Share the funny, mischievous things either you or your child used to get up to when you/they were little - £300 voucher to be won! NOW CLOSED

[EllieMumsnet]

A big part of being a child is all about being adventurous, whether that means your DC has tried to wander around in your size 8 heels for a good hour before realising they don’t fit quite right or even potter in with muddy shoes from playing outside all day. With Peter Rabbit coming to cinemas March 16, we’ve teamed up with Sony Pictures to hear about the funny, mischievous things either you or your DC has done when you/they were little.

“In Peter Rabbit™, the mischievous and adventurous hero who has captivated generations of readers now takes on the starring role of his own contemporary comedy. In the film, Peter’s feud with Mr. McGregor (Domhnall Gleeson) escalates to greater heights than ever before as their fight to gain control of McGregor’s coveted vegetable garden and the affections of the warm-hearted animal lover who lives next door (Rose Byrne) extends to the Lake District and London. James Corden voices the character of Peter with playful spirit and wild charm, with Margot Robbie, Elizabeth Debicki, and Daisy Ridley performing the voice roles of the triplets, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail.”

Watch the Peter Rabbit trailer here:

Did your DC decide to have a go at cutting their own hair? Maybe you got caught giving your toys a wash in the toilet? Perhaps you’re always trying to find the TV remote that keeps going missing and turning up in strange places such as the fridge? Or did you ever rummage through your mum’s makeup bag and use every product on your face?

Whatever your humorous, mischievous stories are, share them with us on the thread below and you will be entered into a prize draw for the chance to win a £300 voucher of your choice (from a list).


Thanks and good luck
MNHQ

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[EllieMumsnet]

Congratulations to @DuskPanda for winning the £300 voucher!

MNHQ

[Givemecoffeeplease]

My son likes to take pictures of people on the bus with my phone. Makes him look like a crazed mini stalker and makes my camera roll highly suspicious......

[pinkjjf27]

my parents were very strict i don't think i dared do anything naughty but my kids are a different story. My little boy insisted drinking from the loo.
my other little boy went to my mums house, as he went out he said i have put your keys in a very special place. She couldn't find her balcony or shed key and he forgot where they were. she had to have locks changed. 2 years later she was going through a little treasure box full of keepsakes and found the keys!! my youngest was being potty trained he was at my mums and she found him peeing in her waste paper bin he gave her such a lovely smile and said i am a big boy that she couldn't say a world.

[Takora]

When I was around 5 or 6, I thought I would help my mum with the laundry. We didn't have much space in our little flat, so she had stacked up a large pile of freshly washed and ironed laundry on top of the toilet next to the bath. I carefully popped all the clean clothes into the bubble bath she had just run for herself. I then used the big, muddy stick I had brought in from outside to stir it all and make sure it got really clean! My poor mum!!

[PickAChew]

I had a magnetic affinity for freshly laid tarmac, the stickier, the better. Didn't go down well when I was wearing a dress that my mum had only just finished making for me.

[Crumble67]

When my little one was in reception class they liked to try and get the kids to eat fresh fruit and veg snacks at break time. My daughter was having none of it but would try one piece every day. After a month the teacher called me over and said she was so proud that her persistence had paid off as my daughter was eating whole fruits now. I was delighted until I found that she had been wrapping them up in tissue and hiding them in her coat pocket.

[TheMamaYo]

My brother and I used to stick a £5 note on a bit of fishing line. £5 note goes on the pavement, the line needed to be long enough to go into the house. We sat in the house, hidden behind the curtains.

Every time someone tries to pick up the £5, we'll reel it in a little bit. Mostly people would think it was picked up by the wind, and tried to catch up with it. It was masses of fun, we kept ourselves entertained for hours!

[quizqueen]

I was helping a friend prepare for a birthday party in a hired hall and our (approx) 5 year old girls were left to their own devices for a bit. The receptionist came running upstairs to report that water was cascading down the steps from the toilets. Apparently, they had blocked the sinks with paper towels and left the taps on. God knows why; they didn't usually behave like that. We both blamed each other's child for instigating it!! My daughter was soaked and had to attend the party in her vest and pants while her dress dried on the radiator. If the other mum is on here, she will remember this episode well.

[Flatwhite32]

My childhood friends and I poured fizzy drinks onto coals in a sauna and thought it was hilarious! We were about 9/10 years old.

[Dianec67]

On my young son's first trip abroad he was so excited when he went to the apartment bathroom and found a 'little sink just for him'. We had to explain it was a bidet & what a bidet was for - luckily before he washed his face in it !

[atomic7431]

I used to pull off grasshoppers legs 😱 and my youngest used to dip his sandwiches in puddles and eat them 😁

[CecilyBlue]

My 5 year old son woke up early one morning and went into the spare room and found my make up bag.

He took my mascara and my eyeliner and drew stripes over his whole body. He then came in to wake me up and told me he had turned into a zebra during his sleep.

[Custardo]

ds2 was 4 not yet at school when he got up at 3am went into the kitchen got a bowl, got some syrup made himself "breakfast" all over the living room floor, he then got his older brothers school tie (which we always just loosened and kept the knot) put it on, stood on the gas meter, opened the door, he walked across a large main road where two men caught up with him and phoned the police.

i was wakened by a torch in my face and a policemen demanding that i check my other children were also still in bed. they had driven around until they found a wide open front door.

christ on a bike so much could have gone terribly terribly wrong

[SilverJellyfish]

Whenever my mum used to do a pile of ironing I would wait until she left the room and would play dress up with all the freshly ironed clothes, crinkling them up in the process...I'd be so mad if dd did that to me now!

[SilverHairedCat]

My mum insisted on me being pally with the daughter of her friend between the ages of 1 and 5. I never liked her, she was sly and mean to her brother and me.

I vaguely recall a day when she smashed a couple of raw eggs into my hair, although I don't know why (now). My mother has shown me the aftermath photo...

I took a pair of scissors to her hair and hacked off her ponytail.

Apparently I fought fire with a firethrower....

At least our mums didn't force us together as much after that!

[welshmardymum]

my daughter has decided shes a great cook and regularly raids the fridge to make one of her 'delicious' concoctions ..... tomato sauce and raw eggs anyone!

[witherwings]

When I was little (4ish I think) I cut my own hair, only the fringe but obviously very wonky. I also cut all the hair off my Barbies and my girls world. I was furious when my older sister wouldn’t let me play with hers.
I wrote all my families names in black pen on the dining table and on the walls next to their places so they knew where to sit.
When I was slightly older, I used to use my sisters nail varnish and makeup after I was supposed to be in bed (she is older so went to bed later). I managed to spill bright red nail varnish all over the duvet. It was ruined.
When my youngest DD was about 2, she used to hide older DD precious things, only when we were frantically looking and older DD was beside herself in tears would youngest ‘find’ the items.
Younger DD also used to come home from nursery with extra things that she liked, apparently her friends gave them to her. She was actually pinching small items because she liked them - tiny plastic animals etc.

[ConorMcGregorsChin]

I asked my Mum one early Sunday morning (she was having a lie in) if I could feed the goldfish. She said yes.
So I tipped in half a box of rice crispies, half a pint of milk and a good pouring of sugar from a kilo bag of silver spoon..
I was 6. I fancied rice crispies for brekky. I figured the fish would like it too.
He didn't. He was floating atop the soggy-milky-rice-crispie mass by time my Mum got up

[Tonkatol]

My parents had a large blanket box in the hallway, with a key to lock it. The key was always left in the lock.

When my son was about 18 months, the key diappeared after our visit. My dad was sure it was my son and, on our next visit, asked him where the key was - my son, who had speech problems at the time, indicated the floor near the front door. We checked the area and nothing.

Weeks went by and every time we visited my father, my son would be asked about the key and he would point to the door mat.

After a few months and having searched high and low, emptying the toy box on countless occasions, my dad was resigned to the fact he would need to call a locksmith to replace the lock.

However, before this could happen, my father called me in great excitement one morning. He had decided to have a final check in the hallway. In doing so, he checked the letterbox again, although on this occasion he had opened the front door and posted a letter through the door. Still nothing. He put his hand in the letterbox and lo and behold, from the outside he felt a little dip, where a small piece of wood was missing. And there it was - the key had been lodged in this dip all along. Post through the door just glided over the key. My son had been pointing in the right area all along,

Needless to say, my dad then kept the key out of the reach of little hands after that.

[coco2303]

So.....
I am in the shower my children are playing in there room and on the landing.
I have 2 daughters ages 3 and 4.
Bathroom door is open obviously. We have a seperate toilet to bathroom.
So I'm there lathering myself up as you do. And my oldest says
' MOMMY (youngest) has your bum thing up her bum' 🤦
Omg i flew out of that shower on a heartbeat.....
As moms you know you cant do ANYTHING without an audience 😒
My youngest was trying to put a tampon up her bum 🙈
Thankfully she didnt succeed 🤣

[Flapdoodles]

When my 2 year old DS decided to rub Sudocream all over his face, hair and clothes like mummy did after the bath! I had to throw all his clothes away.

[GetKnitted]

It was many years before I was allowed to forget that I had dropped a small plastic toy into our gas fire, rendering it useless for anything but choking everyone in the room with toxic fumes. Ah memories...

[Wattonearth]

My DD decided it would be fun to empty a large box of rice crispies all over the kitchen floor and then jump up and down over them so they turned to dust....just as we were meant to be leaving for nursery.

[leccybill]

When DD was 2, she found DH's passport and 'put it safely in a doll's pram with a teddy that likes holidays'.
We searched the house for weeks, applied for a new one in the end - then I found it one day. DD just laughed and said 'oh yes there it is'.

[mum2eci]

Apparently I was a good girl when I was little 😉 but my older brother and sister used to put pepper on my dummy and when I was a little older they used to take my silver coins and swap them for a few coppers and tried to persuade me they were giving me more money as I had more coins!