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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[grandajimmy]

We searched all over the house for our 6 month old Yorkshire terrier pup & couldn't find him anywhere! We heard a whimpering & found poor Bailey all packed up in a Thomas the tank suitcase. My 3 year old grandson said he was taking him on holiday to Butlins!!!! ...the poor dog was traumatised! haha

[mummyto2dd]

My daughter is very arty, when she was three she decorated the walls, coloured in my bed sheets and drew/stuck stickers all over our dog.

[DielleBee]

I have many stories that my aunties and parents keep saying now and then about me when I was little, apparently I was a big rascal. One of the stories is that I loved to play hide and seek, and I would play with anyone regardless if they accepted the game or not! One day at my grandparents house when all the family gathered for a Sunday meal, I decided to play right after I finished my meal (usually I would finish before anyone else), I shouted to all "I'm hidiiing!" and rushed off to hide. They would all tell me to go ahead as it was a way for them to have some time to finish their meal and have a coffee and dessert (I was quite a pest, me going to hide was giving them a break from me!). After a little while my auntie went to look for me but she couldn't find me, my uncle joined and looked in the bathroom, my grandparents went looking inside the wardrobes.. They couldn't find me! My parents were getting worried, and after more than 30 minutes looking for me they thought maybe I went outside to the street so some left to go out looking for me. After 30 minutes more they decided they would call the police. My auntie went to her old bedroom to get a jacket and then she heard a weird noise, a bit of like a light hissing.. Investigating where the sound came from she went to look under the bed and saw a hand sticking out behind the huge drawer. She thought something happened to me and carefully tried to remove the underbed drawer, when she finally got ahold of me and checking I was alright (if I was alive) I woke up and said "Is it morning time now?" I was very thin and small that I I managed to sneak behind the bed and lie sideways behind the drawer! I hope my children will never do that to me, I would have a heart attack!

[Nicola27]

I used my Mum's CO-OP green shield stamp book to play with in my pretend 'Post Office'. I tore all the pages of stamps out that Mum had been collecting for months and gave each of my cuddly toys a page each!. Mum was not best pleased after hours of searching for her book to find it all around my bedroom in pieces.

[CathBookworm]

I remember the time when I hid in a box (must have been about 3 or 4) and my family genuinely spent ages looking for me. I thought it was hilarious-them not so much..

[dadshere]

My daughter likes to hide things. The problem is, she then forgets where she hid them. My dh spent many hours looking for the car keys and house keys, before we made her understand that they are off limits. She still hides phones, and jewellery.

[buckley1983]

My Mum used to do some take-home work for the local electronics factory - this involved her used a guillotine style device to chop the spindly ends of various fiddly little electronic components.
She'd have to do hundreds & it would take up most her time. She'd have them all in bunches of ten & carefully count them back in the bags to ensure the 500 she was issued with were all returned.
I found it far too tempting having all this attractively coloured plastic blobs with spindly legs & had an awful habit of pinching them, hiding them & then listening to my Mum ranting about there only being 499 & where the bleedin' hell had the missing one got to.
I would sometimes play the hero & 'find' it in the lounge - but other times I would just lob it into next doors garden, never to be seen again!
I honestly didn't realise how frustrating this would have been for her! I feel awful now! I did confess my sins in later years - but it was a terrible habit & I do feel suitably guilty :(

[Lupiemummy]

When I was about 3 years old, I stole a monkey!
It was one of the ones you used to be able to get your photo taken with at the sea side.

The man gave it to me, and I ran off with the poor monkey and hid it in my mums shopping basket. When confronted, my mum got into an argument with the Monkey's owner, getting very angry that he accused me of being a thief etc! Eventually, she agreed to look in her shopping bag, where there was sat this little monkey!!

Apparently my mum was so embarrassed that she made my brother and I have our photos taken with the monkeys. My brother looked terrified of the monkey and I was squeezing the poor monkey (still determined not to let it go)!

I was later pacified with a cuddly monkey

[claza93]

Where do I begin!
Drawing over each others faces with permanent marker.....
Wanting to go into school on world book day as Moana when it was -7!
Writing a beautiful picture on their bedroom wall and signing their name.....then trying to blame it on the sister who cannot even write yet

[mumsbe]

My son is four and like a ninja he sneaks round the room especially at party's and pinches everyone's cake off their plate and then clears the buffet. If a child is holding a biscuit or cake in their hand and looks the other way he sneaks it out their hand not in a horrible way he just thinks all the food is his. Everyone is left confused some even think they have eaten it them self. It's funny for all including other parents it's an on going joke that my son is a seagle

[buchanl79]

I was a bit of a brat when I was a kid and my favourite thing to do was torment my older brother. I would put bugs in his bed, soggy toilet roll in his shoes and tease him until he lost his temper then I would tell my parents he beat me and get him grounded. Thankful I outgrew this behaviour and we are now very close.

[TellMeItsNotTrue]

The eldest went through a phase of not wanting to go out because she found the wind scary, so everything from car keys to shoes and coats were hidden while we were getting ready. It took 4 days to find the car keys

[Cotswoldmama]

I remember sitting on the doorstep doing colouring in, remembering my mum shouting ‘dinnertime’ And at that exact second I saw the blunt early learning centre scissors! Shouted ‘coming’ whilst hacking a chunk out of the front of my fringe! I had to have the shortest ever fringe cut! I also once put perfume in both my eyes and my sisters because I thought it was mascara!

[ProfYaffle]

When dd2 was coming up to 3, we were trying to get her out of nappies at night. We started a sticker chart so every morning she woke up with a dry nappy, she'd get a sticker. It worked like a charm, a week straight of dry nappies. I was looking forward to abandoning them altogether.

Until I went up to her room to tidy. While hoovering under the bed, I found a pile of wet nappies. She'd been getting up in the morning, taking the old nappy off, stuffing it under the bed and getting a fresh clean one out of the packet to come downstairs in!

Wasn't sure whether to give her extra stickers for ingenuity .....

[Mummysmagicalmayhem1]

Being the oldest I took my brother and sisters everywhere with me, it was like that in my youth. We had the best summers playing outside in the fields always looking for our next adventure! Our mum always made us jam sandwiches and a bottle of orange squash and that was us for the day! One of my favourite childhood memories was when we were all playing hide and seek in the buttercup fields where the grass was taller than all of us. When my sister ended up rolling in a huge cow pat! We all ended up laughing so hard I wet myself!! After cleaning ourselves off in the brook and having a water fight we headed home,absolutely dripping wet through. Mum was not best pleased when we arrived home,as you can imagine! we all absolutely sunk of cow poo. It’s one of my best childhood memories with my brother and sisters.

[angie95]

When my two were little, on the way to school, we would stop at the bridge crossing the stream, and pay Pooh Sticks, then it was We're Going on a Bear Hunt, all the way to school, and then the same on the way home, after school, They loved it, laughing and squealing in delight. X How I miss those days.

[defineme]

My daughter was mad for potion making when she was 4 and everything within reach would be tipped into the bath to make a magic mixture...incĺuding whole bottles of lovely bath oils and expensive perfume!
My sons painted each from head to toe in sudocrem once...particularly hard to get out of hair and carpets!

[Anj123]

When my daughter was a baby she used to love lying down waving her arms and legs around whilst blowing raspberries. She loved it even more if I lay beside her and did the same! How comical we must have looked!!

[Smummy123]

Where to start
My eldest tried on a ring in a jewellery shop, and yes it wouldn’t come off.😵 I had gone to buy my friend some earrings for her Birthday.
My little sweetheart age 4 at the time, had gone round the counter to pick up a very pretty little pink heart ring.

When I went over to her she had shown me,
The sales assistant came over and said
“Is it just the ring and earrings”

I said no just the earrings but lucky she was occupied which left me telling my princess aka monster, to give me the ring!😩 No it was stuck on.... the sales assistant returned and with my heart pounding and steam coming from my ears... “yes both please, How much is the ring?”

By now I’m bright red thinking everybody knows what’s going on...as you do!

“ £49”
I almost fall over and she placed the earrings in a gift bag and I handed my Visa card.

Once home I looked at the receipt which was £49 .... but it was for
Earrings £36 for the earrings and
Only £13 for the ring. 👍 goodness what a relief.

Well I wear that ring round a necklace for me. 🙏 and it came off once I placed her finger in my mouth and gently pulled the ring up and off.

[Soubriquet]

If I did anything naughty and was being told off by my mum, I would turn my hearing aid off and pretend I was listening.

She used to end up frustrated and walking away.

[danigrace]

My baby is already full of mischief and loves grabbing the insides of his sleeves halfway between getting dressed and undressed then laughing at my efforts!

[DontFundHate]

My sister and I used my dad's aftershave in the bath, then filled it up with water so that he wouldn't notice. Funnily enough he could tell the difference!

[Iceskatingsnake]

I am only confessing to this because MN is anonymous! When I was a toddler one of my older brothers life missions was to tease me relentlessly. There is a six year age gap between us. Taunts that particularly come to mind are telling me that he would put me in the dustbin and the bin van would take
me away and whenever Mum was doing the housework that
the vacuum would swallow me up. I’m retaliation I crept into his bedroom early one morning, woke him up with the announcement that I had a surprise for him and then tipped the contents of my potty over his head.

[vickyors]

My five year old.. she covered her face with rose Vaseline. She ended up swelling up and she was a dreadful pink colour. I was terrified!! Thankfully we washed it off, but her eyes were all swollen and tiny for 24 hours..!

[HeyMicky]

My brother and I would deface the deposit slips at the bank by drawing animals with a pile of poo behind them and an arrow from the word 'deposit' to the poo, then put all the slips back for unsuspecting customers to use