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Worst damage your kid has ever done

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Poopatrolonthetoiletroll · 23/08/2023 17:42

Currently counting down the days til the DC go back to school. The constant mess is fraying the ends of my sanity. What's the worst mess or damage your DC has ever done.

Worst for me is my toddler DC did a massive poo on the floor and when I went to get stuff to clean it up with they repeatedly rammed their vtech toot toot elephant through it. Absolute carnage and huge tears when I wanted to throw it away. No it was. Not the carpet but getting all the poo out of the elephant and sanitising it.

Bring on September

OP posts:
OldTinHat · 24/08/2023 05:38

When my DC were kids they:

Pulled a radiator off the wall
Banged a toy on a French door and starburst it
Pulled wallpaper off in long strips in the lounge
Put a hole in a wall

All accidents! Not deliberate and I can laugh now they're in their 20s!

BaaCode · 24/08/2023 06:01

When he was 11, my son accidentally set a hay barn on fire, which was full of hay at the time. The blaze was so big that it threatened to set fire to the farm house.
It took a team of firefighters hours to extinguish it.
We laugh about it years later, but it wasn't funny at the time, particularly when being questioned by detectives at the police station about it.
Thankfully they realised that it was a complete accident and didn't charge him.

CoolShoeshine · 24/08/2023 06:38

Little DS DELIBERATELY put my mobile phone down the loo, looked me in the eye, giggled and pulled the flush. Tiny psycho.

Poivresel · 24/08/2023 06:45

Not the worst but hilarious.
My dm lost her false teeth. My dgs (4) had helpfully put them in the dishwasher. They were squeaky clean!

Giantpig · 24/08/2023 06:58

I have autism and ADHD… and sadly for my parents I-

•Smashed all the glass in a door by slamming it in temper

•emptied EVERYTHING in my room (every game/jigsaw/barbie/item of clothing etc) onto the floor

•poured jugs of water onto my mattress until it was sodden

•hid poo down the back of a chest of drawers

•wee’d into the massive box of Lego

•warped every door in the house by slamming it and broke at least one door handle

•broke too many things to remember by throwing them in a rage

•many dents and holes in the walls from things thrown at them

•pulled a wardrobe over onto myself and was trapped because I was climbing it

•lost my mums engagement ring when I took it out of her jewellery box

•took the parking permit off my dad’s windscreen to chew on the plastic case and he got clamped at work

•drew with permanent marker on a newly installed interactive whiteboard at school

Now I have my own auty adhd’er to complete the circle!

Todayisanewday75 · 24/08/2023 07:07

My DS felt sick in the night so went to the loo and nothing happened however on the way back to bed he vomited up the stairs. Could not get the stain or the smell out and ended up having to recarpet, not cheap

Missanimosity · 24/08/2023 07:09

mindbogglingmaths · 23/08/2023 22:22

Not all ADHD/autistic kids are badly behaved - mine wouldn't dare deliberately throwing or breaking anything. He knows damn well they wouldn't get replaced. He tried once with an Xbox controller. Shame, he liked that one! I've taught him from an early age to scream into/pull at/punch cushions bought for him for exactly that purpose. They have ADHD - it's doesn't mean they don't know right from wrong. Stop replacing their stuff their break - simple and it does work. I do have some damaged paint on walls and some wrecked cushions which is minor and I have no issues with in the grand scheme of things.Meltdowns are bloody hard for them.

But you can't just let neurodiverse kids trash your house with zero consequences. 🙄

Read the room, maybe, not the time and the place for unsolicited advice. This was not the point of this thread.

Sausagepickle123 · 24/08/2023 07:23

Brand new limestone fireplace.
DS aged 4 at the time decided to decorate it “for christmas” in January by drawing all over it in felt tips and marker pens.

doggybootcamp · 24/08/2023 07:25

We'd just had a full extension done with brand new kitchen and beautiful wet room directly above. Decorators had just finished painting it.
6yo ds wanted to shower in the wet room and put a plunger over the drain. Water absolutely everywhere, through the ceiling of the kitchen, blew the electrics and new spotlights and soaked the brand new bedroom carpet.
I can still visualise walking into the room and seeing him quite happily splashing about in two inches of water and kicking it around!

Willmafrockfit · 24/08/2023 07:26

stood in some paint that i was using to decorate and walked it up the stairs!

painted sudocreme on the walls, that did come off

JusthereforXmas · 24/08/2023 07:27

Does what he did to my fanny on the way out count... took 3 midwives and a consultant 4 hours to attempt to sew me back together, I felt like humpty dumpty but at the wrong end.

In a similar version of OP we had to get rid of a very expensive gaming chair because he smooshed poo into the connection ports and speakers.

I have 3 children but both of those things where just one of them, he has an amazing ability to break himself too.

JusthereforXmas · 24/08/2023 07:31

Oh my oldest left crayons on a wooden windowsill on the hottest day of the year... that shit is NEVER coming out, it fused into the wood and being wax you can't even paint over it.

SushiSuave · 24/08/2023 07:32

wutheringkites · 23/08/2023 19:44

Ruined my pelvic floor.

😂😂😂

Similarly - ripped apart my vagina. 7 years on still not properly repaired. Unfortunately not covered by insurance.

StepAwayFromGoogling · 24/08/2023 07:59

My two have drawn on every door and carpet in the house. It looks like a squat. No idea why paper and card isn't good enough for them...

DarkSpark · 24/08/2023 07:59

When oldest was 3 we went to a birthday party at the home of a very nice newish aquaintance. DD wasn't really into the entertainment so the host said oh don't worry just let her amuse herself in playroom. All seemed to go well.
Then we got home and in her pockets I found dozens of tags from the hosts collection of 1990's beanie babies which she'd obviously kept in immaculate condition for her own children. 'She forgot to take the labels off so I helped!' says 3yo.

Thelonelygiraffe · 24/08/2023 08:07

BaaCode · 24/08/2023 06:01

When he was 11, my son accidentally set a hay barn on fire, which was full of hay at the time. The blaze was so big that it threatened to set fire to the farm house.
It took a team of firefighters hours to extinguish it.
We laugh about it years later, but it wasn't funny at the time, particularly when being questioned by detectives at the police station about it.
Thankfully they realised that it was a complete accident and didn't charge him.

How did he do that?!

Willmafrockfit · 24/08/2023 08:08

swung on the shelf, which broke
broke my tape cd player record player deck system sadly

Thelonelygiraffe · 24/08/2023 08:13

Hats off to you, @truthhurts23 , you must have the patience of a saint.

OoopsOhNo · 24/08/2023 08:36

This thread is making me feel better - my children have severe learning disabilities and there is just so much damage to the house. There has been poo found in all sorts of places, 4 sofas, a couple of tvs and a few ipads. I wouldn't even want to put a £ estimate on it.

JusthereforXmas · 24/08/2023 10:00

Oh my oldest also poured porridge in my CD player.

PrincessHoneysuckle · 24/08/2023 10:12

Finding the firelighter in a drawer and setting fire to a tree in the garden in the height of summer.
Never done anything like it before or since.He got a big telling off from me and a fireman.
I'd only gone for a wee!

NooNooTheNotSoGreat · 24/08/2023 10:14

This thread would honestly make great promotional material for a vasectomy clinic.

Cadburysucks · 24/08/2023 12:13

My autistic son phoned the police when he was about 6/7, after being taught it at special school. The police turned up. Mortifying.

PugInTheHouse · 24/08/2023 12:23

I have been generally quite lucky with my DC. DS2 has autism and ADHD but he generally has only ripped up paper and thrown his bedding around. He has drawn on the odd wall but mainly in his own bedroom.

However, stupidly I got dogs when the boys were teens, now all the trouble has started! The big dog has chewed up several cat flaps, candles, remote controls, sofa, carpet, various ornaments, shoes, blankets, toiletries and basically anything else you can think of.

mindbogglingmaths · 24/08/2023 12:35

missanimosity the irony...

Read the room?

You're saying that children with neurodiversity can't be badly behaved too? Hilarious.

Quite a lot of these posts (non SN children ) are about badly behaved children. I certainly wouldn't be advertising my lack of parenting skills with a smile whilst they were causing thousands of pounds worth of damage and wasting people's time.

There will be the 0.001 % with severe autism who literally have no idea they're doing it. Those parents I feel desperately sorry for. My friend's son is like this and it's on another level to the day to day up and down I deal with. But I'm genuinely quite shocked by how many people think ADHD and autism is an excuse. It's not. They do know what they're doing. What they don't have is another option. And you don't have control. Accidents are one thing. Kids being deliberately destructive over and over again should be huge red flags over your lack of boundaries.

As you were!