Kids have crazy imaginations and ideas when it comes to things they keep from their parents. No matter how hard they try, eventually parents figure out kid’s secrets and “treasures.” Recently, parents began sharing the wildest things they’ve found their kids hiding from them in a Reddit thread.
One kid loves to take poops all over the backyard.
“My 6-year-old son poops in the backyard every morning and blames it on the dog.” Gross!
Another tries to hide the dog in strange places.
“My 2-year-old attempts to hide the 75-pound family dog in various places in his room, so that the dog can sleep in there with him. So far, I’ve found the dog in the closet, behind the curtains, surrounded by stuffed animals to ‘blend in,’ and on many occasions, I see a giant mound under the comforter at the foot of his bed.”
One daughter is trying to help her dad’s addiction.
“I have a drinking problem, and I hide my booze. But one day, my daughter found my hiding place, so now she pours it out and replaces it with water, thinking that as long as the bottle is the same, I won’t notice. So a few times a week, I’ll take a shot and realize it’s water, then I’ll cry and stay sober for a day or so.”
One kid was going the cheap route for safe-sex.
“My 16-year-old had a box of condoms with a price sticker from the dollar store in his backpack, and they fell out while I was moving his backpack to the backseat. I bought him a better brand and replaced them, and we have never discussed it.”
Another is out to get the tooth fairy.
“I found a loaded one-shot Nerf gun under my 5-year-old daughter’s pillow. When I asked her what she was doing with it, she whispered, ‘It’s for the tooth fairy.'”
One daughter was trying to be fiscally responsible.
“My 6-year-old got out of bed early in the morning to sneak downstairs and steal Monopoly money from the bank of the unfinished game we left out on the table the night before.”
One kid had a healthy addiction.
“My kid would get up in the middle of the night, sneak into the kitchen, and eat a whole tomato except for the little circle where it connects to the stem. He would then hide the little stem circles under whatever was on top of the trash and go to sleep. We always made sure there were tomatoes for him.”
Another daughter planned way, way ahead.
“My 9-year-old stepdaughter was in her room one day for hours with markers and papers. I assumed she was making a picture book or something, but it turns out she was hiding our calendar and making cards for everyone for every holiday and birthday coming up. I haven’t asked her about it, but I’m super proud of her long-term planning abilities.”
One kid just loves ravioli.
“A few years ago, I was going through my third-grade son’s backpack and I found a can of ravioli. I never bought any ravioli, but when I asked him about it, he burst into tears and pulled out a box under his bed FILLED WITH RAVIOLI…”
One daughter really misses her mom.
“My daughter has been hiding a picture of her mother and I on our honeymoon under her pillow for a long time. We’ve been divorced for four years.”
Another daughter played her mom, hard.
“I thought my 15-year-old was diligently plugging the charger into her phone every night before going upstairs for bed…until I discovered she was actually plugging it into an empty phone case and taking her phone with her.”
One kid is trying their best to be sneaky.
“My three year old thinks I don’t know that she raids the snack cupboard when I’m out of the room (her face is usually full of chocolate after). She also thinks I can’t see her when she covers her eyes, so sneaks around me thinking she’s in stealth mode to get to something she shouldn’t.”
One kid just really wanted blueberries.
“When my son was 5 he stashed a bunch of blueberries under his pillow for later. Problem is, not only did they get squished night one, but he forgot about them until we changed his sheets a few days later. Ugh. Death.”
One son tried to hide his girlfriend.
“My kid Noah (15) is trying to hide the fact that he’s found a girlfriend, he thinks he’s really smart by just saying he’s going out to get food every now and then, but it’s so easy to tell that he’s going to see someone. Also his girlfriend snitched on him, she told us that she liked him…”
One kid just does his business out in the open.
“Mine doesn’t try to hide anything. He’s a year and a half old. He just grabs things he isn’t supposed to and runs away yelling, ‘runrunrunrunrun.'”
