Children getting up to mischief

Kids up to no good - This was sent to me. Imagine the shock if this happened in your home.
@teenal (1400)
Dublin, Ireland
December 10, 2006 7:57pm CST
Take a look at the attached photo. Have your kids ever done this much damage??Whats the worst thing your toddlers have ever done.My daughter when she was 3 decided to help me by putting on the washing machine. She put a whole pack (large) of washing powder in and flooded my kitchen with foam. Took ages to get rid of and my house smelled like a launderette for ages. It also burned out the motor as it got wet and it was a fairly new machine. Have yu any toddler horror stories??
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@shilpa28k (1737)
• India
13 Dec 06
children - Yes nowadays children are very much mischief.
Yes nowadays children are very much mischief.
@lafavorito (2959)
• Philippines
12 Dec 06
The attached photo is hilarious and scary at the same time! I hope the kids didn't develope allergy after their "experiment". As we all know kids love to experiment with everything they see, they do not know if it's good or bad. My 2 year old son, decided to help me with putting his clothes inside the cabinets, instead of giving me the clothes, he threw the clothes in the air one and one while he's screaming with glee. Instead of getting upset, I just told him to pick up the clothes and put them on the bed, he obliged and patiently taught him how to fold clothes. Of course he did a terrible job but the smile on his face is worth all the hard work.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
12 Dec 06
Well, here goes. My little nephew had a accident on himself and then preceeded to smear it everywhere in a few minutes tiime before he was caught walls floors furniture,everything.Nasty. And a very nasty job to clean up. And once we were filling up my little sister pool and we went in to do something and we told her to come on to and she started following us but at the last second she grabbed the hose and followed us into the house with it and dropped it and game running in to tell us the water hose wouldn't reach all the way into the house and we checked and there in the mud room and into the kitchen was tons of water and it was slick trying to hurry to get it and twist it to stop the water we had a job cleaning all that water up we threw towels and blankets on it to get it all cleaned up. Landlady was mad when she found out about it which the neighbors broke there necks to tell them. Lucky it didn't do any damage but we didn't get our deposit when e moved because of damage the water may have done that is unseen.
@leese29 (340)
• United States
12 Dec 06
My kids haven't done anything this bad, just the liquid soap all over the bathroom counter and floor and pulling stuffing out of a cushion. I thought my kids had done some crazy stuff but after seeing that picture and all that paint I have little angels. My husband would have cried about the TV.
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@aimee750 (1116)
• United States
11 Dec 06
When my son was 18 mos old, I was taking a shower and he got into the refridgerator and took a whole new 3lb of velveeta cheese out of the wrapper. He smeared it all over himself, the outside of the fridge and all over the kitchen floor. Let me tell you that stuff does not clean up easily at all. It just keeps smearing. It took me several hours to get it cleaned up. I haven't bought velveeta since then.
@teenal (1400)
• Dublin, Ireland
11 Dec 06
Cant say I blame you.
• India
11 Dec 06
we cant blame children for this. because they r children. all r same.
@ainpat (279)
11 Dec 06
I never let my toddlers do any mischievous acts in my house, I never let them alone by themselves or touch anything they shouldn't touch or go nearby anything that will cost me so much money. so my toddlers always behave wonderfully and never a nuisance to me,but someone that i'm proud of. It written in book of proverbs that is easy to teach a child when is young than is become an adult
• United States
11 Dec 06
How do you get anything done if you are always watching your toddlers? What happens when you need to cook or use the bathroom? I couldn't do it. There were many times I left my 3 toddlers alone and they did get into a lot of mischief (they still do) but they also learned to behave some too. I trust my middle two children to watch the baby while I am in the other room cooking. They are very responsible with her (they are 4 and 5). They only behave badly when their older sister is there to egg them on.
• United States
11 Dec 06
What happens if you're not there? Do they go crazy and just start touching everything? Part of training a child in the way that they should go is allowing them some freedoms to make mistakes and seeing how they respond. It's hard to say if your toddlers really are behaving wonderfully if they're not allowed to move.
@14missy (3183)
• Australia
11 Dec 06
My eldest daughter has had a few trying moments in her younger years! When she was about three, she overflowed the bath tub with water and bubble bath and proceeded to slide up and down the bathroom and hallway on her bottom. There was water dripping through the floor boards!! She has also painted the wardrobe mirrors with foundation (makeup) and walked in it on the new pale pink carpet we had at the time! She has also unrolled all the toilet paper and looped it around the house. Very funny now but I really don't know how she survived to this age (she's 12 now)
@kbkbooks (7022)
• Canada
14 Dec 06
Wow, that is some predicament. Don't worry sweets, you are NOT alone. One time my kids were supposedly napping. They are only 13 months apart. It was so nice and quiet. When they had been down about an hour I peeked in. They were COVERED with diaper rash ointment...the horrible sticky white kind. It was all over them like clown faces and on their clothes and the walls, the carpet and the wood of both cribs. I cleaned everything with baby oil the way I cleaned their skin when I changed them after an application of the ointment. The oil did good for the wood furniture but not so good for the carpet. The bedclothes and their clothing washed out in hot water. Another time they were a little older in the summer time. We had their playroom in our downstairs family room. I was going up and down with laundry and they were playing. I took a load up. When I returned down they had opened up the door of the woodstove which of course was cold at that time of year. They were both into the ashes in the belly of the stove. EVERYTHING was black. I had a renovation story a few years later. My girlfriend and I were stripping wallpaper in my kitchen and bathroom and repainting. We just finished at one point for the day. We were exhausted. Her kids and my kids were in the next room supposedly watching TV. By this time they were like first grade or so. We went in to see them and they had ripped huge chunks of paper off the living room wall. HORROR. We had no intention of redoing that room but we did in the end!!
@babykay (2131)
• Ireland
7 Feb 07
my baby is too young for mischief at 7 months...but my brother, when he waas around 2 years old, got up a chimney. He had to be coaxed/pulled down...the mess he made I remember was phenomenal! I have all that to look forward to now.
@teenal (1400)
• Dublin, Ireland
7 Feb 07
Enjoy it. It passes very quickly and before you know it they are grown up.
@Devinarun (387)
• United States
11 Dec 06
nowadays the kids are so mischevious tthat you jsut cant do anything.they will do whatever they feel lik edoing and if you tell them to be quite thay start crying and making a big fuss.
@adnan82 (672)
• Pakistan
12 Dec 06
nah i have not sEeen . KIds did that much of horrible stuff :)
• United States
11 Dec 06
Yikes...how'd they clean that up? My kids never really got into anything much here...thank goodness. BUT I have a friend whose child took 2 lbs of grated parmasean cheese and sprinkled it in every heat register in the main living area! EEECH...what a bad smell that was and for a loooooonnnnng time too!
@ZowieR (940)
• Canada
11 Dec 06
eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
• United States
11 Dec 06
oh mine are always into something! One cut her own hair! What a mess that was! We had to cut is short to make it look nice One painted her nails toes the floor carpet I watch them all the time but boy what a mess can when you do diaper change or shower or even go tot he kitchen for drink!
@coolcatzz (1587)
• Canada
11 Dec 06
LOL nope I was pretty lucky with my two kids but one night when we were at my friends place and the two boys disappeared. Well they got into baby powder and when they came down they were covered and looked like 2 old men. We laughed so hard. I have also heard of kids getting into that Penatin cream and because it's greasy it is really hard to get out.
@rainbow (6761)
11 Dec 06
Looking at that my boys are angels, they pull down curtains, write on walls - at my friends houses aswell, have water and food fights. Last week while I changed because we'd been on the beachwith the dog my youngest emptied a full bottle of fairy liquid all over my lounge because he wanted to "see the bubbles." Two hours later my laminate floor, leather sofa, walls and Tv were cleaned. You'd think it'd be good but everything was either sticky, slippery, bubbly or blue and it stank of eucalyptus. Thank you for sharing that dreadful photo, it reminds me things could be worse!
• United States
11 Dec 06
I have never had any this bad or should I as funny. Sorry you had to go through that. My youngest got in to a new box of cream of wheat and it was all over the place but all I had to do was run the vac. here reselently he desided to paint his nails like the big boys do and got it all over his bed frame. That was fun to clean up I still haven't gotten it all up yet. My oldest (now 14) loved to climb up on things I didn't know he was doning this just yet and he got in to the food coloring and played artist with it. My middle son 13 was alway making bubble baths with the shampoo (all over the bath room). Keep this photo when they get older and move out or start dating it will be a funny thing to look back on.
@wolflvr (335)
• United States
11 Dec 06
My son thankfully never did anything that created a big mess that I had to clean up. I think the worst he ever did was write on his bedroom door with markers. It is good that they make washable markers. One time we did have to make a trip to the emergency room when he was 3. He found a flashlight and in the base was a replacement lightbulb. For some reason he ate the lighbulb. He told be he thought it was candy. Luckily all he did was cut his mouth up a little bit.
@emarie (5442)
• United States
11 Dec 06
all i gotta say about that picture is thank god it wasn't carpet!! haha...well nothing to that exream has happend to me...i have 2 boys myself, and the most they've done is empty out powder container all over their toys. spread 1/2 a giant bottle of lotion all over themselves, and the carpet...my eldest son broke a DVD in half. and somehow when my son was 3mo old figured out how to get a closed (sealed) bottle of ketchup open. then there was some milk artwork on my sisters glass coffee table. those are just my boys...my sisters got into a lot of mishcief..which includes drilling a hole in the wall all the way through to the other side with an ice pick and also skating in the bathroom...
@Kylalynn (1771)
• South Africa
11 Dec 06
My kids were always up to something too. One day my daughter and her friend decided to make a giant sandwich with her mattrass. They covered it with butter and rubbed it well in, and then spread something, I cant remember to be truthful, probably jam all over the buttered mattrass. We had to get her a new mattrass. Whenever there was something wrong my daughter would be involved.
@sj_chaudhry (1537)
• Canada
11 Dec 06
my naughty child - naughty child
hmm not yet becuase my baby is just 1 yr old yet. but she did one little terrible thing few weeks back... she got excess to pitcher full of water and she just drop it over our mattress... there is water every where and those days were very cold that we could not hink about sleeping on wet mattress..... i was so amd at my daughter but i couldnt do anything with he coz she didnt had any idea what she has done. firstly i try to dry with towels and after wards i used my iron to dry it completely...so it took me 5 hrs staright to dry it completely . it was horrible. so by then i keep evrything out her excess.