Whenever my wife gets upset about one of our children's latest pranks, I ask her practically the same question: "Listen, think back to when you were a kid! Didn't you or I do exactly the same thing, or even more recklessly?"

Looking back, I'm actually amazed my peers and I even made it to adulthood. We'd do parkour on garage roofs, eat ants and other nasty things on dares, hang off passing cars with skateboards... basically, me-dad would've gone insane over me-son's antics. Incidentally, as it turns out, many other adults also reminisce about their own strange childhood behavior.

I thought my stuffed animals had feelings and would get jealous if I didn’t sleep with them so I slept with all 30+ in my bed to keep them all happy

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I used to collect rocks and when my mom t

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