Girl Leaves Parents Hilarious Note About Password Protecting Their Computer (PHOTO)

Some people are picky about Internet security, but this 7-year-old is adamant about unfettered access to the web.

In a colorful memo to her parents, one little girl threatens to make mom and dad's lives a little less than pleasant if they opt to use password protection on their home computer.

Reddit user surprisemailbox posted the photo to the website, explaining that a friend's little sister had left the message next to her parents computer.

By the looks of this note, this girl is certainly someone who knows how to get her message across, much like a young man who penned a rather detailed rant describing how he would destroy his mother's "damnable" alarm clock.

Applause for concision and orange construction paper.

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Comments

[Jeri Millard]

05:53 PM on 08/13/2012

Maybe she should be spending less time on the internet and more time studying her spelling and handwriting. I'm also thinking some sort of punishment should lie in store for a child writing a note like this. Any wonder who runs this household? Let me guess...

[Kevinskogg]

01:10 PM on 08/14/2012

She is 7. And this is exactly how she should be acting and spelling at that age. This is the age when you start to question authority and determine you have power over people. You want to use this power. Now if she got her way because of this note, that is a different story.

[whoknew222]

01:22 AM on 08/15/2012

Everyone thinks this kid is the devils spawn because of that silly note. Who knows who told her about passwords and nitmares (sic) or what she thought that meant. She learned to express herself that way somewhere. Remember, people, kids learn by example.

[SciFiChickie]

02:07 PM on 06/07/2012

Someone is cruizin for a bruzin...

[DianaLynn1967]

01:49 PM on 06/07/2012

I don't think receiving such a note from my 7 year old would bother me. I'd be inclined to ignore it. I would still put a password on the computer if I chose to do so. Otherwise, I'd be inclined to regard the note as letting off steam.

One can get children to fake respect by punishing them. In the long, however, respect is best earned by remaining calm, patient and consistant. Allow the child to have her feelings without feeling compelled to accede to her wishes.

[whoknew222]

01:06 AM on 08/15/2012

I like your style. What would a seven year old be looking for other than what you suggest. It was the idea of it rather than what she intended to use the computer for that she took offense to.

[imanormalalien]

05:25 PM on 05/21/2012

Reminds me of when my computer addiction started around that age. Makes me shudder

[Apanel]

11:47 AM on 05/21/2012

This is a riot! What's less than funny is the knee-jerk reaction this board has to a child's meaningless note to parents. I love how well-meaning people extrapolate an innocent note out into the larger questions of parenting, discipline and the proper level of subservience and respect a 7-yr old should have toward authority. And EVERYONE has an opinion on how children should be raised to avoid having a child who has the audacity to voice her feelings, no matter how disproportionate they are to the situation.

Lighten up, people!!

[blackrose13186]

08:46 PM on 05/22/2012

Simple with new laws telling us HOW to parent this misbehavior with today's youth goes unchecked thus parents who don't understand the meaning of being well parents let this behavior go thinking like you "Oh how cute she is telling us what to do" then laugh it off as if it's nothing while the parent who has been around this bush knows to have a well mannered child is to nip this, so when older they understand the laws and rules are there for a reason, and to break them means punishment. In our homes we should run it more or less like we are by the laws the land. If you have no understanding how to fallow the rules it is a symbol that you have no respect for those who govern you. This child has no respect for her parents. If she was my child she would never do an act like this because I would have niped her disrespect in the butt. For someone who might not have kids yes this is cute and funny but for us that do it's a horrible reminder of what our children can become if not shown the right path to take. You say innocent but there is nothing about this note that's "INNOCENT". you don't understand it shows the disrespect for her parents. There is a right way and wrong way to voice her feelings and this IS THE WRONG WAY!

[fgraffeo]

05:48 PM on 05/29/2012

Oh, your poor, poor children. You've missed it entirely. A child that age knows not at all what a "living nightmare" means. He/she is parroting something heard in the household, and made a good attempt at communicating with his/her parents in their own language. That shows intelligence, empathy and a desire to communicate with the other party's perspective in mind. But, that seems to have escaped you. The little one's scrawled note seems to have sparked your need to control and have domain over your kids, keeping them down and you above them. I'm afraid they'll never learn to respect you that way. But they will certainly fear upsetting you, and that will allow you to control them for a time. But take a good look at them on that day when they are old enough to leave your household and live with their own rules under their own roof. That may be the last you see of them. Moreover, I'm sorry to say that I think your kids might already know what a living nightmare means.

[phatpat141]

08:27 AM on 08/14/2012

You need to learn about run on sentences. Your post is almost inpossible to read

[whoknew222]

01:13 AM on 08/15/2012

I agree. She was just expressing herself at the idea of it. I was about a year older when my mom found some unflattering diary comments and she held them against me for years. Hardly fair considering all kids get frustrated and vent from time to time. It is meaningful only for that moment, then they forget it and move on.

[Regine George]

09:41 AM on 05/21/2012

How about throwing the computer out the window? Now you can use your password, child? How much you paid for that P.C. kid? How many hrs you worked to come up with the money, child? At what rate, Child? Spoiled brats!!

[haleebug2]

10:11 AM on 05/21/2012

Geezzz...

[kateslate]

05:15 AM on 08/15/2012

ditto....some real drill sergeants on tonight.

[EyesLikeBroccoli]

09:29 AM on 05/21/2012

This isn't funny it's an outrage. If that was my child she'd be grounded indefinitely and taught some damned manners!

[dejapooh]

01:52 PM on 05/21/2012

Damn! Cursing with Manners? Thank you to Fricken Hell.

[EyesLikeBroccoli]

03:55 PM on 05/21/2012

Well, I am a Brit. We can't do anything without bringing manners, decorum or cups of tea into the equation ;)

[Tommy Rogers]

09:20 AM on 05/21/2012

maybe she could spend some time on a grammar site...geez.

[WaitingForNovember]

08:44 AM on 05/21/2012

Sorry for the spelling errors in my last post on this subject. I was doing it from my cell while riding on an ambulance at work (though not on a call or driving). But the message is the same. A lack of rules and discipline during the raising of a child leads to what we are seeing in children today. I'm not speaking about abuse. But for correction and through love.

[kateslate]

05:16 AM on 08/15/2012

This was not an example of that, but thanks for the lesson. This was a girl writing a funny note. She will probably grow up to be a physician or music conductor or something.

[southingtonian]

12:25 AM on 05/21/2012

response: if you make our lives a nitemare (sic), we will put a padlock on it.

[southrules]

10:41 PM on 05/20/2012

Damian Omen?

[WaitingForNovember]

09:08 PM on 05/20/2012

Not cute. Sorry but I am in the "spare the rod spoil the child" group and was brought up that way. Not with abuse but with correction. The pycho babble crap being taught today are making are kids worst. Sindad the comic said it during one of his routines. Our parents had a cure for ADHD it was called B-E-A-T. That got & kept your attention real quick! Yelling at your parents (even as an adult), cursing, and things like this would not be tolerated when I was a child nor with my kids. In fact my 20something year old children do not curse in my presence or do other things within my home even up till today. Honor thy mother and father so that your days may be long upon the land the Lord thy God giveth thee. Parents are going to be held accountable for how these children are being raised today.

[dccb3]

01:43 AM on 05/21/2012

um hmmmmm...I read your post a few times. I am not big on correcting people however I believe you mean, "spare the child and spoil the rod." That means you will use the "rod" often so your child will not be "spoiled." Beating a child who has a medical condition may, in some cases, be called "abuse." Maybe not in your state though. A, "20something (sic) year old child," is called an "adult." I believe in honoring your father and mother and everyone else unless they're abusive. I wouldn't honor anyone who abused me. While your waiting for November you might want to take some classes. Sorry.

[Robert Wilder]

03:15 AM on 05/21/2012

The saying is spare the rod spoil the child...

[dccb3]

01:44 AM on 05/21/2012

Sorry, "you're."

[LibbiPeach]

06:09 PM on 05/20/2012

you would be surprised how necessary a child needing to know how to use a computer is now days. My grandchild was severely behind in Kindergarten as he hadn't been exposed as much as my youngest child had been. My son had a computer and was using it as early and 3 and 4. I also think between his desire to know how to read the video games he played at 4 and his wonderful pre-k teacher this same child was reading before Kindergarten. He was the youngest of 5 and so tried to copy his older siblings and it was amazing to see.

[whoknew222]

01:48 AM on 08/15/2012

The sooner they get taught the sooner they learn. They are sponges hungry for knowledge. If one thinks about it learning is all they can do at first. Everything has to be learned. You can't plop them in a playpen and expect them to learn from a toy or two and by watching and listening to what little they can see and hear from there.

[VitaAmare]

05:55 PM on 05/20/2012

This note is not cute or hilarious in any way. She obviously does not respect her parents and she thinks she can get away with what ever she wants. If she is writing this at 7, imagine what she will be like as a teenager. Kids these days are so use to getting everything they want. Parents just let them plop down in front of a computer, TV, or video game, or cell phone instead of teaching them morals, respect, and that they can't have everything they want when they want it. And if they don't have some sort of electronic distraction they think their life is over. What ever happened to books, or even playing outside. A child's imagination is starting to become extinct, everything now is quick satisfaction and what I want when I want it.

[bassasaurusrex]

06:24 PM on 05/20/2012

That was basically my exact thoughts the instant I read this. My kid would not leave me a note like this and expect to be unpunished. She wants to see a 'nitemare' welcome to the new military school you will be attending, sweetheart! Enjoy!

[bassasaurusrex]

06:25 PM on 05/20/2012

*those were basically my exact thoughts (damn hitting post rather than preview)

[General Public]

02:24 PM on 05/20/2012

Aww how cute!

[southingtonian]

12:26 AM on 05/21/2012

not