25 Times Kids Outsmarted Their Parents

At some point between childhood and their teen years, kids figure out how to outwit their parents. For instance, one Redditor remembers planting the seeds of being bad at lying by telling lies that were so obvious that, by playing the long game, they allowed her to later get away with the actual lies she needed to tell. Another Redditor recalls blocking their school’s phone number on the family landline so that their parents couldn’t be notified when they didn’t show up for class. 

Numerous other Redditors have similarly regaled us with how they outsmarted their parents. And with any luck, the cycle has since repeated itself, and those Redditors now have children of their own who are on a different subreddit looking for ways to do the same.