By Anonymous - 28/02/2015 18:11 - United States - Portland

Today, while cleaning my son's room, I found an envelope labelled "PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL" under his bed. I opened it, only to find it was a glitter bomb. I couldn't get it all cleaned off myself before he got home. He just said "HAH! Serves you right!" and went to his room smirking. FML
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Same thing different taste

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It's really hard to feel sorry for you here when you opened an envelope that wasn't yours. Especially one that said "private and confidential" as a last chance warning. Totally deserved it.

This is the biggest YDI i have seen in awhile

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blissfully_me 16

Your son is awesome! Trust that you have raised him the best you can and that he would tell you anything he thought you needed to know. You have now broken his trust as he knows you snoop through his things. YDI

I totally have to do what your son did!! PS: You deserved it

You totally deserved it! But glitter sucks. My room mate in college made a glitter bomb once. He intercepted my Amazon package and replaced it with his bomb. That night, he found himself locked out of the dorm room.

Talk about a spectacular explosion(:

Kids need privacy to be able to develop properly. You investigating things all the time will weaken your child's trust of you. They might stop confiding in you. They might resent you for being so nosy. I know I haven't forgotten my mother breaking the lock of my diary in elementary school and then asking me about things in it as soon as I got home from school. I haven't forgotten my mother reading through notebooks and flipping shit about a friend's self injury (saying I couldn't have my best friend as my best friend any more). It is something your child won't forget. Plus if you are overly involved in your kid's life, then they will never learn how to be adults. Kids need to screw up sometimes. They need to deal with the consequences sometimes. You can't completely stop your child from ******* up without making them helpless without your direction.

Exactly. My mother even reads notes etc I throw out. Every single word of them, just because I "might hide something". I'm 19 y/o and I don't even have a bedroom door. And no, I've never done anything wrong that could make them overreact like that. Parents that don't trust their kids are the worst.

Smeedz 8

Am I the only one wondering why the son doesn't clean his own room?

Has it occurred to you she only said she was cleaning his room to make herself sound better in the post? Who's gonna admit they were snooping

I admit I thought at first it was going to be **** that you found. But you really did deserve that for snooping. On another note: how old is your son? Why are you still cleaning his room for him?

Cleaning was just an excuse to snoop. Put in there to try and make herself sound like she wasn't in the wrong