Today, my dad thought it would be a good idea to show my 5-year-old...

By Landlocked - 06/05/2019 02:00

Today, my dad thought it would be a good idea to show my 5-year-old son a documentary about Hurricane Katrina. My son is now terrified of hurricanes. We live in Utah. FML

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By anonymous - 14/08/2011 01:17 - United States

Today, my 14-year-old son was terrified of going into the water near our house, because he was scared of having his leg bitten off by a shark. We live by a lake. I tried explaining why it couldn't happen, but he just cowered behind a beach towel. FML

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By facepalm - 12/09/2011 08:07 - United Kingdom

Today, I had to explain to my boyfriend that a tornado is not the same thing as a hurricane. I couldn't convince him, and he still won't talk to me. FML

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By StormSeason - 29/10/2012 12:03 - Australia - Sydney

Today, my dad watched the news and decided to start preparing for Hurricane Sandy by buying $300 worth of long-life and canned food. We live in Australia. FML

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By m - 05/08/2012 00:44 - United States - South Whitley

Today, my mom's intense fear of tornadoes caused her to break into the bathroom, drag me off the toilet while I was changing my tampon, and drag me to the basement with my pants around my ankles to join my father, brother, and my brother's best friend. FML

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What, me worry?

By anonymous - 11/04/2011 03:26

Today, we had a tornado warning and I told my parents I loved them, just in case. My dad just said, "See you in Kansas." FML

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By lonely-mind - 04/09/2017 16:00

Today, in Tennessee, it stormed like crazy due to Hurricane Harvey. I brought my boyfriend home safely to his parents' house, but it rained harder once we arrived, so I started to wait inside. He's an adult but has a curfew, so they kicked me back out into the storm. FML

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I can feel it coming in the air tonight

By cargaljen - 07/08/2011 05:29 - United States

Today, while watching TV at my mother's house, a tornado warning came across the screen. After being in the dark, nasty basement for half an hour, my mom realized she was watching a recorded show, and that tornado warning was for 2 weeks ago. FML

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I feel fine

By Anonymous - 26/08/2021 18:01

Today, my parents left me several frantic voicemails early this morning about the hurricane, totally in a panic that I wasn’t safe. I called them when I woke up and told them I was fine. They were actually angry that I wasn't in the eye of the storm, because they “worried for nothing.” FML

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By badmom - 06/11/2015 17:02 - Canada - Saint Catharines

Today, I did such a bad job explaining the recent change from daylight savings time, that my 5-year-old son is now convinced that we're time travellers. FML

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By sauve dino. - 25/03/2016 03:12 - France - Groslay

Today, I explained to my five year-old son that the dinosaurs were wiped out because of a meteorite that hit our planet. He replied, "They should've stood out of the way." FML

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TomeDr 24

Monday 6 May 2019 4:26

When it was 2012 and there was all that Mayan calendar prophecy nonsense going on, my very young daughter heard kids at school talking about it and got very frightened. I told my ex about her fears and asked him to talk to her. The idiot instead showed her the disaster movie about it! She was so freaked out, I ended up making an appointment with our pastor to calm her down!

AmbrosiaFan 18

Monday 6 May 2019 2:09

Hopefully ya both mentioned how the hurricane would lose all that power coming over the land, show him a map of where the hurricanes did the most damage (shorelines) vs in landlocked states...

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AmbrosiaFan 18

Monday 6 May 2019 2:09

Hopefully ya both mentioned how the hurricane would lose all that power coming over the land, show him a map of where the hurricanes did the most damage (shorelines) vs in landlocked states...

abfab5300 13

Monday 6 May 2019 9:07

Yeah I think a 5-year old is going to follow that geological analysis just fine and completely deduct his fears away.

bloopaloop 27

Monday 6 May 2019 15:29

5yr olds are smarter than you think

AmbrosiaFan 18

Monday 6 May 2019 23:45

My four year old understood it just fine, honey. Explaining quite simply that the hurricane loses power when it hits land, and loses even more as it comes inward, alleviated his fears quite easily. didn't even need to get into detail.