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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Putting snails in their pockets.

I have four girls. When the youngest was a toddler the 6 year old ran in from outside shouting
"Mummy mummy! Eve has taken her nappy off and it eating the sweetcorn out of her poo!"

Oh I would not know where to start to be honest - as a foster carer I have been faced with many 'challenging situations' that certainly I have turned to Dettol for. With my homegrown lovelies I guess finding my little girl washing her doll in the toilet and flushing the chain as 'a shower' was one moment...... and picking up a piece of frozen dog poo from the beach was another!

My oldest was playing 'pooh sticks' at the local park. Everything was going great until the next stick she picked up wasn't a stick, it was a dried out dog poo. it floated......

My little girl had a fixation with finding cigarette stubs on the beach on holiday and trying to eat them! It ended up with us scouring the area before we sat down and removing all cigarette butts within a 2 metre radius of where we sat!

Recently acquired a puppy - my 2yo son thinks it's hilarious to pick up the dog poo and show me. He also enjoys 'splashing' in the dog wee - in bare feet. And my personal favourite is when he pulls his pants down to try and lick his bits because that's what the dog does. Dettol is a very big feature in my house!

Mine seem quite tame compared to others.

Both mine like to lick things, like the floor in church or the handrail at the cinema.

My youngest daughter once helped herself to chewing gum from the underneath of the slide at the park and had it in her mouth for about a minute before I realised what she'd done!!

When my DD was 4 she shouted out from the toilet "Mummy I've got wee in my hair!" I sighed (as you do) and went up there to find her sitting on the toilet, and asked her how on earth she had managed to do it. She said "I was being a science lady and trying to see where the wee comes out".

When DD learned to crawl, she would pick dust and dirt (!) from the floor right in the corners of the room, and eat it. I just couldn't stop her until she learned to walk and raised her game to whatever she could find on the higher surfaces in the house. Bauk!

I caught my then 2 yr old with his hands in the bin. He was eating an old teabag!

I was on the phone in the living room - we lived in a flat in those days - and my little boy, aged about 18 months, was pottering happily about in the corridor between bedroom and bathroom, making happy sounds and not giving me any reason to worry. Mid-conversation I looked up and to my surprise saw him licking a lollipop as he passed. Except it wasn't. It was my roll-on deodorant. Eueew!

Ooh, I have two and not sure which is worse, but both happened within a week of each other. I was heavily pregnant - about 8 months. My toddler was 2 and much faster than me. A routine trip to the GP was taking a long time, and he was getting wriggly, so I put him down - when suddenly we both spotted it - a pre-sucked boiled candy stuck to the carpet in the waiting room. I lunged for him, but too late - he proudly popped his treasure into his mouth. God only knows what germs were on it!

A week later we were in a fast food place with a kids play area, it has huge plate glass windows so the patrons can watch the kids play. I was having a lovely relaxing coffee while my kids played... but then I hear muted laughter all around me. I look up and lo and behold there is my two year old, butt naked, standing on a bench by the glass window, doing a little dance at his audience. They all thought it was hilarious - but they didn't know what I knew. That he only ever pulled his clothes off if he had pooped his nappy. I rushed in, red faced, and had to leave him there dancing away, because it was more important I find the offending nappy... The only way up the play equipment was to crawl up a series of triangular ledges with barely enough space for my enormous pregnant belly to fit through. Everyone in the whole restaurant is watching by now as this totally bonkers pregnant woman is slowly making her way to the top. I finally get up there and thankfully the nappy was still in the trousers and not spread all over the quipment as I'd feared... but suddenly a new challenge faced me. How to get down again? I really didn't think I could make it back down the ledges, so I went for the tube slide. I barely fit and the poor thing rattled ominously, but somehow I managed to inch my way down it - because sliding wasn't working. My butt made a painful high pitched squeal the whole way down, and my hair was all standing on end from the static and my dress up somewhere around my ears as I finally got out at the bottom, with the audience clapping and laughing at me.

We never ate there again...

I once caught my youngest washing her hands using the toilet freshener which hung on the rim of the toilet. Her argument was it looked like soap, which I couldn't argue with. The most disturbing part was that I noticed little lines (which turned out to be finger sized lines) in the toilet freshener for weeks and just assumed that the ex husband had amazing aim when he was using the loo!

I once caught ds, age 5, peeing on an anthill with his best friend and laughing at the fleeing ants.

Now he's almost 16 and has begged us in vain not to tell his friends!

I caught my two year old in the bathroom dipping the toilet brush in the toilet and sucking the water off it. She is now a healthy 35 year old and a mother herself.

At 10 months old DS loved to take the dried dog food supplement, dunk them in the dog's water bowl and have a chew on them. Yuk!

Eating worms!

Licking the bottom of a shoe

My eldest son who is now 10 but when he was 2 and getting ready for bath I went into the bath room and wondered what he was doing on the floor he was rolling his poo like a play dough sausage gross but funny

My daughter went through a licking phase a while back. Nothing too disgusting but it did cross my mind the number of random germs she was picking up!

dogs water bowl - poor pup

Yep caught the little one tucking in to the dog food just last week, he seemed to really like it too

My daughter ate a sweet she found on the floor at a party once...

my daughter licking the toilet and the rubbish bin :(