children

Let's make no bones about it, kids are stupid as hell. They're mean, cruel idiots who screw up constantly. It's considered an insult to call an adult childish. If you knew anyone who acted like kids do, they'd be kicked out of your friend group immediately. I guess they're the future or something so we keep em around. For more kids being dumb, here are some completely stupid reasons kids had meltdowns.

Some parents tell their kids lies to protect them from information that might hurt them. Some parents lie to their kids to avoid a tantrum or maybe they're just too tired to explain a complex problem. Then there's other parents who just lie to their kids to see how bad they can screw them up and laugh at the results. That's what our parents were like. For more, here are some of the funniest lies parents told their kids.

Sometimes life is going just fine, you're minding your own business, then a bee decides to land on your hand for a second. You think, "oh holy crap this is totally unacceptable. I must let everyone know about the injustice that bee has done, landing on my hand for a second." So you wail as hard as you can for 3 hours, screaming at the top of your lungs, hitting your head against the wall, because of that awful, awful bee. Anyway, for more irrational tantrums, here are more the dumbest reasons kids had meltdowns.

Seems like an effective way for a kid to end a toxic friendship and get out of punishment Scott free. We weren't this malevolently spiteful or resourceful as kids. When we were 9 we were too busy figuring out if hitting each other with sticks was a good use of free time. For a story of classier dad revenge, check this out.

We're not exactly experts in child rearing, but this story about a mom who refuses to use negative language around her kid kinda set off some alarms. Like, isn't replacing one word with another one kind of defeat the purpose of not having the first word? There is octopus way this strategy worked out. Check out some awesome twitter jokes about parenting here.

What kids lack in vocabulary they make up for in creativity. And while they're not completely correct, they're definitely not inaccurate. So that helps. Enjoy your new words and watch out for poke trees and halloween eagles. For a big batch of funny tweets about parenting, check these out.

Remember everyone, sleeping is the time when you're most vulnerable, and literally anything can happen. Not much makes a scary situation scarier than when you're jolted into reality with zero context. It's kind of impossible to prevent stuff like this happening while you're asleep, so just...try not to sleep I guess?

Sure, a developing human is gonna have a hard time adjusting to the rigors of the world around them, but at a certain point, c'mon kid, you're having a full-on meltdown because your mom's not letting you eat dirt. Maybe she knows better than you about eating dirt. Here are more stupid reasons kids went insane.

Radio host Sam Sanders asked his fellow twitter users what kind of strange delicacies they created for themselves as children. The results were, really, pretty gross. Lots of peanut butter, ketchup, kraft singles and coca powder went into these people's upbringings. And not necessarily in separate dishes either.

Listen we get that kids are little bundles of innocence or whatever but they're also screaming, leaking piles of problems made entirely out of your own broken dreams. Here are 35 parents whose kids gave them grief for no good reason. On a similar note, sadly, these types of tantrums aren't just relegated to kids. Adults can have them too.

During a measles outbreak in the state of Washington brought on fully by parents opting out of vaccinating their children for easily preventable, potentially life-threatening diseases, one dullard went to a public anti-vaxx group to ask how she could prevent her child from getting the Measles. People frustrated with this kind of BS were not kind in the comments.

No parent wants to see the day when their kid does something stupid, gets hurt, and then does that exact same thing again. It happens more than you'd think. From running around with buckets on their heads to getting stuck in trees, here are some all-stars.

4 year olds are brimming with creativity, wonder, and the ability to lie through their little teeth for personal gain.

Say what you will, but we will never not find it hilarious when a sign for anything ART related gets sullied by a well-placed F. Here's some top quality accidental filth.