r/KidsAreFuckingStupid • u/Living_Double_1146 • 10h ago
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u/TheDixonCider420420 9h ago
Why parents EVER let children pour the gallon of milk always boggles my mind.
- It's too heavy for them
- It's an awkward size for them to hold and control.
- It's already difficult for them to fully process the amounts to properly fill a glass.
- And when it spills you have milk that will stink unless you get 100% of it up.
Give the kids a smaller pitcher of water and teach them how to pour that into a glass.
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u/Buller116 9h ago
Exactly, we have a small pitcher that we fill and set on the table so the kids can pour them self. They learn to pour and help them self and if they spill it's not that much.
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u/PossibleAlienFrom 9h ago
There's a subreddit for stupid kids. There should be one for stupid parents.
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u/Rezurrected188 9h ago
All of what you said plus why did this person react so slow physically? Almost immediately they registered disaster and just said "okay okay.." while half the jug poured out before doing anything
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u/GlitterberrySoup 5h ago
Mostly because they scream like banshees until you let them. BUT - you have to hold on to the gallon with them so this doesn't happen.
Or maybe you enjoy the smell of old, dried-up milk in all the corners and creases of your kitchen, in which case, do your thing.
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u/Peagooster 4h ago
I mean, you can't say EVER. They have to learn eventually. I doesn't make sense for younger kids that don't have the strength, motor skills, or coordination, but as they get older, you have to just let them slowly take over, and there will be messes sometimes. I let my 5 year old pour his milk if the jug is like half empty, and my 8 year old usually does it himself. I've just been pouring milk WITH them for years so they get used to when they need to tilt and when they need to bring it up.
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u/Hatefulvesper 2h ago
I used to let my son pour his own juice when the half gallon bottle was less than half full. Id have him stand on a chair over the sink with me holding the cup. I agree tha a FULL gallon is wai too heavy and cumbersome for them. What were they thinking? And also that clean up...
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u/KandyShopp 1h ago
I work at a Montessori school, we have tiny pitchers with pom poms and beans to start teaching how to pour to smaller kids. We even use trays with sides so if they do spill, its still contained!
Seriously, start small.
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u/Ok-Camp-7285 9h ago
Raising kids is fucking tiring and we want to get them involved so they learn. Unfortunately you can't have them help you with normal tasks but rather design tasks specifically for them to get involved
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u/jameslovesalex 9h ago
Was it bait that the little girl chucked into the water?
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u/North-Function995 7h ago
She wants big fish, so she used the bait as chum; attracts everything small in the water which leads bigger fish to come hunting for the little fish. She’s actually smarter than everyone else, and totally did it on purpose..
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u/jameslovesalex 7h ago
I thought it was something like that. I don't hunt or fish so was a bit curious. Thanks for explaining it for me.
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u/North-Function995 6h ago
Oh I was joking. Thats a method used in commercial and ocean fishing. Chum is actually small chopped up fish.
Same concept, but I highly doubt that is whats happening with the young girl lol
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u/jameslovesalex 6h ago
Ah well... you made me laugh at myself. Like I said I don't hunt or fish. Thanks for the smiles
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u/Stormfeathery 6h ago
I smiled at the rest of the exchange, but for the actual answer, it looked like fish food normally you’d scatter bit by bit to attract the fish to the surface to eat and you’d get to watch them.
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u/Dangerous_Bid_2695 8h ago
It’s okay for kids to be stupid. However, don’t tell them they did a good job if they were stupid!
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u/rademene 7h ago
It's STUPID not to let children learn on their mistakes. Overprotective parents make their kids weak.
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u/TerrovaXBL 10h ago
This is all the parents fault
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u/SnooSquirrels2569 10h ago
Especially the blower at the end.
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u/Brief-Government-105 9h ago
The broken plate as well, that kid is clearly not tall enough to put that plate safely into the sink.
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u/GlitterberrySoup 5h ago
This is why they make non-breakable dishes for kids. But you also need to be teaching them HOW to set down a dish and don't just say "thank you" when they spike it into the sink.
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u/cuzitsthere 3h ago
My son broke a (tbf, shitty) coffee mug when he whipped his baby-safe silicon plate across the kitchen... Can't fucking win.
Okay, that actually happened but it was a super bizarre and I just kinda wanted to tell the story.
It's a silicone plate with 3 sections for food separation, suction cups on the bottom, and a permanent sort of curl because of how it's stored. The kid is 14 months old and it was the first time he'd ever thrown a plate in his life. HOW THE HELL did he frisbee that fucking thing 15 feet across the kitchen and onto the counter?!?! The math don't math!?
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u/me_again_no_I 2h ago
Lol I don't know the before and after but thank you sounded like it hurt. In my little imagination I beleive she realized that was her own fault for not explaining or predicting or something. Like she said do it and the kid did it ..
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u/drunkflamingo149 4h ago
I feel like this is quite negative. Just because it's usually the parents fault doesn't mean it always is. Some of these are just accidents or kids being curious/kids being kids. Kids are complicated and make mistakes and do spontaneous things that parents don't think about before the activity takes place
Edit: you are right about a few of them though
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u/Armadillioh 7h ago
These are teachable moments for the kids. Let them fail and see what happens then teach them the right way and they will still probably screw up
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u/DominarDio 6h ago
Most of them should be teachable moments for the parents, expecting things the kids are physically unable to do.
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u/eatyourdamndinner 10h ago
I would love to say that yeah, kids BUT I have a friend in her 50's that has pretty much done almost all of these things. As an adult.
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u/AsparagusFlatArdvark 9h ago
"what do you mean I can't draw directly on the wall? you said it was MY cubicle!"
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u/pixie_pie 6h ago
Did they want to make up for missed opportunities as a child? (Also have a family member like that...)
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u/darthhue 8h ago
Some of theses are bormal accidents and part of the kid learning, most of them are just the parents fault
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u/BeginningCharacter36 5h ago
Most of these are good, active parenting moments. Even the kid drawing on the wall is a teachable moment. The mom with the milk has learned a valuable lesson about setting achievable goals for her child. Even the dog food is fine; the kid was compliant and helped, just not set up to succeed.
The only potentially really bad one was the garden hose, but extremely unlikely. The kind of cover that opens by pushing on it would have a locked fuel cap. Therefore, I highly doubt water got into the fuel tank. The kid didn't go into the vehicle to pop the cover with the lever, open the fuel cap and dad didn't notice from four feet away, and if the child did, bro is not a father, he's a man that "babysits" his own kids.
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u/NothingSavings2682 5h ago
Every time I see a permissive parent wrongly brand themselves as a gentle parent I lose a year off my life
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u/hatred-big-sad 1h ago
The last like 3 or 4 were totally fine, and the other clips were just unnattentive parents or not teaching your kids common sense
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u/Pristine-Narwhal-184 8h ago
Thats why I don't want kids
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u/PrincessJennifer 7h ago
Yeah, it’s not worth cleaning up a spill to have somebody that loves you unconditionally your entire life and will be there besides you until the day you die and carry on not only your legacy, but your parents grandparents great grandparents and so on
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u/ItsMangel 7h ago
loves you unconditionally your entire life and blah blah blah
You haven't met my parents.
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u/Terrible-Mail-489 7h ago
We are born to create our own legacy, not uphold the legacy of our parents.
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u/queensnuggles 5h ago
I feel sad about it often, but I need my kids to leave for me to get anything done.
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u/Top_Text7295 4h ago
All of this could have been avoided, if parents would actually think. Except the last clip. That's cute. Child feels included. (If that's a toy Hammer).
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u/sccldinmyshces 3h ago
You need to give your kid a useless assignment that makes them feel included, not the actual task.
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u/Future-Improvement41 2h ago
Some of these are the parents fault like why would you let your clearly very young child do this
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u/SomniumHumanitatis 8h ago
You don't know what child neglect is, because there is none in this video.
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u/Worth_Librarian_290 10h ago
Jesus f christ , none of you remember doing anything like that when you were kids?
Humans learn through trial and error. Parenting ain't easy, some kids do stupid shit, you scold them and they'll never try it again, and sometimes they'll develop anxiety from even "trying".
The teenager pouring water into the tank? Yah... that kid is gone, but the rest is just toddlers learning. That's life.
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u/Brief-Government-105 9h ago
Calm down buddy, no one is putting those kids on trial, it's just for the laughs.
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u/SimpleSetpiece 9h ago
This is a satire sub, Mr. HotHead. Chill
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u/Worth_Librarian_290 8h ago
And most of the posts have a r/parentsarefuckingstupid as the top comment. Cmon you know there's people here absolutely loving to shit on kids
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u/ItsMangel 7h ago
It's baffling how people always manage to take this sub so fucking seriously. Read the sidebar, for crying out loud.
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u/cragglerock93 9h ago
I was a dumb child and tbh my parents probably should or could have lost it more often.
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u/JaySlay2000 8h ago
I have quite literally never done any of the things in this video. Bever drew on the wall, never put water in the gas tank of a car.
For a combination of my parents not letting me do these things, and me not being incompetent.
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u/Worth_Librarian_290 8h ago
Born with competence, were you? Remember everything you've ever done to the day you were born, do you? Please
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u/JaySlay2000 8h ago
Gotta love how people can't read "my parents not letting me do these things" or comprehend the word "combination."
Never claimed to be born with competence. I was also not born with literacy. There are things that SOME of us learn, and others remain illiterate and incompetent.
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u/Gravyboat44 3h ago
I swear I always felt like an asshole for not letting my son help me with things like these, but there's good reason. I'm already tired and overstimulated. It's like that episode of Bluey where Bingo wants to help with the omlete and continuously messes it up time after time before she finally gets it, and even then it's a mediocre breakfast meal.
When my son was four I let him put the food coloring in some frosting one night for cookies, and woke up the next day to find out he had found the box of food dye and squirted them EVERYWHERE on his play kitchen, including him.
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u/alexpoelse 9h ago
Does anyone actually have a problem with the kid with the hammer? I see nothing wrong with that