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Title: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by pubgirl on Jan 9th, 2006, 8:43pm Luckily my kid is only 6 so we haven't had the REALLY dreadful teenage stuff yet but..... (the person from here who rang me while I was being cleaned up by lovely Alan knows this is true) Developed nasty temperatury sore throat on Sunday and dosed and died. Lovely George took advantage of this, I was sound asleep on sofa in front of the telly (lovely sight I am sure :-[) Hubby was in the cellar having a New Year sort out. George seized his opportunity and, as he put it, "scoffed" a load of sweets (and I mean a load!) then planted a well chewed red Skittle (not sure if you have them but they are vile coloured so-called fruity chewy sweets with gum in them) in Mummy's hair while she slept and left it to harden and tied my feet together. Little bugger! Thank God it wasn't chewing gum. He really is a monkey sometimes. It was a tiny bit funny really What awful things have your kids done so I can be prepared for the next one! W |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Redd715 on Jan 9th, 2006, 9:25pm I love telling this story... After I left my hubby, I was a full time Mom and full time college student studying psych. It was spring time, and time to be writing final papers, and Meg and Dyl had to be like 3 and 5 years old. I had a sweet young gal as a neiblor at the time, and she would "babysit" when I had to study. So, the day was very wet, as we had had a wonderful warm spring rain over night, and the complex had been doing some renovations to the community playground. There were piles of rich black, (and I mean BLACK) dirt ready for spreading out to get a bed of soft grass planted. I was in the apartment working on a 15 page final paper that was due for Theories of Adjustment class in a day, and I had asked the neighbor girl to please take the kids to the playground so I could concentrate. I was about halfway done with the paper, when I heard little laughing voices outside the back door. I opened up that door and to two black blobs. The only thing I could see that wasn't black were 4 eyeballs and two sets of ear to ear toothy grins. The timeing couldn't have been LESS perfect. Still half my paper to write and it was due the next day, and two black walking talking mud pies. Soooo right there on the back porch, I had them both strip down to their birthday suits, and ordered them to stay put!! I grabbed a 5 gallon mop bucket, filled with warm water, and poured the first over Dylan, and made him still stand there, and got a second and poured it over Megan. As the black mud began to slide off their little laughing bodies, I pulled out an old green wool army blanket I had stashed in a closet, and layed it on the floor. Put on the cartoon channel and picked Dylan up and set him on it. I told him if he dared so MOVE off that blanket he'd be in such trouble. (though I couldn't stop smileing and giggling) I then wrapped Meg up in a second crappy pink blanket I had and carried her up the flight of stairs to the bathtub where I scrubbed her down till I thought her skin would begin to shed. We laughed all the while. The mud had stained her skin and hair, but at least she squeeked. I put her down for a nap while I bathed the hyper wiggle worm of a son. He told me how Mihla (the neighbor girl) had said the mud was like taking a bath in chocolate and so they did...It was soo hillarious I couldn't be angry. I srubbed Dylan till he squeeked too, and it was such a laugh and a half to see them so free and haveing had the siplest of fun and be so filled with joy at the fact. I couldn't be mad or upset, and to this day, 10 years later, I can still see those white smileing eyes, and the toothy grins under otherwise caked on black mud. Who needs pictures with a memory like this? |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Melissa on Jan 9th, 2006, 10:06pm Well, I do have some pretty dreadful things my kids have done, but since I don't want to dredge those things up, instead I'll tell you something else... Eli has a tail. Yup! That is what it's called now, a TAIL! [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] [smiley=laugh.gif] OMG, holy crap I about peed my pants laughing when he first pointed to it and said "tail". Then he grabbed hold of it and said "tail" over and over again. I wonder how many guys on here thought theirs were tails also? ;;D |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Karla on Jan 9th, 2006, 10:24pm Well last week I told the story of one of the twins duct tapping the other from head to toe and rolling him down the stairs. Lets see, they pushed a chair up to the door and undid all the locks when they were like 2 yrs old. ran outside at 5am and took off all there clothes and were running around in the parking lot nude when the neighbor found them and brought them home. They used to sneak up in the middle of the night and get butcher knives and food and put it under there beds so I had to put locks on everything. Even the goldfish got taken out of his bowl and put under their bed and died. Lets' see as teenagers I could tell you horror stories that I don't think any mother wants to hear. One son spent time in and out of jail and I have 2 that are in gangs. I just hate it and wish they were grown and out. Were trying to get our 20 year out but with his criminal background he is having a hard time finding a job. No job, no apt. sucks! I pulled alot of stuff on my mom and dad so I guess what goes around comes around. Mell that is so funny a tail! So cute! [smiley=crackup.gif] |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by maffumatt on Jan 9th, 2006, 10:30pm I came home from work one night, as I walked to the door I heard a hissing sound. I walked to the corner of the house and smelled gas. My boy had got into my tool chest and got out a 2lb shop hammer and beat my gas meter in, then tried to make it stop leaking with duct tape. Hard to get it into a 3 year olds mind that things can kill you. |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Cathi04 on Jan 9th, 2006, 10:32pm Nope, Mel.... never heard it called that! My son Todd(who shall remain nameless).was found in the buff, in the garage, blowing up water-bomb balloons, fitting them on.err...uhh, a part of his anatomy, and watching them get forced off! :-[(whew, am I in trubble now!!!) My daughter, Dana was close to perfect........I said CLOSE! For her third birthday, Dana got a pink beanbag chair.well all 3yr old females love pink.....but Dana wanted badly to know if the pink went all the way thru. I checked all 3 zippers, told her Daddy & I were certain the pink was all the way thru.and she went to bed for a nap, smiling..or so I thought......3 hrs later, thinking my lil angel must be quite tired, I went to check in on her she HAD fallen asleeep.... but not before she found all 3 zippers, opened them, then got to the "filling"..........there was my lil angel, fast asleep in......SNOW??????????????????????? The filling was the teensiest, tiniest styrofoam pellets, magnetically charged, so they stuck to everything.and before she fell asleep, she must've had a field day........the pellets were everywhere!!! 3 days later, I had almost forgiven her, when I walked into her room where she had been quietly playing with her baby brother..................... SHE DID IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only this time, she and Todd BOTH looked like snowpeople-covered in the cloying pellets....Todd's filling the gaps in his diaper, and Dana pouring them onto his head till!!!!!!!!! 28 yrs later, my sense of humor has returned, and we can laugh about this........... Mothers dont let your babies grow up with pink beanbags....... Over all, Redd, they were pretty good. next time I will tell you about diving into the pool from their 2nd story bedrooms........... :o glad I stopped at 2, Cathi! |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by BMoneeTheMoneeMan on Jan 9th, 2006, 10:32pm My daughter decided it would be nice to scratch a picture into our formal dining table. This picture is pretty large and takes up about 1/4 of it. Arent kids great when it comes to destroying stuff? BMonee |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by cootie on Jan 9th, 2006, 11:53pm My kid......sittin on the floor stranglein my beloved cats.......leaven the refirigerator door open to air condition the kitchen while we were out and messin up the thermostate.......buying up tons of candy from candy drives at school and eating it all leaveing us with huge bills sayin the people took the stuff she sold them but would not pay her (I found piles of candy wrappers in her room and empty tins and boxes).......pullin into the driveway in the used nice car we just bought her with a smashed in front end and bashed in hood and twine tieing it down saying it was not her fault and to get off her back. I didn't rear end you cuz you front ended me Pam Oh I could go on and on and on......... |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by catlind on Jan 10th, 2006, 1:17am Hmmm Dreadful? Or Repulsive? ... Testament to a Mother's Cast Iron stomach! My kids are now 5, 12, and soon to be 14. The teen years will prove interesting, of that I'm sure. The most dreadful, and repulsive, and all the way around gross thing I have experienced as a mother have all come from my daughter. While my oldest tried to flush a cat down the toilet, that pales in comparison to what Andrea could find to get in trouble with. As most mothers know, small children will put anything in their mouth...and I mean ANYTHING. The cat we had (and still have - he's about to be 14 as well) has been diagnosed bulemic. He binges and purges on a daily basis. Now it's bad enough to have to clean up cat puke daily, but it goes over the top when you walk into the living room and see your 18 month old cleaning it up for you...by eating it. My ex-hubby's sister and hubby have a farm and Tim is a butcher. They raise beef cattle and Tim does his own butchering. We were out visiting one day, and Tim had just slaughtered a cow. The kids were playing in the yard (she had 2 boys and my 2) and I noticed Andrea was fascinated by a pile of what I thought was sawdust. (I was a fair distance away). She toddled over to the pile and was playing in it and just bringing a handful to her mouth when my then sister-in-law came screaming out of the kitchen "Andrea NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" It was a scene from a bad movie I tell ya.... We were too late. The chubby little hand had already taken a handful of the suspect material and shoved it in her mouth. Turns out, the pile was the insides of the cow's stomach. I can hardly wait to see what the teen years have in store.... ::) Now back to your regularly scheduled conversation with the porcelain phone. Cat |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Cathi04 on Jan 10th, 2006, 1:55am Cat...................... Never mind............. :-X ARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH! |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Jasmyn on Jan 10th, 2006, 2:23am Use steelwool to clean your car and brand new reading specs... Compulsive Cleaning Disorder... I should not complain, she will be organized, her house will be clean, she will drive her own kids crazy one day but it is OK. When the other one was small, act as chimney sweep, soot on carpets, furniture and curtains, she is blond... it took quite awhile to get her blond again... now she is big and sweeps everything under beds, cupboards overflow with junk and old washing... Compulsive Chaotic Disorder... she is leaving home, she's gonna mess her own place and I'm gonna miss cleaning up after her. Hospital visits... he loves falling off and over stuff, like walls, tree houses and jumping off the balcony because he is Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk all in one... Compulsive Super Hero Disorder... one day he will hopefully be admired for all his scars and become a very famous actor, in the mean time I can do with donations of old matresses, cotton wool, disinfectant, plasters and anything that is soft and will break a landing. Peace to all Mothers out there. |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Jasmyn on Jan 10th, 2006, 2:31am O yes, my son does not like clothes he believes in Free Willy... in his favour it never gets cold here. My daughters believes in no clothes for Mom... raiding my cupboard and when they were small and I still ventured into church, would stand on the pews playng peekaboo with the backside of my dress. It was embarrassing as I was probably the first woman in Africa to decide that wearing no underwear in this heat was cool. Embarrassment fades with age and you can always thank your kids for lessons taught well. ;) |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by sandie99 on Jan 10th, 2006, 2:44am Mums, your wisdom and your patience is appreciated. :) I've been thinking very hard and I haven't done anything that horrible. As long as I can recall, that is. :-X I did place used chewing gums under one table (yes, you can still see traces from them), I once tried to hammer one of our tables (hey, don't let a 3-year-old use one) and I did put dad's watch into sink (this took place in time I didn't talk yet). ;;D |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by ..Danielle.. on Jan 10th, 2006, 2:54am We too have survived the multiple hospital visits, -to the point that the emerg nurses greet us in public, by name -Falling out of a moving car, and thankfully being missed by the tire - by less than two inches (it stopped and we pulled him from underneath the side.) -Brother doing a very similar stunt, ran over his ankle, thankfully not broken or seriously damaged - the nasty poo stories - "look mommy, no diaper...."(reminded me of the romanian orphanage stories, disinfected that one till he was squeeky) -Eating anything and everything - chimney soot and various bugs included. (cow bits excluded) -Peeing for distance off the back deck (boys, obviously)- "we live in the country mommy, we can do that" -using bug spray to get the fire started - Inside ! - Saw the fireball from the computer room reflected in the china cabinet (daddy showed us that !) These are also the only two creatures on the planet that have been around for most of my headaches. My hubby works away a lot so it's just me and my boys. My eldest son started helping his mom when he was only two. My younger boy has never known his mom to not get headaches. I was pregnant with him when they started. They were as relieved as I was when the doctors finally told me what they were. At least we know and can fight back now. So the 15 year old is licensing his car in the morning.................I think I can forgive him the first speeding ticket.........but he's paying it ;;D Danielle |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by kayarr on Jan 10th, 2006, 3:33am This is more funny. I'd rather forget the other stuff. When the girls were little we all would run to the bathroom sans clothes. The eldest,4 year old Sarah, was standing in the bathroom watching her Daddy shave and she pointed and laughed and told him he had a funny belly button. We stopped being naked in front of the kids after that. :-/ |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by BarbaraD on Jan 10th, 2006, 6:22am The other day at the airport, Caleb (my four year old grandson) was out in the smoking section with me and there were several security guards out there. He went over and met all of them explaining that he was a "policeman" also, but his badge was at home because he was not working today (my uncle, retired Fed Security, gave him a badge and swore him him as a Fed policeman, so he "really' thinks he's a policeman and can arrest people!). They were impressed! Later we were sitting in the coffee shop when another security guard came in (one he hadn't met) and picked up an apple and a banana. The cashier was busy cleaning tables, so he just held them up to show her he got them and started out. Well, Caleb YELLED at him as he walked out the door, "You're STEALING and that's UNACCEPTABLE. You go to jail now!!!" The man came back in (laughing) and tried to explain that he had left the money by the cash register. Caleb was having no part of it. The cashier (who had a number of grandkids)was laughing her rear off, I was trying to calm Caleb down, my friend John was mortified and Caleb was looking for his handcuffs. The nice security guard finally pulled some change out of his pocket and gave it to the cashier and Caleb let him "go" this time, but warned him NOT to ever steal again. I think I got over being embarrased when my son was about 3 or 4. That was about the time I went into shock at the things they can come up with to do or say (especially in public). Today those of some of my fondest memories, but at the time they were happening, I wanted to kill him. The one thing Buddy (son) did was when he was in kindergarten. I was teaching his class and we had show and tell... Welllll, Mr. Buddy had a black eye. "Tell the class how you got the black eye Buddy." "MY MAMA GAVE IT TO ME!" And he wouldn't change his story no matter what..... That afternoon the principal called me into his office (trying to keep a straight face...) Before he got a chance to ask, I just told him - "If he has two black eyes tomorrow, Mama gave him the second one!" The kid could have gotten me arrested! After I got him home and questioned him - he just said that was his funny. Now I remember why I hated teaching little kids!!!!!! Hugs BD |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by JenniferD on Jan 10th, 2006, 8:48am oh I SO gotta get in on this one! I'm still trying to forget Hannah's early teen years, but as a baby, it took her all of about 3 minutes to remove her dirty diaper and cover everything in poop! Poop handprints, poop footprints, poop smears! YUKKK!!! She must've had some kind of weird fetish, cuz shortly thereafter, I caught her sitting on the edge of the toilet bowl with her feet in the bowl, washing off the flour she was covered in! And my darling little Harry, at the tender age of 6, dismantled and removed NINE FEET of brand-new picket fence, loaded it into a wagon, and took it to the neighbor's house to build a tree house! When asked the simple (and stupid) question of "why??" his beautiful little face looked up at me innocently and replied, "cuz we needed the wood". |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Gena on Jan 10th, 2006, 9:22am on 01/10/06 at 03:33:06, kayarr wrote:
I knew I had to stop being naked in front of my youngest son when this story happened… I had just gotten out of the shower and was getting dress for work my youngest was sitting in my room watching TV (he was about 3 at the time) He looked at me and his eyes got really big and his mouth dropped open. SO I asked him what was wrong. He looks at me and says mommy you lost your peepee, I then tried to explain that mommy’s do not have peepees. He then goes down the list he says, “ I have a peepee” I say, “yes”. He says, “Bubby has a pee pee”. I say, “yes” He says, “daddy has a pee pee”. By now he is crying and he finishes with we all have pee pees you have to have one too. I was laughing so hard by that time I just could not argue with his logic, everybody in his world had a pee pee but me! No, the story is not over just yet. A day or two later he walks in on my using the bathroom (in those days we only had one) He says you going poop, I said no I am going pee – THERE go the eyes aging – He looks at me and says YOU pee out your butt!! Let me tell you it was so funny I almost fell off the Toilet! Kids don’t you just love them!!!!! |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by taraann on Jan 10th, 2006, 10:43am All of your stories are awesome! LOL My two are now 4 and 5. When Sammie was in his 2's he would grab unsuspecting large chested womens boobs (strangers, in public). When Toni was about 9 months in her swing, big brother Sammie decided to chuck a can of peanut butter at her head. She still has a tiny dent in her forehead. I cut sammie's hair last summer. He was very upset about it. A few days later him and his sister were cutting paper at the table. I walk in just in time to see him cut a bit of her hair off to "glue it to my head mom" Oh can't forget when Sam was changing the breaks on our car and the new break pads dissappeared. We spent all day tearing the house upside down looking for them. Finally Sam stoops down to sammie level and asks if he had seen the break shoes. Sammie then points to the heat vent. He had lifted up the grate, put the shoes in the vent, the put the grate back in place. Or when the kids decided to flush a bunch of toys down the toilet and Sam had to take it apart to get the toys out. My kids were pretty good about not putting foreign objects in their mouths. But just last night my 2 yr old nephew had to have a quarter removed from his windpipe. He's okay now, but I'm sure he learned a scary lesson. I could go on and on ;;D |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Gena on Jan 10th, 2006, 11:11am Oh I got another one… Same kid different story… When we lived by Muncie IN, in a very small town about 15 min away. I used to go and by burgers and fries at Mickey D’s by the bag full and take them home and freeze them so that if the kids wanted burgers I would have them on hand and not have to take a 30 drive to town and back. On one day while doing some errands in town, I decided to go on a MD’s run. I had my youngest with me. On the way back home he had gotten in to the bag and started to eat two or three burgers. He then told me that I forgot to get him a drink. I told him, I did not forget to get him a drink he was supposed to wait till we got home, I had drinks there. He was very upset and told me that we were in the middle of nowhere and he was DIEING of thrust. I told him we are not in the middle of nowhere we will be home in a few minutes. He then tells me, Mom I am looking out the window and I don’t see diddly squat. A little shocked, trying to recover, defect and distract, I asked him if he even knew what diddly squat was. I said if you don’t know what it means how can you say you don’t see it. He got quite for a few seconds (I think well that shut him up) He looks at me and says, “Well I might see diddly squat, but we are still in the middle of nowhere, MOM”! Lessoned learned you just can’t win against a 4 year olds logic! |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by LadyElaine on Jan 10th, 2006, 6:23pm I have four kids they are all grown now. The stories I could tell are endless. My daughter Heather had a thing about writing checks off my account. When she was in the thired grade, she wanted to order a book. So she took a check out of my check book, she wrote the check out for I think it was like eight dollars. She mailed it off. I recieved a letter and the check back from the company saying I forgot to sign the check. Other than forgetting to sign my name the child did good. Then when she grew up in her teens. We trusted her and had her name on our checking account. Well she took her car and traded it in on a truck and wrote a $500 check out of our account. Her name was removed the very next day ! You all know I am a animal lover. Well I had a bird. I kept him in the back bedroom so the cats could not get him. Well on April fools day.. One of the kids started yelling " Mom the bedroom door is open and feathers are every where." I like to broke my own neck getting in there, to find four children laughing and yelling April fools. This was a good one. We sent our oldest out to feed the doogs when she was twleve. She did not come back. We found the plate on the ground broke and we just knew she had been taken. We called the police. The child had on her PJs. I was a nervous wreck. The police were going to neighbors homes. One looked in our garbage can. I asked what he was looking for in there. He said a body. I fell apart. We lived on a main road but the back of the house was all woods. They were ready to call in the dogs and the helacopter when my Mother drove up with Tiffany in the car. A boy she liked picked her up on his bick and took her to his house three miles away. My Mother happen to think about him and went to his house and sure enough there she was. The police gave her a talking to and said what ever we did to her would be ok with him. I think that was the worst thing that happen. See why I got old before my time ! |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by BlueMeanie on Jan 10th, 2006, 6:43pm on 01/10/06 at 01:17:36, catlind wrote:
LOL Cat. She'll be great trying out for Fear Factor. [smiley=laugh.gif] |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by pubgirl on Jan 10th, 2006, 8:12pm Barb I feel SO much better! George did that to me too! He cut his eye by running into the corner of a table, then when we were in Tesco's the nice girl on the checkout asked him how he had hurt himself and he pipes up "Mummy did it!" I went bright red and said "George, that's not true, telling lies is not nice" and the little devil just said "I'm not lying, Mummy did it" However much I denied it, I'm sure she believed him, not me. When later I asked him why he had done it he said that he thought it was just funny. He was about 4 at the time! Thank God it must be normal if other kids do it too W |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Kris_in_SJ on Jan 10th, 2006, 8:41pm I have an only child, so have no "group-type" stories. And I'll preface this by saying my daughter is generally a "good" kid. The three that stick out ... - When she was 6, she called 911 to tell the dispatcher she was being abused .... her mom was making her eat tuna noodle casserole for dinner. I was severely reprimanded by the police department for that one. - When she was 8, she decided to cut her own hair. Then, to hide the evidence, she put the hair in the oven (of all places!) Not only did I have to pay a fortune to have her hair repaired, the burning hair ruined my pot roast the next night. - When she was 19, she called in the middle of the night to tell us not to worry. She was staying at a friend's house overnight. However ... the caller ID said, "Berrien County Jail." That's right - arrested for driving under the influence. Thought she'd get away with it, since her boyfriend was bailing her out the next morning. I'm not sure how she thought she'd get away without us knowing she had to pay $1,300 in fines, go to "drunk driving school" and do 40 hours of community service. Not to mention the restricted license.... Ahhhh - kids will be kids! Kris |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Cathi04 on Jan 10th, 2006, 8:55pm LOL>.come to think of it, there was the time when I was working at my kids' school, my son was in first grade. Todd went with me to the grocery store one afternoon, and when he asked for something, I replied, "No, Todd, I can't buy that today".......he asked why, and my reply was something to the effect that we couldnt afford it, we were broke........well, as parents, we have all done this. The next day in school, Todd's teacher, a good friend of mine, announced that since Halloween was near, the class would be going on a field trip to the Pumpkin Patch. She asked each student to bring $.50, in order to buy a pumpkin. Todd, at his most dramatic, stood up, and told his teacher he could not do that, as his parents were "all broke up"....... That afternoon, I was cornered by my friend, Todd's teacher, who gently asked "are you gonna be ok?".......my reply..."yes, why"....of course, at this point she had no choice but to respond.... "Todd told us what you're going thru. If you need to talk to anyone, or if you need some financial assistance, I wish you would tell me........."........needless to say, Todd's drama, and Sandy, the teacher's concern concluded that we were divorcing and destitute! Innocent mistake or vile childlike behavior?? I still don't know, to this day........... but I may begin to forgive this child of mine sometime in the future! PS, He's 29 now.......... Cathi ::) |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Linda_Howell on Jan 10th, 2006, 8:56pm Guys? These are all hilarious. [smiley=crackup.gif] I have given birth to and raised 7 kids, so I can outdo all of your tales of disgust and dreadful goings-on, but I won't. I'd have to write a book. Most of my kids, when still in diapers, ....all thought they were decended from Picasso. I will not go into the "medium" they used however. [smiley=nono.gif] Linda |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Woobie on Jan 10th, 2006, 11:38pm I needed the laughs that these posts have given. Thank you! I dont have 7 children like Linda - I only have 2... but - there is not enough bandwidth for me to tell all the things my heathens have done............ Once - they decided that everyone in the neighborhood needed their names on their houses........so that everyone would know who lived there. They used spray paint and painted names on the foundations and siding. That was fun. We moved VERY shortly after that. Once - the decided to clean the kitchen floor for me. (sweet kids) They poured a whole brand new bottle of dish soap on the kitchen floor and proceded to play slicky slide, butt ass naked in alll the bubbles.........when i found them, they both had bubble mustaches and beards, and mohawk hair...and they were laughing their asses off. There was an inch of water on the whole kitchen floor. I couldn't help but laugh, when I told them they better get it cleaned up before daddy got home. they were 7 and 3 at that time. It was halarious.... the floor was so wet, it seeped thru the floor and ruined it. We moved, again, VERY shortly after that. That's all I can think of right now but I'll be back if I can think of more. Thanks - tho - I really needed to remember and laugh! tina :-* |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Ree on Jan 11th, 2006, 8:23am After the blizzard of 78. We had just moved back from Baltimore MD to Boston. My son Scott then 2, had only seen a dusting of snow that would usually melt by morning so you can imagine the excitement of the 9-10 ft snow banks. While I was in the kitchen Scott decided to make it snow for his little people and took a huge container of baby powder and made it snow all over my living room in trails. He drove his cars through it and made foot prints and even showed me how the snow really looked cool in the wooden carvings of my coffee table. It took months to get it out of those carvings with a toothbrush. It still had a white residue when we got rid of it. Remember I am a child care provider... I recently had a 2 year old unravel a crochetted poncho that I had half finished. I had a toddler climb up on my bay window sill and completely gauge the wood while riding on a tray table. Dave won't refinish it he says till I stop doing daycare. I have cracked tile from a kid dumping match box cars on to my ceramic tile floor. Dave won't fix it till I stop doing daycare. I've had broken windows because a child I was caring for threw a matchbox car at the window. We had to fix those. I have had that same kid go into my bathroom and get into my lipstick and lipstick the whole room, including his private area... try explaining that to a mother how the lipstick got on a 3 year olds private parts. Yesterday I had a 2 year old grab a cup of milk I was pouring before I put the top on the cup. I had one shocked toddler covered in cold white fluid shocked and running around my living room. I have had my share of horror inside and out. Including poopy paint jobs to the wall beside the crib... I now pin shut sleepers and insist the moms I work for use the type of t-shirts that snap between the legs. I have never been tied up Wendy thats a hoot.....love ya Ree |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by rickyshot on Jan 11th, 2006, 9:43am Have 3 grown children. Lots of stories but when my oldest boy was four I used to take him to Piedmont park in Atlanta which is situated in the gay ghetto. Well there was a cross dresser that day who btw was looking pretty good looked very female but I knew what he was. WEll Sammy (remember he was four) stopped dead in his tracks and pointed at the man and said Mommy look, that man has a DRESS on. Well the man turned around and gave us a dirty look. I just quipped Look honey if you can't fool a four year old why the hell are you trying to fool yourself? [smiley=laugh.gif] My older two kids put my youngest in the drier for a spin. Thank God I caught that one in time. Try to explain that murder to the cops. |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Melissa on Jan 13th, 2006, 9:37am Since 4:30am (he fell asleep at 7pm last night) this morning, Eli opened 2 containers of Dole mandarin oranges and chucked them all over the family room while dumping the juice over himself, the dog and our coffee table, plugged a Spongebob video game into my stereo's AV outlets, took all the cushions off of both the sectional sofa and the couch in the kids front room, fed our fish Lego's, dumped out about 100 Melatonin vitamins after climbing up on his scooter to reach them on the countertop (stupid vitamin companies should be required to put childproof caps on them), got into the 50 piece makeup kit in one of our bathrooms and was covered head to toe in a burnt orange cake powder (he is currently in the bathtub with that one), and strew all over the house those dumb ass 10"X10" foam blocks with the letters you can take out of them. It is now 8:30am and I want to go back to bed!! We have to leave for my Chiropractor appt. in 35min., I hope to God he don't do anything else! :-/ modified to add: hubby said he also filled up Pickles tank (our gecko) with his toys this morning. I guess he thinks Pickles needed toys??? |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by minnie on Jan 13th, 2006, 10:28am Mel I know you have this and sent it to Leesa who sent it to me.Thanks to both I thought after some of these stories the moms needed this. Love to all Minnie WHY I LOVE MOM Mom and Dad were watching TV when Mom said, "I'm tired, and it's getting late. I think I'll go to bed." She went to the kitchen to make sandwiches for the next day's lunches. Rinsed out the popcorn bowls, took meat out of the freezer for supper the following evening, checked the cereal box levels, filled the sugar container, put spoons and bowls on the table and started the coffee pot! for brewing the next morning. She then put some wet clothes in the dryer, put a load of clothes into the washer, ironed a shirt and secured a loose button She picked up the game pieces left on the table, put the phone back on the charger and put the telephone book into the drawer. She watered the plants, emptied a wastebasket and hung up a towel to dry. She yawned and stretched and headed for the bedroom. She stopped by the desk and wrote a note to the teacher, counted out some cash for the field trip, and pulled a text book out from hiding under the chair. She signed a birthday card for a friend, addressed and stamped the envelope and wrote a quick note for the grocery store. She put both near her purse. Mom then washed her face with 3 in 1 cleanser, put on her Night solution & age fighting moisturizer, brushed and flossed her teeth and filed her nails. Dad called out, "I thought you were going to bed." "I'm on my way," she said. She put some water into the dog's dish and put the cat outside, then made sure the doors were locked and the patio light was on. She looked in on each of the kids and turned out their bedside lamps and TV's, hung up a shirt, threw some dirty socks into the hamper, and had a brief conversation with the one up still doing homework. In her own room, she set the alarm; laid out clothing for the next day, straightened up the shoe rack. She added three things to her 6 most important things to do list. She! said her prayers, and visualized the accomplishment of her goals. About that time, Dad turned off the TV and announced to no one in particular. "I'm going to bed." And he did...without another thought. Anything extraordinary here? Wonder why women live longer...? CAUSE WE ARE MADE FOR THE LONG HAUL..... (and we can't die sooner, we still have things to do!!!!) Send this to five phenomenal women today...they'll love you for it! Then:GO TO BED! |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by nancyc on Jan 13th, 2006, 10:44am My grandson's middle name is Dennis the Menace....he swings from the railing of my bed, turns flips off my couch, tries to ride on the back of poor little toy poodle Toby and draws pictures on my walls with crayons...but I love every inch of him. ;;D smiles, Gamma nancyc |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Jan 13th, 2006, 10:49am You've got to be kidding!!! My baby has never done anything bizzare or embarrasing. http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b5cc35b3127cce95bcdd51942d00000016108EZs2rJy0ba |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Jan 13th, 2006, 11:03am We're saving all of these pics for future bribes. Napkins... There's a several hundred more where I was standing when I took the pic. http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6df32b3127cce96c00b05b56300000016108EZs2rJy0ba This used to be a cassette tape. Not any cassette tape but the 4 track master of some original music I recorded back in the early 80s. http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6df32b3127cce96c00a07f5f900000016108EZs2rJy0ba We looked high and low till we were nuts and finally found her when one of her toys started making a noise. http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6df32b3127cce96c00a19f5e700000016108EZs2rJy0ba Makeup.... What else can I say??? http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b6df32b3127cce96c00a1a74d400000016108EZs2rJy0ba |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by forgetfulnot on Jan 14th, 2006, 2:50am Commited suicide 4-15-01 no note ? 23 yrs old. Lee |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by MJ on Jan 14th, 2006, 12:49pm Life is for the living and those who choose to stay enjoy it every day. Those who leave on their own, do so by their own choice and not by the choices we make. It is so hard to understand I am sorry to hear of your loss Lee. I have been there with very close friends but not with a child of my own. ------------------------------- "About that time, Dad turned off the TV and announced to no one in particular. "I'm going to bed." And he did...without another thought." Men we just dont let the little things get in the way. We would take care of things 1st thing in the morning but somehow theres nothing left to do when we get up. ------------------------------------- When we lived in the big city; my son ran away from home at the age of four. Wife helped him get what he needed, crackers, fruit loops in a baggy and a juice in a bottle. All stuffed in a grocery bag. He was serious about a new life where he didnt have to pick up his toys. She called me to let me know. I was on my way home anyways. When I came around the corner I saw him sitting on the curb with the bag beside him. Asked him whats up and he said he's running away. I told him he didnt get too far yet and asked how come. He said, mom said I cant cross the street though. |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by fubar on Jan 14th, 2006, 7:35pm Oh God, I could write a book. And I still have twins on the way… I currently have a 13 yr old girl (Morgan) and a 15 yr old boy (Ryan). Of the two, Ryan has always been the one to provide, er, let’s call it ‘drama’. I’ll only list the ones that aren’t currently being decided by the justice system. Our old house had huge rooms, and the kids rooms were no exception. Ryan’s room was the size of a small playground, so I furnished it with some playground structures. One was this big plastic gas station/garage thing. It was big, had two doors, a gas pump, a tool bench and lots of stuff. For a few weeks, I was suspecting that the cats were peeing somewhere in Ryan’s room, but for the life of me I couldn’t figure out where. I was always asking Ryan (then 4 yrs old) why the room smelled so bad and did he see the cats peeing in there, ever. Long story short, I eventually found out that Ryan was peeing into a hole in the structure and the pee was collecting in the hollow walls of it. Not only that, he was stuffing toilet paper in it to try to block the smell from coming out. It was disgusting. Later I found out he was afraid to go out of his room to the bathroom during nap time. Go figure. Then there’s the time he and a couple friends burned down a neighbor’s yard with illegal fireworks. Or, the time I found out that he and his friends were using my RV as a nice little hideout to smoke pot. Or the countless things that have been destroyed in my garage. I’m glad to report that he is getting better. Probably just getting better at not getting caught at stuff, but either way it’s better for my mental health. -Fu |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by LadyElaine on Jan 14th, 2006, 8:26pm Furbar your story reminded me of one my three girls did. Heather liked fire, we watched her close cause if she could find a match she would light it. We did everything took her to the fire station, hospitals to see people who had been burned. We thought maybe she had some kind of mental problem. Thank God she did out grow it. The kids asked if they could stay up and watch TV late one Friday night I said yes. They were ages 4, 5, 7 Buddy and I knew late would be 11:00 maybe 12:00 well he and I sat on the padio and talked and listen to the radio. When we came back in to check on the kids the house smelled like air freshner expecially their room. They were all fast asleep we thought when we looked in. The tv was off. I did not question the smell I figured one got a hold of the air freashner and went wild. I kissed them all and went to sleep. All week end they kept their room clean they had bunk beds. I would look in and the room was so clean, beds made. I was so proud. Monday came and I went to clean their rooms and again it was spotless. I decided I needed to wash the bed sheets. I pulled back the blanket on the bottom bunk and there was a hole 2 ft wide burned in the mattress and sheets. It seems Heather set the bed on fire and my oldest daughter put it out. How they did not get burned I don't know. It scarded me to death. The 4 year old that was home with me told all! You know what I would give anything to go back when those kids were babies again. |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by forgetfulnot on Jan 15th, 2006, 12:20am "You know what I would give anything to go back when those kids were babies again." You can say that again. Lee |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by Cathi04 on Jan 15th, 2006, 9:29am Oh, Lee...what pain! My heart goes out to you! A needless loss, a hole where there once was someone you loved dearly. And, how sad that life was over, before anyone really knew there was a crisis. My sympathies, Cathi [smiley=huh.gif] |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by burnt-toast on Jan 15th, 2006, 10:39am When our childern were around 9 and 7, our dog at the time, Buster, was a very laid back 5 year old Border Collie. Like most Boarders he worked hard to please and would patiently endure just about anything the kids dished out, dress up & etc. Border's start out relatively short haired but around 3 or 4 longer curly hair replaces their short hair. In any case, after a few hours of unnatural quiet one evening, Michael comes down the stairs and announces that he and his sister gave Buster a makeover. Immediately following his proud announcement Janessa parades poor Buster down the stairs. We were horrified - they used safety scissors to cut off numerous clumps of hair from his head to the tip of his tail. They then used color safe markers (that they got for making tee-shirts) to re-color all the white patches that you see on Boarder Collies. It took a few months for the color to wash out/fade and over a year for Buster's hair to grow in evenly. The only other dredful thing I can rember is when Michael was requried to be a greeter of parents at a grade school function. It was the second night in a row and he really didn't want to do it because as he put it "the first night was boring". So to make things interesting he and a friend decided it would be entertaining to poke small holes in the sides of all of the drinking cups they were requied to hand out to parents. Needless to say the dribble cup epidemic didn't go over very well. In both cases it was very difficult hold back my giggles but I did manage to do a reasonable job of disciplining them. Tom |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by pam s on Jan 15th, 2006, 11:58pm on 01/14/06 at 02:50:44, forgetfulnot wrote:
I am so very sorry. I have a 26 yr old bipolar daughter who has made several serious attempts. Most people who do it are bipolar. It may be that your son was undiagnosed, and this was the result of an illness with a high mortality rate. There is nothing anyone can do to stop them. Nothing. That doesn't lessen the pain, though. |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by pam s on Jan 16th, 2006, 12:06am I was in the shower when I heard this loud pounding on the door. What on earth? It was a policeman, who was quite sure he had received a 911 call from our phone. There was no mistake. He insisted on coming in and looking around. I was mystified. I looked doubtfully at Daniel, age 2, and asked "Danny, did you call 911?" He earnestly shook his head: "I not know how." Well, I didn't think so. After the policeman left I kept trying to figure it out. Finally I asked Daniel, "Danny, were you playing with the phone?" He nodded. "Yup!" "Show mommy what you did." So he goes to the phone and carefully punches in 9-1-1. |
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Title: Re: What dreadful things have your kids done Post by pam s on Jan 16th, 2006, 12:09am on 01/14/06 at 02:50:44, forgetfulnot wrote:
I am so very sorry. I have a 26 yr old bipolar daughter who has made several serious attempts. Most people who do it are bipolar. It may be that your son was undiagnosed, and this was the result of an illness with a high mortality rate. There is nothing anyone can do to stop them. Nothing. That doesn't lessen the pain, though. |
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