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!

Mine decided to be helpful and clean the snow of my car with a metal pole whilst I was on a work call. I now have a large scratch across my car bonnet...

My 3 year old threw a Weeble at our telly a week after we bought it. It looked fine but it’s made a buzzing noise ever since...

@KisstheTeapot14

It faded slightly after a bath, not much though! Then we just had to wait until it faded, old hair was cast and new hair grew in. I had to walk him looking like that. My other DDog, not a dalmatian but had spots and freckles, apparently when DD showed him the pen for his turn, he said "No!"

It wasn't malicious on their behalf.

All behaviour is communication.

They might be playing up if you're trying to work instead of play with them. Mine certainly would.

@SignMyStookie

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

I know I shouldn't, but this made me lol.

I can totally see how tempting that was for a child, and every time I see a dalmatian now, I'll mentally picture it with its dots joined up.

I hope the dog was ok and the ink didn't make him/her ill or anything.

Among many incidents I remember I once left a rather expensive joint of beef on the kitchen side to defrost, came downstairs later on couldnt see it on the side wasnt in the fridge or anything, turned out my oldest 2 kids (6 & 5 at the time) had decided it would make a great plaything and spent quite a few hours playing and throwing it around their bedroom having a great time with it

They are late teens now and lovely young men but at the time I could have quite happily have given them away, they had a house full of nice toys and they chose a fucking joint of beef to play with...

@SignMyStookie me and DS were just walking in the park and saw a dalmation - I told him the story and there was some giggling.

You know when a kid looks like 'god, wish I'd thought of that!'

He's too old to start dot to dot dalmations now

DD aged 3 painted my freshly painted bedroom with lipstick.

DD aged 4 cut all her hair off the day before her first day at school.

Ds aged 2 drew all over our walls with black eyeliner.

DD aged 18 came home drunk and vomited all over our downstairs loo and then went to bed. I had no idea until the morning, it was in shoes , up the walls ,everywhere.

My daughter threw a glass at my head and broke my front tooth. Had just spent 4K on Invisalign 🤔

One Sunday morning when he was about six ds2 (deaf and autistic) was playing in the front garden... I had earlier that week bought two tins of cornflower blue paint to have the courtyard wall painted. They were plastic tubs with a security tape round them and they were stacked by the front door...
I was sat listening to Desert Island Discs when ds2 tapped on the window.. I got up and went to see what he wanted.. To my absolute horror the gravel, paths and lawn were covered in blue paint as were ds2 shoes and feet... "I orry Mumma, I orry" ... It wouldn't be an understatement to say I went absolutely ballistic at him... The words "mess" "horrid little boy" and "What the hell do I bloody do now?" echoed up and down our road... My neighbour J wandered over and leant on the gate.. J is one of the calmest ladies I know. She asked why I was shouting. I'm not one to use the f word very often but unfortunately J heard it twice in my description of the state of my son and my garden...
Remaining her usual calm self she asked for my house phone... She punched in a number and someone answered. "Its Mum, I'm at C's we need you, we need your pressure washer and we need you NOW!"
Within 5 minutes her son arrived, he took in the blue pandemonium as if it was a normal everyday occurrence. He was fantastic, within an hour my garden, lawn and path were clean... Then while I continued to calm down he put ds2 in his works van with him and took him for a few turns round the village. Upon their return I popped a bottle of wine into the cab of the van which he reluctantly took home. Ds2 was despatched to the bath. His shoes went in the bin!

It may be because my eldest has ASD which means I assess situations differently but I don’t think you can blame them for doing that OP- they are 5 and 6, you really can’t expect them to play in their rooms/entertain themselves for the duration of the Easter Hols.

I’m so sorry!
That’s rubbish, my children once drew on every radiator in the house with black eyeliner & red lipstick (whilst heating was on), they also destroyed all eye shadow pallets and crushed them into the new bedroom carpet!

My youngest has asthma and can't take it straight from the blue ventolin and has to use a spacer. They are on short supply from our local GP surgery as the school want one, we have one -my ex etc.

Bloody sod decided the dog (huge soft puppy) was a bit wheezy (nothing wrong with the puppy at all) and stuck the spacer in his mouth, to give him ventolin to 'make him better' -

1. the dog punctured the spacer easily
2. the dog was given the spare spacer -and he bit the end off.
3. the little sod never normally went near his inhaler and managed to move the heaviest chair alive and get into the medical cabinet.
4. Also climbed over the 'over 1m high dog gate' because although I trusted the dog I didn't trust DC and kept them separate when I wasn't there -this was not due to the dog. But DC was the sort of child to try to put hair clips in his hair or something (the dog) so they were apart for that reason.

I cried that day.

Also cried when eldest was supervising youngest for 5 minutes (7 years between them) and gave him a gin and tonic to keep him occupied -he was 3 and eldest was 10. It was a can she had opened it as he was thirsty. I knocked the can out of his hand as he raised it to his lips. Never in my entire life has eldest or youngest had fizzy drinks at home at that point -god knows what possessed her to give it to him.

OMG. Horrors.

Dog was unharmed but mightily pissed off.

Made said sod phone the local GP (Pharmacy on site) to apologise to the lovely staff especially as they had got us a new inhaler spacer just a week before. I made the little horror explain what he had done, apologise and do them a card -and he never did anything like it again.

Gosh. I think I've got off lightly. I cant really think of anything to compete with these

@LakieLady No, he was absolutely fine. I phoned the vet, who advised a thorough bath (he wasn't happy about that) and it's given me something I can cast up to DD1 whenever she moans about something " You DREW on my DOG!" 😂

@KisstheTeapot14 You never know so maybe hide any markers just in case 😂

I don't have kids but seriously, what is it with the Sudocreme? Why have so many of you found it all over carpet, sofa, etc?! Is this smearing some kind of natural human instinct that we all have to outgrow at some point?!?!?!?

I hope you feel better today OP. I read through this thread and it made me smile, and cringe!!! Shows how it happens to all of us!!!

My DD used to redecorate her cot/room with turd too. It was horrific! Looking back, she did it in her sleep and I think it was because she didn't like it in her night time pants.

DD also used to have hideous toddler tantrums (DS was calm as a calm thing, so this was a shock for me!) over pretty much anything. Never has any child tried my patience as much as she has.

As for naughty stuff...I have to say that my siblings (I'm one of 4, with a large age gap between older two and younger two) and I were terrible. We:
-Younger DBro and I emptied the contents of ALL the food on the breakfast table (my mum used to cook and put out a huge spread each mealtime- we had a big family) onto each other and the carpet.
-one Xmas, younger DBro and I woke up mega early and unwrapped every single present under the tree. No one knew which presents were which. We had a large family with a huge number who had come to stay for Xmas.
-Younger Dbro and I got into the medicines cupboard, opened up ALL the meds and fed them to each other. We both ended up in hospital getting treated for accidental polypharmacy overdose!
-Younger DBro smashed the washing machine with a hammer he found. Whilst the washer was on (flooded the utility room as a bonus addition to smashed washer).
-I locked Younger DBro in the goat shed. Older DBro was "babysitting".
-I cut my head (accident) and then wiped the blood EVERYWHERE.
-older DBro told my older DSis that there were witches in the bathroom at night. She believed him and was so scared that she'd pee UNDER her bed at night. Carpet was ruined.
-older DBro took older DSis out onto the roof of their (4 storey) home, by climbing out a top bedroom window. They were "having a picnic" up there. My poor mum had to climb out to try and coax them back into the house.
-older DBro got hold of my mum's brand new Estee Lauder lipstick (she'd saved up for it) and used that (and her other makeup) to "decorate" himself and their house.

-as a teen, my bro bleached his hair (he didn't believe me when I said it was permanent!) and got suspended.
-numerous tales of my siblings/myself (when teens) getting paralytic and puking everywhere whilst pretending we weren't drunk.

I honestly do not know why the hell my parents decided to have two more after my older two siblings!! They must have been crazy!

The worst thing didn't happen but he was tempted. I took 3 year old to A&E as he needed stitches in his hand, this was just a few months after he broke his leg. At the time his eye was blood red, bruised and swollen after surgery at another hospital.

Dr looked at him, looked at notes, which must have shown the fracture and said, "Where was mummy when this happened?" DS (little monster) looked at me with an evil smirk on his face, looked at the doctor and I thought this is it, I'm going to get arrested. He didn't say it but I know he was tempted to blame me just for the fun of it.

The Dr, looking frustrated asked what had happened to his eye, I gave him the surgeons name and the hospital where he'd had the surgery and he went away, presumably to check it out. I've never felt so certain that I was going down and my kids were going into care.

If I gave a list of the things he actually did do I'd be here all night.

My youngest, when he was about 2,5 was at home with his dad and granny. He walked into the bathroom, plugged the sink, opened the tap and left. It was after a good hour when grownups noticed something was going on...

Always beware the Sound of Silence . . . .

Arse....I forgot the amount of times that my DD used to nick tubs of lip balm/bodycream etc and smother them all over her, the walls, her toys etc. She smelled beautiful but would then scream bloody murder when we'd try and clean the stuff of her.

I also forgot about the time I nicked some of my mum's (very antique/expensive) jewellery and fed it to the dog.

As a young mum with a chid of four and a new born baby and neighbours who adored him Picture neighbours having tea and cake in the garden with wine very gentile , Son took hose connected to tap turned on tap and poked through fence hole and drowed them all My neighbours laughed bless them and said meet ............ our lovely next door neighbour and lifted the fence and he joined them for tea and cakes . One of mosr favorite memories of my neighbours and my sons. Thank you Sandra and Tony You made my son's day and you were brilliant neighbours for 28 years,

These posts make mine seem like angels 😆

Broke the tv last year. Hitting it with a toy. It was less than 5 years old. Bought a brand new one. Just last week noticed anmassive scratch down the middle.

One of my DS, now late teens, put my husband's wallet and car keys in the microwave and turned it on. It zapped all his keys and cards so nothing worked! Nightmare getting new keys are well (electronic starter was disabled).