In the 1967 film "Creative Person, Fred Rogers:", Fred Rogers talks about how he believes adults can impact a child's sense of worth, and ability to be themselves, amidst having it defined, before they can as individuals. This one might strike some chords!
Having kids is hard. I don't personally have any, but I was a kid once, so I can only imagine what my parents went through. Children have their own agenda, which includes eating candy for dinner and complaining if asked to help. As a parent, getting angry at your children probably isn't the most effective way to mould them into good human beings. But there's this thing called reverse psychology, and it's amazing. After reading the following posts from AskReddit, I realized that my own parents duped me with reverse psychology. Sneaky... and clever. Well done, parents.
We've all done dumb stuff. Let's start out by not denying it. We were all curious children once, and for most kids, the only way to learn about something is to do it, not to be told. You won't know the meaning of hot until you put your hand into the fire. That kind of thing. When you have a whole world to learn and make up your mind about, you're bound to make some stupid decisions. And hopefully you learnt from them! Here are 21 stories of some very dumb things these Redditors did in their youthful days, and boy are they hilarious.
I get it, your house is your own private space and whatever rules you believe in apply inside. Sure, that's reasonable. Don't like me to swear inside your house? I won't. Don't want me to wear shoes inside your house? I'll leave them outside. But some of the things in these stories from Redditors are way beyond reasonable requests. I get that it's your house and children can be messy sometimes but... whoa. Take a chill pill and relax. Read on for some extremely weird and hilarious house rules some poor kids had to live with.
