To ask you the worst things your toddler has done?

[farmertom]

I'm not sure how light hearted this is, hopefully a bit. Looking to feel a bit better about mine!
Just had a new baby and my gorgeous, gentle, well behaved little toddler (2.4 months) has turned into a moaning and hitting, doing the opposite of whatever is asked and refusing to get dressed/nappy change/eat little monster.
I feel absolutely awful! I feel so guilty like I've ruined his life with all this upheaval and especially the hitting makes me feel so bad.

Please tell me this is normal and that he'll be ok 😢😢😢😢

I remembered another and he wasn't even a toddler when it happened.

DS1, aged 9yo at the time, moved into his new bedroom that I'd spent hours painting and making nice for him. It was woodchip when we moved in which is a bastard to strip off so because it was in good condition I'd just painted over the top of it. In the course of one night, without either DH or I hearing it so he must have waited until we were asleep, he managed to strip all of the wallpaper off by hand. Apparently he picked a little bit and it left a sticky up bit so he pulled that and it also left a sticky up bit so he pulled that and so on and so on until next thing he knew it was all off.

We had a new pastel pink carpet laid in my daughter's bedroom. I popped downstairs... went back and said daughter had drawn and coloured in a circle in black felt tip pen. Oh my life.

My 2 year old DS decided he wanted to "help" me unpack the food shopping in the kitchen. I thought he just had the bad with the cereal and other non breakables until I heard him scream "I remember these" and he ran off to throw a pack of eggs at my mum who was sat on the couch minding her own business watching homes under the hammer!!!!

Nothing compared to some of these but:

TV controls down loo
Rusk in video compartment
Unstrapped himself from car seat on M25
Put finger in pencil sharpener to see what happened
Sister put sellotape in her hair so he helpfully cut it out
Hid keys in shoes
Decided to fly so stacked ride on toys by side of fence, fell off and cut open his head on terracotta pot (had to be glued)

His little sister, dared him, pooed on the bottom of the slide.

His little sister was the easier child.

Dared by him.

We had a vaseline incident when DS was 2.5. He smeared it on his face, his bedding and the walls.
He has a 5 months old brother now and it has been hard. More tantrums and defiance than I every expected. I do feel for him. It's hard but he does seem very attached to 'his' baby now. He spends a lot of time trying to play with him.

Lots of drawing on the walls from DS, including when we moved recently - he's now 4 and knows better but still did it.
When he was around age of OP's DS (before my DD was born so no excuse from that) he was having a fine old tantrum in Asda kicking off about something, and eventually hit me. I remained bright but firm "We don't hit people DS, that hurts mummy." He went absolutely mad, clawing hitting and kicking at me, all with a strange light of violence in his eyes and screaming "WANT TO HURT MUMMY" at the top of his voice I've never been so embarrassed.

It will settle. We had a fair bit of this kind of thing when DD2 was born, DD1 was only 2 and a half at the time.
Now a few months later, DD1 springs up out of bed every single morning and cannot wait to give her sister a good morning hug. They make each other laugh, play on the playmat together and it's great to watch. There are still some wobbles now and again but it is absolutely worth it.
You have not ruined anything, you have very likely created a pair of best friends for life, well done you x

My eldest was also a toddler when youngest arrived. I went to answer the door, and when I returned, my 5 week old had a poo, yes an actual poo, on his head ! My toddler said 'look mummy, the baby has pooped !' and then ran to get me the baby wipes (they do like to help, don't they ?).

The youngest (2) got the iron down, plugged it in and tries to iron the carpet. 😔

Carpet was barely two years old. He’s a handful compared to his older asd brother (5). He was able to unscrew tops of things at 18 mo. He also is able to climb up things after watching his brother. I’m at the point of buying a locker for my things just to keep them away.

There have been many incidents over the years but the worst was when DS1 decided to empty an entire bean bag over the bedroom, when I asked what he’d done his innocent reply was that “it was snowing on his farm” it took me hours to clean the bastards up and was finding them for weeks

@CherryPavlova

“We didn’t have a cat”. I actually laughed out loud at this!!

When I was a toddler I would sit on a chair with my baby brother sitting on the floor in front of me. I would stroke his head with my foot and as soon as mum turned away (so I thought) I would kick him over!

I like him better now

In no particular order, just what I can remember right now:

Threw a wooden toy at the TV and cracked the screen
Peeled all the labels from every tin in the cupboards
Smashed all the eggs
Threw my phone on the tiled floor in anger when I wouldn't let them play with a knife, shattering the screen
Sudocrem everywhere
Drawing on every wall in the house
Pouring salt all up the stairs
Filling the toilet with toilet rolls
Pushing toys out of the letterbox
Leaving taps on

Toddlers are hard work.

Mine is nearly 15 months and we’re currently staying in a lovely but not child friendly ski chalet in the Alps with my dad, siblings and their partners (she is the first grandchild, hence the swish chalet).

Yesterday she started taking wine glasses off the shelf one by one. I noticed at number two, warningly called ‘no, DD....’ over to her. She waited until I was almost within arms reach of her to drop the glass on the floor and laugh wickedly. While I was cleaning that up, she undid the buckle on her high chair, slid out and repeated the process with a bowl.

My two and a half year old got out of his car seat, took a brand new Mercedes out of gear and sailed off down the road with him at the steering wheel .All attempts from my husband to stop the car failed .The car mounted a pavement and smashed into a wall.Nobody injured, thank God.That was one of very many crazy things he did .He nearly drove me insane at times .He is a lovely , kind and very enthusiastic 19 year old now.But bringing him up and keeping him safe was hard.

My eldest when he was around 2 woke up once with diarrhoea and while I was sleeping got it everywhere in my bedroom. I had to wash the 💩 off the ceiling. I literally have no clue, how he got it there. It’s still one of the big mysteries of his toddlerhood.

A month after that he put my then BFs sandals on and walked out of the house to walk the dog. Only managed to walk away some 50 meters. Dog stayed close to him and barked, that’s how we knew that he is not in the house.
Absolutely terrifying experience. He moved the chair to the door, climbed on it and opened the latch thingy. We installed the second lock that day and didn’t leave him in the room alone even for a second until he turned 5, I think.

Anyway, he’s fine now. Turning 15 in two weeks and is quite pleasant to be around.

My nearly yo son has pushed the TV over (we had to get a new one) scribbles on anything whenever he gets the chance, thows things...he especially enjoys throwing things down the stairs and in the bath,

DH and I are dreading what is going to happen when the LO arrives this summer!

Around 2 and a half DD threw herself down starfish style right in the doorway of a shop in the local shopping centre because I wouldn't buy her a Kinder egg. Full on ear splitting screeching. I still don't know how she did it but she seemed to somehow go completely flat and stick herself to the ground and I had to peel her up while poor DS1 (then 8) tried to keep hold of all the bags from the supermarket! At one point I'm fairly sure I had her tucked under my arm like a screaming, crying cardboard cut out of a child

Nothing like turning round to find your 1yo has managed to get into the dishwasher and is waving a massive knife at you.

Kids eh?!

DS2 at about 1yo threw my phone down the toilet.
Threw his door open on a 50mph road (apparently my child lock broke - still can't get it fixed to this day).
Has thrown himself off my bed head first on purpose multiple times despite knowing it can hurt and my attempts at stopping him.

DS1 at a similar age used to love sneaking out of his cot in the morning as quietly as possible getting in our bed and waking DH up by bouncing his bum up and dpwn on DHs head whilst holding onto the headboard. You can imagine what happened one lovely summer morning when he was wearing just a top and a nappy filled with poo 🤢

I’m crying at some of these

Toddlers are brutal - it’s normal

My ds persevered after we hid pens and pencils. He managed to draw on a newly painted pale green wall with a red rectangular wooden block. He also threw a cup of juice up the wall, I walked in to find him watching the rivulets of juice as they ran down.
At age 9 he decided to heat milk up in the kettle, it burned on the element and we had to throw the kettle out.
At 16 he waited until we left the house to ‘play’ with dh’s brand new company car parked on the drive.He tried to reverse but put it in forward by mistake and hit the garage door. Luckily the only damage was the big dent in the garage door.
Sorry but they don’t really get any better. 😁

Oh I just remembered when my ds (then aged 23 months) threw my husbands very expensive Rado watch down the toilet 😂