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I Can't Stop Laughing After Seeing What Kids Put Their Parents Through This Year

A moment of silence for all the things parents have endured this year.

1. This mom discovered the reason why the TV remote wasn't working:

candy stuffed into a remote

2. This parent found their 4-year-old's work of art:

Drawings on the wall

3. This parent had to deal with their kid running through the aisle on the plane and using seats as a "personal jungle gym":

a child's feet on top of an airplane seat

4. This parent learned why his son got in trouble in school:

a note from a teacher to a parent about their kid's behavior

5. This daughter doodled on her dad's new truck with a rock:

Lines scratched into a truck

6. This son left his skateboard in the worst possible place:

a skateboard next to an entrance

7. This parent's 3-year-old pulled off a handle from the master bathtub and hid it:

A missing bathtub handle

8. This kid was left alone juuuust for a minute:

Kid's drawings on a hospital bed

9. This daughter puts on new toilet paper like this:

An empty toilet paper roll next to a full one

10. This kid decided to test some crayons on a brand-new Nintendo Switch:

a Nintendo Switch with writing all over it

11. These kids left the remote on the heater:

A melted remote

12. This daughter was asked to take out the clean dishes from the dishwasher, and well, she did take them out:

Dishes stacked on the counter

13. This kid won't give the phone back:

"No"

14. This kid ate this entire pint of ice cream, and then filled it with water and froze it for their parent to enjoy:

Frozen water in an ice cream carton

15. This kid left their mark at the grocery store:

A hand print in some flour

Ah yes, a fresh hand print in flour.

A hand print in some flour

16. This mom learned her wedding purse was being used for a new purpose:

pepperoni in a wedding purse

17. This son uses toothpaste like this:

A twisted toothpaste tube

18. This mom's Ralph Lauren purse got a makeover:

Markings on a pink purse

19. This boss's son came in the office, scribbled all over an employee's whiteboard, and left all the fine-tip markers looking like this:

A messed-up Expo marker

20. This parent's 16-year-old son leaves just a *few* drops of Gatorade in each bottle and then leaves the rest in the fridge:

Gatorade bottles with hardly anything left

21. This parent's 2-year-old threw his sippy cup at the TV:

A broken TV

22. This parent found the culprit that clogged the toilet:

A Mario toy

23. This parent's "favorite thesaurus," which was in perfect condition for 20 years — until their 3-year-old daughter got ahold of it:

Scribbling on a book page

24. This stepdaughter was asked to fold her clean laundry...but she threw it in the trash instead:

Clothes in the trash
Clothes on the counter

25. This kid was done eating this banana and handed it over to Dad:

A banana with bite marks on the sides

26. This daughter left this hairbrush hanging in the shower:

A brush completely covered in hair

27. This kid's bedroom:

A giant mess on the floor

28. This kid threw a Nintendo Switch in the toilet:

A Nintendo Switch in the toilet

29. This kid ripped open over 20 packs of Pokémon cards, kept, like, four of them, and threw the rest on the ground:

Cards all over the ground

30. These kids always leave empty food packages in the pantry:

An empty Oreos package

31. These fish owners went on vacation for a week and left the neighbor’s daughter in charge of feeding their fish — and they came back to this:

A dirty fish tank

32. These adult kids left these "leftovers" in the fridge:

A plate with hardly any food left in the fridge

33. These kids only lose left gloves:

Left gloves on a counter

34. These kids left the library like this:

A messy table in a library

35. And finally, these preschoolers did this to an ENTIRE bag of their parent's cable ties:

Messed-up cable ties