Worst damage your kid has ever done

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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

Luckily we’ve not had too much expensive damage.

We had one of those crappy beach croquet sets which had short plastic handle fixed to the long wooden handle of the mallet.

DD1 swinging one around in the garden, next thing she knows it’s gone over the fence and through 2 panes of my neighbour’s greenhouse - she still had the plastic handle bit in her hand.

DD1 again, years ago playing Just Dance on the Wii - despite me telling her a million times to put the strap over her wrist, she didn’t. The inevitable happened - Wii controller through the new TV screen.

More recently - our dog is ridiculously excited when we get up in the morning and goes round pulling down anything dangling off the kitchen worktops. DD2 left a tea towel folded over the oven door handle - dog pulled it, pulled the whole oven out. Oven door smashed - carnage at 6:00am

Awwwwww thank you-that means a lot

my mother (I'm now nc) laughed and told me it was karma for being vain xx

What size is your dog@alloalloallo ?!

The worst thing is that people get dogs as their kids get older and less inclined to wreak devastation, then the dog takes over. Our dog has vomited over three hearth rugs (bin) and destroyed a stair carpet by tugging it up at the sides. And don't get me started on the bloody cat on wallpaper and the back of the sofa.

@AInightingale shes a springer spaniel.

To be fair, she’s normally very calm and well behaved, except in the mornings when she’s so bloody happy and excited. She runs downstairs, pulls everything off the kitchen worktops and then waits by the back door for me to catch up and let her out. We normally make sure there’s nothing she can reach, except on that one morning.

Other than 1 dining room chair leg she chewed as a puppy, damage has been confined to shredding loo rolls and boxes of tissues

Ah yes a springer, that does explain things...sort of a sized down Big Bang? Been there.

This is so true. I often wonder what on earth I have done getting 2 dogs, in particular a 40+kg one!

@AInightingale that made me laugh. My Springer is old now but that’s exactly what she was like when she was younger.

A friend of mine, her kid threw a toy hammer threw the screen of their brand new tv...

Where do I even start? Drew on neighbours car with a stone (he was 2). Paid for the damage. Put plug in sink upstairs and left the water running. Didn't realise until the electrics blew. That was expensive. Put the hosepipe in the vent on the side of the garage and turned it on. Garage door is electric so seals at the bottom. Opened garage door to a tsunami. Large water bill and lots of damage. Also expensive. Hid a mobile phone, my make up bag and other items in the oven. I didn't realise this until the stench of burning plastic when I turned it on to do dinner. Very expensive. I'm having sweats remembering all this so I will stop there but there was so much more. This child was not unsupervised but had a level of stealth that was beyond his years. I don't know how I survived 😬

That's quite sweet really, unless he was shopping you for a crime you didn't commit 😃

My sister's labrador managed to do this once. We got back to hers after a night out to find officers at the door after a call where they could hear "distressed breathing".

Both they and the dog enjoyed all the fuss.

Flung the door of our very big, heavy car open and into the door of the car parked next door. That car happened to be a hire car and their insurance really went to town.

My goddaughter scratched her name into my brand new, black, stone fire hearth.

Flung the car door open into next doors Porsche door. Mortified

My grandad was a coal miner. He was a member of mine rescue and was called out to mining accidents all over the North West. He won an award and was given a large and very beautiful certificate with an image of a miner working underground and a big gold seal. After he died my parents had it and eventually it was passed on to me after they had it framed. At some point it was taken out of the frame and mounted on board.
My 2 DSs were entertaining the boys from next door in their bedroom. There was a lot of noise and when it got too much I went to see what was going on. They were using the board as a slide from the top bunk and I arrived just in time to see it smashed to pieces.
I cried because I knew I should have taken better care of it. But.....

I was a paid cleaner and occasionally had to take toddler son with me. House was thatched cottage with their own young son.
My boy wobbled against a side table and knocked a table lamp on to the floor, where the ceramic base broke!
I had to pay for a replacement, which was twice what I earned for that days work.😥

ds did hit my dm on the head with a wooden hammer when he was about 2, huge egg shape bruise
he also rugby tackled her to the ground when he was about 6 and just learning rugby.

What a load of self righteous, ignorant, bollocks.

Ok this one really made me laugh 😂

Quiet kids plus friends little girl whole tub of sudocrem over them , the bedroom , toys, carpet , bedding , walls .. and that stuff doesn’t come out of anything without a lot of tears 🤣

My 40 year old husband gets the 'we' stickers from his weworks office and puts two at every bathroom door and laughs at his 'wewe' joke. My 7 year old is much well behaved.

😅🤣😅🤣
But you must admit, life as a parent is never dull!

Having said that, worse damage our son did was to my heart.... probably knocked years off my life. We'd literally just moved into an old house with a pond in the garden. I turned my back on him for a minute and when I turned round again, his red welly boots were in the air and his head was in the mud at the bottom of the pond. Race forward 6 years and I was actually standing on the pavement next to him when he decided he wanted to get home first and ran across the road. Two operations later, he came out of hospital and promptly went down with chicken pox. Two weeks afterwards, our new baby arrived....

we have a winner

Bloody hell love, you deserve a medal.

Can you back up your 0.01% statement please? Because I bet you’re one of these people who sees autism as a line from ‘really severe’ to ‘functional human pretty much’. It doesn’t work like that. ADHD certainly doesn’t work like that, someone like myself with ‘passive’ adhd (where the brain is hyper but you’re physically not) wouldn’t be seen as a destructive person. But impulsive adhd as my son has can absolutely cause what you’d think of as ‘deliberate destructive behaviour’, even though the whole aspect of being impulsive to take action without any thought of consequences.

Perhaps don’t talk about things you evidently have very little clue about, or at most a very singular experience of. It’s quite embarrassing to talk such shite with little understanding of nuance based on your own values of acceptable behaviour.

My eldest son (5 at the time) managed to get hold of a bottle of pink nail varnish and painted the top of one of my brand new hand made wooden bedside cabinets.
Same night he also helped himself to a tub of Vaseline and put it on his hair like his dad did with hair gel. Went back to bed.

Had to pay to get the bedside cabinet sanded down and re waxed and Chuck away all his bedding because it was ruined. Took weeks to wash out of his hair fully too!

It was 20 years ago and I can laugh about it now