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All the parents of this world know that toddlers are ready to stage a completely hysterical meltdown over just about anything. It could be that penny that they discovered in a drawer around the house that they wanted to eat. Or maybe, it's because you told them that they have to wear a shirt. If anything, it's insightful lists like these that could ultimately end up convincing some people that they absolutely don't want to do the whole parenting thing. 

While kids have garnered plenty of a reputation for being flat out silly and dumb, they can also get devilishly inventive when faced with the possibility of getting in trouble for a continued pattern of unacceptable behavior. This toddler decided to dip into their word bank and pull out a new word for the explicit purpose of being able to cuss at their parent without having to actually "swear." 

To be a parent is to be subjected to a continual emotional rollercoaster, as you work on raising your devilish children into reasonably functional adults. The toddler phase especially is marked by a steady procession of spontaneous, and absolutely explosive emotional meltdowns. You never know what bone a toddler will have to pick with the world. Every day brings with it a new internal struggle in the life of a toddler. These toddler breakdowns are certainly something else. 

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. 

You don't need to interact with a kid for long to know that kids are weird and dumb. It makes you wonder how stupid you were as a kid. Hopefully you've learned a few things since then. As they stand, children don't know anything, have very strong opinions, wield a twisted sense of reality and are easy to trick. Here's more moments of kids being bizarre and stupid.

What a wonderfully wholesome turn of events. Sometimes human beings tap into the element of surprise, and put some welcomed goodness back into the universe. This appears to be one of those times. 

There are no limits to what warrants a hysterical breakdown from a toddler. Rationality in the mind of a toddler is a terribly fleeting thing. We can't verify whether these captions are accurate depictions of what brought on the waterworks, but we'd bet they're not too far off the mark. 

Part of childhood is just being a weird and stupid kid and learning how the rules of life work. But for a while there, you get to do some pretty strange stuff and adults just think that it's fine. Here are things kids do all the time that could get you sent to jail as an adult.

Okay, we'd be pretty upset too if we couldn't have a beer, but the context is a little different. Here are some parents who found their kids overwhelmed by the most simple and unconcerning things. Wait until these kids hear about having to pay taxes. For more, check out these completely stupid reasons kids had meltdowns.

These emotionally-charged images capture the emotional rollercoaster of the toddler years. Some full grown adults might relate to these too. Sometimes we just need to have a little breakdown over a whole bunch of nothing! 

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.

If you're on the fence about having kids then these tweets might sway you in one very definite direction. Let's just say the struggle is painfully real in these tweets, and that parenting sounds like an absolute whirlwind of hysteria.