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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.

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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).

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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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MargoLovebutter · 22/11/2017 11:18

DD used to tuck into her own poo, when I was potty training her!!!!!!! So gross. She is nearly 16 now and not so keen on being reminded of it. Grin

TeddyIsaHe · 22/11/2017 11:20

There’s a park near us with a river running through it and lots of ducks and geese that wander round.

First time we took dd when she just learnt to crawl I took my eyes off her for a second, turned back and she was happily chomping on a bit bit of goose poo 🤢

We can’t go back because she won’t do anything except try to escape and eat her new favourite food - bird poo. Lovely child!

BonjourMinou · 22/11/2017 11:46

My dis dipped his hand into his big sisters potty while I was potty training her and grabbed some poo.
I’d left the room for 2 seconds to get some apple slices and in that time she’d done a poo and he’d helped himself to it!

I think I managed to stop him getting any in his mouth...

That was definitely the grossest in my mind, doesn’t get any more disgusting than that.

kateandme · 22/11/2017 12:07

wanting to eat with the dog poured cereal into dogs water bowl when dog was having evening meal!

EvilDoctorBallerinaRoastDuck · 22/11/2017 13:21

Eating his own poo?

pattiselmabouvier · 22/11/2017 13:21

My 2 year old likes to eat out of the bin. Delightful child. Potato peel anyone? 🤢

Thesqueezermustghost · 22/11/2017 14:33

My DD likes to feel things with her tongue - I bawk when I see her exploring the rail on the seats of buses.

TellMeItsNotTrue · 22/11/2017 15:27

My niece went through a toddler stage of deciding to run up and give someone a hug then go back to playing, everyone was saying how lovely it was until I pointed out that she was actually wiping her nose on them Grin it was suddenly less desirable to be the next 'lucky' one

asuwere · 22/11/2017 16:21

DD picked up and ate a piece of popcorn chicken off the floor of KFC (not hers!)

ButterflyOfFreedom · 22/11/2017 16:59

We've had a range of things including licking trees, eating crayons and touching (squashing!) slugs!!

UpOnDown · 22/11/2017 17:04

eating mud and worms

Rosehips · 22/11/2017 17:11

handful of poo whilst feeding baby with a leaking nappy

Gorja · 22/11/2017 17:29

Went to visit a friend with toddler dd.

Friend had pet rats that free roamed the conservatory. Sat having a cuppa, realised dd was very quiet.

On checking her she was in the conservatory, which we thought we had shut the door too, eating “raisins”

Obviously my friend didn’t have a floor covered in raisins but to a toddler rat poo is roughly the same size and shape!!!

maclinks · 22/11/2017 18:02

My toddler started licked the side table leg in my great aunts home, only problem the furniture had been there 50 years and aunt and uncle where heavy smokers. My daughters face around her mouth was surround by sticky tobacco and polish residue, looked like she had been eating chocolate mousse...

WinnerWinnerChickenDinner0 · 22/11/2017 18:59

One day my ds was having some nappy off time. I walked into the room and he had produced one big brown log on the floor and another hanging between his but cheeks. I ran to the kitchen to get stuff for clean up —after taking a quick photo to blackmail him with when he is a teenager—

When I got back seconds later, no poo in sight but the dog was licking her lips Envy (clearly vom, not envy!)

WinnerWinnerChickenDinner0 · 22/11/2017 18:59

Was supposed to be strike through Hmm

Halebeke425 · 22/11/2017 19:23

Picking their nose and eating it! Yuck!

rackhampearl · 22/11/2017 20:13

We took away DD potty as she had been having trouble with rectal prolapse due to what we now know was Coeliac Disease. Being the big girl she is, this didn’t go down well with her, I came back from washing the pots to be greeted with her Baby Born Doll Potty with a massive poo in, she had put it in the same spot her potty was in. Not that disgusting as she didn’t poop on the floor but when she was a baby I had a power nap on the sofa and woke up to her ‘brushing my teeth’ with the poop from her nappy! She’s provided us with lots of poopy stories to tell her futures boyfriends!

Summerdays2014 · 22/11/2017 20:40

He Stood in dog poo in the park then he tried to wipe it off his boots with his hands, ended up on his coat,trousers and face. I thought it was mud at first...Absolutely disgusting.

defineme · 22/11/2017 20:46

Had sloppy pooh, got it on his clothes, took off clothes, got pooh in hair and trod it through the house...

ThePug · 22/11/2017 20:49

Dipping his fingers in the dogs water bowl then licking them, finding dropped cheerios under the sofa and eating them, eating a bit of breadstick he found on the carpet at toddler group today.... all to do with eating here!

Rayraybt2006 · 22/11/2017 21:01

My 21 month old was having a bath and I nipped out to the hallway to get some towels. Came back in only to discover she had pooped and was playing with the stools and about to eat them! I’ve never screamed and ran at her so fast in my life ( I was 37 weeks pregnant with #2 at the time as well 😂🙈😳)

faitch · 22/11/2017 21:13

During bath time when he was about 3, DS pissed in his water pistol and took great delight in firing it up the walls/ceiling/door. Pissmageddon.

del2929 · 22/11/2017 21:17

washing hands with toilet water.....

EvilDoctorBallerinaRoastDuck · 22/11/2017 21:20

faitch I'm sorry, but that's very very funny! 😂