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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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Supergirl1958 · 23/08/2023 21:59

Son recently broke £500 worth of uhd tv somehow! 😭

NoBiscuitsLeftInMyTin · 23/08/2023 22:00

I have two DS’s, currently 17 and 15, I can ONLY think of two smashed iPhone screens (their own and definitely complete accidents). I think I’ve been lucky 🙈

Autieangel · 23/08/2023 22:00

My dog ripped the ils expensive outdoor furniture cover (several hundred pounds) in pieces.

Niece went one better and drew on their out door furniture with felt tips

Gerrataere · 23/08/2023 22:00

itsallnewnow · 23/08/2023 21:51

This sounds so hard, are they neurodiverse Flowers I'm tired just thinking about it all!

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Two with ASD, one with adhd the other with global delay (has been cognitively 2 for the past few years now). They’re not all bad! Lovely, funny kids who just happened to behave like they were never fed anything but haribo and red bull 🤣

Gorgeouscombes · 23/08/2023 22:01

In a carpark made from loose hardcore my two year old grabbed a large piece in each hand and drew over her Grandad’s new car. It was the first new, new car he’d ever had and he’d had it a week.

itsallnewnow · 23/08/2023 22:03

@Gerrataere you sound like a saint Grin at least you can laugh and see the good points I bet they're fabulous kids Smile

Deathbywhy · 23/08/2023 22:04

DS was about 4 and playing quietly in his room with his farm animals. It was too quiet so I went to check and the little git had emptied a full fucking bean bag all over his room to “make it snow on his farm”😫

I was finding the little balls for bloody months

Whisperingangel1 · 23/08/2023 22:05

When I was 8 I deliberately threw a 'mudbomb' over the hedge onto neighbours drive. Their son had bought a new motorbike and kept driving it up and down the drive, it was so noisy so I decided the best solution was to try and knock him off with my mudbomb 😣god knows what I was thinking. Fortunately it didn't hit him. But it did hit his elderly grandmother who fell over and broke her arm. I denied it, and my older brother who was always in trouble got the blame. I still feel terrible about it today.

Lordofmyflies · 23/08/2023 22:05

..I've just remembered the time Ds took DH's stamp and ink pad and stamped his Dad's business address all over the new cream carpet in our study, interspersed with the "PAID" stamp. Another high point.

Summerbay23 · 23/08/2023 22:06

We’ve had;

Biro on sofa
Colouring on walls
Sink pulled off wall when they fell over
Flooded bathroom due to bath left running

and probably more I can’t think of

DollyDan · 23/08/2023 22:07

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.

absolutely brilliant 😂
one of mine smuggled one of the cats on the car (when I was dropping them at school and then going into work) was very surprised when it popped it’s furry head up just as I was pulling up to the school!

DebbieLouiseDairyleaCheese · 23/08/2023 22:09

We've had a glass door of a cabinet broken at my mums, and she said "it's the nicest piece of furniture we ever had" wasn't cross, just gutted, as was I.

I'm stupid and when I was 12 decided to surprise my parents on a Sunday morning by washing the car, with a brillo pad and washing up liquid 😣

mummyof2boys30 · 23/08/2023 22:13

Flooded the bathroom til water was running into room below. Had to replace bathroom floor and roof below. He then ran up the street naked after me whilst i tried to get a plumber neighbour to help

SandcastleQueen · 23/08/2023 22:14

DD, aged 4, upended a full tin of white gloss paint on the carpet of the local library. Cue frantic attempts at damage limitation with a wodge of blue roll that ended up with me, the kid, and the carpet all smeared in gloss before the library ladies politely but very firmly told me to get out. Never been back 😳

mindbogglingmaths · 23/08/2023 22:15

Mine have only done two things that spring to mind. One was ruining my brand new kettle - only had it 2 days and it was pricey. DD had decided she wanted warm milk for her hot chocolate so the fastest way to heat it wasn't the microwave, she just filled the kettle with milk and switched it on.

DS moved my super expensive Vera Wang glass vase off the window ledge to put his drink down and then somehow just dropped it accidentally on the floor. He said he'd 'forgotten' how heavy it was. He's the autistic one so very easy to forgive but I was gutted!

Combusting · 23/08/2023 22:16

wutheringkites · 23/08/2023 19:44

Ruined my pelvic floor.

Brilliant

Bunnycat101 · 23/08/2023 22:17

I’ve loved these stories- and also rethinking my idea of getting new carpets once my youngest goes to school. It seems teenagers cause just as must damage.

We have had the usual drawing on
stuff including my car. The most annoying however is when my 7yo thought it would be a good idea to cook with glitter. It took ages to get the stuff out of our pans. She tried to tidy up the mess (badly on the kitchen floor but whatever she did made the bloody stuff sticky. Our kitchen floor has still got bloody glitter in the cracks and it cannot be shifted.

Onomatopoeiadoodle · 23/08/2023 22:19

Smashed 5 televisions in the space of a year and exactly 10 amazon tablets over the course of three, 11 if you include his sisters.

We've had holes in walls from him slamming the door handle into it. Smashed picture frame.

Numerous of his prized possessions (toys) he has smashed to smithereens.

His sisters brand new dolls buggy she had for her birthday.

He pulled the radiator off the wall with the plaster along with it.

He's autistic, still only 5. God help us.

wanttokickoffbutcant · 23/08/2023 22:21

DD6 did a cartwheel in the garden and knocked my new Iphone out of my hand on to the patio...

But I remember when I was about 4 back in the 70's my mum had saved up for ages to buy some furniture for our new house - it included a red leather covered coffee table that I was quietly drawing on.....on paper, with a biro.

My giraffe was immortalised. My mum cried.

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. 🙄

moanybird · 23/08/2023 22:24

Two tv's, a bed, holes in two doors, holes in plasterboard, a window, an iPhone, several carpets and a kitchen table and bench. Lots more I could mention too. DD13 has ADHD and is unbelievably destructive when dysregulated. We're working on it though and channeling all her rage into exercise which is making a difference.

Duchessofspace · 23/08/2023 22:25

Not mine. I think I have survived relatively unscathed so far but …..

friend had a neighbour and they had a beautiful soft placid Dalmatian - and left it with them for a weekend and friend’s daughter went quiet for a long time and had a friend round ( so two girls can’t remember how old they were …) and the Dalmatian’s spots were connected together with bright luminous pink marker pen …..my friend scrubbed and scrubbed that dog and the pen would not come out at all ….. she then had to return it to her neighbour. Daughter is now 30 and pink permanent markers are still banned in her mums house 😂

Eaudesud · 23/08/2023 22:26

So far this summer holiday (ND teenager), damage to ceiling from splashing a LOT of bath water, bathroom floor tiles peeling from late night nightly wee accidents, lampshade destroyed, new fridge has dents from being kicked, kitchen work surface chipped after bottle being dropped, small table and floor lamp smashed during play fight, bedroom flooring damaged, including rug needing to be replaced, new pan set badly scratched from scraping with metal implements instead of using wooden ones, living room curtains pulled down, ceramic planters x 2 smashed in front garden.

HeartshapedFox · 23/08/2023 22:27

This pales in comparison to some of these, but when my DS was about 2 he posted a tiny Thomas the Tank engine through one of the vents in the old electric fire in our lounge. We never used it again, obviously, though I’m glad I saw him do it or things might’ve been a lot worse!

Albarinoqueen · 23/08/2023 22:27

My ds when he was a toddler got hold of a bottle of olive oil- he tipped it over the kitchen floor stripped off and was swimming in it - like an oil slick!! When I was little my dsis put my hair in a pony tail- what she couldn’t manage to get in she just cut it off- a very wide fringe!!