Tell us something awful you did as a kid.

[Friedchickenrocks]

Aged about 8 our grandad was staying with us and I hid his glasses. Nobody thought it was me but he knew. He was literally almost blind for a week and even went poking with his walking stick down the loo. "I know it's her. I just know it, little bitch" Eventually they magically re-appeared on the sideboard. I never did own up and my mum never thought it could possibly be her blue eyed girl.

Aged 8 or 9 me and my cousin (who I’m pretty sure is a sociopath) were playing in the garden with my mums friends daughter who was lovely but we’d taken a dislike to her as my mum was always mean about her mum behind her back (yeah wtf), she’d brought round a nice handbag and me and my cousin dug a hole and buried it. I still feel really guilty about it.

same cousin also liked to decapitate ladybirds with the holes in plant tags 😢horrible

It was a really hot Summer and my cousin and I decided to see if we could fry eggs on the neighbours car. We could after a fashion but the car never recovered and had to have a new paint job. We were in so much trouble.

Omg that bit about your mum made me snort with laughter!

I once lied quite badly about the way my dads girlfriend treated me compared to her own son a day out. (Without my dad!) I would have been about 7?

it all blew up and they split up, she was really nice and I genuinely regret that.

I’v literally never lied since 😂 so silver lining ya know 🤷🏼‍♀️

I hid my mother's engagement ring inside a soft stuff sausage squeezing thing and forgot about it.

Don't know who found it.

Mostly for safety - drowning to death in grain was a real risk.

Kids aren't angels for sure!

I used to angrily scrub my parents' toothbrushes over the bar of soap when they upset me.

Worse than this - my then boyfriend invited others to our home when I was about 20. They were taking crack in the bathroom and I said no thanks.

I came to go to bed and another friend came to rush me stop brushing my teeth. Apparently one girl was annoyed I said no and used my toothbrush to brush the loo 😷

Aged 2, I decided so share my raisins with my sleeping baby brother. I snuck into the bedroom and stuffed this mouth full of it, while mum was distracted by laundry!

She came in to a sight of my brother turning blue and me, beaming with happiness at such excellent sharing and selfless kindness I just exhibited.

Luckily all was well but my brother still reminds me from time to time that I tried to kill him with kindness.

A very full escalator of people going from the first floor of a shopping centre to the ground. I pressed the emergency stop button when i got to the bottom (i dont know if they still have them) and about 30 people fell down on top of eachother. I was about 6. Really good kid in general, dont know why i did that 😂

I grew up on a small cul-de-sac, with houses one side and farmland on the other. At some stage, a couple of new houses were built on the farmland opposite us. I used to sneak into them when the builders had gone for the day and poke around. Once, I was looking out the upstairs window of an almost-finished house and locked eyes with my mum, looking out the window of our house directly opposite! I was in big trouble!

Another time my next door neighbour and I tried to climb up a stone wall that had just been built, but the cement hadn't set yet and it collapsed. We swiftly ran back to our houses and pretended it never happened!

At at underpass, I was on the road above and there were some scaffolding poles on the grass. I don't know why, but I decided to drop one over the railings onto the cycle path below. No one was there until shortly after when a mum shouted something along the lines of 'who did that! You could have killed my kids'.
I don't remember if I said anything, but I know the friend I was with looked at me as if to say 'uh, oh'.

No one was hurt but there genuinely was no one there at first, and I guess I was just bored? I did/do feel bad.

My younger sister did this to me - We shared a room and I went to have a bath. When I got back, I had no idea she had put drawing pins down on the floor for me to walk on when I went back to our room, until I stepped on them! She has no idea why she did that but we laugh about it now.

As a kid, we used to have students from abroad staying with us for some extra cash. I would tell them that my mum loved marmite and would be really offended if they didnt eat it. Those poor students used to slather marmite on everything and you could tell they hated it. My mum often used to comment how strange it was that marmite was so popular with our students and so she used to buy more and more of it.

I do feel bad about it now btw

I once, on a walk out with our family, made my 8 years old sister jump off a 8ft wall. I told her it would be a soft landing as there was a pile of leaves at the bottom but it was not soft…

She really hurt herself but I begged her not to tell anyone and she spent the rest of the day trying to hide her limp and runny eyes!

Said sister was not perfect though and remember the day after our folks had decorated our bedroom…not a lot of money and had used post office stamps to buy us beautiful My little Pony wallpaper which my mum had made matching curtains and bedding etc…

The wallpaper was picnic scene and DSis
decided to go would if all with a marker and elaborate the art…steam coming out of the cups of tea, sausage rolls on plate etc…

Very artistic but she got into so much trouble!!

I was around the age of 8 and my sister was 6.

My friend came round and she brought a book of raffle tickets with her.

We came up with this idea to sell the tickets to neighbours. So we filled my mum’s washing basket with several of her ornaments and purchased a box of chocolates from the local corner shop and proceeded to knock on doors, telling the neighbours we were collecting for charity.

We had no intention of sending the money to any charity so at the end of our collection round we popped the ornaments back, spent the money on sweets at the corner shop and scoffed the chocolates - what little sods we were!!

I cut Nicky next doors hair. Well, I say cut, that implies some hairdressing skills, sadly not the case. We were about five.

I'm so sorry for little you @Springcat ❤️. The adult(s) in your life let you down badly.

When I was about 8, my younger siblings' friend was really annoying me on a day out. I think I was both annoyed that they had got to have a friend come to the adventure park and also found the child individually annoying. Anyways, I pulled the child's trousers and pants down in a crowded area in order to embarrass them. Not nice behaviour and I'm ashamed of it now!

As a kid, I was prone to dramatics. I was about 11 and my dad told me off for something, so having watched a film about a kid who ran away, I packed up some bits of fruit and biscuits and announced to my parents 'I'm leaving'. They said 'oh ok, will you be back for Christmas?' I was OUTRAGED that my strop was being ignored so I marched to the end of the lane and remember looking back as they watched me out the window. I know they wouldn't have let me go out of sight but at the time it felt like they would! All of a sudden it started to rain and I turned around and walked back. As I walked in, my dad said, 'you're back? But it's not Christmas...?'

😂😂

Oh this gave me a much needed laugh!!

You sound horrible. Why would you want children to do that?

My little brother 'ran away' to the end of the road once too.

He'd tied up some ladybird book in a tea towel and tied them to the end of a stick and carried it over his shoulder like puss in boots. Bless 😆

I recognise that this will make me ‘that poster’ but I opened this thread expecting a lighthearted chuckle and it’s full of tales of children who were old enough to know what they were doing torturing animals and tormenting elderly people. And posters apparently finding it all hilarious. Really messed up, some of them have made me feel genuinely quite queasy before I stopped reading.

Whenever anyone posts on here about a child who harms an animal they’re immediately told the child has a psychopathic personality disorder but on this thread it’s amusing…ok. Some of this content should be deleted, a tale of a baby being repeatedly pinched to make it cry over a long car journey because it’s apparently funny. On mumsnet. I feel genuinely quite disturbed.

A group of my friends and I lived in a village in an area famous for canals. In the 1970's family canal holidays were booming. In Summer holidays we would cycle to the bridges, wait for the barges to pass under then squirt the holiday boaters with huge bottles of washing up liquid refilled with water. We would get shouted at by some patriarch on the tiller. Sometimes the barge would pull to the side, and one or two younger male boaters would jump off and try to chase us. We would be on our bikes and away up the roads like lightning. Always escaped.

Only to arrive at the next bridge a mile or two away and wait to ambush them a second time.

If we were really lucky, some of the teenage holiday makers would be sprawled across the roof of the barges sunbathing as they passed through. Squirt - cold water straight into the mid-rift.

I told my sister when she was around 4, it said 'made in Hong Kong' in the middle of her back. She cried at everything and that triggered a day long episode and when dad came home from work, I got a clip. I would have been 11.

I did two things that point to psychopathic tendencies in adulthood.
I’ve always been somewhat concerned about it. Even read the Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson.
I haven’t even the excuse that I was particularly young. (10/11 maybe).

1. I pulled the wings from a fly.
2. Threw a cat against a wall.

To this day I have no idea why because I came from a happy, secure, loving home. 🤯