There's a rewarding feeling, as a parent, when you catch your child doing stuff that you might have tried to pull as a child, or that you know was very commonplace to do as a child. 
 
Like not showing their parents a bad progress report and figuring we'll never find out. 
Or taking a call from the school and saying we aren't home. 
Or trying to stay home from school because they're coughcough so sick coughcough. 
Or getting their friends to call and ask if the kid can do something. 
 
You get the picture.  So if you're a parent, what have you caught your kid doing, or are looking forward to catching them doing?  If you're not a parent, what did you do as a kid that you got in trouble for that you hope to one day catch your kid doing? 
  

 
Personally, my kid pulled a few of them at once today.  Or tried to.  Apparently progress reports from her math class went home Friday.  We never saw one.  Never heard about it.  Until the math teacher called me today.  And told me my kid is missing 10 assignments.  The teacher says, granted, she's still getting a B in the class, but she could have an A easily if she just did her work.  So the teacher and the kid had a talk today.  And the kid begged and pleaded and tried bargaining with the teacher not to call us.  She even tried asking the teacher when she was planning on calling... (what, was she going to try picking up the phone and telling us it was a telemarketer or something?)  She's at home now with dad, and although dad knows all about my call with the teacher, she hasn't mentioned a thing.  I'm not the kind of parent to swear that my kid is an angel... but I certainly didn't expect her to pull these stunts quite yet.  She's 11. 
 
But again,  So if you're a parent, what have you caught your kid doing, or are looking forward to catching them doing?  If you're not a parent, what did you do as a kid that you got in trouble for that you hope to one day catch your kid doing? 

I don't have children, but that was a funny story. It seems they start younger and younger.

My voice broke so suddenly at the young age of 12 and for anybody who knows me in real life my voice is pretty deep (though I can hit high notes just like Brad can). I once called the school under the guise of my dad to tell them I was sick of the cold. They believed me. I felt like a king. 

When I was a young lad, I got kicked off the bus for a week, and hid the notice telling my parents in a pile of snow. They actually never found out. I walked to school the rest of that week. I was in walking distance, the bus was just easier.

No i was an innocent child, a real model of what all children should have been. I never did anything bad once, do i look like the type to do something bad or something because i'll have you know, never,  not once...

Both of my parents work from 7AM to about 5PM so I stayed home a lot, through elementary to highschool. They've gotten a few calls about it, but my marks are better than most so even with a 60% attendance rate I don't catch any flak from my teachers. When it comes to report cards, attendance is recorded on a small sheet in the back which is easy enough to throw out and I can take the automated calls myself.
 
Next year my province is going to instate regulation that auto-fails anyone who misses more than 20% of their classes, though, so that's going to be pretty much the worst thing ever.

A few years back I remember being under a duvet on the couch downstairs, it was 3 or 4 in the morning, and I was secretly playing WoW on the laptop.  
My Mum busted me and scared the shit out of me in the process.

I had a few run-ins with progress reports as a kid.  One in particular where I ripped the report into a dozen pieces and threw it in the trash can.  Like a dumbass this was a trash can at school...   The next day I see the report taped together and sitting on my desk.  Teacher was pretty much a stone cold badass who didn't say anything to me about it, just let the taped up report do the talking. 
 
That teacher taught me a valuable lesson about taking greater care in being sneaky. 
 
@Gizmo said:

" A few years back I remember being under a duvet on the couch downstairs, it was 3 or 4 in the morning, and I was secretly playing WoW on the laptop.  My Mum busted me and scared the shit out of me in the process. "

My daughter, who turned 8 last month, recently hid a spelling test from my wife. She had gotten a 98 on it, but was really embarrassed because the teacher had circled all of the words she forgot to capitalize, and wrote a note on the test to the effect that she had spoken to our daughter a couple of times about capitalization. 
 
Also, she asked to stay home last Friday, and it turned out it was because she really wanted to watch a Harry Potter movie instead of going to school. 
 
Personally the worst I did was to change grades on my report cards for most of a year. At the end of the year, the school changed the format to something I couldn't fake, and so I hid the report card until after I got back from visiting my grandparents and going to Disney World that summer.

Or like catching them masturbating.
 
yeah ...
 
what?

When I was a kid I had a very elaborate system for screening the "absent from school today with no excuse" calls. I got caught of course when they sent the letter saying exactly what the calls said, but like 15 times over. I guess now a kid cant just use the phone cord and browse the AOL for a while.

I used to skip the last day of school each year from 5th to 8th grade. My parents left for work about 5 minutes before the bus arrived and I would just go back home when they were out of sight. The first time it was actually because I had a sudden case of indigestion and missed the bus. After I didn't get caught, though, I just did it each year. I couldn't skip once I got to high school because my mom was a teacher and it would be pretty obvious if I wasn't there. 
 
I also faked sick for three days in a row when I was in 4th grade and my mom finally said "well, let's get you to the doctor." I had to say "let's go if I'm still sick tomorrow. I think I'm feeling better today." I never faked sick more than a day at a time after that. 
 
With my son (he's only 2 right now), I'm looking forward to catching him lying. He has a birth mark right between his eyes that is only visible when he gets agitated. It should be a perfect lie detector.

Not to brag, but I am a fucking excellent liar. I have a pokerface you cannot possibly penetrate and I'm extremely quick at coming up with excuses if something goes south, which is a very nice perk to have in life. I was so God damn manipulative during my childhood that I've forgotten the few times I was ever caught.

I remember that I tried to put the thermometer on the oven for a while so I could stay home and play my C64.

This was one of the old glass ones filled with quicksilver so after about 10 seconds on the oven it burst in half and spilled quicksilver all over the carpet.

Mom came back and instantly went into crazy mom mode. She grabbed me and drove me to the hospital while yelling all the way.

I didn't spill any on myself so all was good. She took my C64 for a week but hey, at least I got a couple of hours off from school while at the hospital.

Luckily in high school I had late working parents, almost constantly not home when the absence calls came in, and those were completely automated, so I'd just pick up and hang up immediately. 

" Not to brag, but I am a fucking excellent liar. I have a pokerface you cannot possibly penetrate and I'm extremely quick at coming up with excuses if something goes south, which is a very nice perk to have in life. I was so God damn manipulative during my childhood that I've forgotten the few times I was ever caught. "

smoken pot maybe. That would be funny. but at something like 16. If he was 12 I would show him/her why not to do it at that age and to wait giving them a warning. The next time I would catch them they would be in trouble

" @oatz said:

" Not to brag, but I am a fucking excellent liar. I have a pokerface you cannot possibly penetrate and I'm extremely quick at coming up with excuses if something goes south, which is a very nice perk to have in life. I was so God damn manipulative during my childhood that I've forgotten the few times I was ever caught. "

you're lying "

Well, we once visited an open monastery for a week (you might've heard of it if you are french or some shit, it's named Taizé) and we had to go to these boring ass sessions two times a day where we'd sit and talk shit with people from other countries with two super serious grown ups watching us. 
 
Went there two times in the whole week and when they found me another day the whole group had to clean the girls' toilets. When a friend went into one of the toilet booths to do work there was fucking blood everywhere. Hilarious and extremely disturbing at the same time. 
  
Honestly, all those hipsters makes me wonder if I ever will want to have kids, it just seems like having to take extreme responsibility and work really hard and try to raise them into good people and then society can turn them into assholes anyway. Really, if I found out one of my kids were like the assholes I've grown up with it'd be like 15 years of my life that I've spent looking out for him/her completely wasted. It just seems like so much shit could go wrong it's not even worth trying. 
 
Anyway, +rep to the parents on here.

Ha! Sneaky little madame you have there!
 
I don't have kids yet but apart from the usual kid like stuff (digging holes to china, making food out of paper towels etc) I have no idea what to expect!

" Or like catching them masturbating.  yeah ... what? "

So far these are pretty entertaining.  For those who have posted about stuff they did as kids though, do you look forward to busting kids of your own doing that stuff some day?

" So far these are pretty entertaining.  For those who have posted about stuff they did as kids though, do you look forward to busting kids of your own doing that stuff some day? "

" Ha! Sneaky little madame you have there!  I don't have kids yet but apart from the usual kid like stuff (digging holes to china, making food out of paper towels etc) I have no idea what to expect! "

11 sounds about right.  I remember when the other kids started to explore their worlds.  Sounds like you got a good seed OP.  Nice to see responsible, and concerned parents on Giant Bomb.  
 
This brain dead community could use your support.  

I'm a pretty good liar so I was rarely caught doing stuff like this.    

I first hid a progress report at age 7. Flushed it down the toilet. :)

Do-do you take pleasure in busting your kid?...That sounds kinda cruel and intimidating... 

why don't you just chill out

I have a different story that I remember clearly. 
A bunch of kids and me got in trouble for throwing snowballs at the school windows (I think it was because of that- I know it was winter). The teacher explained that you're not suppose to do that, that you can smash the window etc. He also explained that he doesn't know who did it and told the whole class that this is the opportunity for the perpetrators to come forth  them selfs, before he does some investigating of his own and finds out. 
 
 After an  uncomfortable  silence of what seemed hours, I confessed first. There was no reason in hiding it, I guess, and I was ready to reap what I saw. He looked at me, and said:"OK, you're the first to confess and come clean, which was a brave and right thing to do- you are  getting a pass on this one." Everyone else came forward  immediately thinking they get off the hook too. Well, they didn't.  
They had to write 100 times in their notebooks something in the line of "I, named so and so, going in the school such and such, will never throw snowballs at the school windows again."  
That was in first or second grade, we were 6 or 7 at the time. Great little lesson if you ask me. 
 

 I didn't bullshit my parents that much. My mom works in an  psychiatric  hospital as a nurse, so she can read people like open books. She always knew when I was lying as a kid, so after a few tries, I didn't even bother. Now, I lie about stupid little things, just not to waste energy where there's no need.

 We want to hammer home the point that coming forward and being honest with us is more important than...

I got into some pretty heavy shit at a fairly young age, so I pray to dog that I'll never bust any future child messing up like I did.

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I remember that I tried to put the thermometer on the oven for a while so I could stay home and play my C64.

This was one of the old glass ones filled with quicksilver so after about 10 seconds on the oven it burst in half and spilled quicksilver all over the carpet.

Mom came back and instantly went into crazy mom mode. She grabbed me and drove me to the hospital while yelling all the way.

I didn't spill any on myself so all was good. She took my C64 for a week but hey, at least I got a couple of hours off from school while at the hospital.

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I'm not a parent and don't plan to be for another few years, but my parent's weren't very strict with me.  Usually the first time I pulled a stunt they'd let me go with a warning not to do it again and if I did, I'd have all my game consoles taken away for X days.  Only thing I got away with every day was being able to get away with a lie saying I didn't have homework, I'd just do it in the morning once I got to school.   Besides that, I think I turned out alright.
I hope to be about the same as my parents, not be overly strict, give warnings for first time offenses, and be able to put my foot down when it's needed, but not go power mad about it (would this go with not being overly strict?)

" @eroticfishcake said:

Do-do you take pleasure in busting your kid?...That sounds kinda cruel and intimidating... 

LOL maybe you have to be a parent to understand the feeling.  But it's fairly entertaining coming down on your kid and the whole while trying not to laugh because you know they're only doing the exact same things you did.  Especially when it's stuff that's not really so bad.
 
@Darksnughero:  Egg.  And thanks. "

I probably will never have kids, but I can add that I could be a cruel child back then.  For example, one time I planted something in another student's desk just to see him get in trouble.  I almost never got caught.