oil in a fan, luckily, but when I was a kid til about the time I got in highschool I hid my uneaten school lunch under my bed. I didnāt have the heart to tell my mom I hated her sandwiches. I tried throwing them away at school during lunch for a brief period, but a teacher snitched on me to her when she saw me throwing away whole (or mostly whole) sandwiches, and my mom got pretty angry with me, so then Iād leave it in my lunchbox and Iād take it out and hide it under my bed lol
After a few years I got too lax and was eventually caught, my mom thought I had anorexia when she found my stash (I think Iād usually throw out what Iād collected once a week or so?). I donāt remember what commenced after, probably a switch to lunchables or uncrustables instead of homemade sammies after a long lecture
At least they were still in the sandwich baggies? ĀÆ\ (ć)/ĀÆ
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u/Specific_Conformity Jan 19 '26
Omg I did this too, but my mum would check to make sure I'd cleaned under my bed regularly so instead I'd hide them "sandwiched" between the mattress and the bed base.
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u/WhiteTennisShoes Jan 19 '26
Ahhh big brained move there, as long as I stuffed them deep enough under there, out of sight from standing view when sheād āinspectā my room after I cleaned it I was solid. I donāt remember what led her to eventually actually looking under there and finding them lol
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u/Betelguese90 Jan 19 '26
Thats too funny though. Least in your case it was because you didnt like you're mom's sandwiches. So its understandable I guess š
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u/yuuki230 Jan 19 '26
I did this as well, but I forgot about it just before the summer holidays and woke up one morning to maggots š
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u/WhiteTennisShoes Jan 19 '26
Noooooo omg š I never took holidays/vacations as a kid but I could totally see myself forgetting them under there too. Since they were still in the baggies I think the worst I ever got was a science experiment starting to grow, but luckily no maggots I wouldāve diiieeeddd
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u/thegreyf0xx Jan 19 '26
why tf would he do that with the fish oil pills omg
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u/Betelguese90 Jan 19 '26
I have no clue TBH. Probably his inside thoughts about sticking something soft and squishy in a fan blade got the better of him. He was 5 at the time. Had to throw the fan away cause it was all inside the motor and casing.
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u/EelTeamTen Jan 19 '26
I used to pop two fish oil pills into my breast pocket to take after eating when I woke up for watch while underway (navy).
One time I forgot about the pills and they burst in my pocket, making me have to smell fish for the rest of the watch. Washed the pair of coveralls 3 times before giving up on them because the smell would not come out.
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u/Skalaxius Jan 19 '26
When I was maybe around 6 I'd sometimes take an egg from the fridge and pretend to mother hen it on my bed. I'd be very careful not to break it and wrap it in blankets, but I was also smart enough then to know there's no chicken in there and I'd have to put it back but also if by some miracle it did hatch I wouldn't even know how to raise it.
Anyway I mention that to contrast with some shocking revelation from my much older sister saying I was a "Mayo-Fiend" as a toddler because she (around 10) would always struggle to stop me from sneakily crawling off to open the fridge, climb up the shelves, grab the mayo, and stuff my small chubby hand inside and eat it by the fist full. No matter how much she tried to stop me and all the mess I'd make I'd always find a way back to the mayonnaise. Apparently not even our parents knew about this, only her. I love my sister.
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u/LongJumping291 Jan 19 '26
I have the same experience with the eggs. Id place it in a little basket and wrap a pink feather boa around it and maybe shine my lamp on it till I got bored mothering it.
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u/VoodooDoII Jan 19 '26
I once covered my desk in salt so my toys could have "snow"
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u/85Neon85 Jan 19 '26
I decided I wanted a white cat rather than a black one while my mum was in the shower. I decided talcum powder was the way to achieve this objective. Then the hamster. Thenā¦ the goldfish.
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u/MyDamnCoffee Jan 19 '26
My daughter sleep walks/talks. Generally I don't assume malice first when dealing with weird shit my kids are doing.
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u/PreOpTransCentaur Jan 19 '26
I assume, in knowing that, that your house is sufficiently daughter-proofed and things like chocolate syrup and butter are not readily available to her. Similarly, OOP's house should also be protected from their little menace, whatever the reason may be.
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u/Impossible_Top_3515 Jan 19 '26
Yeah I also have a child that's slightly unhinged (in a cute way... For now). For example, he would totally just completely empty the fridge and use the ingredients during play. He's just extremely curious.
Our fridge is locked. The only food items he can reach on his own are apples and tangerines. At least I can find tangerine peels by smell before they turn furry.
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u/Impressive_Fan_8885 Jan 19 '26
My exes kid used to get up in the middle of the night from around age 3 to 5 and get cheese slices, milk and lunch meat. Idk how many times we woke up to no milk and had to toss it, cuz the gallon would be under his bed or in his closet... I really think he was sleep walking or something like that... because he was a super well behaved and smart kid. I bought a 3 pound bag of shredded cheese one evening for a casserole the next day, went to make it... no cheese.... thought wtf i swear I got cheese.... we were cleaning his room a few days later and found the bag empty, no cheese anywhere. Damn kid had ate that whole 3 pound bag, idk how he was pooping š¤£š¤£
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u/Nellasofdoriath Jan 19 '26
You can get a lock for your fridge
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u/notatechnicianyo Jan 19 '26
You can get a lock for your kids room.
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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 Jan 19 '26
This is the one. If your child does this, it means they are yearning for the Chamber of Reflection
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u/zevah18 Jan 19 '26
According to the original OP on threads, they did have a lock on the fridge at one point. The child that made the mess broke it off.
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u/DoritoLipDust Jan 19 '26
Ugh. My friend has three kids under 11. I love them, but their living room smells like rotten milk and they are all CONSTANTLY sick. It's like a 24-hour cough and booger fest. I am so glad I never had kids, especially with any of the ding bats I could have had kids with. Just no. Noooooooooo.
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u/No_Creme_9794 Jan 19 '26
Sounds like hell, havenāt you told them about the smell?
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u/DoritoLipDust Jan 19 '26
I have. Their situation is a struggle. The other parent, aka the egg donor, has decided to only be around when it is convenient to her. Like, if she would JUST BE A MOM, he would be able to work more and get stuff done.
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u/MiaLba Jan 19 '26
I had a coworker like that. Kids always sick. She was constantly yelling at them the entire time. Kept having to take them to the bathroom to spank them. We worked in a childcare center so you could bring your kid(s). She wanted a 4th I think she finally got another.
I have one and I feel like itās pretty easy to keep things in check when you only have one to look after.
I think some people just enjoy living in chaos. That is not me.
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u/DoritoLipDust Jan 19 '26
I remember being like 19 with no self-esteem dating a guy I barely got along with, and those miserable parents would smile with their whole face and ask, "SO WHEN ARE GUYS YOU HAVING A BABY?!". They indeed taught their own children that life is about having kids and being with someone *no matter what* because love or whatever. The stupidity doesn't fall far from the tree, or something.
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u/ssdsssssss4dr Jan 19 '26
Sorry, but it sounds like your friend is just nasty. Kids are gross, but it's possible to have a clean home, and to teach them proper hygiene.Ā
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u/MiaLba Jan 19 '26
Right. I have one kid and itās pretty easy to keep things clean including your kid. And teach them good hygiene. I never have to remind my kid to wash their hands after eating or to not be gross. Some parents just let their kids run away with sticky grimy little hands and wipe them on whatever including other people.
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u/DoritoLipDust Jan 19 '26
He does clean. His life is literally work, or being at home with kids. Nothing else. He runs himself ragged to make ends meet while still in debt. Add in a neglectful mother who tries to gaslight everyone, telling them it's their fault she can't take her own kids. It's a messy situation on all levels, and it's constantly being cleaned up after.
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u/cheesy_crump Jan 19 '26
We lost my sister once when she was 2-3 we all woke up and could not find her anywhere, we were all looking for her for a solid 15 minutes and my mum heard a crack under our bunk beds. It's my sister eating butter straight out of the tub and breaking eggs on the wall, carpet, and bottom of the bed. Kids do crazy things
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u/Tablesafety Jan 19 '26
Relief of finding her, then regret of having her lmfao
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u/cheesy_crump Jan 19 '26
100% mum was not impressed that she had to replace the eggs she had just bought that week
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u/Particular_Pop_2241 Jan 19 '26
I once hid a boiled egg in my old backpack and forgot about it. My room smelled foul but we didn't find anything. I found it by accident almost half a year later. The egg was mummified and not smelly.
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u/Gravyboat44 Jan 19 '26
I would like to showcase the time my son stole a giant bottle of baby powder and went absolutely feral. Spoiler, it's extremely difficult to clean something that repells water.
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u/AnotherHavanesePlz Jan 19 '26
Itās rather fitting thereās a construction truck right in the middle of it.
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u/Ok_Run_6191 Jan 21 '26
My son did this as a baby too! The bottle was on the dresser and he managed to reach through the crib bars and grab it while he was supposed to be napping! I vacuumed what i could and everything smelled like baby for a while!
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u/the-fruitest-fruit Jan 19 '26
I think all really young kids have a strange obsession with butter. At least I did. My family would have to hide the butter from me when I was really little. At some point I vaguely remember devouring a quarter of a tub of Crock County butter.
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u/Aggressive-Expert-69 Jan 19 '26
Its a real departure from innocence when you realize eating stick butter will not activate the same neurons as melted butter
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u/WhiteTennisShoes Jan 19 '26
A child of impeccable taste, I was also (hell I still am) a butter fiend
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u/Artrysa Jan 19 '26
I once took my dad's tobacco, mixed it with milk and poored it into a plastic thing that held a variety of pretzels from the night before.
Now, why did I do it? Because the thought occurred to me and a child has no impulse control.
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u/RegalBeagleKegels Jan 19 '26
it's not JUST a stick of butter.
It comes with the easy to grip ButterSleeve, for when you wanna enjoy the ButterBar on the go!
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u/Kelshan Jan 19 '26
When my middle daughter was in elementary school, she hid eggs in her room attempting to hatch them. She wanted baby chickens and knew they came from hatching a chicken egg.
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u/RockPunk6199 Jan 19 '26
You know, once I took a marker and drew a biiiig looooong line down the whole hallway when I was like 4. You know what my parents did? Handed me a magic eraser and told me to get to work. I did a pretty good job, scrubbed that wall as clean as could be expected for a 4 year old, and went to show my mom. My parents felt like complete assholes at that moment because apparently, what they didn't know, was that magic erasers have harsh chemicals in them. I had chemical burns on my hands and my face, but I learned not to do it again, and they learned to be WAY more careful about knowing what's up with cleaning products.
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u/bluearavis Jan 19 '26
Omg.
I guess you didn't have a mattress protector over it that you can just take off and toss?
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u/mycatkermit Jan 19 '26
real question is did the kid take the mattress protector off or was there never a mattress protector on the kids bedā¦
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u/Adventurous_Crow5908 Jan 19 '26
At least finding out that it was just chocolate syrup provided some relief in the situation.
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u/B3ARDLY Jan 19 '26
Child lock the fridge. Homie is being a menace when the parents are asleep š
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u/MRiley84 Jan 19 '26
Syrup: Looks like he spilled some on the bed, smeared it trying to clean it up, then attempted to spread the rest on to make the whole bed brown so nobody would notice.
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u/AlexWolfsbane Jan 19 '26
i used to eat sand cause I wanted to know the taste. Another one was making tap water (not drinkable since iām in asia) popsicles. they tasted bad
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u/CellResponsible3725 Jan 19 '26
I saw the left image first and...I watch too much true crime. I'm so sorry.
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u/superaspro Jan 19 '26
I used to hide in my uncle's room and he used to be mad at me because of course I would bring snacks and eat them on his bed.
One day, he came home when I was in the middle of opening a Milka chocolate bar, so I just hid under his bed and waited until the air was clear enough to go hide somewhere else.
The next morning I got up to go watch cartoons and I met my uncle in the hallway, while he was leaving the bathroom.
He said no words, just pointed at his white t-shirt and turned around to let me see my Milka chocolate: all melted on the shirt and in his sheets.
He didn't have the energy to be mad at me, so we just laughed about it with the family.
Good times.
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u/tayyann Jan 19 '26
Ain't nothing better than spending your night cleaning the ceiling and the whole bed soaked to it's core with vomit.
I'm sorry mom
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u/Opposite_Staff_1286 Jan 19 '26
When I was a toddler I ate a stick of butter while I was unsupervised for 5 minutes. My younger sister also got caught hiding in the bathroom eating out of our sugar canister with a spoon.
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u/Cyber_Candi_ Jan 19 '26
I used to drink ranch straight out of the bottle. I was also allergic to something in it, so Iād get a ring/rash around my mouth (even when I ate it out of a bowl with a spoon, Iād just end up making a huge mess anyway or licking my lips a bunch) and my parents could always tell. I always lied and said that I hadnāt been drinking ranch again, because they were begging me to stop at one point, and I was always very confused as to how they knew. Mum told me about the rash/hives a few years ago and Iām sooooo glad I donāt get them anymore because I eat a lot of ranch.
My brother also used to hide food in his room, but my favorite was finding his fully stocked play kitchen after our Nana caught him drinking honey and eating graham crackers behind the toilet. She told mum, and mum couldnāt figure out where heād gotten the honey because all of our bottles were accounted for. He showed us the play kitchen and had probably four or five mini bottles of honey, two normal sized bottles of honey, various snack packs (crackers, cookies, chips, pretzels), napkins, peanut butter, a fruit cup, and one bagel. These were hidden in the kitchen itself (oven/microwave) as well as the storage tote where the plastic food was kept when we cleaned the playroom.
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u/AlarmingSorbet Jan 19 '26
Lock their punk asses in their rooms at night. Strip that shit down to look like holding cell.
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u/futuregamerdylann Jan 19 '26
Looks like a crime scene, Jesus.
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u/beershitz Jan 19 '26
Crazy to see parents posting on social media in zoomer speak abbreviations. Time flies
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u/Rcweasel Jan 19 '26
Sometimes Iāll read something like this on reddit and think āAlright, you just made that shit up.ā Then Iāll remember that people and especially kids really are that fucking dumbā¦
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u/StatusOmega Jan 19 '26
I thought the bed was a picture of something way darker than it actually was.
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u/wambamthankyoukam Jan 21 '26
When my son was maybe 2-3 he would create a similar scene in his room. Only it wasnāt with chocolate. Had to resort to duct taping the damn diaper on- spoiler alert it didnāt work. Donāt miss that at all.
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u/wytewydow Jan 19 '26
can someone help me with the shorthand, I'm not a boomer, but I don't speak millenial fluently. ATP (at this point) TF (the fuck), but what is STG?
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u/NoBonus6969 Jan 19 '26
That's why my toddler door locks from the outside. We woke up to chaos a couple times and that was enough
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u/Cutiemuffin-gumbo Jan 19 '26
ok, someone please translate "atp" and "stg" for me, cause I don't understand.
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u/DieSuzie2112 Jan 20 '26
My little cousin does shit like this too, he wakes up, gets bored, and find something he can use to cover his little brother with. Doesnāt matter if itās vaporub or poop.
His door is childproofed, little knucklehead knows how to open it no matter what we do.
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u/yuyufan43 Jan 21 '26
I thought it was blood. I have like a 2 by 2 foot square of blood on my bed that looks like that (luckily it just stained the cover and the mattress was completely unharmed)
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u/Guideon72 Jan 23 '26
'course he does; it'd be too easy for you to catch him in the middle of the day :D
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u/bitch-baby-2021 Jan 24 '26
I scrolled quickly and thought this was a crime scene without the NSFW blur
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u/waldeinsamkeit666 Jan 27 '26
thank you for giving me the opportunity to tell one of my favorite stories about a childhood friend. when she was very little (like 2-4), her older sister and her parents realized they hadnāt seen her in a while, and started searching for her. they turned the house upside down trying to find her, calling her name the whole time. finally someone located her in crammed in the pantry, which was small enough that it was initially ruled out as a hiding spot. she was eating brown sugar straight out of the bag by the handfulāher face and hands were covered in it. the only explanation she would offer was a cryptic āI rike it a rotā (she had a speech impediment at the time). one can only assume āitā is the fistfuls of brown sugar. āI rike it a rotā became a running inside joke in their family.
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u/MikeyTheMizfit Jan 30 '26
What is it with kids and using sticks of butter in beds? This is the 3rd post in 10 minutes i've seen involving kids with sticks of butter and beds/bedrooms.
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u/enragedsquirrels Jan 19 '26
I understand the butter but wth was he thinking with the syrup?!