We could probably all benefit from looking at life with a little bit more childlike wonder. Kids are curious about everything, and they’re constantly using their little brains to make sense of the world around them. So inevitably, from time to time, their reasoning leads to some hilarious outcomes.
Redditors have recently been sharing some of their favorite examples of “kid logic,” so we’ve gathered the best ones below. From believing sugar can make the ocean less salty to assuming your pillow isn’t working if you can’t fall asleep, enjoy reading through these adorable and hilarious thought processes, pandas. And be sure to upvote the “kid logic” that you think makes perfect sense!
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#1
I was fly fishing a popular canoeing river when two middle school aged kids came paddling down ina rented canoe. They got turned 180 degrees in an eddy and instead of trying to turn their whole canoe back around they just turned around in their seats and started paddling downstream again. Most adults would try paddling back around but this was by far the more efficient way to handle it
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#2
My sister has two children, ages 3 and 1. I had my first child in September so my nephews now have a cousin.
The three year old insists that it is only his cousin, since he is the oldest and his younger brother will have to wait for the next one before he gets a cousin of his own.
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#3
When I was a little girl, I had a Barbie and a Ken doll. I wanted more Barbie and Ken dolls. I put them in a shoebox together, naked, and pushed it under the bed so they could make more dolls. I had no idea how close I was to knowing how babies were made.
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#4
Leaving the daycare center, a kid called back, “BYE-BYE! Be safe, watch out for polar bears!”
We are not in polar bear territory, but polar bears live in the snow, so since it snowed earlier in the day, it was only logical that we were at elevated polar bear risk.
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#5
When I was really little our preschool class grew beans in a window and my little brain decided that all food must be grown from seeds. Long story short my mom found about 15 chicken nuggets in her flower bed when she was planting tulips.
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#6
My daughter was having trouble falling asleep and came to me crying that her pillow didn’t work
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#7
I remember a story of an astronaut going to give a talk in a school and one kid asked him “how do I become an astronaut?” and the astronaut replied “you have to go to school for a very long time and then train your body and mind and then pass a test. its very hard” and then the kid replied “thats like only 4 things!”. Changed my outlook on life haha
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#8
Maybe not best but recent: My coworker’s kid lost a tooth yesterday, and the kid said he was going to wait until Sunday to put his tooth under the pillow so the Tooth Fairy can meet Santa lol
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#9
My husband was working at a child care center and his car was in the shop so he needed a ride. When I arrived to pick him up, one of the children who was also getting picked up asked if I was his mom. Because that’s who picks up people from day care, moms and dads. Makes perfect sense using kid logic.
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#10
My grandparents’ old trailer had ants. I wanted to help and knew they liked sweet things, so I added a bunch of sugar to some juice and made a trail from the house to an ant hill to lead them out. It did not have the desired effect.
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#11
When I was 15, I used to babysit this lovely kid called Jack.
He would very proudly tell people “I’m three!” And hold up three fingers. One day, I asked him how old did he think I was? He gave this very careful consideration.
“26.” He said firmly.
“Why do you think I’m 26?” I replied, mildly offended.
“Mummy looks after me and she’s 26. You look after me too.”
Fair enough!
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#12
I had just birthed my daughter via C-section. My toddler son saw my incision, and concluded that his baby sister had busted through my stomach like the Kool-Aid man.
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#13
I desperately wanted a kitten when I was younger. Every time we went to the grocery store, I’d try and sneak cat food into the shopping cart, thinking that if we got home and unpacked it, we’d *have* to go out and get a cat.
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#14
My kid as a toddler invented the word “nexterday” because she knew “yesterday” and “next” but not “tomorrow”.
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#15
My kid asked to go to the “fish museum.” She didn’t know the word for aquarium, but I’d say she got the concept across pretty well. Now we don’t refer to it as anything else.
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#16
When I was a kid we experienced an earthquake. I ran to my mom screaming “the dinosaurs are coming!” I was really into The Land Before Time and whenever the Brontosaurus walked the ground shook so it made sense.
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#17
I was a student teacher, and bumped into one of my seven-year-old students in the morning. He was walking and told me “I always step over the cracks [in the sidewalk].”
I asked “How come?” and expected him to say something about “So I don’t break my mother’s back.” (That’s an old rhyme).
Instead, he said he was “practicing” … “in case there’s an earthquake!”
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#18
My husband and I used to have two cats. One cat’s name was just Little Cat.
My 3 year old niece called our other cat “Big Cat” because if there’s a little cat, there has to be a big cat.
And our other cat was pretty big so I couldn’t even correct her.
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#19
I used to wonder why the snow was on top of the mountains if they were closer to the sun
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#20
My niece said that Santa was fat because he was pregnant, and that he was going to give birth to gingerbread men.
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#21
A friend’s kid cut a big chunk out of his hair, then realized he’d get in trouble, so he carefully laid the hair on his head. It promptly fell off.
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