DD’s friends have absolutely destroyed my carpet.

Your poor daughter. This is on you.

Cream carpets in an adolescent's room was always going to be a disaster. I'm not sure it's worth trying to professionally clean or replace the carpet. As your daughter gets older I'm sure she will drop make up, hair dye and everything else colourful associated with teenage girls, along with straighter and curling iron burns. Just wait until she moves out and you can enjoy a nice clean house.

YABU - your daughter was also involved. You are completely over the top

Has your DD apologised and thought about how to clean it properly?

I agree with everyone else that you were the adult present, it’s no one else’s fault you thought they’d make a mess but decided to watch tv and leave them to it. Screaming would obviously have been completely unreasonable.

Your own child was there, making a mess, not fessing up or trying to clean it.

It would take a while for me to not be a bit cross, with them and myself for not stopping them. I had a similar thing anout a month ago, although only my DC nobody else involved and now they have pink splatters on their bedroom carpet they can live with it as they did it and cover it with a rug if they want. Where is the carpet?

YANBU in my opinion! You let them keep the toys in your house and you didn't supervise them playing with them, or direct them to play with them in a room with a more easily cleaned floor (a tiled kitchen or bathroom for example) or to the garden.

If I were the parent of the child who tried to get the Zoflora to clean up and my child told me how you'd spoken to her, I'd be waiting for an apology message from you. What an awful way to speak to anyone, let alone someone elses child, and one who was trying to solve the problem.

I've got now experience with these toys personally but the Dr Beckmann carpet stain remover is my go to.

This seems a bit over dramatic. Why not get some carpet cleaner out and ask the girls to help clear it up instead of ordering them all home for doing something youd left them doing.

You are the parent so why didnt you parent?

Yeah, this falls into the category of a regrettable mistake on the part of the responsible adult. You could see what they were doing and you left them to it without explicitly telling them to either stop it or take it outside.

Everyone knows kids can’t squeezing those toys to their limit as that’s what makes them fun to play with, and they’re made from cheap materials and usually last weeks at best.

You’re not being unreasonable to be furious. But I think it might be part of being a parent. Unless a person had unlimited time/money, houses aren’t going to remain pristine with kids about (esp teenagers in my experience). Sorry. I understand it’s really annoying.

If my kids had let me know what had happened, you’d get an apology and an offer to help pay for it. But if not expect you to take me up on it unless it was very specifically my child that had done a very specific thing.

Unfortunately your update is another example of abdicating responsibility to 12 year olds and just hoping it'll turn out okay. Not a strategy that's working for you.

You can't expect other parents to pay for your carpet! You saw what they were doing, you even anticipated the issue and then walked away from them! This is completely on you.

I agree. You saw them and even commented, that was the time to direct them elsewhere. I suspect they have not told their parents and whilst I sympathise that it's not what you want to hear it really isn't for the other parents to pay for.

Where was your child in all this?? I really don’t think you can expect anyone else to fix this one. You knew what they were up to. Your own child was involved. This is really on your. An apology would be nice but unless young no of for sure which child was ultimately responsible there’s not much to be done. This happened on your watch.

Assuming you are in England- you should of sent them out into the garden. I don't understand why you let them continue to play with them when you knew they had them indoors. You are responsible -not the parents who weren't anywhere near them and had no idea what they were doing.

YABU, obviously. You knew what was happening and allowed it to happen. Why on earth should the other parents pay?

Which room is it in? You say you were downstairs, so is it upstairs in your daughter's room? If so, she can just live with a stained carpet.

But yes, house insurance as others have said.

My 12 year old has her friends round for a sleepover this evening too, they are also making a bit of a mess. No burst squishies yet, but in the past we've had accidents with slime etc. I don't think I'd send them all home, it was obviously an accident and they tried to clean it up, poor kids probably feel awful. Fair enough to ask parents for a contribution the next morning I suppose (I doubt if I would).

Have you tried just using some vanish carpet cleaner and a brush?

Carpets want shampooing occasionally so I don't think it's reasonable to charge the girls parent's, it's just regular maintenance

It’s just a carpet. These things happen with children.

Op I think
I’m on the opposite side of the fence than you, that girl cried, it’s coloured goop and it’s annoying and awful but not worth crying over or sending people home for.

You were the adult in charge so this one is on you I’m afraid. Why would you expect the other parents to contact you and offer to pay?

Sorry, but I agree with this. You're clearly very stressed, but you were the adult in charge and instead of TAKING charge, you decided to threaten the children and allow them to crack on while you caught up on more important things.

This is why my toddler isn't allowed to play with play doh outside of the kitchen table under supervision. And I hide it when he's all done.

Sorry about your carpet.

But you were the parent supervising the children. You knew there was a risk that one of these toys might burst but you let them go ahead and play with them in a room with a cream carpet.

I think the responsibility is yours - not the other parents‘.