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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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MissConducUS · 23/08/2023 20:32

Sandysandwich · 23/08/2023 19:52

When my son was six he was given a large collection of marbles by his grandad, who has told him that the bag may need a bit of a clean as it was old and dusty.

Before I got home he had already put the entire canvas bag in the washing machine, with the several hundred mables still inside.
That broke the absoloute shit out of our washing machine and the pipes round the back and flooded the hall.

I'm impressed that he knew how to start the machine at age six.

The worst for me was when my four year old daughter emptied the contents of every drawer in the kitchen on the floor.

Poppyseed14 · 23/08/2023 20:33

girlygirly · 23/08/2023 20:24

Son, 18th birthday, got totally pissed and 'mistook' the living room carpet for the toilet, shit everywhere.

We didn't even attempt to clean it up, pulled up the whole thing, binned it and he had to pay for hardwood flooring. He doesn't now drink any alcohol...

Youngest son smashed kitchen window in house we were moving into by kicking a ball. Hadn't even unpacked!

😱😱😱

firestarter2023 · 23/08/2023 20:33

@MissConducUS my three year old can turn it on lol and has been able to for at least 18 months. It's one button!

cocoloco117 · 23/08/2023 20:34

Brand new cream carpet, meet bright red ink stamp.

Hummusanddipdip · 23/08/2023 20:35

So far ds has given all the vinyl stickers on his bedroom wall homes 🤣 wouldn't be so fussed if it wasn't newly painted or I could wash the sharpie off the walls 🤦‍♀️

YukoandHiro · 23/08/2023 20:36

When she was about 3 my eldest drew over the sofa in non washable pen (or not washable out of fabric anyway). We still have the sofa with a conveniently placed throw over it!

YukoandHiro · 23/08/2023 20:37

Oh and my youngest pulled the tv off its stand and smashed it like some tiny hulk when she was only about 13 months old! 😂

Mariposista · 23/08/2023 20:38

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...

this is then funniest one by far, especially as it was a complete accident.

Pebblesflintstoneandbambamrubble · 23/08/2023 20:38

Years ago I was a very skint single mum
I saved £1 a week for well over a year to treat myself to a posh make up set
I'd had it less than a day-ds (then about 2) got his hands on it and painted the walls of my bedroom with it
I couldn't afford to repaint or replace the make up
I can still remember how upset I was over it

His siblings sprayed a full can of hairspray in the back of the tv a few weeks later
No tv for 2 years until I'd saved enough to replace it

Bloody kids

sahm9 · 23/08/2023 20:40

Toddler grabbed my brand new phone the second I took it out of the box and threw it onto wooden floor and it just smashed everywhere.

Then he was messing with the porch door and the key snapped in the lock, locking us in the house, very expensive emergency call out where they had to replace the front door lock too as they needed to get into the house somehow!!!

PuffingPuffin · 23/08/2023 20:42

Ripped my perineum from one end to the other with his massive head during his entrance to the world.

WhatAPalaverer · 23/08/2023 20:44

Initials on the side of the car and the tv screen with a stone. Melted the carpet with a hairdryer. Set off a foam fire extinguisher at school (accidentally)- massive mess, 3 classrooms out of use until it was cleared up.

LittleLlama · 23/08/2023 20:44

My two son’s (aged five and eight) broke the lounge patio door window with their lightsabers.

My oldest son (when ten) was sick all over his grandparents new sofa (they had only had it a week).

My youngest son (when eighteen) managed to spill coffee and red wine (tripped over carrying a tray) all over my new lounge carpet.

RoseMarigoldViolet · 23/08/2023 20:45

My brother once intentionally created an explosion in a school science lab and caused a large fire on the ceiling. Aged 13.

Tiddlywinks63 · 23/08/2023 20:45

I seemed to have escaped very lightly with my two when they were little 😁
DD and her little friend, age about 3 rubbed zinc and castor oil cream into each other’s hair and all around the bathroom. It doesn’t wash out easily.

petshihtzu · 23/08/2023 20:47

My sister skateboarded into my parents wedding glasses they used for the champagne on their wedding. The top of the glasses all smashed 😭 they still kept them stuff like that is irreplaceable!!

Gerrataere · 23/08/2023 20:50

Last few months? 1 tablet, thrown down the stairs. 1 tablet jumped on in rage. One bedroom wall deliberately stripped of wallpaper. Bedding ripped out so new duvet. Used the tumble dryer door to climb up onto the counter, snapped it off. My bed, slants broken from jumping so often on it. Tv pushed over and broken. Two different curtain poles need replacing and rehanging due to Tarzan episodes. All I can remember for now 😑.

Lordofmyflies · 23/08/2023 20:50

My lovely 16 year old DS sat on my DH's parked motorbike in the garage when his mates were over. They turned in on and having no control, it lurched forwards into the automatic garage door. It resulted in a new garage door plus fitting, new tyre for the bike and repair work to the front wheel arch, probably about £4000.
Same DS, also left the sink bathroom tap on having got up during the night for a wee. We needed to repair and re-decorate downstairs ceiling.
Other DS,14, found a flying ants nest in our patio and decided to 'lift' some of the limestone stones with a crowbar to pour hot water onto the nest for me. He end up cracking about 6 slabs which needed to be replaced and relaid. Kind lad.

DiaNaranja · 23/08/2023 20:50

Mine poured a bag of flour (and sand?!) into the dogs water bowl, no doubt encouraged by older sister, who then in a panic, tried to hoover up the watery concoction... 😤 Needless to say, yet another Dyson went to "hoover heaven" that day.

truthhurts23 · 23/08/2023 20:50

soooo many

. poo painting, all over the window, the wall, in crevices bed sheets
. broken tablets and tvs
. got hold of sudocrem and vaseline and went to town
. slime messes, impossible to remove once hard
. pouring all my beuatiful smelling shampoos and soaps to make "soup"
. glitter explosions

im going to stop there, everything in the house is now wipeable or covered

outsurance · 23/08/2023 20:53

Four month old BMW1 series. She had been driving about six months.

Lost in on an icy foggy evening coming home from work. Went through a hedge, taking out an electricity pole on the way, ploughed up the garden, smashed through the raised patio and ended up sitting in the people's conservatory (which had to be rebuilt).

Do I win? (Or rather, does she?)

ladyandthechocolate · 23/08/2023 20:57

Some of these stories are incredible.
Mine relates to damage to me and not the house. DD had been to watch ‘Swallows and Amazons’ and fancied herself as the type of girl that might play fun little pranks on people. 🫣
She stuck a porcupine quill that my parents had brought back from a holiday down in between the sofa cushions. I plopped down on the sofa and it stuck right into my arse cheek. So flipping painful! Had to grab it and pull it out.
She was quite sorry…but we weren’t allowed to remind her about it for ages afterwards because apparently we were making her feel bad!

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.

minisoksmakehardwork · 23/08/2023 20:57

DTs Got into and covered themselves with magnolia wall paint. Luckily in the garden so just had to dig up and toss a patch of lawn and wash everything else down.

Then, after the bath to clean twins of paint, the little sods managed to open the fence stain. Luckily we spotted them (while clearing the other mess) before it went everywhere.

spiderlight · 23/08/2023 20:58

DS, aged about 9, was violently and spectacularly car-sick for the first and only time in his life all over the back seat of a beautiful brand-new hire car that we had hired for one day so we could take him to a pre-booked event while our car was in for repairs. I had a hell of a time cleaning it all up.

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