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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😂 My condolences.

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When DD was the height of shop counters she would often lick them. Grim...

Licking the seat in public transport, trains, planes, buses and trams have all been sampled over the years. Makes me puke to think of it..eeeeuuuuch

'Look at my pretend lollypop....' says DD coming in from the garden sucking a pigeon feather

Building a worm hotel.

My son went through a phase of weeing in places I’d rather he didn’t such as pot plants, bins and even the mop bucket under the stairs.

I found my then toddler aged daughter eating a Slater.
Grim.

I found my 2 year old washing her doll's hair with the toilet water.

Scooping out the flesh of a
Luminous yellow slug and licking it.
Reader, I screamed.

Err snail not slug

Ds2 got some bird poo on his finger. He looked at it then licked it.

Eating greenflies which were attracted to his yellow slide in the garden this summer - he came in wide mouth open and I saw the little critters all lying dead and in bits on his tongue.

Hmm, the latest was finding a multitude of dried bogeys adhered to the sofa cushions which I suspect my dd has been doing absent mindedly whilst watching tv

My child has a habit of taking her shoes off in the car and putting them in her mouth - the very worst time was when she had stepped in bird poo first and then LICKED IT OFF the bottom 🤢

She also coughed up some biscuit she was chewing the other day into my hand as I didn’t have anything else to catch it with- and quick as a flash she ducked her head down to eat it back up out of my hand. I was appalled.

Nothing can beat what my brother did - wee'd in the toy teapot then fed it to my other brother as squash 🤢

My kids worst so far is eating the ginormous snot bogeys that come out and hang off her nose if I'm not fast enough with a tissue.

Oh, DD licked a slug in the garden once too!

Left to her own devices DD2 with stuff cat litter into her cheeks like a little disgusting squirrel.

My little boy took his nappy off and smeared poo all over his cot, his mattress and all over himself . I went up to his room as realised he'd woken from his nap, and there he was smiling away at me covered in his own excrement. Delightful!

Not the most disgusting but one of the funniest was finding my toddler licking the fish counter in a shop. I was mortified!

Decorating the bathroom wall withe the contents of the toilet

My DC accidentally had a pooh in the bath which upset him enormously and he wanted to get out straight away. However, he also had a pooh on the bank of a river and had to use a leaf for his bottom and another time had a pooh in the sea ! Glad he’s over this episode now.

When DD1 was a toddler I caught her licking our dogs face, I said don't do that - it is unhealthy and she replied well he cleans my face everyday! :D

My DS has a bad habit of sprinkling as he is tinkling, but where the saying goes 'be a sweetie and wipe the seatie' he prefers to leave it for the rest of us to 'find' usually with a wet bottom. Hence the seat gets a regular going over with the Dettol wipes.

My DD also has the extremely disgusting habit of wiping snot/boogers on her bedroom wall, only problem is, she sleeps in a loft bed, she can sit in it and not hit the ceiling, I can't even go on my knees to clean it, I have to pull the whole bed out and get the steps out...aaarrgghh!