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Reveal the most disgusting thing your child has ever done to win £100 Argos voucher and more!

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EmilyMumsnet · 15/06/2015 12:30

We all know that children can be the most delightful, innocent little angels - charming, sweet and pure. They can also sometimes be the most disgusting creatures to ever walk this earth. Every mother has seen their child do something outright revolting at least once, if not repeatedly.

We're asking you to dredge up these horror stories for the chance to win copies of Dirty Bertie: Jackpot! An expert in all things yukky, there’s nothing Bertie likes more than to be surrounded by worms, fleas, bogeys, burps and suspicious smells... And if his enthusiastic young readers are anything to go by, he’s not alone!

Tell us the most disgusting thing your child has ever done for the chance to win one of 6 copies of the book. The most utterly disgusting story will also win the poster a £100 Argos voucher!

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Reveal the most disgusting thing your child has ever done to win £100 Argos voucher and more!
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kathryng90 · 26/06/2015 21:26

DS4 at just rolling stage around 6 months. Had been exclusively lovingly bf then given equally lovingly prepared organic vegetarian weaning foods. First roll across kitchen floor ended with first finger food of a regurgitated dog biscuit. Yum.

Theimpossiblegirl · 26/06/2015 21:04

Secretly filling her room with snails that crawled out once she was asleep was pretty gross, especially as I'm not a slipper wearer. The slimy crunching underfoot was the first I knew of it.

Fizzyplonk · 26/06/2015 20:51

Whenever DS has a nosebleed he takes great delight in picking the bloody bogies and eating them, some squidgy soft red ones others scabby and crunchy!

Donthate · 26/06/2015 20:42

We got on a 12 hour flight and my 4 year old was behaving beautifully until he turned to say something to me and vomited all over me. It was awful. One of the lovely air hostesses gave me a huge t shirt so I had to try to wash my trousers in the toilet and then meet lovely family I hadn't seen in a year in stinky trousers and a huge smiley face t shirt.

mave · 26/06/2015 06:56

Eating her bogies always turns my stomach, she's eaten mud and had a fight with sudocrem-it was everywhere, she looked like my grandad (or father Christmas!!)

GiantGaspingSatanicCyst · 25/06/2015 23:10

During a karate grading (lots of kids, all concentrating hard), my son had quite a heavy nosebleed - it was all over his chin, neck, on his white suit. The instructor gave him a big wad of tissue to soak it up. I then had to sit and watch, along with all the other karate parents, as my son absentmindedly tore the bloody tissue into bits and ate it.

kaylz0412 · 25/06/2015 22:54

My delightful two year old daughter Megan recently started hiding when having a poo in her nappy then sticking her finger in her nappy she came up to me and asked what it was I automatically wiped it off her finger not realising and had a lovely surprise, she then started rubbing faeces over my wall floor her legs and her slide, safe to say we are now toilet training which is going really well!!! im so proud of her xxx

Titsalinabumsquash · 22/06/2015 13:36

Hmm, it's a hard choice but here goes,

DS1 - has been known to 'save time' by eating on the toilet. Confused
DS2 - will not change his socks unless I physically wrestle them off him and they stink like nothing I've ever smelt before.
DS3 joined DN in a game of 'let's post our poo down between the gaps on the decking.'

DS1&2 share a room and the smell in therein the morning of boxed in farts and socks is gross. They're not even teenagers yet!

Filthy creatures that they are! Wink

sealight123 · 22/06/2015 13:31

I remember one morning waking up to my daughters voice shouting 'Mummy, I did it myself, I did it myself'

I instantly felt an internal horror, especially as she was in the process of potty training.

I walked into her bedroom where she had tried to change her own nappy and had used every part of her bedroom to try and wipe her bum.

When I walked in she was using a Beachball....

serin · 18/06/2015 22:11

I will never forget going in to check on DD one evening.

She was fast asleep in her little cot with 3 large spider legs hanging out of her mouth....I had to extract the others from inside her mouth.

Purpleflamingos · 18/06/2015 21:54

The DC is preschool age btw

Purpleflamingos · 18/06/2015 21:53

One of my DC had chicken pox recently. Said DC had the spots on the inside of the nose. That same DC picked off the scabs and ate them.

ScrambledEggAndToast · 18/06/2015 21:49

I was changing DS's nappy after he had produced the most enormous and explosive poo. It was runny, smelly and totally vile. I took the nappy off and at the same time my phone rang in the hall. I dashed off to get it and when I got back roughly 1 minute later, DS was eating sweetcorn out of his nappy. There was poo all over his fingers, on his tongue, round his mouth, in his hair. I thought I was going to throw up Shock

CordeliaScott · 18/06/2015 21:35

DD was about 6 months old and not very well. She was very upset and had been screaming for ages as she wouldn't go to sleep. I picked her up and lifted her up to my shoulder when she promptly threw up in my hair and all down my top and into my bra.

DH walked in and didn't even spot the fact that I was dripping with curdling milk. Gave him the baby so I could shower for her to promptly fall asleep all angelic in his arms.

lucifee · 18/06/2015 16:21

My 4 year old son pee'd in his older brothers water bottle and gave it to him to drink saying it was a pee shake!

Feltedbump · 18/06/2015 12:59

My gorgeous little darling last week rolled in fox poo. Bad enough, but I hadn't realised she had got it INSIDE her wellies. So after a big clean up operation and running round sniffing things in the house to check them....yep, next day after walking out in her wellies, she spreads fox poo all over the sofa again.

babyowl · 18/06/2015 12:46

On the way out the door to nursery, I noticed dd (then under 2) smelling slightly "minty" when I picked her up seconds after locking our front door. Checked her mouth & fished out a USED piece of chewing gum that someone had thrown down our stairwell.

If that doesn't make you cringe enough, whilst playing with a friend in a small park (both kids aged 5), the two of them picked up a used needle.

Am surprised Disney or similar haven't come out with some public service good manners/hygiene guide as I'm always pointing out that Disney princesses do not wipe their noses with their forearms/ or wipe dirty food hands under the table!

nerysw · 17/06/2015 19:43

Ah, the joys of parenthood. My two have covered me in sick, had a poo in the bath, eaten cat food, put my stuff down the toilet, drank so much bathwater they threw up (copiously), covered each other head to toe in mud and much more. I'm hardened to it now.

PositiveAttitude · 17/06/2015 10:58

DD3 was happily playing when she was about 3 years old. She suddenly vomited all over the carpet, she looked at the pile of puke, and noticed an undigested sweet, she said, "Oh my favourite" and picked it up and started eating it for the second time!

Usernamesarehard · 17/06/2015 10:41

I'm afraid my ds2 ate his own poo age 1.... Blush

Tabby33 · 17/06/2015 10:39

Hello,

my boy is only 1.5 years old and so far has eaten mud, worms and even tried a cigarette butt (yes this makes me sound like an awful parent, but believe me he is fast!). He loves rubbing the mud in his hair! Don't ask why?!

We regularly have to grab him before he eats the dogs food and he then drops it in the dogs water and tries to eat it again! Gross!!

I think I am going to have my hands full with this little boy!

MrsMarigold · 16/06/2015 15:21

We went to france when DD was 2, she pooed in her cot smeared it everywhere and ate it. The cot was borrowed from the (childless) people who owned the gite who were appalled especially because they had beening cooing over how cute and angelic she looked.

mapmyface · 16/06/2015 15:14

Driving home from my mothers one day with ds aged 3.5 and dd aged 2. Dd unknowingly to me had some dog poo on her shoes and had been holding her feet in her hands so was covered in dog poo too. When ds noticed he stated to retch which made me retch too. Ds was then sick all over the back of the car. When I managed to get home I had two children to clean up and the car to disinfect. Worst day ever

harlina123 · 16/06/2015 14:53

The most disgusting thing my child did she was crawling round a tree and when she came back round had a dog pooh in her hand x

Smooshface · 16/06/2015 14:44

DD 18 months old found a slug in the house and tried to eat it. Had to fish it out of her mouth. Still makes me queasy thinking about it!

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