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People Confess Which Actions From Childhood They Deeply Regret Now

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When we look back on our childhood, we all reflect on things we regret doing.

From stealing money from our parents' wallets to buy candy or cheating on a test, to sneaking into an R-rated movie against our parent's advice, or being caught coming home past our curfew with our first crush.

While these things naturally got us in trouble, we often look back on these things with laughter and amusement, as they seem to be things all children are guilty of at one point or another.

Of course, some of us also may have done things that we can't simply brush off as "kids being kids."

Things we did that couldn't be fixed by an apology or a punishment, and which still cause us to lie awake in bed at night to this very day.


Redditor Few_Finish_6502 was curious to hear the things the Reddit community did in their childhood which they would give anything to undo, leaving them to ask:
"What is something you deeply regret doing as a child that still affects you to this day?"

And They Likely Have The Scars To Prove It...

"In middle school I jumped from the top of a slide and landed flat on the bottom, hurting my back."

"Pretty sure I've never recovered."- sadnessucks

It Can Never Hurt To Ask

"Falling into the trap of 'If I don’t ask for too much maybe I can get what I need'."- OldBob10

An Honest, But Painful, Mistake

"After every Thanksgiving dinner as a child my grandpa would put a plate of food together for a man named Mr. Bailey who lived by himself and didn’t have family in town."

"He’d drive over to his house, drop the food off, talk for 5-10 minutes, and then come back."

"I didn’t know this."

"One year after our meal my grandpa handed me a plate with a slice of pumpkin pie on it and told me to get in the backseat of his truck."

"I didn’t ask questions and hopped in with the pie."

"We get to our destination and my grandpa opens my door and says, 'you have the pie?'"

“'What do you mean grandpa? I ate it'.”

"I thought the pie was for me. I ate it in the backseat on the car ride like it was a brownie."

"Mr. Bailey didn’t get any pumpkin pie that year."

"I still can’t look at pumpkin pie without feeling bad about it."- bentgrass7

It's OK To Cut Yourself Some Slack, Every Now And Then...

"I took everything to heart."

"All the insults, all the failures, all the minor mishaps, I couldn't just let it pass me by, it hit me right in the heart, which is why my current mental health leaves a lot to be desired."- AnastasiaFrid

It's Frighteningly Easy To Judge

"When I was 4 a neighbor girl and I became friends."

"I invited her over one day to play, we were playing with dog food, it was fake food."

"Well she started eating it."

"I screamed at her and called her nasty and was just sh*tty."

"Told her I didn’t want to play with her anymore."

"As it turned out, the poor girl was severely neglected."

"Her parents never had food so she was basically starving."

"It didn’t dawn on me until I saw that they were kicked from their home and it was condemned and torn down a year after."

"I remember I went over to play one time and the house smelled like rotting hamburger meat."

"There were cockroaches everywhere."

"It was traumatizing, I cannot imagine living there."

"I have tried to find the girl via social media with no luck."- AbrasiveRake34

An Unwanted Remnant Of A Good Time...

"Giving my knees floor burn for fun."

"I don't have a clue why I thought it was fun."

"Now they are in an awful state and completely covered in scars."- thealphagalgirl

Often, The Most Difficult Thing We Have To Face, Is The Truth

"Not sleeping in my dying father's bed with him."

"He asked me to because he didn’t want to be alone."

"I was 18 at the time and was not prepared for all this."

"Until the day I die I will never forgive myself."- Modig7176

Staying Silent And Doing Nothing Can Cause More Harm Than It Seems...

"I regret not having thicker skin and sticking up for myself from my bullies."

"There were two individuals who were complete psychos and went out of their way to make several people's lives hell!"

"One girl was so crazy she tried running my friend off the road driving home from school; she is now in prison for embezzling from her employer."- NectarineNo974

Well Meaning, But Ill Timed.

"When I was 4 yo, the husband of my aunt died."

"Very soon after the his death, the whole family was gathered around in the living room, me sitting across her."

"I wanted to make her feel better and said:"

"'Don't worry, you will find a new Matty you will love'."

"The hurt and surprised face of her hunts me even today."

"I understood I did something wrong but not really what at that moment."

"We are on good terms and she is living a good live now."

"She very likely forgot what I told her that day."

"I'm probably the only one remembering that conversation."- RoachT3

Blaming A 7-Year-Old For Negligence Just About Says It All...

"One time when I was 6-7 I rode on a 4-wheeler with my older sister."

"We hit a dip in my grandparent's pasture, my sister fell off and she went under the rear tire."

"She needed immediate surgery."

"My grandmother still blames me for it and it has affected me deeply."

"For years I listened to how my sister almost died due to my negligence."- xX8PuzzyXx

Genetics Are Nothing To Be Ashamed Of

"Stop exercising / any kind of working out because I was told my movement is awkward."

"Tried to shrink myself because I was a tall girl that stands out of other kids, which ruined my posture."

"Now I have a very bad scoliosis that causes mild but chronic back pain."

"It's very visible as my waist is not symmetrical."

"Might have to go under a big surgery, putting braces to my spine, in the next 3-4 years."- fatbabygoat

Not everything, if anything, can be brushed off by saying "kids will be kids".

This is why it's important for parents to teach their children what is right and wrong, and be kind and compassionate.

Even it won't stop them from making bad decisions it will certainly make them think twice and avoid doing something they will regret for the rest of their lives.

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