To think being naughty can be fun?

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There seems to be an idea amongst many on MN, that when children are being naughty, they are communicating distress, or other negative emotions.

But what I remember from my own childhood, is that sometimes I was naughty because it was fun. And I am sure I have seen other children doing the same.
So AIBU in thinking that sometimes children are naughty because it is fun to be so?

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I love this thread. The really specific examples are making me LOL (penis on shed: hiding neighbours wheelie bin)

In fact fuck It I might go out and hide some wheeelie bins now. You're right OP- it is fun

Kids are not aware of their naughtiness just like the crazy are not aware of their craziness. These two groups are not self aware.

Getting drunk on the way to school was fun and VERY naughty.

Breaking into a car?! Breaking into someone’s fucking car?! That not naughty, that’s criminal...and outrageous.

I hope your kids do all of these and then you have to cover for them/apologise/give them an alibi...this thread is mental.

I’m 30 and I like to play up sometimes just because I feel like it.

The other day I shouted my neighbours name out of my bedroom window and the ducked whilst giggling to myself. I’m very sad and things like this amuse my tiny mind

God MN is full of puritans tonight.

"I hope your kids do all of these and then you have to cover for them/apologise/give them an alibi...this thread is mental."

What does that even mean?!

Antisocial thrill seeking is not naughty.

So called "joyriding" might be fun but most kids have a future that they want to stay alive for and one that relies on not getting a criminal record.

It's the kids with either no prospects, or no role models or who are having issues with impulse control or crying out for attention who won't hold back due to the possible consequences.

I imagine graffiti is another naughty thing that would be fun

I was actually a very well behaved child who was too scared to do all the things I could see would be fun to do.
But I remember working with teenagers and one managing to lock themselves in the minibus and refusing to come out. We were away on a trip. She was having a ball.

I’ve always said it’s fun to be naughty.

I was a “challenging” child and a lot of it from my point of view was just high spirited and an active mind.

But sometimes it just didn’t matter what the consequences if I caught it was fun to tonat the time!

I'm always too scared to be naughty. jessikita can you take me joy riding?

Yes sometimes kids are naughty because it's fun, but isn't one of our jobs as parents to teach them their fun is sometimes over-ridden by others' needs.

That's why we have rules in a society.

Of course we teach kids why they don't just do what is fun. Either because of longer term consequences, or because it hurts or upsets someone else.
But I think it helps to understand kids if you recognise that sometimes, this is why kids are naughty.