Share with Dettol the most disgusting things you’ve caught your children doing! £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[EllieMumsnet]

There’s no doubt that having children can be a pretty messy experience, from having a newborn baby throw up all over you, to having a teenager who hasn’t quite discovered the concept of a laundry bin. With that being said, Dettol would like you to tell us some of the most disgusting things you’ve caught your DC doing.

Here’s what Dettol have to say: “We all know children can do some pretty disgusting things. Maybe it’s not surprising then that kids are one of the main carriers of cold and flu viruses, with 41 percent of cold and flu outbreaks last year reported from schools. With cold and flu season rapidly approaching, it’s important to keep your family safe - both at home and on the go. Dettol Surface Cleanser range provides trusted protection against winter bugs by preventing the spread of germs and bacteria around the home.”

Have you ever caught them using something they really shouldn’t as a toilet? Perhaps you’ve witnessed your DC drinking from the dog bowl. Maybe you saw them lick a piece of cutlery and put it back in the draw without washing it? Or even watched in horror as they licked the hand rail on public transport?

No matter how nauseating the things you’ve found your child doing, share it on the thread below and everyone who comments will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky MNer will win a £300 voucher of their choice (from a list).

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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[Megansmumsie]

The first one on this thread, got me straight away- that's a winner right there!

In all fairness i don't think she's ever really done anything gross but i have!! hahaha. I once ate a slug at 3 years old.. well half of one at any rate. That's the reason i don't eat tomatoes- the texture inside is quite similar!

At 5 i was sent to me room, can not remember why but i told my mum i really needed a poo and she wouldn't let me go but i was so desperate and couldn't wait any longer so i emptied one of the boxes that stored our CDs and pooped in there. It was probably the biggest, longest and smelliest poo i had ever and have ever done. There was tissue in my bedroom by the way. My mum told me off for that too.

It's good to share.

[happygemini13]

Caught my 8 year old stepdaughter out for picking her nose and wiping the bogeys on her bedroom wall and radiator. I felt sick cleaning them all off 🤢

[bexthefirestarter]

Licking the bottom of shoes.

[dilydaly]

Which time ?! I once found my daughter eating rice out of the BIN !!!! My other daughter I caught helping herself to the dog food, from the dog bowl :( You'd think I never fed these children ! :D

[shahinak39]

I was putting the clothes out in the garden and my 18 month old daughter was pottering around the garden too, suddenly I heard a loud crunch, looked over and realised that she had put a snail shell in her mouth 🤤. I ran over and made her spit it out! 🐌🐌🐌

[Chopkins31]

When my daughter was 2, she used her Barbie’s hair as a paintbrush... to paint the contents of her potty all over her bedroom wall 🤢

[Enigma222]

Caught my 2 year old tipping the kitchen bin over, spreading the contents on the floor and playing with it

[bevbird]

my Granddaughter is 7 and still loves a good chew on her boogies

[rangel67]

Not my child, but a friend, found her child, carefully removing the shell from live snails, because she wanted to make them into a slugs

[rangel67]

I walked in on my 5 year old son, with his foot in his hands, up to his face, biting his toe nails, he also had a bad habit of eating print stick, not licking...biting chunks off.

[user1495807524]

My son when he was two spread his poo all over a radiator. I wasn't impressed.

[peronel]

I found the fact that my children had found my secret hiding place for chocolate (and polished off the lot) quite disgusting...

[MummyL1411]

On a recent break to the Forest of Dean we were staying in an apartment where I found myself telling my 1 and 3 year old boys ‘stop licking the doorstop’. Not something I ever thought I’d be saying, god knows how dirty that thing was, oh well builds their immunity up apparently!

[doctorboo]

My youngest is obsessed with the cat litter tray. So grim.
Everyone has been trained to keep the bathroom door shut and to let the cat in when she meows.

[neonpink]

hands down the toilet, putting the loo brush in his mouth

[rachaelsit]

Swilling his poop round his bath (14 months old). Plenty of dettol needed afterwards

[ruthspo]

While disposing of a particularly messy nappy, I left my now toddler beside the changing mat. I returned to find him putting a piece of sweetcorn in his mouth, which he had found on the changing mat. It had already been through his digestive system once...

I managed to knock it out of his mouth before he swallowed it

[Beach11]

He was going through a fussy eating stage & refusing what we would give him but found a snail in the garden and ate half of it 🤢. I think he would have eaten it all if I hadn’t taken it off him

[fairydustandpixies]

When I was toilet training my DS1, it was in the summer and I often left him just wearing a tshirt. One particular summer's day, I was on the telephone and so was a little distracted as to what DS1 was doing, but he I could hear him happily pottering (if you'll pardon the pun!) up and down the hallway, chatting away to himself. After the call was finished, I hung up and went out to see what he was up to. I nearly collapsed in horror!! He looked at me with delight, waved his toy broom at me - he was so proud of himself; he'd had a poo and a wee and decided to 'clear it up' by sweeping it up and down the hall with the toy broom. The cream carpet was never quite the same after that...!!

[TooSarcastic]

Today DS ate an unidentified sticky substance off his sock.

[eosmum]

I can't read these, but here's mine anyhow. My DD and her best friend aged 5 eating each others bogies to see if they tasted the same. They are 25 now and still BFFs and hate me telling the story :)

[MikeAlphaMikeAlpha]

When my eldest was around 3 years old, we went to a supermarket and she needed the loo. So we went into the large family bathroom.
Now, I always tell my kids NOT to touch anything in public toilets and this occasion was no different! So after she had been, I decided to go and I said please don't touch anything...So she LICKED the mirror! I was horrified, I could just imagine a cleaner using the same cloth to clean the loo as they used to clean the mirror! Gross, Gross, Gross! I still to this day don't know why she did it!

[WonderLime]

Well he’s only 4 months old, but so far the most disgusting thing was going for a poo just as I was putting nappy cream on his bum. 🤢

[barefoofdoctor]

Friend's daughter ate a big juicy cat turd out the cat litter tray which makes my daughter seem a complete amateur by comparison; Daughter informed me that she'd 'found a dried up slug in my arts and crafts basket and licked it but it wasn't very nice so I threw it out the back door for the birds'.

Crispy cat turd and desiccated slug anyone?

[Headfullofdreams]

Can't think but there will be loads.
My friend's kids when younger were eating the chicken nuggets off the floor outside mcdonalds (the outdoor tables) before she realised what they were doing!