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

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EllieMumsnet · 17/11/2017 09:34

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!

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Share with Dettol the most disgusting things you’ve caught your children doing! £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED
OP posts:
RHOLST40 · 01/12/2017 17:38

My toddler tried to copy Mummy by cleaning the toilet with the brush.......except it was my blusher brush!!!! 😖. Xxx

MrsBee77 · 01/12/2017 18:56

My oldest is almost 14 now but when he was a toddler, I'd left him playing with his Bob the Builder toys while I popped to the loo.

I returned to find he'd removed his nappy and Roly, Scoop and Muck were digging and rolling poo into the carpet... Shock 🤢

molly57 · 01/12/2017 18:58

The rear of my house leads down to a car parking garage area. I caught one young mum who lives a few doors away with her toddler in the gap between the garage blocks letting the child go to the toilet on the ground. Why she couldn't walk the few steps to her home to use her own toilet I do not know. I went to get some disenfectant to give to her to clean up her child's mess but she had gone and I had to do it.

EasterRobin · 01/12/2017 19:12

As a newborn, DD projectile pooed several feet across a room. I never did manage to get the poo stain out of the magnolia wall paint.

baconbap · 01/12/2017 20:03

eating a worm

CGORST · 01/12/2017 20:52

I was looking after my niece who was in the middle of potty training. It was really going well and we were having a great day but then the worst thing that can ever happen to somebody looking after a toddler happened - it went eerily quiet. I looked around and she was utilising her newly found potty skills.......... in the cat litter tray!!! Oops! On the plus side, at least the cat litter soaked it all up so it was better than her doing it on the carpet! :-)

mayathebee · 01/12/2017 21:18

I still gag at the memory of my DD doing a huge sneeze in the back of the car - there was snot everywhere, huge thick green rivers of it running down her face. It took a full five minutes to find somewhere I could stop safely and the whole time I had to listen to her slurping up the snot like ice cream -yuck!!!

perfectstorm · 01/12/2017 22:22

My son once called me into the dining room when I was cooking supper, proudly saying, "Look mummy; poo train!"

He'd removed a large poo from his nappy, stuck it to the underside of a mechanical Thomas the Tank toy, and proceeded to send it off careering all over the floor. (And yes, I did use Dettol floor wipes to clean up. Never been able to face the Green Apple kind since!)

Hopezibah · 02/12/2017 00:51

I found crispy dried bogeys on our front door and when i questioned my son about it he confessed it was him. It might not sound that gross but he is SECONDARY school age - why would he do that! on our front door! When we was a baby he did a squirty poo when i was changing his nappy which squirted all over the airing cupboard.

TheFutureMrsB · 02/12/2017 02:39

Wiping snotty fingers down the wall, examining his poo like it was some rare artifact, smearing his newly decorated bedroom with more of the brown stuff ... kids are grim! And yes Dettol is highly coverted in this house, couldn't manage without it. 🤢

ohlittlepea · 02/12/2017 10:50

Licking green mildew off of a donkeys enclosure at a farm. Blllleeeuurrrgh.

KingsX · 02/12/2017 11:41

Not my child, luckily for me neither has ever done anything revolting.
But friends's just-crawling baby was found with the toilet brush in their MOUTH!!!!
Another friend's baby was caught eating from the cat litter.

I will never have a toilet brush or a cat.

Scarlettwaffle · 02/12/2017 12:26

I have a revolting little girl. When she had a cold she would suck in the snot with her bottom lip if you didn’t wipe it away quick enough. Then she started to put her hand down the neck of her top and pull it up to wipe her nose - no idea where she learnt that from!
And she’s eaten her own poo... I won’t forget that day in a hurry!

domesticslattern · 02/12/2017 13:21

Projectile shat in DH's ear as he was bending to put a used nappy in the bin. Nice.

rcat74 · 02/12/2017 16:24

I was hanging out the washing when I noticed that my 18 month old was very quiet. She had found half a mouse on the garden path(bottom half) with it's guts hanging out and she was smearing it over her face.

nerysw · 02/12/2017 19:49

My son tried to pee in a display toilet in B&Q, luckily disaster was avoided (but it was a close run thing).

SpaceDinosaur · 02/12/2017 20:37

Melody's currently weaning.

Over lunch she ate lots of fruit and "bits" she then then shoved something in too quickly, gagged and vomited a mouthful up and onto the highchair tray.
Before I could grab an antibac wipe, she reached into the vomit, retrieved a grape quarter and ate it again 😂 🤦🏻‍♀️ 🤢 🤮

CrossFreelancer · 02/12/2017 21:12

My 1 year old is a fast crawler. One morning I found him sharing breakfast with the dog. Eating doggy biscuits are apparently far more delicious than my porridge Confused

Strangely the dog doesn't pick up food thrown from the highchair. He obviously knows who is boss!

Now I have to keep them separate at doggy meal times!

OhThisbloodyComputer · 02/12/2017 22:12

We were sitting on the grass in a park by the river, in summer.

Our daughter found a cigarette end and popped it in her mouth.

Horrifying, and disgusting. (Why couldn't the original smoker have taken their fag end with them?)

Now our daughter is 16, and I keep catching her smoking in my office at the end of the garden.

I wonder if she got the taste for nicotine early

KittyKat88 · 02/12/2017 23:48

My 5YO picking up all sorts of rubbish from school playground, including an old bit of a shoe sole and some sticky matter that I DREAD to think might actually be! Shock She won't even let me throw away these 'treasures' and keeps them in a special box in her bedroom! Hmm

wallyrag · 03/12/2017 06:01

My daughter proud as punch, for brushing her teeth ALL by herself, as she stood beside the toilet, dipping her toothbrush in and out!

dadshere · 03/12/2017 11:13

My daughter was pretending to be a puppy, all fine, then I realised how quiet she was I looked up and she was sniffing the dog's bottom! :(

babster · 03/12/2017 17:56

Once caught DD1 eating a cigarette butt off the floor in the park... it must have been grim as she's a teen now, and very anti-smoking!

Imabadmummy · 03/12/2017 22:42

I thought my eldest was a bit gross....he was regularly found chewing one of the dogs bones/toys.
He also licked the window...normally around the same spot that dogs nose had been.

Youngest is worse....literally everything goes in his mouth. He's nearly 5 now and still catch him putting stones he's picked up in his mouth!
He also licked everything...cupboards, the bayhroom taps, house Windows, car Windows, bus Windows, hand rails....gross. and these are the things I caught him licking!

I think the worst was the time he accidently put his hand in dog poo (our dog had been unwell & she's old and left a present on the stairs) and whilst I ran to get wipes he stated to lick his fingers....that was recently as well!

Kickassname · 04/12/2017 12:12

My dd likes to give her bear a bubble bath in the toilet when my back is turned. I have also caught her sticking her toothbrush up the tap then putting it in her mouth. Gross!

We began toilet training over a month ago and she seemed to have mastered it...though at the weekend I saw her squatting over a lovely hardback book to poop...then she started to pick it up with her bare hands shouting 'I did a big one!'. I have that book the clean of it's life!