Funny things - good and bad - you'd only know about if you're a parent: share with Arla Big Milk for a chance to win a £300 Love2Shop voucher - NOW CLOSED!

[AngelieMumsnet]

Parenting is a joyful, but occasionally exasperating experience, with pride and happiness frequently intermingled with tears, tantrums and toddler meltdowns.

Arla Big Milk have asked us to find out about your funny (even if only in retrospect!) 'Oh God' moments of parenting - here’s what they say:

"Being a parent comes with its ups and downs and getting your little one the nutrients they need isn’t always easy. That’s why Arla Big Milk has been developed to specifically meet the needs of growing children from ages one to five*, enriched with essential nutrients to help support children’s growth and development as part of their balanced diet and healthy lifestyle. Arla Big Milk ‘helping your little ones become big ones’."

So what snigger-worthy woes or wonders have you experienced as a parent? Has your newborn ever 'surprised' you with an unexpected and well-aimed wee? Perhaps your child has channelled their inner Picasso with crayon marks all over the wallpaper? Have you ever had to brave a completely irrational meltdown at the supermarket that (in hindsight ) makes you laugh? Whatever your stories are, Arla Big Milk would love to hear them.

Everyone who comments on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky Mumsnetter will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher!

Thanks and best of luck,

MNHQ

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*The Department of Health recommends that children at the age of one move onto fresh whole cows’ milk and that their diets are supplemented with additional Vitamin, A, D and Iron

I have learnt that if I say 'I'll tell Dad', my DC transforms into an angel almost immediately. I hope this works for many years to come!

When little man gets his hands in the large sudocrem tub.. Oh god the mess and it's so bloody hard to get off!!!

That you are not the only mum that has locked herself in the bathroom to hide from her kids for 5 minutes :-) :-)

Wee one loves to help out by putting rubbish in the bin. Three mobile phones have gone this way.

my child once spilled 6 pints of milk all over the supermarket floor. It seem to spread everywhere

My son came home with a drawing he made when he was about 7 years old, it was a chalk drawing on black paper and it had this woman screaming on it - a bit like that painting "The Scream" without the bridge! at the bottom it had written in chalk "mummy" god only knows what the teacher thought of that!

I will never forget the time I was shopping with my DD2 and she had not long been toilet trained so the inevitable trip to the shopping centre toilets ensued. While in I decided I should probably go, well ever wanted the ground to open up as my darling child asked very loudly if I was doing a poop and a peepee and would it be stinky.... very red faced mummy

I taught for a while in a prison and my son answered the phone when I was at work and being looked after by his Grandma and said 'Sorry Mummy is in prison'

when my daughter was 19 months she hid my bank card. I looked everywhere for it and we were due to leave for Spain that morning so I really needed it. Something made me look in the food recycling bin and there it was!! Little Terror :).

When my son, during show and tell, fabricated a whole adventure holiday of us vacationing in China. I must have had such a confused expression when I was asked about our most recent exotic holiday haha

There is a day I will never ever forget, It was the day of my youngest daughters christening my 3 year old was very beautifully dressed I was getting ready came back down stairs to find my little girls face black and the beautiful white summer dress VERY Brown!!!!!
She had been trying to be like mummy and overdose herself in instant spray tan!!!

A pirate map drawn in biro on my week old v expensive leather chair - we do actually giggle about in now. Not funny at the time, even when he denied it and said his brother did it (was never going to be believed as he had an obsession with pirates at the time and had put his initial on it!)

Sitting down to Sunday lunch with guests, during a pause in the conversation, four year old Amelia asked 'So how do the tadpoles get from Daddy into Mummy's tummy to make a baby?' After a few seconds of stunned silence, Amelia was told it would be discussed later. We all tried really hard not to laugh!

I have learnt that unless I leave Frozen on repeat, I will get a tantrum.

My eldest son telling my youngest son that yellow snow contained sugar!

We were playing hide-and-seek with a teddy-bear. My daughter ran up to me, grabbed my massive tummy and shouted 'is it in there?'. Very embarrassing.

When dd1 (now 9) was a toddler, we went to a toddler group. She played nicely until snack time. I put the things she liked into a bowl and sat her down with everyone else. She decided she didn't want a snack and let out the angriest loudest scream I have ever heard, and threw her bowl as far as she could, making the food to everywhere. The whole room went silent and other mums just stared at me with their mouths open while I picked up the thrown food ( yeah like their toddlers had never had a tantrum before) I then grabbed dd1 and left quickly with her under one arm while she was screaming and kicking. The whole time being started at my 20 other mums in total silence with their mouths open. I didn't attend another toddler group for 6 months.

Telling your children they're not allowed to snack on chocolate, but thinking it's okay to stuff your own face full of chocolate straight after!

My baby son did a wee all over the doctors couch when I took his nappy off for an injection. At the time it was a woe and I didn't feel much like sniggering, but time changes these things haha!

My daughter went through a stage of only wanting to wear a Peter Pan outfit - after much cajoling, I just let her do it. She was happy!

My grandson asking his father if he had wobbly bones too while he was taking him to the loo, I don't think I need to explain what part of his body he was referring to, he was 4 at the time. really funny

One day I'll never forget was when I took my little baby boy to the pharmacy... He had croup was very poorly and we'd not slept (for a week!!) Anyway we'd gone in to collect his meds and just as we got through the door and by the till... he was SICK and its was everywhere! Mostly over me and the till and the lady next to me, oh and the floor!! My word I didn't know what to do first! Luckily the staff let me use their side room to sort him (and myself) out.. fortunately for my son he had a nice set of new clothes... me? I had to drive home covered in vomit, phlegm and I struggled not to throw up myself.

My darling child told everyone in the changing rooms at the swimming pool that his mum looks like an elephant because shes got really wrinkly grey skin on her bum and legs-have a look and you'll see!

Oooh baby boy wee in the eye at 3am in the morning - need I say more?

My little girl said to me whilst out shopping for a swimsuit, "It's not that you are to big for that, the swimsuit is too small for you!"