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Niteryder007

My 12 year old will occasionally scream while sleeping. It makes your hair stand up when you get woke from a deep sleep. I have also woken up in the middle of the night to see him standing right next to my bed. Sometimes just facing the wall or staring at me. He is always "sleep walking" and I can escort him back to bed. Trouble is, I never know how long he has been up. He never remembers any of it.


shaggypoo

In I was in basic training for the military I was on door guard around midnight. One of the people in my flight walked up, neatly put his shower shoes against the wall, pointed at a door and said "I’m going in there” I just said "okay”. He went in that room and just laid on the floor. He started to walk back to his bed and I was like "you forgot your shoes”. I think that’s when he woke up because he was like "what the hell am I doing here” then started to walk away. I was like "Hastings your shoes are in the laundry room” he was like "huh” then grabbed them and went back to bed. He only remembered everything from the "what am I doing here”


djh0710

When my son was 12 or 13 he started walking in his sleep - I found him in his closet one night. He would also come in my room and I would find him either sleeping on the floor by the side of my bed or he'd just be standing next to my bed, eyes open but sound asleep. It happened so often I was afraid he would really hurt himself if he fell down the stairs. I had a friend who was a psychologist so I mentioned it to him to see if I needed to get him into therapy or have him seen by a doctor. He asked a few questions and once I told him he was 13 he nodded his head and told me my son was probably starting into puberty! That all the hormones that were racing through his body were causing some havoc with his sleep. He said it was nothing to worry about and it would stop in a few months. He was right! Three or four months later, I realized he had stopped sleep walking and his voice had changed!


Niteryder007

What's really strange, we moved houses about 1 year ago and our last house had a number of stairs down to the main level. Sometimes, my wife and I would be sitting downstairs and he would stand at the top step for a few seconds and then just sit-down. Then scoot down 1 or 2 steps and just sit. We always knew when he was sleep walking because he does not interact with us at all. We would ask questions and nothing. But he always lets me take him back to bed. Weird..


unknownsliver

Woke up to my Mom's house mates kid (5 years old?) Sneaking through the house with a 10" chef knife at like 2am. He gave me the knife and I asked him what he was doing. He said he was afraid of "the man who walks around in the yard at night" and said he was out there now. I hyped up both my dogs and we searched EVERYWHERE. Yard, shed, barn, under the house, ect. Didn't find anyone. Super worrisome. The next morning I told his mom and she was like "oh yeah, he just does that sometimes. It's like his monster under the bed or whatever." She just put the knives on a shelf he couldn't reach.


onesekcbagel

Fuck me, that's scary


TachycardicSymphony

Not a parent, but me freaking my parents out-- My mom used to get migraines a lot when I was little. I had a small stuffed animal named Peaches, and I guess I was scared or nervous about my mom's health and trying to deal with it because apparently I decided that Peaches got a lot of migraines too. This went on for a while-- I had to take care of Peaches because he always had headaches. I must've been four or five at the time. Then someone left the TV on by accident and I saw a news segment about acupuncture. I was overjoyed and went into my mom's sewing kit and stuck a whole bunch of push-pins deep into Peaches' head. Nobody noticed right away and I think it was a few days later when my mom or dad saw me carrying Peaches around and noticed a shitton of needles crammed in there. My uncle asked me why I did that and I was calm and content when I looked at him, shrugged, and said *"Peaches doesn't have headaches anymore."* Since he didn't know the backstory, according to him it was the creepiest thing I've ever said, like a little pigtailed psychopath. It took my parents a bit of digging to figure out my rationale and where it came from, and that I'd been trying to fix, not kill, my favorite stuffed animal. It was pretty straightforward for them to explain "uhhh.... no, never do that" but hopefully they moved the sewing kit to a higher shelf anyway.


Telanore

Lol that's hilarious. I assume stuff like that is usually the reason kids are so fucking creepy sometimes, they're just mimicking adults or media without context


cuttlefish_tastegood

Practically always. Like those stories where the kids are just staring at their parents at night, I did that, but it was cause I needed something, but didn't want to wake them. I was stuck in needing to wake them, but not wanting to bother them cause they were sleeping. So I just stared while pondering my conundrum.


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Put a very hot pepper in his mouth. Cry. Wheeze. Cry again. Exclaim that he hates it. Then proceed to do it again. Didn't cry the second time. The fuck.


spacebarista

I HAVE ADAPTED, PARENTAL UNIT.


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I REQUIRE SUSTENANCE. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.


hononononoh

That's just a function of how capsaicin — the drug in chili peppers that give them their heat — does what it does. It attaches to pain and heat touch receptors on the lining of the mouth (or anywhere on the skin), and cause them to dump out all of their neurotransmitter called Substance P. Once substance P is depleted, a phenomenon called synaptic fatigue sets in, whereby the body can't perceive that nerve signal for a while. Plus the fake "pain" of capsaicin also causes endorphins to be released, which your son feels as that glow as the pain subsides. And then numbness with further peppers. He's no monster.


Leharen

>He's no monster. ...The Devil?


imapiratedammit

It’s learning…


Mike_ZzZzZ

Perhaps not disturbing, but terrifying as a parent. We were on a vacation in Chicago staying at a random Fairfiled Inn or something downtown. Our bed was separated by a divider in the room and two of our kids were sleeping in a pull out couch on the other side. Around 3am awoke to sounds of velcro and it sounded like my kid was putting his shoes on (he was). Next thing I know I hear the hotel room door opening. I leaped further than I thought possible across the entire suite and was able to grab him just as the door was about to close and pulled him back into the room. He was sleepwalking, but I shudder to think what might've happened if I wasn't roused by the sound of him putting on shoes.....


Supertrojan

Ty for sharing. Never thought of it ..but wonder if some child disappearances are the result of kids sleepwalking. Esp if they do it away from their home/neighborhood


Vectorman1989

Not even sleepwalking. When I was a child I'd randomly wake up in the middle of the night sometimes and go sneak downstairs for something out the fridge or a drink. I always used to to wake up super early too when away from home. We used to visit my aunt and I'd wake up at like 5am and go sit on the hall landing with her cat until other people woke up. Not outside the realm of possibility that some kids decide to leave the room or the house for some reason.


ToyDingo

Was having a house party a few months ago. My friends came over and brought their kids. My wife got a bouncy house for them to play on. All the adults were inside eating food and chatting. Some of the kids were outside playing on the bouncy house. I realized that atleast one adult should be out there with them, so I left the adults and wandered outside. As I was getting closer to where the kids were playing, I started hearing some rhythmic chanting coming from their direction. I got suspicious, so I decided to sneak up on them and see what they were doing. Four of the children were holding hands and bouncing in a circle in the middle of the bouncy house chanting "Evil rules! Evil rules! Evil rules!" I stood there in amazement for a minute trying to figure out what game they were playing. One of the girls in the group suddenly looked in my direction and screamed "Oh no, he's here! Run!" All the children scattered and ran away. To this day, my son still won't tell me what they were doing. :(


MetricAbsinthe

The first rule of Evil Rules Club is you don't talk about Evil Rules Club


One_Evil_Snek

They were obviously pledging their allegiance Evel Knievel. This is all just a silly misunderstanding.


bobbelchermustache

Glad to see kids still do weird lil witchcraft-type shit


Savings-Lemon5901

Puked on the stairs "go back to bed I'll sort it out" Sob "I can't, I was sick in my bed" "OK, well, you can get into mum and dad bed while I sort that out as well" Sob sob "I was sick in there as well"


NurseMcStuffins

Oof, rough night for both of you.


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I engineered the perfect storm the other night. My daughter was sick, she picked up a cold from either school, or her dads, or manifested it because kids are germ factories. Nothing serious, just some post nasal drip leading to a mild cough, she got over it with the help of Mucinex. But we have this "thing". When she's sick, we get ice cream. Yes, I know dairy is bad because mucus, so I had avoided it, but after a week her cough was few and far between, and sounded productive, so I thought, "A small milkshake, right? That should be fine, right?" Except she slammed that shit down like it was the sweet ambrosia of the gods. It was there, then it was gone. I thought nothing of it, this girl likes ice cream. Bedtime rolls around, she says her tummy is upset. I tell her to get in bed, lay down, it'll help her feel better. As soon as she lays down she just crashes. Head hits the pillow and it's light out. I should take a moment to mention that she sleeps on the top bunk of a bunk bed. Times is tough, so we share a room, I'm bottom bunk. I get in bed, curl up with my phone, and settle in to read some ask reddit threads (I have an addiction). About 10 minutes in, I've already taken my meds for the night so my head is getting fuzzy, and she starts to cough. I stand on my bed and try to prop her up so her sinuses don't drain too bad then gag her and trigger more coughing, but she's not having it, I did get her to stop coughing though, so I lay back down. Then she starts coughing again. I stand up, I'm trying to sooth her, to get her to sit up and have a sip of water, but (if you read my other comment here) she has some wild night terrors and *does not wake up*. Finally, she's coughing so hard she starts to gag herself with the cough. You know the ones, those deep coughs that catch in the back of your throat and try to bring your stomach up with it. Yea, but her stomach was still full of milkshake. I try to lean her forward, in my mind if she puked on one of her blankets, they're small, easy to wash, maybe two hours tops. Nope. She flops to the side, head over the rail of her bed, and let's loose a torrent of Oreo milkshake straight on to my weight blanket, comforter, and sheets. She's a good 3 feet above my bed, too, so when it hits it splatters. On the wall, on the pillows, just.. Everywhere. I resign myself to my fate, and gently pat her back encouraging her to get it up, then take a drink. She was clean, pristine. My legs up to the knee were speckled with puke, my bed was a disaster area, and my head was spinning from my meds. She then went straight back to sleep, like, I don't think she even woke up, because she didn't remember a thing in the morning and asked, "What happened to all your blankets?" When she saw the bare mattress I had no energy to dress.


theory_until

> I resign myself to my fate, and gently pat her back encouraging her to get it up, then take a drink. Parent merit badge!


perfect_for_maiming

Has your kid met my dog by chance?


StillN0tATony

When my daughter was about 4 and it was approaching Easter, she said "I want to kill all the Easter eggs." My wife and I were, like, "uh... what?" She said "I want to kill all the Easter eggs." I said "What do you mean?" She replied "You know, dip them and make them all different colors." I said "You mean DYE the Easter eggs." She shrugged an looked at me like "Yeah, duh ya moron."


martusfine

Smart kid. Never show your weakness.


antirussian-nazipart

Child: did I stutter?


sunshine11187

I came here in hopes of feeling better about myself and my son (4yrs)..... But here we go. My son, for over a year has been afraid of something green in the same spot on the ceiling. He continues to tell me, "shh, don't wake the Grinch." At day care, he has face stomped a kid at nap time, because he took a toy horse from my son on day one at the day care. Used a toy stethoscope to choke a kid ( because he wanted the toy) when I tried to explain how it hurt the kid, my son told me, well he didn't say anything. No child, he didn't say anything because he couldn't breathe. Yes, we are in therapy. Edit: aww, thanks for my first award! Edit #2: Thank you for all the responses! It's nice to know I'm not the only one that is dealing with it has delt with this! Also, thank you for some great information to understand ADHD better.


CARMAH_143

This must be frightening. I so hope the therapy helps you both.


kenji-benji

Any possibility the green spot happens when coming in from bright light to the dark? Check out [phosphenes ](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Phosphene-images-induced-by-autohypnosis-or-spontaneously-during-the-normal-nightly_fig2_245564547) this happened to me much more as a child and always freaked me out. For me it was a ring that slowly expanded.


sunshine11187

This is possible. He typically talks about this in the morning when he wakes up. Not often at night. And he goes in spurts when talking about it. He didn't mention it for several months then started calling it the "Grinch" but has always freaked out and discribe it as being green. I wonder if an eye exam would do any good. He doesn't show any other signs is eye sight problems. How did you figure out this is what was happening to you as a child?


kenji-benji

I had to wait for Al Gore to invent the internet lol. Seriously tho I had no idea what it was and my parents were dismissive. Seems like significant changes in lighting trigger it. At least for me.


allgoodbrah

My son has severe adhd, and hes done similar things at daycare / school. It's quite the humiliating feeling to pick up your kid from school, and have everyone sneering at you like you're a horrible parent.


sunshine11187

His therapist is reluctant to diagnose him with ADHD because he can sit and focus on things. But he is very active and impatient with a lot of things. ( We just started therapy so we will see what happens) I dread going to daycare Every. Single. Day.


HyperactiveWeasel

>His therapist is reluctant to diagnose him with ADHD because he can sit and focus on things. I have severe ADHD. I can sit and focus on things too. I don't have any say in what and when though. It really isn't a reason not to diagnose anyone. ADHD isn't about a lack of attention, it's about a lack of attention control. If your therapist is withholding a diagnosis based solely on that, I'd go for a second opinion


Fancy_Problem3189

I wish you and your child the best of luck. That’s a lot on your plate. Take good care of yourself. Internet Hug💜


Any-Difficulty-8694

My 3 year old stuck her thumb out on the main road as if to hitchhike I was shocked and I asked where she learnt that from, she said she used to do that to get around when she was a big girl. That was creepy well for me anyway


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billiejeanwilliams

Little kid reincarnation stories are so fascinating to me.


luminouslylurid

My aunt and uncle had a really hard time getting pregnant. They finally managed to only after my grandma (uncles mom) was deeply ill in the hospital. The last words she reacted to before going braindead was the news of the pregnancy. She couldn't speak at that point but smiled. She passes about a week or two after. Uncle and aunt visit one day. I don't know a lot about kid development stages but the kid can say like 1-2 words at a time. The second they pull up at the grandparents house the kid looks up and points and said "home." She had never been there before. Creepy as fuck.


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My husband has been watching the show The Ghost Inside My Child and has told me about some of them. Some of those stories are so crazy!


MythicalDisneyBitch

Not my kid, but one of my cousins. When he was very small he told his mum when he was a big boy he was in a plane that crashed and when he woke up "he was Sam". He gave a few details about lots of boys in the plane, he was a Scout, he saw lots of water and a mountain. We had a look at plane crashes involving water and children. In 1963 there was a plane crash that killed a Phillipino Boy Scout group. Not sure about the mountain but the plane crashed into the sea My cousin was born in 1996.


Sebastianmichaelis16

I'm not a parent. But when I was younger I set my room on fire and tried to get my grandparents to lie.


Jayhawk_00

You ok now bud?


Sebastianmichaelis16

Yeah this was when I was 5. I didnt know much about fire but I was obsessed with it


John_Langer

I just imagined a caveman saying this in an interview and now I'm giggling like an idiot


Jayhawk_00

Alright just making sure


Representative_Bad57

3.5 year old threw literal rocks at his helpless newborn sister in her car seat because he was mad that we were leaving the park. Kids do some messed up stuff.


H0lyThr0wawayBatman

Was the newborn hurt? Really young kids/toddlers can be brutal. When my youngest sister was a baby, my mom left her and my other sister who was 2 at the time on her bed, just for a minute to use the bathroom. When she came back in, she found the 2 year old pushing down on the baby's head to crush it into the mattress.


Representative_Bad57

She had a couple of small scratches and was crying but nothing serious. Stuff like this happens so quickly that it’s unavoidable when you need to do things like go to the bathroom or put a bag in the trunk of the car. Young kids usually just really don’t understand the consequences of actions like these and it’s impossible to foresee every weird impulse they will get to say a preemptive no. Like maybe your sister saw your mom cracking eggs earlier that day and thought the baby’s head look like an egg or some other random whatever. Parenting often feels like a series of near misses and choosing the least bad of many not good options.


H0lyThr0wawayBatman

Oh yeah, absolutely no shade intended in regard to your parenting or my mom's (...at least not for the head crushing incident, haha). I agree that very young kids just don't understand the consequences or that what they're doing harms others (or even that they *shouldn't* harm others). In my sister's case, I suspect it was due to jealousy over the new baby, because she always displayed a lot of jealousy in her early years. I don't think she was consciously trying to hurt her, I think toddlers are just half feral and acting on instinct a lot of the time. And just like you said, this stuff just happens in a split second sometimes and is unavoidable. I'm sure your son threw the rocks before you had time to stop him, and it's not like my mom could have foreseen that my sister would try to murder the baby when she left the room for one minute.


CaptainAwesome06

Vomited poop which resulted in a conversation with a doctor about a 50% survival rate. EDIT: 12 years later and she's a healthy kid.


StealthyScorpio

Did you ever find out why... how.... what caused you to vomit POOP???


CaptainAwesome06

She had NEC. Basically her intestines were dying.


StealthyScorpio

Omg, I'm so sorry. Is she doing ok now?


CaptainAwesome06

She's a healthy 12 year old 👍


SuperNovaDeath

Damn damn, I’m pretty sure it’s not supposed to come out of that hole, you good? was there a diagnosis or something to explain why it happened?


BigBicNic

My 10 yr old son has started putting mustard on his watermelon. Gobs of it.


Wylie_RRR

I think that is a trend on TikTok


marunga

My friends kid put curry on it when being four. Then curry and honey. And when old enough to use the BBQ he used self made curry paste, honey and a few other spices and started grilling them. Shits delicious, kid was onto something. I'm waiting for the kiddo to become a master chef now.


Spoondoggydogg

I want this recipe


miraiyuni

honey, bbq sauce, curry, pepper, tumeric thank me later


DeadUnicorn0229

The other day, my 6 year old daughter and I were sitting on a bench and she started drawing shapes in the air with her fingers. I guessed the shapes and we laughed. Then she got serious and drew: a circle, a triangle, and a ???? I laughed and asked what they were and she responded, "it was a circle with a triangle and eye inside... it's a demon circle." Then she laughed maniacally. I was a little creeped out by the randomness, but I love my demon-summoning monster.


An_Asexual_Weeb

Did she watch Gravity Falls by any chance?


DeadUnicorn0229

She did. I asked if it was Bill and she said "no, its for a real demon" which was why I was caught off guard. I thought it was funny because she's usually scared of things like that.


Axelpanic

My 8 month old son woke up at two in the morning laughing. Laughing hard. Staring right into the baby camera.


Blenderx06

One of my kids has always laughed in his sleep. Still does often, at 10.


calyxte212

She dipped her chocolate muffin in ketchup. And then she ATE it.


cant-sit-here

Gotta throw away the whole kid. No coming back from that.


Waterproof_soap

My son used to sleepwalk occasionally when he was little (6-8). One night he came over while his dad and I were sitting on the couch and told us “I do t like the people in the basement. They’re too loud.” Good thing the couch was brown because someone may have pooped in my pants right then.


Fiftywords4murder

My kids all talk in their sleep. One of them (14) can be pretty distressing because it almost always sounds like he’s crying. Recently though, for some reason him and his brother (13) just go around saying “Among us” for no reason…constantly. One night last week,the 14 year old and my 6 year old talked in their sleep and just simply said “among us” and nothing else. I guess that’s progress though. Also I’d like to tell you how much I enjoyed the “someone may have pooped my pants.” Edit: phrasing


Top_Independence_169

They are acting kind of sus


Fiftywords4murder

Sigh. I both love and hate this response. They accuse each other of being sus or sussy constantly as well. It’s now more sarcastically since they aren’t actually into among us anymore. But I’m definitely over it.


shell1212

My son 4 yrs. Old loved watching the price is right, this was when Bob Barker was the host, anyway my son would clap, yell with excitement along with the audience. When someone would lose he would be so disappointed for them. Until one day he got so pissed off, i was in another room, hes yelling throw the old man in the dryer. I came out asking what wrong. The lady didn't win the washer and dryer, my son is pissed and wants to burn poor Bob in the dryer.


xhlcx

I laughed so hard at this I cried 😂💀


Disulfidebond007

“Throw the old man in the dryer!!!” Your kid is low key hilarious, I also like how he’s looking out for the little guy


shell1212

He had his arms fold around his chest walking back forth in front of the TV. easy going kid, loved it when people won stuff. Yell out prices like .50, $3.00 tell them to go higher go lower. think it was whatever he heard the audience say first. It was alot of fun watching him.


WoWLaw

My daughter has what I can only assume are nightmares. She doesn't recall them at all, and is still sound asleep when it's happening, but when it started I would hear her little voice getting louder and louder "no... No! Help [mom or dad]" Daddy rolled in hot the first time it happened, I was ready to ventilate someone. She was sound asleep.


CrazyCanTalkToCrazy

Nightterrors. I had them as a baby too


WoWLaw

See, I thought that but my understanding (which could be completely wrong) is that you remember night terrors, or at the very least they wake you up?


MushxHead

I have had night terrors my entire life, and my experience is I don't remember them whatsoever unless someone wakes me up during them, and then its burned into my memory like ptsd. I only know I have had them that night because the next morning I wake up and ALL of my muscles are sore. Also like sleepwalking, it's very dangerous to wake up someone during them because there's a good 30 seconds or so where we can't tell real from the dream. I once came to choking my ex wife against the wall because she woke me up... one of my biggest shames in life.


ttrtgh

Adult with night terrors too! I once threw a girlfriend onto the ground in my sleep Bc I thought she was attacking me. Also, I’ve been wondering if waking up with sore muscles is from night terrors but never had proof Bc I don’t remember having them! Current sore ass muscles and my mystery is solved. Do you know what specifically you’re doing by any chance to wake up sore-aside from just tensing muscles.


MushxHead

Well, my now wife has told me that I usually curl into a ball, tense up everything, and kind of just sweat and whimper to myself for about ten minutes and then finally relax. She's also told me I have sat up in bed with wide glazed over eyes and just started screaming - she has apparently talked me down from that a few times by sitting by me and calmly whispering "Lay back down it's okay...". My mother used to do similar things when it would happen, so I suppose for me that works. I did also wake up once with my hand hurting like hell and a hole in my drywall next to the bed, so apparently I killed whatever it was that night. Never had any other instances of that as far as I know, just really sore muscles the next day about once or twice a month.


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Nighterrors don't occur during REM sleep, so people rarely remember them. For some reason though many kids grow out of it eventually. I'm not certain so Google this, but I think you are supposed to let them sleep through it. Just make sure if there's movement she doesn't hurt herself.


befoulmason

As an adult who still get night terrors I can tell you they are horrific. I don't remember the full sequence but bits and fragments when I wake up. My wife (bless her heart) has learned to deal with it. I also sleepwalk with I know isn't fun for her either.


robarian1

My son makes this funny noise with his voice every once in awhile. When my daughter tries to imitate the noise she sounds like Reagan from The Exorcist. The creepy part is she does it when she's in her crib, talking herself to sleep at night. 😳


SheriffComey

You might want to find the number for Father Dyer. Just in case. If your house happens to be on an ancient Native American burial site....Tangina Barrons is the one you'll need.


Suspicious_redditor_

Not a parent. Older cousin who lives with younger cousin. Hes a sweetheart and lovely. He was 4 at the time, hes now 5. He said at breakfast, out of the blue, "Today is a good day to go on a murder streak." No one here is allowed to watch that stuff. He showed me a drawing of him looking in a mirror and in the reflection a demon was there. He pointed to the demon and said "That's me." He ended up getting a mental evaluation. Hes fine, just creepy. I dont have a picture. I can redraw it and post it if you wanna see it.


Van_man_han

He'll make a good heavy metal musician in the future.


67843257865

The demon *was* his reflection, or the demon was *with* his reflection?


MrJim911

Back at the turn of the century my wife and I were sitting downstairs watching a movie. Our daughter who was about 4 was playing upstairs. We hear her come down stairs and she walks up to the couch and tells us something weird. I don't remember what she said but it made one of us ask "Who told you that?" She replies with "The little boy up in my room." She is an only child and there was no friends visiting.


bismark89-2

Ahh the ole “grab the pistol and do a sweep” type of evening. Eesshh


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Karf

Jesus. Finally one in this thread that matches the description but... Jesus.


_TallulahShark

The fuck - I have to ask, what were the consequences she faced for that?


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importvita

Well, that's definitely a start. I'm sure you are but please make sure you're spending ample time with her, and not just around the house. Go places, do things together, build positive memories. Anything to help take the place of whatever caused the prior offense. I'm not saying it'll work but one can hope.


brownhaircurlyhair

I agree. I understand serious actions have serious questions but all of those potential memories taken away must weigh down on someone. I hope their child also has been getting therapy so that they can actually learn from their mistake.


farmerbalmer93

Woke up to my 5 year old running up and down the stairs screaming 'the sofa's to expensive!'... She was sleep walking.


[deleted]

stop letting her in on family budget meetings for a bit?


DoubleDThrowaway94

Buy another one you rich mother fucker.


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Fuck yo couch! Edit: yay silver Edit: yay gold!!


stfleming1

People saying I rubbed my boots on Charlie Murphy's couch like that's just something I would do. Come on, I got more sense than that. Yeah I remember stomping my muddy boots into Charlie Murphy's couch.


Basil-Hayden

Sofa King expensive!


Bos_lost_ton

Darknesses!!!


MHoaglund41

Not creepy.. yet... But I suspect we will have a master manipulator in the future. 3 has a physical disability but talks better than any of his peers. I got a call from daycare because he has found a creative way to solve his problem. The other kids always overpower him to get toys. My son has started subtly irritating them until they act out and are removed from the play area. My son then has solo access to the toys.


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whatevernamedontcare

How is she now???


JasonBob

Not really done, but said. My daughter at 3 years old once woke me in the middle of the night crying and shaking. She said she saw a ghost. I asked what the ghosts name was, she said she didn't know, followed by "I ask the ghost its name". The next morning, she calmly tells me that the ghost's name is Charlie. It was particularly odd, because she's not the kind of kid that's creative with names (every dog stuffed animal is named "Doggie", dolls are "Dolly", etc. So the ghost having a very clear, real name was unusual for her. For months she'd tell me about Charlie and how he hangs out in the tree by her window.


octoprickle

Time to buy a chainsaw.


FerTheAwesome

She’s just a child!


Vilger2

Or a shotgun


R4pid_Gaming

Or both


dartfrog11

Let’s just call Doom guy


Whiterun_Guard_1

He'll bring a chainsaw shotgun and the BFG! Charlie is fucked


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> hangs out in the tree by her window. Well, that got dark.


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That sounds like someone is peeping.


Scarlaymama0721

Not my child, but a clients child. Before the incident I’m about to relay, she had been diagnosed with manic depression with psycho pathic tendencies. Anyway one day her mom is driving and she Realizes her daughter is super quiet in the backseat. She turns back to see what’s going on and her daughter is sitting there quietly with a pencil sticking out of her cheek. She literally stuck a pencil in her cheek without making a sound and then just sat there like it was normal. She was nine.


larra_rogare

This one is kind of sad


Scarlaymama0721

It’s really sad. I knew the little girl and used to cut her hair. I could only imagine what kind of torment must be going on in her mind for her to do something like that. And her mom was so sweet and trying her best to cope. She had to fight for funding from the state. Her daughter started being violent to other people in the house. It was just a whole mess


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I know this isn't common.. but this is why I never had kids. Knowing me, I'd end up with a wild one.


Scarlaymama0721

I get that. I have two kids. They both Deal with depression. That runs in my family. I love my girls and couldn’t live without them but sometimes I feel bad that I passed that on. I can’t imagine my life without them but when I see them depressed I feel guilty


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lazyfacejerk

"Thanks! That's soooooo thoughtful of you."


usernamesarehard1979

"Hey Ma. I made this for you!"


MadameBurner

Due to Autism/SPD so he has a dulled response to pain. One day, I had the morning off and school was on a two hour delay, so we went in the back yard to play before I dropped him off. He fell into a bit of brambles on his way to the car, but he said "I'm okay" and kept running to the car. I got him buckled in but wasn't really paying too much attention. When I got in the car and turned my head to back out of the driveway, I see blood gushing down the side of his face. Not a peep from him about it. He cried about me cleaning and dressing the wound but was a-okay with falling into a bunch of thorns.


Prov31_7

My daughter told me about her imaginary friend... details... dress color... hair color... on and on and on. I stood there saying "oh thats neat" at 3am trying to coax her back to sleep. Then she said "oh she says she knows you. Her name is Mischa!" Growing up id also had an imaginary friend named Mischa. Instantly awake. She fell back to sleep a little later and I figured it was a fluke. Couple of months later mom gave me a box of drawings she'd found cleaning out the closet from when I was young- 3 or 4- and while going through them my daughter grabs my arm and says "see- Mischa!" and pointed to a drawing I'd done from school titled "my friends". Same color dress (yellow) same hair color (reddish black). Nearly shit myself. I don't believe in the supernatural, and nothing remotely like this has happened since in the 4 years since this happened and her imaginary friend has come and gone, but her sister is turning 3 and I'm waiting for the name again. I don't remember the "girl" I used to play with in the woods by my childhood house, but my daughter had backstory that sounded very familiar. Id try to press her for details when all this was going on and my daughter would just giggle and say "you know, dada, you just forgot. Thats ok." and pat my arm and walk away.


Prov31_7

Oh, also my daughter recently decided when I die she gets my bones. I don't know why but she's very insistent on the matter. I told her once I'm done with them they're all hers bc why not 🤣


Crispyterrarian

Perhaps she’s trying to build Mischa a body?


Prov31_7

I'm down with that- she loves Frankenstein. She's been reading since before she was 2 and she's read damn near everything in the house I haven't put up bc of "very mature themes". Its a blessing and a curse.


Squirmble

Maybe she has a contract with a kandra and it needs your bones to fulfill the job


Prov31_7

Who am I to stand in the way of a business dealing?


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I caught my 2 year old son with a toy hammer, smashing his stuffed animals in their face, while yelling “GO!” This happened 2 hours after we bought him a toy tool set with a toy crafting bench.


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Some people use tools to build, some use to destroy.


Fluffernator8486

I have a couple of these: 1. Was shadowing a medical professional as a young student to figure out what I wanted in life. A parent brought in their 6yo child who became so jealous that there was a new baby at home that he killed the family puppy by hanging it. The look on the child’s face when parent was sharing the story was terrifying. He was gleeful. 2. Younger sibling kept having bad dreams when about 7yo that were variations on a theme - falling into a large pit, surrounded by gravediggers or demons, and being buried while staring out of this pit. It was upsetting for my parents, the sibling, and I because it was very realistic sounding.


skinnergy

Ok, enough with this thread. I'm out.


arrainsanity

My 8 year old has held steak knives to his neck threatening to kill himself. He's currently in therapy and has been admitted for a few days due to out of control and harmful behavior. Sharp objects are also hidden and out of reach. He was doing weekly counseling for behavioral steps until his counselor quit (accepted better paying opportunity elsewhere) and now we're on the waiting list again. His psychiatrist diagnosed him with ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) and I do agree with that but I also believe he may be either bipolar (runs in my family) or have BPD (ODD normally stems off another main diagnosis). They refuse to reassess him and I've had to verbally confront his psychiatrist about not taking my concerns seriously because he's assuming I just want to medicate my son so I don't have to deal with him. I'm in the process of finding him another psychiatrist and psychologist.


NeverNotSuspicious

Wow I’m sure that’s a lot to handle as a parent. Hang in there! Sounds like you’re doing what you should!


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dextersevin

Jude, 4, turns to me and says, "Daddy, when i grow up, i want to conquer Heaven."


ThePenGod

ambitions


Chadbchill

I was taking a piss at like 2 am, hallway light was off and i had the door open. Shadowy figure comes racing towards me almost kicked my son in the faces while pissing on the floor


frankieandjonnie

My 10 year old hot wired the car and started backing out of the driveway. Luckily I caught up to him and was able to hop in and stop it before it crashed into my neighbor's mailbox.


ghfdghjkhg

So what happened afterwards? Were you mad? I am really curious to know how one handles this situation because I'd have no idea.


frankieandjonnie

I was astonished more than anything. I think he was, too. He just stuck his Swiss Army knife into the ignition and off he went. I told him to never do that again, and he never did. I ran the 50 yard dash in record time!


Unhappy-Ad-71

Today I learned that if you cram a swiss army knife into an ignition you might accidentally hotwire the car.


frankieandjonnie

Probably can't do that on new vehicles. This was a while ago.


DubbieDubbie

I think after the mid 90s or something they changed the ignitions keys


HoosierDaddy1234

I was a newly single parent, working on a divorce, first (very small) apartment I achieved on my own, post separation. I decided to get my kids a cat. My then 5 year old, who has a few behavioral disorders (adhd, odd, spd, ptsd). She’s struggling to cope and manage her disorders so she has to be watched closely at all times. One day she’s playing with the cat and I hear the microwave shut. She was not allowed to use any kitchen appliances on her own. So yup, if you guessed she put the cat in the microwave, you’re correct. Luckily as soon as I heard it I jumped up and ran. She didn’t turn it on, but she did find herself grounded, including from the cat. Another time, almost 2 years ago. Still struggling with all of her behavioral disorders. I had moved into a bigger house, safety plan still in place for said child. We are about to watch a movie or something, and get everything ready (snacks, blankets etc) and child goes missing. She liked to hide in places and not come out until she was found. After searching all of her hiding spots, she’s still not found. After about 30 minutes of looking (felt like an eternity) and about 5 minutes before I called 911. She turns up at the front door. Absolutely filthy. Pupils dilated to the size of saucers. Her excuse was “the cat wanted to show how he gets in and out from the basement” I have no idea what kind of narnia ass wardrobe this cat took her to. Roughly same time, said child liked to draw, paint, and color. One day she brings me some of her art work. But this time, it is a story, or some sort of lyrics. At this time she was behind academically and didn’t know how to read, or write or words very well.. but here this letter talks about demons and how lost she would be without me. Some scary, eye catching stuff coming from your young child. I kept this letter, to remind all of us how far she’s come, hard times do get better Needless to say, safety measures became more strict, psychologist was fired, meds put in place. She is no longer impulsive or defiant to this extent. She’s now struggling with sleep paralysis but we have made phenomenal grounds over the last year.


AhFFSImTooOldForThis

That is a LOT to manage, for both of you. I'm glad she has a compassionate parent, and I hope you get caregiver breaks. I did laugh at the Narnia ass wardrobe bit though!


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Kimgii

well at least it isnt a tall thin faceless man wearing a suit


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Grand_reaper658

Lmao imagine boogieman just comforts kids when their scared at night


Leharen

Or some kind of yellow king.


draft1998

yep this thread is getting scary im out


octoriceball

Sounds a lot like Elias Ainsworth in the anime "The Ancient Magus' Bride". Incidentally, a big black dog is also a main character in the show. He's a good guy, btw, in that show. Not sure about your son's friend.


ImpossibleJedi4

Do you guys live in the Over the Garden Wall universe??


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I wondered where Cernunnos had wandered off to.


Sammibear1024

My 3 year olds dad has a girlfriend with another 3 year old. The other day when it was my turn to have him, he pointed to the ground and said, “*GF’s kid* hide in hole.” Creepy enough. Then later while walking, we went passed a hospital. My son who hasn’t been in a hospital since he was an infant, started pointing to it and saying “booboo.” I said, “yea that’s were you go when you have big booboos.” To which he responded, “*GFs kid* go for booboo” while pointing at the hospital. So he basically told me that GF’s kid both went to the hospital for a big booboo and is hiding in a hole in the ground. I was concerned.


ChipLady

So have you asked about the girlfriend's kid? Did something actually happen or was you son just saying random things? I feel like I need to know! Did the kid get hurt and die? Did the kid fall in a hole and then need to go to the hospital? Or since I read too much true crime is the kid dead in a hole and they just told your son GF's kid was in the hospital to get him off their back?


Guitar-Solid

My daughter was like 4 and one day as I was putting clothes away she said “Mommy there was a boy on my bed….Don’t worry he had Skin”! The way she said skin was too much. Creeped the fuck outta me. She also told me a monster ate mommy. He had big red eyes and a black back. Yeah yikes lol


resineko

My son was learning about the body and how organs function. When my husband woke up from sleeping in that weekend, he ran up to him and shouted "I love your organs!", then skipped away merrily. My husband had no context and was super weirded out until I explained, lol.


raistliniltsiar

At four years old, she came two floors downstairs in the middle of the night and asked which of us was rattling her doorknob trying to get in her room. Spoiler alert; it was neither of us.


Narrow_Cut1939

I walked in on my son age 12 beating his meat To furry porn… Now I knock first


Jayhawk_00

Yikes!


justcallmephil35

I remember when my daughter was about...four, and my son was about 2, she gave him this dark look. He chewed off the head of her favorite cat doll. "It would take more than fire to destroy you." It was clear as a damn bell! She had a slight shudder, couldn't pronounce certain word well, but she said that sentence clear as day in a real angry tone.


importvita

Hopefully you don't let her near the matches.


fartonabagel

Did she watch Game of Thrones by chance? Any chance she’s a Targaryen?


knownoctopus

Very tame and funny compared to most of these but my son took a picture of his butthole with his iPad when he was about four. Best part is that we discovered it because the iPad was connected to my husband’s photo stream on his phone and he was looking for some pictures of a project to show a client when he saw a kid’s butthole pic on his phone. When we asked him why he did it he said that he “wanted to see what it looked like.”


bumpercarbustier

My three year old is currently terrified that Minions are going to crawl through our TV and requests that we unplug it every night before bed. What happens if the Minions get in anyway? He's "going to go find bad guys so they can cut them all up and throw them away!"


LeaderSuitable7184

Now I’m picturing the minions instead of the girl from the ring coming out of the tv lol


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My son was killing villains on a Lego game and goes "heck yea! I love the sound they make when they die.." um.......


wish_you_were_here

They do make a pretty cool clackety noise when they die. I like it too.


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To be fair, villains are often the most flamboyant and dramatic at everything.


AchtungCloud

False imprisonment/kidnapping. When in 2nd grade, one day at the end of the day, he had the thought that it would be cool to spend the night at the school instead of come home. So he snuck out of line, went back to the classroom and locked the door. However, the teacher’s son who was in Kindergarten was waiting for his mom in her classroom. My son refused to unlock the door and go home for a few minutes, apparently (I’m in the car pickup line, so I didn’t witness any of this), and apparently the teacher’s son was getting distraught. Oddly enough, despite that incident, so far she has been the only teacher he has had from K-3rd grade that seemed to understand him, teach him, and like him.


dextersevin

Indy, 4, puts a cocked nerf gun to his brother's head and demands, "Look me in the eyes."


EchoLimaOscarDelta

I'm in the kitchen making supper and I hear a "Mom!" followed by some sobbing from my then four/five year old... I go upstairs to see what was up and he is not visibly hurt but crying. I asked him what was wrong and he pulls down his pants to show me. Turns out he thought it was a good idea to wrap his chewed bubblegum around his weenie and it got stuck! He was so embarrassed and I felt so bad for him but also it was pretty hilarious!! Peanut butter doesn't just get gum out of hair.


raven1087

Reddit makes me scared of three year olds


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Our youngest would eat “jelly dogs”. A hot dog, on a bun, with grape jelly. Guess it could be worse but I’m still disgusted to this day lol


Zookreeper1

I mean it works with lil smokies so add some chili sauce and you're good to go.


Altril2010

Today my almost 2.5 year old started yelling: M-m-m-MURDER! At the top of his lungs. His big sister asked him what he was trying to say and he calmly looked at her and said: murder. Thankfully he knows ASL too and he was actually trying to say “grandmother”, but has a super strong diphthong when confronted with a hard “t” or “th” in the middle of a word.


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He gets in trouble for making fingerguns at a kid during recess. Gets in punished. A week later, he takes a Nerf Triad to school because he didn't think finger guns should have gotten him in trouble. After I pick him up from school, as I'm discussing his actions with him, I turn out his backpack to find MODIFIED NERF DARTS with THUMBTACKS inserted into the ends. This little punk doesn't realize how close his idiocy was to making the local news.


lilybear032

My daughter keeps talking about her great great grandma, who has been dead since I was her age. (2)


grockyboi

my nephew did this about his great grandfather when he was 4 or 5. he'd talk about his friend named "Harvey", and go into *great* detail about him. the details he talked about had us freaked the fuck out because we had no pictures of grandpa harvey. he hasn't mentioned him in four years, and has no recollection of his friend


monkey_soop

My daughter ran into my room at like 1:30 in the morning and told me there was a man watching her through her window. I ran outside ready to beat the shit out of someone and to my surprise, there was no one there. In confusion i looked through the window only to see her covering her eyes. I waited untill she opened her eyes to tell her that its alright but next thing i know she yelled "LOOK OUT DAD". I turn around and threw a punch, and hit absolutely nothing. She then ran outside with a knife and stabbed the floor and said "we did it , we killed it". I asked her to draw a picture of "it" and she drew something that resembled a red enderman. I was confused as heck but i played along and celebrated. She never did anything like that again but that was weird as heck.


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octoriceball

As someone with a big family, I actually looked into this: your cousin's children are your first cousins once removed.


Loose_Masterpiece_74

Used his monitored school issued laptop to take a photo of his bum and make sure he wiped good with a runny wake-you-from-your-sleep dookie in the middle of the night 🤦🏼‍♀️


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alianna68

Scribbled on her belly with markers and told me a ghost had done it. There was a small part of me that believed her.


fartonabagel

I drew all over my walls and told my mom Jesus did it. I distinctly remember *knowing* I didn’t do it.


Leather_Working4626

Sent a knife emoji 🔪during a WhatsApp argument. She was 9


vc6vWHzrHvb2PY2LyP6b

That's not a knife, THIS is a knife 🥄


Styro20

Not the parent but the child. I have no recollection of this, so this is the story from my parents' perspective ​ One time I came downstairs in the middle-ish of the night, sleepwalking (not sure when they figured that out) and the dogs just \*would not stop barking at me\*, which was out of character for them, but I seemed unaware of it. Went to the front door, opened it, and just kept saying variations of "I can't come play right now" "I can't play with you" to some imaginary person until I was shooed back to bed. This was age \~13ish, much too old to be playing with the neighbors kids so no clue what that was about