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The real challenge is not letting the kid know they're being funny. Kids can't know that yelling obscenities in a crowded bookstore is hilarious. It'd totally throw off their priorities.

Old people are trying their best to catch up to with the times and use Facebook correctly. Progress is not without its speed bumps.

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. 

When you spend a lot of time around a small group of people, you start to develop...shall we say, eccentricities?

You might find that you yourself believed some of these dumb things for a while, or even to this day. But hopefully not the bear one. The bear one is just plain dumb.

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. 

Good or bad, these moms have done some bonkers shit.

These people made great sacrifices for their fellow man.

The jury isn't out on whether allergies exist. Most people understand that. Most.

It's hard to stay professional when customers are being hilarious and/or awful, but these people remained calm, for the most part.

Maybe your parents lied to you, maybe you were reading a discredited book, or maybe you heard it on the playground. We've got a lot of erroneous garbage banging around our noggins. 

Nurses, parents, and friends explain the awkward details of times things didn't go according to plan.

These grandparents are the epitome of grand-parenting and we aspire to be them someday.

Sometimes it's hard to tell whether these devious parents are plain old bored, or having way too much fun subjecting their kids to all manners of embarrassment.