Parents of Reddit, what is your kid doing or wearing that you hope is just a phase?

My 7-year-old saw a ceiling fan installation video on YouTube, and he's now obsessed with ceiling fans.

He's going to ask Santa Claus for four new ceiling fans for Christmas.

My teenage son is going through the I don't have to shower every day even after rugby practice phase.

I've tried to tell him he stinks, but for some reason he thinks I'm crazy.

I hope this ends soon.

My teenage daughter claims that our family is a communist dictatorship and she has no rights.

I sighed and told her it's more like a fascist dictatorship or

maybe even a monarchy. He won't shave his beard. He's 17 and it's very thin and long.

Reminds me the first time I saw my own armpit hair when I was in middle school. I'm getting married

next week and I asked him to shave, and he said,

But mom, it'll take me like two years to grow it back. So we compromised that he would at least trim it

shorter. Lying, but in a really incompetent way. She's nearly three and has started trying to get

out of doing stuff by making the most outrageous and clearly untrue statements.

Like, you can't brush my hair, I haven't got ahead.

And I can't put my shoes on, I'm a box, and boxes don't have feet.

And things like that.

I try not to just laugh in her face, but it's difficult.

My 12-year-old is obsessed with Five Nights at Freddy's. It wouldn't be so bad if every electronic device he got his hands on

didn't get a profile or something named after some weird animatronic character. He made

four new separate user accounts on the netbook that we let him use to play Minecraft,

named them all after FNAF characters.

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