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<h2>Kids, while adorable, can sometimes be truly terrifying...</h2><p>Nothing is scarier than a small child staring into the void in a dark hallway at 3 AM, or a toddler screaming at a corner filled with absolutely nothing. A kid&#39;s temper tantrum or strange habit can scare or haunt parents forever, but sometimes it can be funny to look back and remember a particularly weird phase. While a bizarre behavior from a kid can be hilarious in hindsight, in the moment it can make parents wonder if their child is going to end up okay. We just might never know why your 5-year-old ripped off all the heads of his sister&#39;s Barbie dolls and rolled them down the stairs every morning...</p><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/71lr4u/parents_of_reddit_with_older_kids_whats_something/">Reddit</a> user asked parents, &quot;what&#39;s something weird or strange your kid did as a young child that made you think they were going to grow up to be a wacko but they turned out fine?&quot; people with kids were ready to share.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>My 4 year old used to bang his head on the floor when he got mad. Hard. Now he is 20 and in college getting an engineering degree. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>My daughter had terrifying night terrors when she was about 2. She&#39;d get out of bed in the middle of the night and stand at the top of the stairs screaming like someone was murdering her. She&#39;d stare at the bottom of the stairs like something was there. If I got too close or too far away from her, she&#39;d scream louder.</p> <p>She doesn&#39;t remember this and is totally fine now. - Serinaluna</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>When I was a toddler I was easily convinced of things my older cousins told me. One of them convinced me that you say hello by barking.</p> <p>So for months my mother had to endure me barking at people whenever they&#39;d speak to me. I&#39;d often sit on the under part of shopping carts like a dog laying down and just bark at strangers.</p> <p>She was mortified for months and dreaded bringing me in public. - HarleyQ</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>The coffee pot was missing. My wife found it in our daughter&#39;s room filled with urine. The daughter said, &quot;it&#39;s for an experiment&quot; and then looked at my wife she had just asked the stupidest question anyone had ever come up with.</p> <p>Anyway said daughter did remain a bit of an odd-ball, but has since grown up into a pretty normal person. For the most part anyway. - Link-to-the-Pastiche</p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>My youngest brother is 6 years younger than me. My parents coddled him. At age 6, he would throw a temper tantrum like a 3 year old if my mom didn&#39;t make him cinnamon toast, so she&#39;d make it for him. He had a strange habit of chewing on the carpet on the stairs, any toothbrush he could find, the brush on the snow scraper, even the toilet brush. Never did figure out why. He ended up in business school, worked at a bank for a while and then took over the business from my parents and is absolutely minted now. Got married and has 3 perfect kids. I wouldn&#39;t have thought that growing up, but I guess kids are just strange. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>My eldest has an imaginary friend named Xavier. He claimed that he was a ghost that lived in his play room and he would sit having long conversations with him. It was <em>really f*cking creepy</em> and we started questioning whether or not he had mental issues.</p> <p>He stopped mentioning him shortly after he started preschool and started hanging out with kids his own age. He says he doesn&#39;t even remember having an imaginary friend now and is your typical moody teenager. - Zerbey</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>My daughter used to lower her voice to a growl and call it her devil voice. She would torment other children with this much to her delight. I thought for sure she would be a sociopath or something. Nope, she&#39;s just fine and well adjusted. - Queen_Lizzie_Rose</p> </blockquote><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>My little cousin insisted on wearing costumes every day from the time he was, like, four, until he was, like, seven. He went to a catholic school so he had to wear a uniform there, but other than that, the kid was in a costume. Batman, Superman, police officer, fire fighter, cowboy, etc.</p> <p>Would constantly test his parents and throw fits if he didn&#39;t get his way but they wouldn&#39;t give in to him, he was just persistent. They&#39;d try to get him to wear normal clothes, but before long he&#39;d be costumed.</p> <p>When he stopped wearing the costumes he doubled down his focus on strength training for hockey. Asked for a Bowflex for his 8th birthday and had a six pack of abs before his next birthday (we swam all the time so he was always in a bathing suit and a 6 pack is super obvious on a kid).</p> <p>These days he&#39;s being recruited for the NHL. - TheMarkHasBeenMade</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>As a kid my sis use to secretly pray every night... a lot. She read from a list of horrible things/tragedies praying they wouldn&#39;t happen. She was sure they would if she left anything out. Pretty obsessive. She&#39;s a married lawyer raising great kids now. Very normal, though still pretty anxious. - Hipopper</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to mutilate my barbies. Remove limbs, draw wounds/stitches, run over them with the Barbie corvette, hack all their hair off, you name it. Worst was I would make it so when my grandma opened my bedroom door, that a noosed Barbie would fall in front of her face. Grams thought I&#39;d be a serial killer, mom just thought I was creative. Not a serial killer.. I was just a major tom boy that didn&#39;t play with barbies like expected. - kit_gilder</p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>my brother used to enjoy ripping butterfly wings out just for fun and I thought he&rsquo;d be a potential serial killer... now he&rsquo;s the softest thing that cries over dog movies and can&rsquo;t even hurt a fly. - yxwdtwsmlk</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>My daughter tried to shove a toy down her little brother&#39;s throat, nearly choking him. She knew what she was doing. She was also very controlling during play time. It had to be her game her way. She liked playing with younger kids because she could control them easier. We started working with her on her anxiety, and she&#39;s a (relatively) normal 13 year old now. - missleavenworth</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>My little brother use to bang his head on the floor or walls when he got upset about anything. He just started college and seems fine to me now lol - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>He used to hug trash cans, whether it be at the mall or anywhere really. - BIack-Bolt</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>I walked on my tip-toes until about age 8, and I would write and draw in the air all the time with my finger.</p> <p>I&#39;m totally normal; married with two kids and a professional writer. I&#39;m not sure why I did it, but sometimes I still catch myself writing in the air randomly. Shrug. - Malzypants</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>My son would pace and make <em>pew pew</em> noises whenever he thought he was alone. I asked him a couple of times what he was doing and he could never explain. - potatoisafruit</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

16 parents share weird things their kids did that made them worry they’d end up ‘wacko.’

Kids, while adorable, can sometimes be truly terrifying...Nothing is scarier than a small child staring into the void in a dark hallway at 3 AM, or a toddler screaming at a corner filled with absolutely nothing. A kid&#39;s temper tantrum or strange habit can scare or haunt parents forever, but sometimes it can be funny to look back and remember a particularly weird phase. While a bizarre behavior from a kid can be hilarious in hindsight, in the moment it can make parents wonder if their child is going to end up okay. We just might never know why your 5-year-old ripped off all the heads of his sister&#39;s Barbie dolls and rolled them down the stairs every morning...So, when a Reddit user asked parents, &quot;what&#39;s something weird or strange your kid did as a young child that made you think they were going to grow up to be a wacko but they turned out fine?&quot; people with kids were ready to share.1. My 4 year old used to bang his head on the floor when he got mad. Hard. Now he is 20 and in college getting an engineering degree. - [deleted] 2. My daughter had terrifying night terrors when she was about 2. She&#39;d get out of bed in the middle of the night and stand at the top of the stairs screaming like someone was murdering her. She&#39;d stare at the bottom of the stairs like something was there. If I got too close or too far away from her, she&#39;d scream louder. She doesn&#39;t remember this and is totally fine now. - Serinaluna 3. When I was a toddler I was easily convinced of things my older cousins told me. One of them convinced me that you say hello by barking. So for months my mother had to endure me barking at people whenever they&#39;d speak to me. I&#39;d often sit on the under part of shopping carts like a dog laying down and just bark at strangers. She was mortified for months and dreaded bringing me in public. - HarleyQ 4. The coffee pot was missing. My wife found it in our daughter&#39;s room filled with urine. The daughter said, &quot;it&#39;s for an experiment&quot; and then looked at my wife she had just asked the stupidest question anyone had ever come up with. Anyway said daughter did remain a bit of an odd-ball, but has since grown up into a pretty normal person. For the most part anyway. - Link-to-the-Pastiche 5. My youngest brother is 6 years younger than me. My parents coddled him. At age 6, he would throw a temper tantrum like a 3 year old if my mom didn&#39;t make him cinnamon toast, so she&#39;d make it for him. He had a strange habit of chewing on the carpet on the stairs, any toothbrush he could find, the brush on the snow scraper, even the toilet brush. Never did figure out why. He ended up in business school, worked at a bank for a while and then took over the business from my parents and is absolutely minted now. Got married and has 3 perfect kids. I wouldn&#39;t have thought that growing up, but I guess kids are just strange. - [deleted] 6. My eldest has an imaginary friend named Xavier. He claimed that he was a ghost that lived in his play room and he would sit having long conversations with him. It was really f*cking creepy and we started questioning whether or not he had mental issues. He stopped mentioning him shortly after he started preschool and started hanging out with kids his own age. He says he doesn&#39;t even remember having an imaginary friend now and is your typical moody teenager. - Zerbey 7. My daughter used to lower her voice to a growl and call it her devil voice. She would torment other children with this much to her delight. I thought for sure she would be a sociopath or something. Nope, she&#39;s just fine and well adjusted. - Queen_Lizzie_Rose 8. My little cousin insisted on wearing costumes every day from the time he was, like, four, until he was, like, seven. He went to a catholic school so he had to wear a uniform there, but other than that, the kid was in a costume. Batman, Superman, police officer, fire fighter, cowboy, etc. Would constantly test his parents and throw fits if he didn&#39;t get his way but they wouldn&#39;t give in to him, he was just persistent. They&#39;d try to get him to wear normal clothes, but before long he&#39;d be costumed. When he stopped wearing the costumes he doubled down his focus on strength training for hockey. Asked for a Bowflex for his 8th birthday and had a six pack of abs before his next birthday (we swam all the time so he was always in a bathing suit and a 6 pack is super obvious on a kid). These days he&#39;s being recruited for the NHL. - TheMarkHasBeenMade 9. As a kid my sis use to secretly pray every night... a lot. She read from a list of horrible things/tragedies praying they wouldn&#39;t happen. She was sure they would if she left anything out. Pretty obsessive. She&#39;s a married lawyer raising great kids now. Very normal, though still pretty anxious. - Hipopper 10. I used to mutilate my barbies. Remove limbs, draw wounds/stitches, run over them with the Barbie corvette, hack all their hair off, you name it. Worst was I would make it so when my grandma opened my bedroom door, that a noosed Barbie would fall in front of her face. Grams thought I&#39;d be a serial killer, mom just thought I was creative. Not a serial killer.. I was just a major tom boy that didn&#39;t play with barbies like expected. - kit_gilder 11. my brother used to enjoy ripping butterfly wings out just for fun and I thought he&rsquo;d be a potential serial killer... now he&rsquo;s the softest thing that cries over dog movies and can&rsquo;t even hurt a fly. - yxwdtwsmlk 12. My daughter tried to shove a toy down her little brother&#39;s throat, nearly choking him. She knew what she was doing. She was also very controlling during play time. It had to be her game her way. She liked playing with younger kids because she could control them easier. We started working with her on her anxiety, and she&#39;s a (relatively) normal 13 year old now. - missleavenworth 13. My little brother use to bang his head on the floor or walls when he got upset about anything. He just started college and seems fine to me now lol - [deleted] 14. He used to hug trash cans, whether it be at the mall or anywhere really. - BIack-Bolt 15. I walked on my tip-toes until about age 8, and I would write and draw in the air all the time with my finger. I&#39;m totally normal; married with two kids and a professional writer. I&#39;m not sure why I did it, but sometimes I still catch myself writing in the air randomly. Shrug. - Malzypants 16. My son would pace and make pew pew noises whenever he thought he was alone. I asked him a couple of times what he was doing and he could never explain. - potatoisafruit 

Kids, while adorable, can sometimes be truly terrifying...  Nothing is scarier than a small child staring into the void in a dark hallway at 3 AM, or a toddler screaming at a corner filled with absolutely nothing. A kid&#39;s temper...