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!

Fake tan and foundation emptied onto new cream bedroom carpet. And some very patchy tanned little girls.

Bag of flour thrown around the room while singing let it go from frozen.

Metanium smeared on carpet.

Cut off all her hair the morning of her first day of school. Claiming it invaded her personal space.

Cut off all her hair the morning of her first day of school. Claiming it invaded her personal space

OMG @Amberheartkitty can you laugh about that one yet?!

These have made me laugh but also I feel dread with 3 x 2.5 year olds I have all this to come

DS2 (16) recently put his heel through a partition wall by leaning up against it with his foot on it...to be fair to him, none of us had realised it wasn't brick and we've lived here for years!

My son tipped £50 of moisturiser down the sink too op. And blocked it, for good measure 😅
He's 14 now. Still a little shit though, when he wants to be, just a little shit that's bigger than meeee.

My eldest fed cough mixture to the youngest. They were about 4 and 2, and it was the cough mixture that has since been banned (‘‘twas good stuff). Thank goodness it wasn’t calpol or paracetamol based. The only consequence was a sleepy DD2 for a day or so.

I cried and yelled at the red nail varnish which COVERED new sheets.

OP they can be horrors. I remember if we were quiet for too long DM would ask what we were doing and if we said in a sort of sing-song voice “nothing” she knew to come and stop us as we were up to no good!!

Thats awful. But who was looking after them, if you are working and husband is out?

I used to be a single parent without much money
I saved for two years to buy a new sofa
Nipped upstairs to the grab something-my brother rang at the same time so I was gone 5 minutes
They got hold of the biggest pot of sudocrem and smeared it over themselves,the sofa (two days old) the wall,the tv and the carpet
A few days later one of them (still unsure who) ate my morning after pill (I had put it high up so its still not clear how they got to it)
They woke up early a day later and snuck downstairs-and ate all the easter eggs that they had been bought
That week almost broke me

@Dishwashersaurous I was looking after them. I just didn't think I needed to watch their every move. I thought they were playing in their room. It could've happened even if I wasn't working as they're allowed to play upstairs (well not anymore).

My ds (asd and 14 at the time) decided he wanted a bath at 1am in the morning. I woke up to find him shouting mum omg mum shit.

He thought he'd make the water go down the plughole a bit faster (slow draining) by ramming a screw driver into the hole and straight through the pipe. We had an entire tub of bath water in the kitchen.

I cried. A lot.

Dd has sudocremed herself and painted a marble hearth and a wood floor with nail polish

Dsd sharpied the wall in our bedroom right before a house viewing argh

Mmm, mine are in their 30s now, but at a friends house (they were about 3/4) we were outside having a cuppa in the sun. They all went in from the paddling pool and were suspiciously quiet. Went in to her new kitchen and the kids covered in a whole tub of Lurpak. They were playing hairdressers with the little sister who looked like a troll. The floor was like an ice rink.
Then we were having a play date years later just after Christmas. Ds1 again suspiciously quiet. I went looking to find him in my bedroom having discovered the enormous box of chocolates in the bottom of my wardrobe. He’d eaten about 3/4 of them and the ones he didn’t like had been bitten in half and carefully replaced. Git.

I think I would divide and rule on this. They knew to lock the door, so I'd say they couldn't be alone together, without an adult presence. I get that they may be bored, and may have egged each other on, but they knew that what they were doing stepped over the line into naughty.

If it helps, DS decided to cut his fringe scalp himself the morning of a birthday party. We had to go into town early for the party to find a barber who would do a number 3 cut all over for him.

@Getover2021

Oh god. I am so sorry and that’s my worst nightmare! My children can be absolutely terrors at times esp when they go soooo quiet. My husband painted the radiator today and my daughter went and sat against it so all her hair is now covered with white paint. Probably will have to shave her long hair. So upset at this

@getover2021, try toothpaste and washing up liquid to get the paint out- let the toothpaste sit and then wash her hair with washing up liquid.

I feel you op, mines 12 with ASD.

Not so bad now but when she was younger everything was ripped, wallpaper books etc. It drove me mad.

My now 7 year old was an absolute horror for cutting her own hair if you weren’t watching her. Literally I would go to answer the door and she would’ve cut her own fringe off with the sodding kiddie scissors. No idea why!

Same child also emptied a very expensive bottle of bubble bath down the toilet “to see if it bubbles when you flush”

@getover2021, try toothpaste and washing up liquid to get the paint out- let the toothpaste sit and then wash her hair with washing up liquid.

Sorry for double post- got an error message on the first!

Actually now that I think about it I had to collect dd1 (now 11) from nursery once because she had removed the handle of a toy broom and inserted a finger so far into each end that she was stuck like that, like a Chinese finger trap. That was reasonably mortifying for everyone involved, especially when I then had to get my husband out of work to help me get her out....

I can't recall my (now adult) children doing anything so destructive, but my husband, before we had our own children, decided to record our visiting, twin nieces' heights - in biro - on a newly papered wall. The shit.

When mine were probably 2 and 4 they were playing with a friend and found two 25kg bags of flour and basically turned a small room into a snow scene.

Had to use my Shark guarantee as it ruined the motor. Also had to be recarpeted as they decided to add water to make bread.

Worst (parenting) day of my life!

Fucckkk that's bad! But I think you will laugh about this in years to come.

My brother did something similar when he was little and my mum find him doing 'speriments with her new lipsticks in the sink haha

Poor you op!

Eldest dcs set fire to the garden fence 😬

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

This made me howl !

@JackieTheFart

Cut off all her hair the morning of her first day of school. Claiming it invaded her personal space

OMG @Amberheartkitty can you laugh about that one yet?!

Poor you OP.

This did make me laugh though, invading her personal space!