kids

Human beings are amazingly intelligent creatures, but what comes before that is the absolute wildest period of trial and error. Kids are strange and dumb, and while it's not completely their fault, it's hard to ignore. They'll mess up couches, scream for no reason, and demand to touch the stove. There's too much proof that kids are dumb as rocks.

The rampant imaginations we have as children can make for some wild, irrational fears. That grandma who rapped off a horror story about dragon flies being able to sew people's mouths shut was really on one. Zero chill with that. Just picturing that as an adult is enough to give someone the chills. 

Man, with all the stories about Karens going off on customer service employees and generally depositing large amounts of toxic energy into an otherwise peaceful environment, we hardly ever here from their kids about how difficult it is to have them as parents. This thread peels back the curtain on what it's like to grow up with a Karen as your mom. It's no easy situation. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the things that people could do as kids that became way harder when they got older. It's funny how that works. Time does its thing, and all of a sudden, doing stuff like playing around on the dang monkey bars or screaming just cause you feel like it are completely ridiculous things to do as an adult. Getting older kind of sucks. 

Just in case you weren't already aware, James Breakwell is infamous in the Twitter realm for churning out comedy gems about the fleeting triumphs and frequent stresses of raising children. Any parent that has experienced the emotional rollercoaster of raising some kids will relate with these tweets. He also shares some funny moments from his marriage that are sure to strike some chords for married folks as well.

Dad jokes are one of those things that many of us have heard, and have a hard time not loving, even when all we want to do is shake our heads and stomp the ground in frustration. For more funny dad jokes, check out these utterly delightful dad jokes.

Someone on AskReddit asked for people to share what happened after they let their moms count to zero. Sometimes the results were rage-fueled, while other times the moms just bit their tongues and counted it out again. All in all, this thread is just our kind of silly. 

There's no question that parenting is an emotional rollercoaster. Countless sleepless nights, and some kind of temper tantrum are regular occurrences for parents just trying to live some kind of remotely peaceful existence. This particular AskReddit thread considers some parents' most unexpected, absurd conversations that they've had with their toddlers. Some wild conversation topics from the thread include how it's not okay to color the cat, or how one is not advised to take lettuce to bed with them. 

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the various things that petrified people as children. Some kids enter the world scared of everything. If they get lucky, they outgrow those fears and swap them out for adulting concerns like financial stress and health issues. Fun stuff. 

This dad asked the people of Reddit's AITA community whether or not he was in the wrong for taking the initiative and re-homing his son's fifth pet hermit crab. The whole idea of enabling a kid to have "practice pets" that are still very much so alive beings, is kind of twisted. On top of that, the decision to give the kid hermit crabs for his practice pet was misinformed and an ongoing lapse in judgement as well. Hermit crabs are very high maintenance, picky creatures that can also live upwards of 30 years! 

Untethered by the chains of shame, kids say some extremely brutal stuff to the people around them. It can be insulting, straight up psychopathic, and at worst, hauntingly accurate. Kids are mostly weird and dumb, and they often have stupid beliefs, but damn if they aren't sometimes savagely on the money.

If you're new on the planet, it's extremely easy to mishear something once and have an extremely skewed idea of the world for a few years. Kids are dumb and weird, but usually the grow up into less dumb adults. Sometimes they don't, and people end of hearing the dumbest things ever.

We all had some weird and backwards beliefs as kids. Some of us got tricked into "playing" video games on unplugged controllers. Some of us tried to hide behind see-though drapes. It's good that we learn from there, but it never undoes the stupid things kids do. Life gives us many moments of kids being stupid and weird. 

Parents are fully aware that kids can be a real mixed bag. Sometimes kids are weird and dumb, and other times kids can be too smart for their own good. Here are tweets of parents who found their kids sayings for existing places and things that were either wildly inaccurate or strangely too accurate.