I wish I had thought about this with my siblings. I’m the oldest of five and I wouldn’t have had to hide candy and treats in empty veggie bags in the freezer and boxes of snacks they didn’t like just to keep my shit to myself 😂
Yeah, one of my friends growing up told her little sister that if she sat on the toilet for too long while pooping, a shark would come up the pipes and bite her butt off. I think her sister 7, maybe just about to turn 7? Friend was 10.
Her sister was the "come wipe me" child that refused to wipe her own butt. She'd just sit there screaming until her mother came and did it. Obviously this was the fault of her mother's enabling her, but Friend was so sick of it, she came up with that lie.
Little sister suddenly refused to sit on the toilet at all. She would hover to pee, as fast as she could, and try to hover to poop. She started going to her mother to be wiped so she wouldn't be near the toilet at all. When their mom would ask why, she just started freaking out and crying about sharks.
It took her at least a week to finally be calm enough to explain to her mom exactly what her big sister told her when she asked.
I think my friend was grounded for at least two weeks for that one. She got what she wanted though, because their mother decided she was finally done with it all and started forcing her to wipe herself. A month later, you never would have known that the kid didn't wipe herself until she was 7 years old....
My sister (almost 15 years older) told me that if I ever ate a chicken bone, I would turn into a chicken and if I ever ate a watermelon seed, vines would grow out of my ears
Okay first off, that's hilarious, second off yiu can go about it in a way of explaining to him that if he eats things he's not allowed to then it'll happen
It's the best way to teach the kid to not steal others food
That being said NTA
He's 6. He'll be scared for a couple of years before he learns you lied to him and then that's a whole other issue but hey, good on you for putting up a boundary. Let your aunt know that he shouldn't be spoiled
NTA!!! I’d be laughing if I was Fox’s mom. But it sounds like he’s a brat so she probably enables that behavior.
Tell him that eating veggies will prevent his butt cheeks from sticking together.
Little shit got taught a lesson. He’ll come around don’t worry. Kids get hungry but maybe this will make him stop eating what’s not his especially sugar.
NTA
They probably lie to him about Santa.
This was hilarious.
My granddaddy (when he was young, so 1930s/40s) knew this annoying shit of a kid and once they were near a turkey and the kid kept asking about it and my granddaddy told him how friendly they were and fun to ride. My granddaddy said watching him run from that turkey was the funniest thing he’d ever seen.
I would consider this a gold star in my "joke" book, lol. He is 6. He will get hungry and forget all about it and be after your cupcakes again in no time. If your aunt cant see the humor in it she's just weird and no fun at all
NTA. I hope your aunt was laughing. She should be, but since she's the one raising such a precious little angel, I suspect not. This is exactly the kind of stuff older kids pull on their siblings and relatives. I remember my sister told me soy sauce was made from bug juice - crushed bugs. I don't know how many years it took before I'd touch soy sauce, but it was a while.
My sister talked me into eating chewing tobacco. I have no idea where she got it. It was not good. It made me feel really awful.
There was a post on Reddit a while back from a late teen whose had a hate on for her younger brother because she thought her parents were spoiling him rotten. Her younger brother was allowed to run amok in a restaurant and the parent’s approach to discipline was to give in to his tantrum and take the daughter’s chicken fingers (or something like that) away from her so the poor baby would be happy. Big sister hit her limit, waited til he had snarfed back a bit of her food, and then informed him that he was eating Big Bird. Cue major public meltdown and possibly the start of a vegetarian lifestyle. People gave her heck because she was an adult (like 17-19 ish max) and he was a kid. I, on the other hand, laughed so hard I snorted coffee out my nose and then I called my sister so she could the same thing.
NTA. This is hilarious. We all gotta learn.
I know, right? Poor kid got totally roasted for it - so many indignant adults insisting that she was horrible and her actions were unforgivable. In all fairness, she may have referred to him once or twice as devil spawn but, again, mwahahahaaaaa….
I know that there are sibling / familial relationships that are abusive and I would never make light of or dismiss that. I watched someone close to me struggle w those scars. They were deep and lasting.
But yah this is not that. This is just …iron sharpening iron folks. Lol.
When we were little my sister convinced me to give her my baby teeth so that she could put them under her pillow for the tooth fairy (thus avoiding the whole messing w the fairies thing cause ya know how they can be - soooo unpredictable…). I would like to say that all of my baby teeth fell out of my head without “encouragement” but that would be a lie. There were a couple of “incidents” involving string and the doorknob and one rather unfortunate incident where we played dentist and she tied the string to the wrong tooth and instead of the loose tooth coming out when she slammed the door I ended up w a pretty noticeable bump on my head which we then proceeded to try to hide from our mother. My mother, for her part, DID know which of her kids was losing baby teeth and must have had a convo w the tooth fairy cause I always seemed to come out good in the whole cash-for-tooth transaction.
On the plus side, I am WAY WAY WAY less gullible today than I would have ever been had I been an only child. Honestly, i think I was kinda dumb - think book smart but with less than zero street cred. If not for my sister ‘sistering me’ while also, bless her heart, protecting me from others, I am not sure I would have made it to fully functional adulthood. At best I would be clicking spurious links and buying gift cards / sending codes “to my boss”, and enthusiastically entering into financial arrangements w foreign princes who oddly need me to give them my bank Acct information, you know, just this one time…
Older siblings / cousins teach us the lessons our parents can’t or won’t. They are a gift.
I’m the oldest of five, and I absolutely run that camp. Only I AM ALLOWED to terrorize my siblings. I will absolutely argue with another eleven year old if they even THINK about bullying my babiest sister 😂
How to deal with this:
With aunt's permission (get a list from her of things she'd like 6 y.o. to eat more of), sit down with him for a 'serious' conversation...
You're sorry you upset him, but you're worried about his butt, so you went and did some research and asked the experts what's the best way to keep his butt un-stuck.
Here it is: it's about keeping a balance and eating enough of the un-glue foods to keep his butt happy. He can eat sugar stuff, but not too much. It's like the three bears - not too much, not too little, in the middle is juuuuust right!
You talked to his mom and shared what you learned with her, and mom is going to work to make sure your butt stays good and un-stuck! No glue-butt for you!
Then lean in close and whisper: There's something important you need to know. Your body and your brain talk to each other. So if you steal someone else's treats, your brain knows you did it. And your brain makes the sugar work stronger on your body. We don't want that! It will mean you have to miss out on other treats to keep a balance! So if you stick to *your* treats that your mom says you're allowed to have, AND you eat the balance-it-out foods, then you will be able to eat a good amount of sugar food and NOT have your butt stick together!
Does that sound like a good plan? Because I was worried about you, and this will keep you happy AND healthy. Okay?
Let's go tell your mom the plan! Whooo!
Reminds me of the joke where the mom tells the kd that if he doesn't stop that he'll end up like his sister. When he says he doesnt have a sister, the mom replies "exactly".
Once when I was little (like 6) I had a sleep over with my cousins (maybe 5&4) and they still slept with a night light. I was having a hard time sleeping because of the light since I didn’t use one, and asked my cousin to turn it off. When he said no, I said “but then the bad guys will have enough light to see you.” He had nightmares about this for weeks and I never had a sleepover with them again, lol. Poor kid.
NTA.
I knew a kid who used to chew on paper until his mother told him that all paper was recycled from used paper, including toilet paper. I heard him frantically telling another kid who was chewing paper.
His mom should be thanking you for making him afraid of too much sugar. You should start making some fake news article screenshots you can tease him with in the future.
NTA. I once told my niece (while I was cleaning) that our reflections were actually our trapped evil twins and she had to be careful not to touch the glass surfaces because they could pull us through.
NTA and as a mum of 4, I wish I had thought of this one!! Hahahaha thanks for the Monday morning giggle!
I used to tell my sister things were spicy if she kept persisting after she was told no.
Lmao still at too much sugar.and your butt cheeks will stick together 🤣🤣
NTA and thank you, I laughed into an asthma attack 😂 When I was maybe 10 my cousin and I told her little brother that at night they're was an invisible shark named Heathcliff that came out of our pool drain when we turned the pool lights on. We got sick of having to babysit him during night swims while the adults got shit-hammered on Bacardi Breezers and other assorted 80s centric cocktails.
NTA. That’s hilarious!
My brother told me if I swallowed watermelon seeds a plant would grow in my stomach and might get stuck on the way out when I pooped. 😆
Me and my mom used to tease my sister as a small child that she had a tail when she was born and the doctors had to remove it.
She’s now in her late 20s, and I in my 30s….I can say there was no lasting damage.
Tell your aunt that it's true. If he eats too much sugar his butt cheeks will get stuck together. You're 16 who the fuck does she think you are? It's up to her to correct it lol
That mother needs to sort out her fox 🦊… I would be asking your parent for a key lock on your door - NTA - fox’s mother is the Ass hole for not teaching and disciplining her child ..
This is just shit older siblings/family members do. My oldest sister said that baby ghost peppers haven’t matured yet so they aren’t spicy and tricked me into eating one. I literally shoved the whole thing in my mouth. I cannot tolerate spicy food so that one was extra funny to her.
If it makes you feel any better, I told my little sister Santa wasn’t real.
Hopefully your aunt isn’t too pissed at you because this is funny af.
NTA
When you see someone chewing their cuticles tell them if they keep it up their nails will fall off.
If they push, explain that cuticles hold the nail to the nail bed.
NTA- my older brother told my kids that if they didn’t eat their vegetables their hair would fall out. He said “I didn’t and look at me now!” He’s bald 😂 we also told them that we could visibly see them shrink if they didn’t eat their dinner. They are perfectly fine.
If your aunt is so worried about it she should be better at disciplining your cousin so he doesn’t take what isn’t his and throw a fit when he doesn’t get his way.
Omg this is hilarious, thank you, I needed this laugh today😂😂😂
But seriously NTA, and welcome to adulting. We sometimes tell white lies to children when they don’t listen to reasoning.
I'm Gen X. My parents and any adults in the community would absolutely say something like this. So, of course I would carry on that fine tradition.
Well done, young one! You found an excellent way to startle pests into stopping undesirable behaviors.
NTA
NTA, my dad told me something similar when I was about 7. My stupid ass would eat sugar out the jar my told me ants would smell the sugar and crawl up my asshole, safe to say I stopped.
NTA--you need to tell him that if he swallows (_____ seeds that _____ will grow out his asshole. Also if he swallows chewing gum it will plug his bunghole!
NTA I actually laughed. Good share op. I intend to had this phrase to a long list of traditional things to say to an unruly child included but limited to "if you don't stop making that face it'll get stuck that way" and "I'm telling Santa".
OMGDS I am DYING!!! That's hilarious. I told my nephew that if he swallowed gum he would blow bubbles out of his other end, I told him that if he ate watermelon seeds he would get pregnant with a baby watermelon and give birth to it in the toilet, I can't even remember everything I told that child, lol.
NTA
NTA I once told a kid he’d grow fungus and mushrooms on his feet if he didn’t take his socks off at bedtime or if he kept wearing wet socks. 🤣 I also told him he’d get butt mushrooms if he kept his wet underpants on too . He showered and put on nice dry PJ’s for bed then.
YTA- you should not have said that. Kids are vulnerable and we need to protect them and build them up to be good functioning adults not trick them.
If I was your aunt I would be fuming and have you explain it was just a joke and sorry you confused him.
If you were the aunt you should teach your spoiled brat not to steal / eat other person’s things. He has absolutely NO RIGHT to steal that cupcake. He was a guest.
The right wat OP should have handled it is gone to her aunt and she should discipline her child without traumatizing him.
Reading this post makes me believe Reddit is filled with young people without any sense how to be a parent or know anything about children.
NTA. It's a teaching tale as old as time. When I was a kid, we were told not to pull funny faces or stick our tongue out at people because we would get stuck looking like that if the wind changed. Lol.
NTA. It sounds like Fox’s parents have never managed to say anything that adjusted his behavior around this. Until they do, other people will be doing it for them. They have to accept that negative behaviors will get corrected. If that’s not okay to them, they can keep him at home.
You're a legend! Definately NTA. I told my kids that each time they lied, their ears glowed red. Right up until my eldest turned 8, and my youngest turned 12, they'd cover their ears lol. Not gunna harm your cousin at all, might teach him consequences to his actions.
HA! Reminds me of when I was little, my sister, who was 5 years older than me, told me if I didn't eat tomatoes that my blood would turn green. That worried me for awhile.
NTA
Tell your aunt that if she raised him better other people wouldn't have to find ways to get him to act better. And if she doesn't like it she can either step up her mom game or keep him away from you.
OP is literally 16 years old, she is a child herself. It's not her responsibility to teach a six-year-old who has a mother how to act. It is his mother's responsibility
Yeah , you are totally the asshole -- f*cking around with a six year old -- when you should be the semi- adult that clearly has more understanding than that child did.
WTF is wrong with you??!!
No, nothing is wrong with you. This is the sort of thing my older kids would have said to the younger or to their younger cousins. Normal, and in your case, hilarious.
lol you say that as if OP slapped the child for *checks notes* being a spoiled little brat who wouldn't stop eating the cupcakes that he was told to stop eating and proceeded to throw a fit over them instead of telling them a silly little lie to scare them into not being a spoiled little brat who doesn't know how or care to listen to others. Kid had it coming and OP's aunt deserves a good bitching out for enabling her kid's bad behavior.
NTA - this is really funny
I’d like to know how many he got through before the bum cheeks threat scared him into a sugar free life.
Haha, poor Fox! I bet he won't forget that lesson anytime soon.
I wish I had thought about this with my siblings. I’m the oldest of five and I wouldn’t have had to hide candy and treats in empty veggie bags in the freezer and boxes of snacks they didn’t like just to keep my shit to myself 😂
This is such an older cousin thing to say omg. I'm still chuckling. NTA.
even older sibling, my stepsister said something like that to me growing up lmaoo
Yeah, one of my friends growing up told her little sister that if she sat on the toilet for too long while pooping, a shark would come up the pipes and bite her butt off. I think her sister 7, maybe just about to turn 7? Friend was 10. Her sister was the "come wipe me" child that refused to wipe her own butt. She'd just sit there screaming until her mother came and did it. Obviously this was the fault of her mother's enabling her, but Friend was so sick of it, she came up with that lie. Little sister suddenly refused to sit on the toilet at all. She would hover to pee, as fast as she could, and try to hover to poop. She started going to her mother to be wiped so she wouldn't be near the toilet at all. When their mom would ask why, she just started freaking out and crying about sharks. It took her at least a week to finally be calm enough to explain to her mom exactly what her big sister told her when she asked. I think my friend was grounded for at least two weeks for that one. She got what she wanted though, because their mother decided she was finally done with it all and started forcing her to wipe herself. A month later, you never would have known that the kid didn't wipe herself until she was 7 years old....
I told my sister she was actually a golden retriever we got from the pound, but she started talking and everyone just went with it.
My sister (almost 15 years older) told me that if I ever ate a chicken bone, I would turn into a chicken and if I ever ate a watermelon seed, vines would grow out of my ears
I told my nephew that if he ate the seeds he would get pregnant with a baby watermelon. 😂😂😂
My sister told me gum stays in your stomach for seven years!
I heard that too. And if you swallowed too much gum it would clog your intestines and you would die
Okay first off, that's hilarious, second off yiu can go about it in a way of explaining to him that if he eats things he's not allowed to then it'll happen It's the best way to teach the kid to not steal others food That being said NTA He's 6. He'll be scared for a couple of years before he learns you lied to him and then that's a whole other issue but hey, good on you for putting up a boundary. Let your aunt know that he shouldn't be spoiled
NTA!!! I’d be laughing if I was Fox’s mom. But it sounds like he’s a brat so she probably enables that behavior. Tell him that eating veggies will prevent his butt cheeks from sticking together.
Prunes also. A lot of prunes.
This! Sweets are butt glue, veggies keep it from getting sticky
I think a bunch of parents on this thread just learned a way to get their kids to eat more veggies and less junk lol
It's amazing what works on little kids. My grandfather had a bunch of methods to get me to eat healthy.
I mean, it’s not too far off from the truth.
Little shit got taught a lesson. He’ll come around don’t worry. Kids get hungry but maybe this will make him stop eating what’s not his especially sugar.
NTA They probably lie to him about Santa. This was hilarious. My granddaddy (when he was young, so 1930s/40s) knew this annoying shit of a kid and once they were near a turkey and the kid kept asking about it and my granddaddy told him how friendly they were and fun to ride. My granddaddy said watching him run from that turkey was the funniest thing he’d ever seen.
Turkeys are psychos WTF
I would consider this a gold star in my "joke" book, lol. He is 6. He will get hungry and forget all about it and be after your cupcakes again in no time. If your aunt cant see the humor in it she's just weird and no fun at all
NTA. My 7 year old would find this absolutely hilarious.
I, a 35 year old, also think this is hilarious.
I mean I’m 40 and the 7yo had to get his sense of humor from somewhere.
NTA. I hope your aunt was laughing. She should be, but since she's the one raising such a precious little angel, I suspect not. This is exactly the kind of stuff older kids pull on their siblings and relatives. I remember my sister told me soy sauce was made from bug juice - crushed bugs. I don't know how many years it took before I'd touch soy sauce, but it was a while.
My sister talked me into eating chewing tobacco. I have no idea where she got it. It was not good. It made me feel really awful. There was a post on Reddit a while back from a late teen whose had a hate on for her younger brother because she thought her parents were spoiling him rotten. Her younger brother was allowed to run amok in a restaurant and the parent’s approach to discipline was to give in to his tantrum and take the daughter’s chicken fingers (or something like that) away from her so the poor baby would be happy. Big sister hit her limit, waited til he had snarfed back a bit of her food, and then informed him that he was eating Big Bird. Cue major public meltdown and possibly the start of a vegetarian lifestyle. People gave her heck because she was an adult (like 17-19 ish max) and he was a kid. I, on the other hand, laughed so hard I snorted coffee out my nose and then I called my sister so she could the same thing. NTA. This is hilarious. We all gotta learn.
Eating Big Bird! Whoa was that a good one!
I know, right? Poor kid got totally roasted for it - so many indignant adults insisting that she was horrible and her actions were unforgivable. In all fairness, she may have referred to him once or twice as devil spawn but, again, mwahahahaaaaa…. I know that there are sibling / familial relationships that are abusive and I would never make light of or dismiss that. I watched someone close to me struggle w those scars. They were deep and lasting. But yah this is not that. This is just …iron sharpening iron folks. Lol. When we were little my sister convinced me to give her my baby teeth so that she could put them under her pillow for the tooth fairy (thus avoiding the whole messing w the fairies thing cause ya know how they can be - soooo unpredictable…). I would like to say that all of my baby teeth fell out of my head without “encouragement” but that would be a lie. There were a couple of “incidents” involving string and the doorknob and one rather unfortunate incident where we played dentist and she tied the string to the wrong tooth and instead of the loose tooth coming out when she slammed the door I ended up w a pretty noticeable bump on my head which we then proceeded to try to hide from our mother. My mother, for her part, DID know which of her kids was losing baby teeth and must have had a convo w the tooth fairy cause I always seemed to come out good in the whole cash-for-tooth transaction. On the plus side, I am WAY WAY WAY less gullible today than I would have ever been had I been an only child. Honestly, i think I was kinda dumb - think book smart but with less than zero street cred. If not for my sister ‘sistering me’ while also, bless her heart, protecting me from others, I am not sure I would have made it to fully functional adulthood. At best I would be clicking spurious links and buying gift cards / sending codes “to my boss”, and enthusiastically entering into financial arrangements w foreign princes who oddly need me to give them my bank Acct information, you know, just this one time… Older siblings / cousins teach us the lessons our parents can’t or won’t. They are a gift.
My sister was definitely in the, "No one picks on my sister but me," camp.
Gotta love the sisters. :). The good ones anyway. :)
I’m the oldest of five, and I absolutely run that camp. Only I AM ALLOWED to terrorize my siblings. I will absolutely argue with another eleven year old if they even THINK about bullying my babiest sister 😂
How to deal with this: With aunt's permission (get a list from her of things she'd like 6 y.o. to eat more of), sit down with him for a 'serious' conversation... You're sorry you upset him, but you're worried about his butt, so you went and did some research and asked the experts what's the best way to keep his butt un-stuck. Here it is: it's about keeping a balance and eating enough of the un-glue foods to keep his butt happy. He can eat sugar stuff, but not too much. It's like the three bears - not too much, not too little, in the middle is juuuuust right! You talked to his mom and shared what you learned with her, and mom is going to work to make sure your butt stays good and un-stuck! No glue-butt for you! Then lean in close and whisper: There's something important you need to know. Your body and your brain talk to each other. So if you steal someone else's treats, your brain knows you did it. And your brain makes the sugar work stronger on your body. We don't want that! It will mean you have to miss out on other treats to keep a balance! So if you stick to *your* treats that your mom says you're allowed to have, AND you eat the balance-it-out foods, then you will be able to eat a good amount of sugar food and NOT have your butt stick together! Does that sound like a good plan? Because I was worried about you, and this will keep you happy AND healthy. Okay? Let's go tell your mom the plan! Whooo!
You are my favorite person today. THIS is how to handle it!!! 🤣
Tell Fox only sugary treats cause your butt cheeks to permanently glue together. Good luck Fox! 🦊 Hahaha 😂
Reminds me of the joke where the mom tells the kd that if he doesn't stop that he'll end up like his sister. When he says he doesnt have a sister, the mom replies "exactly".
NTA. Okay, this is hilarious.
Once when I was little (like 6) I had a sleep over with my cousins (maybe 5&4) and they still slept with a night light. I was having a hard time sleeping because of the light since I didn’t use one, and asked my cousin to turn it off. When he said no, I said “but then the bad guys will have enough light to see you.” He had nightmares about this for weeks and I never had a sleepover with them again, lol. Poor kid.
You know what, I told my 9 year old cousin that if he doesn't wash his hands after pooping he'll get worms. It worked lol. His mom laughed
NTA. I knew a kid who used to chew on paper until his mother told him that all paper was recycled from used paper, including toilet paper. I heard him frantically telling another kid who was chewing paper.
My brother told me if I ate the seeds from an orange, an orange tree would start growing out of my ears.
Lol - that's hilarious. Maybe she'll stop leaving her brat in your care if you come up with more of these ...
His mom should be thanking you for making him afraid of too much sugar. You should start making some fake news article screenshots you can tease him with in the future.
NTA. I once told my niece (while I was cleaning) that our reflections were actually our trapped evil twins and she had to be careful not to touch the glass surfaces because they could pull us through.
NTA and as a mum of 4, I wish I had thought of this one!! Hahahaha thanks for the Monday morning giggle! I used to tell my sister things were spicy if she kept persisting after she was told no. Lmao still at too much sugar.and your butt cheeks will stick together 🤣🤣
Ahahahahaha u win the internet today 😂
This is hilarious. He'll get over it, and you just became my hero!
🤣🤣🤣 Great idea!
NTA and thank you, I laughed into an asthma attack 😂 When I was maybe 10 my cousin and I told her little brother that at night they're was an invisible shark named Heathcliff that came out of our pool drain when we turned the pool lights on. We got sick of having to babysit him during night swims while the adults got shit-hammered on Bacardi Breezers and other assorted 80s centric cocktails.
NTA! This gave me THE best and much needed laugh of my day today. Thank you so much!🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is the most hilariously epic thing I’ve seen in a while! I’m going to have to use this one! 😈
NTA. That’s hilarious! My brother told me if I swallowed watermelon seeds a plant would grow in my stomach and might get stuck on the way out when I pooped. 😆
Me and my mom used to tease my sister as a small child that she had a tail when she was born and the doctors had to remove it. She’s now in her late 20s, and I in my 30s….I can say there was no lasting damage.
Good. He sounds like a little shit.
That's just funny.
Tell your aunt that it's true. If he eats too much sugar his butt cheeks will get stuck together. You're 16 who the fuck does she think you are? It's up to her to correct it lol
NTA he needs to learn respect for other peoples stuff
That mother needs to sort out her fox 🦊… I would be asking your parent for a key lock on your door - NTA - fox’s mother is the Ass hole for not teaching and disciplining her child ..
This is just shit older siblings/family members do. My oldest sister said that baby ghost peppers haven’t matured yet so they aren’t spicy and tricked me into eating one. I literally shoved the whole thing in my mouth. I cannot tolerate spicy food so that one was extra funny to her. If it makes you feel any better, I told my little sister Santa wasn’t real. Hopefully your aunt isn’t too pissed at you because this is funny af.
😂😂😂😂
This is hysterical. Nta
NTA When you see someone chewing their cuticles tell them if they keep it up their nails will fall off. If they push, explain that cuticles hold the nail to the nail bed.
HAHAHAHAAA NTA fuck them kids🤣
lol love this -I told my kids their brain would turn to mush didn’t work… I might have to try the butt cheek thing
I’m dying 😅😅😅
NTA- my older brother told my kids that if they didn’t eat their vegetables their hair would fall out. He said “I didn’t and look at me now!” He’s bald 😂 we also told them that we could visibly see them shrink if they didn’t eat their dinner. They are perfectly fine. If your aunt is so worried about it she should be better at disciplining your cousin so he doesn’t take what isn’t his and throw a fit when he doesn’t get his way.
NTA and I’m laughing so much!
NTA that’s hilarious.
Omg thats what we tell to our slavic kids 🤣 NTA
NTA This is good clean fun IMO.
Okay, this is just hilarious.
Omg this is hilarious, thank you, I needed this laugh today😂😂😂 But seriously NTA, and welcome to adulting. We sometimes tell white lies to children when they don’t listen to reasoning.
I'm Gen X. My parents and any adults in the community would absolutely say something like this. So, of course I would carry on that fine tradition. Well done, young one! You found an excellent way to startle pests into stopping undesirable behaviors. NTA
Lol NTA OP.
NTA, my dad told me something similar when I was about 7. My stupid ass would eat sugar out the jar my told me ants would smell the sugar and crawl up my asshole, safe to say I stopped.
Showed up to just laugh!
Lawl
I was told as a child can cranberry sauce was cow hoves. Lol
I think that you need to come up with some more fun facts to use when your cousin comes to visit. NTS
If one of my sons cousins told them that, I would laugh hysterically. Hey whatever works to slow down on the sugar intake 🤣
NTA. He stopped eating your cupcakes lol. Maybe you saved him from a life with diabetes.
Kinda the asshole but it was sorta deserved?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m using this on my grandkids next time they are over 🤣🤣🤣🤣 very creative!!!
NTA--you need to tell him that if he swallows (_____ seeds that _____ will grow out his asshole. Also if he swallows chewing gum it will plug his bunghole!
NTA I actually laughed. Good share op. I intend to had this phrase to a long list of traditional things to say to an unruly child included but limited to "if you don't stop making that face it'll get stuck that way" and "I'm telling Santa".
nta. i’m in the firm camp that sometimes it’s okay to lie to kids
OMGDS I am DYING!!! That's hilarious. I told my nephew that if he swallowed gum he would blow bubbles out of his other end, I told him that if he ate watermelon seeds he would get pregnant with a baby watermelon and give birth to it in the toilet, I can't even remember everything I told that child, lol. NTA
Every Russian child grew up hearing this from parents etc and we all turned out fine. NTA.
NTA I once told a kid he’d grow fungus and mushrooms on his feet if he didn’t take his socks off at bedtime or if he kept wearing wet socks. 🤣 I also told him he’d get butt mushrooms if he kept his wet underpants on too . He showered and put on nice dry PJ’s for bed then.
Tell your aunt to do some actual parenting, it's not your problem.
NTA hilarious
I wish adults would fall for this.
YTA- you should not have said that. Kids are vulnerable and we need to protect them and build them up to be good functioning adults not trick them. If I was your aunt I would be fuming and have you explain it was just a joke and sorry you confused him.
If you were the aunt you should teach your spoiled brat not to steal / eat other person’s things. He has absolutely NO RIGHT to steal that cupcake. He was a guest.
The right wat OP should have handled it is gone to her aunt and she should discipline her child without traumatizing him. Reading this post makes me believe Reddit is filled with young people without any sense how to be a parent or know anything about children.
But YOU do know all of this? Gosh. You’re funny.
YTA. He’s 6. You could have put the cupcakes somewhere out of his reach instead of scaring him
Old enough to act right.
ESH - he needed consequences not lies.
You sound fun
🤣 Is it wrong I'm laughing my ass off?! 🤣
This is hilarious
I am convinced that older cousins exist to tell you outrageous lies that you, for some reason, believe. NTA
NTA. Legend.
NTA. It's a teaching tale as old as time. When I was a kid, we were told not to pull funny faces or stick our tongue out at people because we would get stuck looking like that if the wind changed. Lol.
As a mum I applaud you for stopping a child from eating you out of them pantry. I’m taking a note or two out of your book
NTA. It sounds like Fox’s parents have never managed to say anything that adjusted his behavior around this. Until they do, other people will be doing it for them. They have to accept that negative behaviors will get corrected. If that’s not okay to them, they can keep him at home.
NTA. This is hilarious. I’m going to try it.
I just came back to read this again. This is absolutely hysterical
IKR? 😂😂😂😂
You laugh. That's what you do. You laugh. And then you retell that story at his wedding.
You're a legend! Definately NTA. I told my kids that each time they lied, their ears glowed red. Right up until my eldest turned 8, and my youngest turned 12, they'd cover their ears lol. Not gunna harm your cousin at all, might teach him consequences to his actions.
NTA, if it was my little cousin I woulda spanked him
HA! Reminds me of when I was little, my sister, who was 5 years older than me, told me if I didn't eat tomatoes that my blood would turn green. That worried me for awhile.
YTA
What you do is laugh
Lol I'm going to tell my son this tomorrow
This kid needs some older siblings. I’m glad he’s got you instead.
Geez 😆😆😆😆😆
NTA This is like something out of one of my favourite books, Great Lies to tell Small Kids and also Great Lies to tell Small Kids 2!
NTA Tell your aunt that if she raised him better other people wouldn't have to find ways to get him to act better. And if she doesn't like it she can either step up her mom game or keep him away from you.
LMFAOOO NTA 😭😂
I tell kids all the time if they drink coffee before 25 yr they’ll be short.
😂😂😂😂🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭😂😂😂😂🤭🤭🤭🤭
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OP is literally 16 years old, she is a child herself. It's not her responsibility to teach a six-year-old who has a mother how to act. It is his mother's responsibility
Yeah , you are totally the asshole -- f*cking around with a six year old -- when you should be the semi- adult that clearly has more understanding than that child did. WTF is wrong with you??!!
Everything is wrong with me.
No, nothing is wrong with you. This is the sort of thing my older kids would have said to the younger or to their younger cousins. Normal, and in your case, hilarious.
Wait?! I thought everything was wrong with *me*?!
Don’t listen to that guy, OP. He probably ate too many cupcakes and now his butt cheeks are glued together, and that’s why he’s so grumpy.
lol you say that as if OP slapped the child for *checks notes* being a spoiled little brat who wouldn't stop eating the cupcakes that he was told to stop eating and proceeded to throw a fit over them instead of telling them a silly little lie to scare them into not being a spoiled little brat who doesn't know how or care to listen to others. Kid had it coming and OP's aunt deserves a good bitching out for enabling her kid's bad behavior.
Nothing is wrong with her. It's hilarious. Unstick your own butt cheeks and maybe that stick will fall out.