31 Hilarious ‘Bad’ Things Parents Had to Punish Their Children For

You remember the TV show Kids Say the Darndest Things? It was a show where a celebrity host interviewed children and they would say “funny,” mildly inappropriate things that mostly seemed prearranged. The original incarnation in the 1960s was hosted by Art Linklater, then in the late 1990s, Bill Cosby — yes, that Bill Cosby — hosted, and most recently, Tiffany Haddish helmed a short-lived version that began in 2019. While it was intermittently cute, it was hardly candid, and the language never got too dirty because of the constraints of network television.

But in real life, when a kid busts out a candid curse word, there’s almost nothing funnier, which is why parents on Reddit shared these hilarious stories when asked about the funniest ‘bad’ thing their child did.