What's the worst thing your kids have done to make you want to break down?

[Burnt0utMum]

I'm working from home and kids are off for Easter holidays. Ages 6 and 5. I'm working downstairs and they were quiet for a while upstairs. I went upstairs to check on them and they had locked themselves in the bathroom. I told them to let me in but they refused to open the door. Eventually they opened it and they've used every single product in the bathroom. Soap and water everywhere to the point it's leaked through to the dining room ceiling (which is brand new plasterboard and skim only painted 2 days ago). My new make up that I hadn't opened yet and Lush gift set from my sister that I hadn't used yet have been opened and emptied. I've dried the floor and just had to walk away because I'm just so upset. They know they weren't supposed to touch any products in there and they know they shouldn't have done it but it's done now. I don't even know what punishment to give because I just feel so spent with trying to work while that's going on. DH will be moving the lock out of their reach when he gets home later and I've said they're not allowed their ipads or any of their Easter chocolate. Feeling like a failure. Please tell me I'm not alone having kids causing so much trouble!

Ohhhhh that’s horrible. So sorry. I know the feeling you had when you opened the door and when you walked away. I’ve had it so many times.

When my friends kids went into my bathroom and stuck their fingers in all my wedding makeup (400£ of Bobbi Brown) breaking my blushers up, squashing the lipsticks by shoving it back in tops workout rolling back down, leaving mascara all over the sink and trying to fill the bottle.

I also had it when I read a story to my eldest last year and then afterwards realised my son had drawn yellow marker pen all over my bedroom wall, chest of drawers, bedlinen, corridor walls, skirting boards and couch cushions.... we had put the house on the market.... first viewing was the next day. It didn’t come off at all so everything has been a slightly yellow tinge since.

I also had it when my eldest son pulled the wick out of my birthday present oil candle and I cannot work out how to get it back in. When he threw my jewellery out of my bedroom window onto gravel (diamond studs and everything).

Um.... what else.... drenching the bathroom. Starting to wash the car with the windows open, throw gravel in the pool repeatedly despite being told sooooo many times not to and causing €500 of damage.

Never know how to deal with it.

Several things I don't want to go into, but one that I can laugh at now was when he was little, running up behind strangers and slapping them hard on the bum. It was pointless telling him off as it doesn't work, even to this day, with his learning difficulties. I would be so embarrassed that I would just smile at them and make a quick exit with him, which was of course 10 times worse than apologising and explaining. Thank goodness I was quick enough to catch him just in time when he had his hand up ready to slap a frail looking old man, but I don't know what anyone who was watching thought with us both running up right behind the poor man.

DD racked up over £1000 on in-app purchases; unbeknownst to me she had entered my card details. The first I knew about it was when my card got declined when I tried to do the weekly shopping.

I thought my middle child ( now 31) was a handful, he once sprayed a whole can of hairspray on my tv videotape combo and it stopped working for a few days, but now after reading these I feel as though I got away lightly, admittedly I’m now no contact with him as he just became a complete arsehole as he got older but my other 2 aged 36 and 18 are perfect sons

Sorry but this is hilarious 😂 poor dog 😆

@SignMyStookie

Oh and joined the dots on my dalmatian with permanent marker.

I'm so sorry, but that has me laughing out loud! I think I'd have quite enjoyed having a join-the-dots dog!

A gran here. I absolutely promise you that , in time, this will become a family story that you will all laugh about. Know it doesn’t seem like it now, but trust me.

Oh goodness! Luckily mine have never done anything majorly destructive in the house. But my dd is 10 and can have the vilest most awful attitude ever and that can break me emotionally on a daily basis.
DS is very chilled most if the time but also lazy. Homeschooling him was pretty hard work, I hope I don't have to do that again any time soon!
As a toddler he once knocked a tin of gloss paint over and splashed in it, made a right mess but we saw the funny side!

@SignMyStookie

Oh and joined the dots on my dalmatian with permanent marker.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 just brilliant! Bet DDog loved the attention your DD was giving!

I cant imagine how awful lockdown has been for all of you trying to work from home with small DC.
Mine are grown up.
The worst they ever did was polishing the car with sand paper and DS1 and DS2 drawing Maori tattoos all over each others faces with a sharpie pen when they were watching the rugby. I wouldn't mind but they were 8 and 9 at the time. They thought it would "wash off" but it didn't and they had to go to school like a pair of Maori warriors.

This one was me. I was probably about 5 and it was coming up to my dad's birthday. Rather than make him a card, I decided to 'reuse' one of the lovely padded front cards that he'd sent to my mum and she'd kept for sentimental reasons. I scribbled out his message and wrote my own. Mum told me I couldn't give him that but I didn't appear to understand the whole 'because it's already been written in' thing because I remember doing the same to at least two more cards. I drew (in permanent marker) all over several of my Nan's Des O'Connor LP covers. There was a drinks cabinet in my grandparents' house full of various miniature liqueurs that I used to drink. I took one of my mum's birth control pills and one of my Nan's valium. I was left unattended a lot as a child in the 70s

Dd1 ran up a £1500 Bill from in app purchases on her phone which actually had caps on but they didn't cover this.
Obviously didnt learn my lesson and allowed daughter to buy something online which then saved my card details onto her device and she then went and cleared my bank account (around £500) on an online game.
Same daughter then stole around
£50 in £2 coins by taking it bit by bit.

Awful but after initial reaction I thought aren't you really very lucky they didn't drink something that could have seriously harmed them.....

This is awful - I can't imagine what possessed them - maybe you need clearer rules and most severe and 100% applied punishments - like no t v, no pocket money if they get it, no presents or treats of any kind for a considerable length of time - really outrageously bad behaviour - but be angry not upset - it's not your fault

My DS 15 has always broken things - bends stuff to see how far it will bend, takes stuff apart to see how it works, this started when he was about 15 months old and continues to this day. Dds never do this.

My nephew, aged 6, having asked permission to put some bubble bath in his bath. poured in 3/4 bottle of Chanel #5 that was his step mum's Christmas present. He's 51 now and still remembers the unfairness of being told off for his genuine mistake!

Knocked over a HUGE ornate mirror whilst twatting about at my sister’s house. As luck would have it, a beautifully decorated Christmas tree broke its fall. 🙄

To be fair to my DCs, this HUGE, ornate, extremely heavy mirror was merely propped against the wall so was a bit of an accident waiting to happen. But, yes they basically twatting about.

I was a fairly well behaved child, but when I was little, I locked myself in the bathroom and destroyed my mum’s very expensive make up box. I’ve no idea what compelled me to do it. She was so upset, she just deposited me in my bedroom, closed the door and sobbed. This was so out of character for me
Kids are little shits sometimes

I remember one particular Xmas I spent alone with DD. She was very small, around 3, I think. I'd fallen out with my mum, split up up with DD's dad and wasn't in a great place mentally. I tried to make it magical, but the morning was really stressful trying to put all the toys together. Seemed everyone had bought her something that needed assembling. She was totally overwhelmed with too many presents and started to get naughtier and naughtier. When I served up lunch she screamed and had a tantrum and threw it on the floor and basically acted like that for the rest of the day. She finished off the day by biting me and walloping me in the face. I could have hit her at that point. After she went to sleep I cried into a bottle and a half of wine, which made me feel worse, of course. That was a bad Xmas!!

Ds has adhd but luckily he's quite chilled and easy going (more attention deficit and impulsive than hyperactivity). There aren't many things he's done and certainly nothing on the scale of things mentioned above but he did cut his own hair at school one day. It was so short that he had to have his head shaved completely bald and you could still see the area he'd cut himself. He also coloured his body and face in with a black felt-tip pen when he was meant to be in bed and we didn't know until he got up for school the next day. He had to go to school with blueish marks on his face and body because we couldn't get it all off.

I can't imagine working from home with small kids, I feel for anyone that is! Sounds like you handled it better than I would have tbh, I'm a shouter! Despite how it feels right now, you're doing a great job in trying circumstances, give yourself a break and look in on the kids when they're sleeping later, the little sweaty faces are easier to forgive then

OP I've been there, literally. DD had been reading George's Marvellous Medicine at school and made a concoction that included all my Clarins, all the (quite expensive) shampoo and conditioner, all the toothpaste, and all DS's chemotherapy medicine.

They've used the shower attachment to liberally water the bathroom floor, to the point where rubber ducks were floating around the base of the loo.

DS Sudocremed a silk carpet (I actually got most of it out with Baby wipes)

DD has literally carved up her bed with her penknife, and stabbed holes in the mattress.

Between them they have smashed 3 phone screens and killed 2 laptops.

There have also been cooking disasters. SO many.

I don't know where to start.
Ds1 stole Dh's credit card and ran up £15k, on x box.
Ds2 lied to school and police, that had severe consequences.
Ds1 ran away to London.

I did take a photo, I actually checked my FB but it's not there so must be on an old laptop or memory card. It was before smartphones with cameras were a common thing. Unfortunately, DDog would growl and show his teeth as soon as you pointed a camera at him, I was never sure whether he HATED getting his picture taken or if that was him saying cheese 🤷‍♀️ Can you imagine the pasting I would get for DD1 being near such a viscous beast nevermind long enough to draw on him? According to DD, he rolled over so she get both sides 😂

Brand new beautiful Chloe Paddington handbag back in 2006, treat to myself with some redundancy money. DD at age 4 decides to ram the key into the large Chloe padlock, breaking it off in the lock....I’d only unwrapped the dust cover and certificates and everything literally 5 mins before.

Two years ago for Mother’s Day, DD now 18 replaced it for me with another identical genuine bag she had found online, saying Sorry! I couldn’t believe she still remembered bless her, she said she felt awful about it all that time!