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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

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Sparkleshine21 · 24/08/2023 22:35

@DarkSpark that one hurt to read 😂 did she ever contact you about them?

2forme · 24/08/2023 22:40

I’m sorry but you need to put him on gumtree

Sparkleshine21 · 24/08/2023 22:45

I also set out into our garden aged 7 to find some abandoned geese eggs after watching Fly Away Home. Found a nest on the ground and took three eggs to my bedroom, nestled them into one of my drawers wrapped in a blanket and returned to them for weeks, hoping they had hatched into three little bird friends for me. Never happened and my dad eventually found them months later whilst searching for the cause of the stench in my bedroom.

Autieangel · 24/08/2023 22:56

My teen dd left a device charging on her bed, in summer, in from of a sun facing window. It overheated, and set on fire. We lost all our belongings and had to live on temporary accommodation for months.

GrimGrinningGhosts · 24/08/2023 23:13

Just remembered another DD one. She had a really good temper on her, her terrible twos were delayed until her threes and we’d largely ignore the behaviour.

one evening, driving home from somewhere, she had a bit of a moment because DH wouldn’t allow her to do something, we duly ignored the shouting and yelling until the point she kicked the back of his seat with such force she dislodged the air bag. Fortunately we didn’t pay for that one as it was a new car and DH played stupid as to why the dash was lit up.
(Disclaimer, when DD was small rear facing seats were only for newborns)

Pigwig10 · 24/08/2023 23:14

DD aged about 4/5 at the time, very proudly showed me the letters she had practiced writing. With a stone. On the side of my brand, spanking new car. I didn’t know what to do. Inside I was screaming, outside I was.. “That is really nice writing E, but you really shouldn’t write on cars. That’s naughty. Mummy’s car is a bit broken now. You’re not in trouble. But you mustn’t do it again.” Then poured myself a large vodka!

AJ65 · 24/08/2023 23:36

Answersonapostit · 24/08/2023 18:43

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 daughter did this, very quietly while her Dad and I were passed out with jetlag. Woke up to her quietly and carefully smearing it up the walls of my aunt's spare room. She'd already spread it across the newly cleaned carpet.

Frankie2018 · 25/08/2023 00:20

One of mine when she was about two decided to add vimto to her cup of water. Placed the cup in the middle of my brand new cream living room carpet and proceed to pour a full ginormous family sized bottle of vimto into it. It was the sickly sweet smell that alerted me to the problem. Carpet wrecked.

TheFormidableMrsC · 25/08/2023 00:22

I forgot a horror committed by my eldest child. She's 25 now. I left her sat watching the Teletubbies while I went through to the kitchen to clear up lunch. I realised she was very quiet so went to check and she had covered my cream sofas, cream carpet and indeed the curtains and every available surface with red permanent marker. She had drawn on all the white walls. It was horrific and an insurance job yet she was so proud of her work 🤣

HarlanPepper · 25/08/2023 05:43

Autieangel · 24/08/2023 22:56

My teen dd left a device charging on her bed, in summer, in from of a sun facing window. It overheated, and set on fire. We lost all our belongings and had to live on temporary accommodation for months.

Holy shit! You win the thread. That's horrific, I'm so sorry.

LightSpeeds · 25/08/2023 06:12

HolyHellaciousHeck · 23/08/2023 19:17

Got overexcited at Build A Bear and foot activated the pedal for the stuffing blaster before the assistant was ready. Snowstorm of white fluff drifting down over a large portion of the shop and its wares...

😂

Pineapples198 · 25/08/2023 08:40

3 from memory.

My eldest got a ballpoint pen and drew all over my youngest’s new mid sleeper bed. It was absolutely everywhere. I managed to remove most of it with sanitiser and perfume but the impressions it left in the wood stayed.

My youngest was messing about in the car at age 3 and stood on the handbrake. The car rolled backwards and I was very nearly run over (stood in the back door loading another child). Luckily the open car door hit the wall and the car stopped. The door was folded. From that point on my car has always been in gear and I always strapped my son in first!

when my kids were 2 and 4 or thereabouts I got up one morning (shocked I had slept through them getting up for once!) to find the whole house covered in flour. They had poured flour over every carpet and floor. It was everywhere and all over them. They had also poured a bottle of vegetable oil all over their toys in the playroom and drink a 6 pack of fruit shoots between them. That was the day the pantry cupboard got a child lock. (Previously had just been the “dangerous” cupboards)

TheWayoftheLeaf · 25/08/2023 08:55

CoffeeCantata · 23/08/2023 18:35

I'm first!

My baby son must have been teething and bit into the upholstered arm of a massive sofa while sitting on my knee at someone's house. The fabric had been exposed to direct sunlight and was very thin and degraded, so the whole overstuffed arm just exploded with cotton fluff. So embarrassing and very expensive for me. (They weren't loose covers.)

I offered to pay towards the damage and blimey, it was expensive, but I felt I had to make amends. It was just one of those things - he didn't do anything wrong, I didn't do anything wrong and if the sofa fabric hadn't been so fragile it would have been OK. I wasn't working at the time and money was tight....

I feel like if a baby bite can break a sofa it was on its last legs and they were real dicks making you pay

alloalloallo · 25/08/2023 09:12

A previous post has just reminded me of one.

DD spilt a massive glass of very fancy banana milkshake in to the radiator in the living room. It’s a double one with a grill along the top that was nigh-on impossible to get off. For years, every time the heating came on we got the lovely smell of sour banana-ery milk. I think sour milk is indestructible as whatever we did, we just couldn’t get rid of it. Had to replace the radiator.

One that wasn’t expensive but was minging none the less. DD2 must have been around 4, went on a family walk with dog up to a local beauty spot. We found hundreds of what we all thought were empty snail shells - they were all dried up and as light as air, sounded empty when you tapped them, really didn’t seem like there was anyone home. DD2 collected all these empty snail shells and took them home, put them in a shoe box in her wardrobe. Yeah, they weren’t empty. I went into her room the next morning so find all these snails had made a break for it overnight. They were everywhere and took forever to get rid of. Grim.

Heyhoitsme · 25/08/2023 09:33

My grandson aged 3 pulled the vertical blinds down. They were lying in a heap on the floor along with the fittings. He said he was just trying to climb up them!

IncompleteSenten · 25/08/2023 09:37

My 22 year old severely autistic son punched me in the head leaving me with a concussion then lobbed practically the entire contents of his room out his window, smashing everything. Laptop, phone, TV, guitars, assorted tech and gadgets etc etc.

Thousands of pounds worth of damage.

AInightingale · 25/08/2023 10:12

Some definite patterns emerging from this thread - if you've got a young baby now approaching toddlerhood -

lock away the permanent markers
lock away the Sudocrem
hide the bathroom sink plug
get the TV on the wall/ well above child head-height

too late now for the rest of us....

SillyOldBucket · 25/08/2023 10:34

My DC managed to pull the top off of a tap in the downstairs loo and water was spurting out of the top. We couldn't remember where the stopcock was so I had to stand with my finger pressing down on the top of the tap while my husband called a plumber.

Wait17 · 25/08/2023 10:42

DiaNaranja · 23/08/2023 20:57

Another great one was when they cut loads of fur off our very fluffy cat, and tried to stick it all with pritt-stick to our very non fluffy dog, I guess she must have decided he needed more fur?! The "spare" fur had stuck to everything except the dog, who was just covered in trails of sticky glue. Toddler, floor, sofa, was covered in sticky glued up fur, which then sent her into a huge meltdown, as she was furry, and thought she was going to turn into a cat. Didn't notice until the next day when I found a pile of hair shoved down the side of the sofa, that she'd also hacked some of hers off, in the "hair share" ceremony.

🤣😂😂

Esgaroth · 25/08/2023 10:44

AInightingale · 25/08/2023 10:12

Some definite patterns emerging from this thread - if you've got a young baby now approaching toddlerhood -

lock away the permanent markers
lock away the Sudocrem
hide the bathroom sink plug
get the TV on the wall/ well above child head-height

too late now for the rest of us....

And never allow them to be unattended near a car where they can reach a stone! I thought my son was particularly fond of scribbling on things with other things but it's clearly extremely common!

LizzyA123 · 25/08/2023 12:04

A couple of things come to mind:-

A few years ago, my very tall, and rather random, teenage son decided it was a good idea to jump up and down to music under the central light fitting in the lounge - he broke it, it was old so we just replaced it with a more modern style. Daft boy did it again the following week; this time we made him pay for the replacement out of his savings.

A few weeks later he excelled himself by deciding to put a black pen inside a sock and spin it round at speed in our recently painted lounge; or so he told me! I was in the bath at the time.
Cue a sheepish knock on my door, “ Mum, I’ve broken a pen and some ink has gone on the sofa, what do I do?” I arrived downstairs to an abstract art exhibition! 😮The pen had exploded and black ink was splattered over the cream leather sofa, the walls, curtains, Venetian blinds, scatter cushions, TV, a small oil painting, the carpet and my son! 😡Who knew the contents of one pen could travel so far!

Managed to rescue the TV, sofa, carpet and oil painting but had to repaint the lounge, replace the curtains, blinds and cushion covers. My son paid for replacements and helped with the clean up and repaint; he didn’t half moan.😂

LizzyA123 · 25/08/2023 12:08

Fab self-control, bet you counted to more than 10 😬

Eaudesud · 25/08/2023 12:41

AInightingale · 25/08/2023 10:12

Some definite patterns emerging from this thread - if you've got a young baby now approaching toddlerhood -

lock away the permanent markers
lock away the Sudocrem
hide the bathroom sink plug
get the TV on the wall/ well above child head-height

too late now for the rest of us....

This is a good list!

I forgot the time DC1 went quiet and I found they had sudocremed a lot of the 4 seater velvet sofa.

Also, reminds me of the need to intercept those ridiculous rainbow boxes of sharpies that unsuspecting relatives seem to love to give to 5 year olds.

Eaudesud · 25/08/2023 12:42

IncompleteSenten · 25/08/2023 09:37

My 22 year old severely autistic son punched me in the head leaving me with a concussion then lobbed practically the entire contents of his room out his window, smashing everything. Laptop, phone, TV, guitars, assorted tech and gadgets etc etc.

Thousands of pounds worth of damage.

Flowers
JusthereforXmas · 25/08/2023 12:44

Wait17 · 25/08/2023 10:42

🤣😂😂

@DiaNaranja we need to shave our old, very nervous but very knotty cat... does your DD have any tips?