Parents Share The Moments They Realized Their Kids Might Be Horrible People (35 Posts)

I used my kid’s bathroom because my wife was in ours. The toilet paper was on the roll backwards. I asked them which kid did it, they responded it didn’t really matter which way it’s on the roll. I recoiled in horror.

My son's 13:

- Hates pizza.

- Likes Nickelback.

- Likes the Patriots

If he was on facebook Id unfriend him.

My 11 yr old son recently called 911 and said I slapped him. CPS came, it was a cluster. It was so well orchestrated, he even took a picture of himself with a red mark on his face. I didn't slap him and it eventually got debunked although he still won't admit it. A couple months later, he told his dad I forced him to make the ol' dirty 2 finger licking gesture, take a pic and send it to him.

He lives with his dad now, and isn't allowed here until I can afford a camera system. Still unclear on a motive.

Not me but my parents. My brother was always the naughty one. Shoplifting as a kid, mouthing off at school etc. But I think when they realized he was a genuinely bad person was when he stole a bunch of stuff out of some old guys cabin and then burned it down so he wouldn't get caught.


Spoiler alert: He got caught anyways because he pawned it all at our local pawn shop and they had his name and caught him on camera.

When my daughter played Half-Life 2 for the first time, she immediately figured out you can pick up just about anything, exclaimed how filthy city 17 is and proceeded to pick up all the rubbish and put it in the bins before getting on with the game.

While potty training my 2yo, she figured out she could pee a little, get a chocolate chip as a reward, then wait 2 minutes, go pee again and get more chocolate. She's gaming my system at 2. Years. Old.

Every time my son is in his high chair and he gets cookies or candy, or really anything as a “treat” he will not eat it and throw it. proceeds to eat veggies, absolute monster.

My 6 year old has always had weird interests. She asked me to show her pictures of what's in our bodies. I showed her diagrams on Google, and she said, "no, I mean inside of a REAL body." 😳 I showed her some random picture of an arm surgery and she was begging for more.

Also she always asks me to stop so she can look at animals that were hit on the road.

We're really pushing for the medical field and not a serial criminal field.

Edit: I feel as though I need to add this to the original comment. She has never shown any signs of aggression or desire to hurt people/animals. She is a very sweet child and doesn't even like it when we squish bugs or cut down the weeds in our yard! She shows respect for life, but is DEFINITELY interested in bodies. I am a science teacher and my wife is a nurse, so we definitely encourage her interest in science!

I firmly believe my oldest is a sociopath. There’s lots and lots of things that make me believe it, but since there’s not exactly a black/white test, there’s no way to prove it. He has no conscience and hasn’t since he was old enough to feel guilt, near as I can tell. He is 30, twice divorced for beating his wives and totally ignores his daughters whilst giving everything possible to his son.


I blamed myself for years but my younger two are so different than my oldest, I just don’t know if it’s my fault or not.

Years ago, my wife and I had a very heated argument. Our daughter overhears us and comes into the room just as things hit their peak. My wife rushes into the bathroom crying. I'm left sitting on the bed feeling low, listening to my wife sob on the other side of the door. Our daughter looks up at me with a smile and says "Mommy's crying" and proceeds to laugh loud enough for mom to hear. And with that, I was in trouble for something entirely new.

When my son decided- in the grocery store parking lot- that it would be “fun” to scream “YOU’RE NOT MY MOMMY! WHERE’S MY MOMMY? YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MOM!” He had this evil smirk on his face as I panicked and tried to explain what could happen if someone heard that. He started yelling it louder.

Edit** Thank you for all the parenting tips, but we’re good :)
Trust me, he doesn’t get away with stuff.
No I’m not going to slap him across the face or beat him.
He *was* disciplined. He learned his lesson. I can laugh about it now.
He is a mini me and my parents often remind me that he is karma for all the troubles I put them through 😂.

When my son was 13 or 14, we were chatting about how as kids get older, and parents become elderly, often the kids become a care-giver to some degree to the parent. My son offhandedly remarked that he’d be looking for the cheapest nursing home at which to park me.

Three year old daughter deliberately screaming to wake up her four month old sister.

For five hours. During a long car ride.

When I watched my younger son walk out on the porch, pick up a plastic whiffle bat, look at it, look at his older brother sitting on the porch steps, look back at the bat, and then haul back and crack his brother's head like Babe Ruth popping one out of the park.

I could watch his thought process in 5 seconds time: Bat. . .Brother. . .Bat. . .Hit. No hesitation.

Today my 3 year old dipped her cantaloupe in ketchup and ate a whole plate of it.

Okay, this is not my kid. but my mom found out she was raising a jerk. When we were out baby clothes shopping with my pregnant aunt, whose first baby didn't survive. A year or two earlier, and my brother says "what are you buying it clothes for when you don't even know it's going to live?".

When I was born I had two teenage sisters and oodles of aunts and uncles to smother me with attention.

Three years later my little sister was born and all that went away. I went from being a very happy child to being fairly dark and moody.

There is a family story that a few months after my little sister was born my parents were out and my grandmother was babysitting. The story goes that she caught me going into the baby's room with a claw-hammer. When she asked what I was doing I just stared silently at her for several seconds then answered sullenly "nothing" dropped the claw hammer to the floor and sulked off to my room.

We had our young cat 'fixed" and she just slept and rested all day after coming back from the vet's. My 11 yr old son asked very concerned, after watching the cat lying around all day , " do you think she is sad because she can't have babies?" ( awww... so sweet). My 7 yr old son asked, "so, if she doesn't recover, would we get a cash settlement?".

Many years ago I started working for a guy who was a single dad with two boys, then aged about 11 and 13. The older one was a nice kid, the younger one was a problem. Shoplifting, truancy, lying, etc. My boss actually warned me to keep my wallet on my person when he was around.

One day he told me that when the boys were 2 and 4 he and his then wife were delivering a couple of cars to a city that was a couple of days drive. They had pulled off the highway into the scrub to sleep for the night.

In the morning found that "someone" had turned on the headlights of one car during the night and the battery was flat.

He went out to the highway and eventually flagged down someone who had jumper leads and was willing to drive off into the scrub with a rough looking stranger.

Got the car started and the guy drove off. He left the car to take a leak and the younger son reached over and turned off the key.

He said that was the moment when he realized that he had a problem child.

I worked for him for a couple of years and moved on.

My three year old was given a small fisher price trampoline for his birthday. It's like three feet in diameter. A few months later, we got invited to take him to Sky Zone, which is a giant indoor warehouse that is wall to wall trampolines. It's awesome. So my wife turns to my son and says, "Hey buddy, do you want to go to the trampoline place?"

Without missing a beat, my kid rolls his eyes at her, jerks his thumb towards the fisher price one, and says, in the most condescending tone a three year old could muster, "I have one.".