Toddlers are good at plenty of things — destroying a clean room in a fraction of a second, critiquing the food [1] they asked you to make, disappearing like Houdini right in front of your eyes, and throwing tantrums [2] over literally nothing. What they're universally not good at? Hide and seek.
In a hilarious video [3], dad-of-two La Guardia Cross demonstrates how poor his 2-year-old daughter Amalah is at playing hide and seek, and his struggle is so relatable that it almost isn't funny.
I mean, just look at his kid's face while he's trying to explain the extremely simple rules . . .
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Hopeless.