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!

We had Just had brand new bathroom put in my ds was 2 and stuffed a tooth paste lid down the sink and then left the taps on flooded the bathroom and it went through the Celing to neighbours flat and put out all there electrics. Tooth paste me lid was so far down we needed a plumber he said it happens often with kids and tooth paste lids!

@Dragongirl10

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

This made me howl !

Me too. Proper laughed.

So so so many things. Too many to even remember but here’s a few off the top of my head. Within 2 months of completely redecorating our new house every single wall had scribbles on and chunks taken out. Our beautiful original bannisters, about 150 years old, have now got 7 missing and 3 cracked. Flooded the bathroom and the ceiling in the kitchen below twice. Smashed 2 tablets. Smashed a gorgeous bowl I brought back from Marrakech in my youthful travels. Poured a 5l tin of red emulsion paint on our tiled floor. Grey sharpied the cream kitchen cupboards. Broke my thumb and dislocated my knee by skiing between my legs with their eyes closed. Cracked my phone the day I got it. Poured calpol all over the cream carpet. Cracked the ceiling and smashed the ceiling fan and light fitting onto the dining table below by jumping on the floor above.

The other day I was stood chatting to a friend and we heard a crash from the kitchen and my 8yo was laying on the floor with chunks of plaster on top of him. He’d spontaneously decided to try and run up the wall and kicked 2 huge size 5 foot marks out of it.

Just why? A face of resigned bewilderment is now my permanent facial expression.

Loved the little drawn on tiger face and dalmatian dot filling stories!
When DS was a toddler, he emptied my Philip B £40 shampoo into the carpet. Last time I ever had shampoo that expensive - it was the last vestige of my pre child life!
He wrote on his bedroom wall aged 4. Unfortunately it didn't take Miss Marple to solve the mystery as he'd written his name...
I'm so sorry you're feeling so upset. We've all been there. Make it clear to them why you're so upset and why it wasn't acceptable, put some consequences in place and if you can, treat yourself to replacements

My eldest flooded my sisters hallway after discovering the 'thumb under the tap' fountain trick in the upstairs toilet room. The first sign of trouble was the glass lampshade filling with water.

Youngest has been trouble from day 1. Tearing treasured books, dismantling toys, standing on things to break them, drawing on wallpaper, picking up and using tools left lying around by DP (who is the most disorganized person I could have had a curious child with), emptying car windscreen wash on a new laminate floor.

The funniest one was when he plucked a beautiful, perfect flower, roots n all, clean out of one of the perfectly manicured flowerbeds in a park in Windsor, which had many onlookers giggling while I hastily replanted it!

Aah it was a long time ago:
DS made a delightful zoo in the drawing room with his plastic animals (aged 4) and said he was getting some grass to feed them. The next thing I knew the room was awash with grass and leaves. After a stern telling off he stomped to the garden and put his tractor on his car so he could climb over the fence and run away - and the scream and the crash as it all collapsed and he hit his head on a terracotta pot. There was blood everywhere. It glued together nicely and he has an edgy little scar aged 26!

DD and friend felt penning her dolls house and "finding" the Christmas presents, unwrapping them and throwing them down the stairs!

The day ds got sellotape in her hair and ds said not to worry, don't tell mummy and cut it out!

What they remember is the day they really did my head in and I threw a packet of bran flakes across the kitchen in absolute frustration. They went everywhere and we all ended up laughing and clearing them up. About 5 years later I had the blinds cleaned and when I took them down there were still flipping bran flakes up there.

They grow up eventually op.

When I was three I made a bilberry pie by rubbing bilberries into the carpet of a guest house.
My brother and sister smeared red shoe polish all over the newly washed clothes before my mother packed to go on holiday.
My brother shot a neighbour’s window with an air rifle.

@sparklefarts

5 and 6 are too young to just be left while your work surely?

Are your work OK with you parenting whilst your logged on?

I hope that made you feel good to write that Just why?

Mine had the knack of doing stuff just before family events.

So DD1 cut DD2’s hair while playing hairdressers when they were 4. Bad enough anyway, but they were flower girls at a wedding 4 days later.

8/9 months later they “trimmed” DD1’s hair a week before her Dad’s wedding and adamantly told him I said they could. He’s a dick and believed them and I got dogs abuse for months.

The one time they properly made my cry was when DS was 9 and the girls were 7. They ignored the “one at a time on the sledge” rule in the two minutes it took DH to help DN untangle his sledge cord. DD1 had a massive lump on her head and DS had a big graze on his face. All immortalised forever in photos from PIL’s big anniversary photos!

DS1 was my nightmare child (I have four and the rest were a breeze in comparison.He is no 2)

Aged 3... climbed up onto the toilet systern to reach Dad's razor..safely out of reach in the top of the bathroom cabinet. Experimentally slashed his hand..deeply... bloody everywhere!

Drew on EVERYTHING. Walls, furniture. Carved his own initial into my sideboard (and claimed his sister did it)

Cut snowflake patterns into my oilskin tablecloth and also the net curtains (I hate nets but they were already up when we moved into the Forces Married Quarters). Claimed his little brother had done it.. said brother was one, disabled and couldn't even sit up yet let alone wield a pair of scissors
Wandered off in a dutch theme park and got lost..aged 6. Worst hour of my life.

Happy to report that he's now 28, a lovely , lovely man ..still likes drawing though.. luckily not on walls anymore!

Toddler DD peeled off the wallpaper in the hall. I had recently become a single parent and had no money.

The thing that breaks me most though is constant low-level squabbling all day. On those days, I declare an early bedtime.

I placed a very valuable and irreplaceable collectors item ceramic pot on a high shelf out of DCs reach. My 2yo threw a well aimed wooden teacup and smashed it to bits. I’m still devastated.

Walking across a golf course they decided to throw the balls back to the players! They really thought they were being helpful as we don't play golf.

Jeez OP I'd be apoplectic.

I can't understand them doing this at 5 & 6 if I'm being honest?! At those ages my DD would haven't known fine well what she was doing and would have been doing it out of pure horridness.

I actually have no idea how I'd punish that. Aside from screaming till I was blue in the face it would have to be no games/no iPad/no tv for at least a week

I was 7 months pregnant and my DS aged 3 and his 4 year old friend (who I’m sure knew better and egged him on) stripped the (gorgeous, but end of the line and therefore irreplaceable) wallpaper off the nursery walls. I went completely batshit with them.

On a much wanted holiday with family my DS then 2 behaved so atrociously day after day I finally broke down at dinner time at the table.
My niece who was the same age was the model of perfect behaviour by comparison.

I'm lucky that the DC have never done anything too awful but it's my DH who has tipped me over the edge numerous times. My DM gifted us very expensive new sofas when we moved in together. Whilst eagerly removing the protector plastic with a knife, he slashed the sofa and needed replacing.
When the new washing machine came, he ripped the kitchen lino whilst moving it. He's ruined my new walk in shower with his hair dye. The stains just won't come out. He dropped his hammer on my new tv stand and it has an awful looking dent. I think i need him to stay away from anything new.

Daughter just about to start kindergarten, got hold of her dad's clippers and shaved a broad strip down the center of her head. She had beautiful long blond hair and ended up starting school with a shaved head.

My 2.5 year old insisted that I leave him alone while he did a poo on the toilet. Some time later I discovered that he had used this time to poo in the toilet brush holder (and that he had then put the toilet brush back in it). I chucked the toilet brush away but had to scrub a lot of poo off the floor around it. I had a little cry; I was two weeks postpartum with his little brother, and it was just not what I needed, and I was also just astonished that he'd done it, the little savage!

@SimonJT

"Used a rock to draw a picture on the passenger side doors of my brand new car. I spent a lot of money getting it repaired and for an extra kick in the teeth it was stolen less than a week later.

Playing with my wallet in the car and threw it out of the window, we were in a small coastal town in Wales on a Sunday, no apple pay, no banks open. Not enough petrol to get home/buy a snack. I had to approach strangers until one agreed for me to send her money via paypal so she could draw it out of a cash machine for me. I now have an emergency £60 in my car at all times.

Threw a toy car and smashed a pane of glass in an internal door of my partners parents house, it was the first time we had met them."

@SignMyStookie

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

Sorry but those made laugh out loud

My kids did stuff like that as toddlers and it's annoying and exhausting but they don't know better, but yours sounds like they must of been encouraging eachother and that they locked the door. I be very upset too its good you walked away as I'd imagine you were fuming, hopefully whatever you do, they won't be in a hurry to cause that kind of mischief again

@SignMyStookie

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

Love this When DD was about 7 she snuck into her younger brother's room while he was asleep and wrote "Idiot" on his forehead in permanent marker. He had to go to school like that.

Got drunk on Newton & Ridleys in the Rovers Return on a school trip to Granada Studios.

With my kids, it's more the mental torture, than physical destruction, that has brought me to the edge.

My much-loved Grandma had died a few months previously at 100. She'd lived the last decade of her life with my DPs, and we (& my kids) were very close to her.

While visiting my parents, my phone rang ... Grandma's name popped up 😳 I tentatively answered to hear my DC laughing their heads off at the other end.

They'd gone to some effort to find the phone, that my Grandma didn't really use & call me. They absolutely knew what they were doing, tho I don't think they got the emotional punch of it. Some people thought it was funny, but I was really upset by what I know they knew was a mean thing to do.

(My mum who was a bit sick of my hyper children by that stage was distinctly unimpressed & it just added to the stress all round).

Are your work OK with you parenting whilst your logged on?

Wow, you’re such a twat 😂