I want to start an 'Inappropriate Days Out' Club

[donkeyderby]

I feel very restricted with places I can safely take DS but I often think it be fun to go to completely inappropriate places with a bunch of SN children with a range of socially unusual or unacceptable habits, just to be really annoying. Like...

Evensong at St Paul's Cathedral

The House of Commons gallery (obviously when they are not dossing all holidays

Glyndebourne

Dinner at The Ivy

Maybe the audience of 'Top Gear' would be good too

We actually got almost kicked out of

1. St. Paul's cathedral because DS (and another NT girl) were climbing on some altar and generally running around screaming. I think they were unhappy at being made to pay to get into a church
2. Tate Modern, for trying to climb (DS, not me) into some sort of wendy house that turned out to be art
3. the V & A, for climbing on some funny-looking bench which was actually an antique. And for eating crisps Since we haven't actually been banned though, we keep going back. I'd vote for an Oxbridge college. DS would REALLY live things up there, there are SO many absurd rules to break...

i managed a completely inappropriate trip this morning. DS1 has had a passion for history since he was 2, so took him along to a national trust house today, been around the grounds often, but thought today we would go in the house. BIG mistake.
DS1 got given a trail to fill in. He HAD to answer every question, and it takes him a long time to write anything. So whilst he is asking the guides every possible question under the sun. Younger 2 are screaming and throwing tantrums as they aren't allowed to touch. Final straw came as we went through the servants corridor and a bell went off. DS2 went absolutely mental. DS1 threw a tantrum because DS2 was making so much noise he couldn't concentrate on his trail.
Seething volunteers everywhere tutting at them.
Took them home in disgrace
DS1 in penitent mode. He went and emptied the dishwasher to make me feel better .

lol @ seething volunteers.
They probably had to administer smelling salts.

Ds1 has had lunch in an Oxford college. He was a toddler (his passive phase) and everyone commented how well behaved he was He'd love it now. All those windows and he's seen lots of pictures at home (which he'd recognise right away).

dd1 has eaten in a Cambridge college (own food though, tut tut )

and walked on the grass

if you go to joseph, MrsT, can we come too? dd1 would join in as well

how 'bout Buckingham Palace?? I think it's open in August..

Wonderful idea nightcat, 10 Downing Street to follow, we're friends of a friend of Dave after all.

We went to a posh Chinese restaurant and ds chucked a spare rib into a pond full of v. expensive poi. They had to drain the pond or all the fish would've died

They were very good about it actually.
Luckily ds was strapped in to his wheelchair or he'd have been in the pond with them.

Last summer he went to a 'messy painting' event at an art gallery. Ha! After 5 minutes they understood the REAL meaning of the word!

Think we'll go back this year...

Thank you, thank you! haven't laughed so much for ages.

At the moment ds is facinated with his willy and what it can do, and today wanted his pants put on his head after using the potty. So going anywhere with half naked near four year old with pants on his head is going to be interesting...

He sounds like he needs to go to Church with that sort of attire

Hi Donkeyderby, he does! Mind you, our church is v relaxed, and not trad. Although the 'magic' (automatic) doors are a bit of a magnet... still always know where to find him if he runs off!

Can I add anywhere with stairs please not ds it be my nt Dd who says with a loud voice and where's the ramp how the heck we ment get my brother. Up there ,you going lift him for us then !!then mutters sill people they need try wheels instead if legs ,mind mummy it's not like they have brain cell between them in their perfect world.Dd is 7 me thinks she has herd me mutter once to often

Hah! DS1 would love the posh restaurant and top gear, though he'd probably want to get touchy feely with the cars. I'm determined we're going to take him to a vintage car show at some point, soon, because he'd really love that.

We didn't even get as far as the cinema with him, last week. I had thought of an antiques show as wildly inappropriate, but someone already got there.

My ultimate no no is any sort of gathering where people have drinks. DS2 would go round systematically tipping them all out and lining the glasses up!!!!

Pottery cafe? You know, paint plates and stuff.

The breakages would be phenomenal...

We take the dd's to antique centers, i end up trying to control them when dh looks around, its a case of 'don't touch, stay still' and trying to park the pushchair away from anything to valuable. .

A trip to a furniture shop would be fun, dd1 loves jumping on the sofa's (ikea would be good).

Toys r us is a night-mare.

The best so far, I think, is the cunning attempted murder of expensive fish.
This may open a whole new chapter on kids and animals. I can only boast of a trying-to-climb-into-the-piglets-enclosure episode at the nursery farm trip. Evidently, DS recognized his biological family

I am taking ds1 to a regular riding stables this weekend which is the bravest thing I have ever done. Wish us well please!

DS1 tries to use the display toilets in B&Q.

sc13 - The DS's scool had to padlock the rabbit run when they caught DS1 climbing in with the poor creature!

He'll be fine and enjoy it immensely, and everything will be fine, I'm sure!
And, pathetic toilet-training obsessive that I am at the moment, my first thought at the B&Q incident was: he willingly wanted to use toilet? Result!

Lol at the B&Q display toilets

A tour of a hospital ward (maybe even a maternity ward?) would be hilarious interesting.

He uses any toilet. I think he is scenting them. Have to watch him when we make our regular campervan showroom trips (oh the fun we have on days out).

He also once chose to wee in front of an entire squadron (platoon? lord knows there were masses of them) of army cadets. Then the younger two decided to join in. God I was mortified.

sorry, saintly, but at weeing in front of the cadets.

that's the kind of thing my two would do too (and it shoudln't be, but is, worse because they are girls!)

dd1 tries to use the toilets in B&Q too. thankfully we have now fnished our bathroom consulting for a while, so don't have to repeat that experience for a while...

Well the time we'd been to that spot before it had been completely empty (middle of Dartmoor) so I'd let him wee there. So next time, same spot and of course he didn't notice the 40 people watching him - we'd reached the weeing spot!

But I'm not sure I could have predicted that!

God DS would just adore a hospital ward especially if there were lots of people in traction - all those lovely pulley-systems...

Good luck with the riding saintly, let us know how it goes

milady pmsl at visions of patients in traction being suddenly tipped backwards one by one down the ward.

And all the buttons and flashing lights on the monitors - can you imagine