Parents, what disasters made you laugh?

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@Ciniful (1587)
Canada
January 11, 2007 8:23pm CST
Sometimes as parents, we are too busy laughing to bother getting mad at our kids. Every parent has a horror story or some disaster caused by one of their gorgeous little rugrats that you couldn't help but laugh when it happened, and it just gets funnier each time you think of it. I have 5 kids, so I think I have 5 times the disasters, but I'll narrow it down, lol. When my middle child was born, my oldest two were 1 and 2. My husband was at the hospital all night with me while we had the baby, then went home to grab a few hours sleep before bringing our son and daughter to meet their new baby brother. The sitter had informed the kids that they had a new brother, and I guess they were pretty excited. While their Dad was napping, they decided to make him breakfast. When he woke up, he was greeted to an enourmous mess, stretching all the way down the hallway, through the kitchen and all over the inside of the fridge. They had mixed eggs, bread, milk, ketchup, soya sauce, mustard and everything else we had into one, huge, disgusting mess. When he turned with shocked eyes to try giving them hell, my son, the 2 year old, turned to him with big eyes and said "We just wanted to make you breakfast, Daddy." Apparently he helped them clean the mess while laughing the entire time, lol. Care to add your own?
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@Kscott (634)
• United States
12 Jan 07
My two little darling girls 2 & 3 decided to make cookies one night at 3 a.m., I had the monitor on in their room, and the receiver in my bedroom. I awoke to some serious gigling. I assumed they were just up playing in their room, as I listened for a few minutes, I realized the echo I heard was much closer, and they might be in the kitchen, so I went to find out what was going on....OMG...when I walked into the kitchen, there was an empty 5lb bag of flour, and flour was in every nook and cranny of the kitchen....(I think they threw it up in the air and it just landed EVERYWHERE!), there was a dozen eggs broke and scattered all over....the muffin tins filled with flour, and egg, then I discovered Quaker Oats.....a huge container....all over the floor under the stove, the refrigerator, etc.....I had to laugh though, my two year old was sitting under the table with a big bowl, and the gallon of milk...she said "Me and sissy make you cookies for MissMiss"!...I melted....then cringed thinking about the mess....I was lost....I had no idea where to begin...so I woke my husband and asked him to take the little darlings to the bath, for a much needed scrubbing!!! and then just started wiping, sweeping, and laughing.....I regret now not taking a picture at the time....good blackmail at a later time!!! They have had many adventures together, many messes, and I forsee more to come.....I need to write a series of books on all the mishaps....I could tell ya about 5 more....but I'll save those for now!!!
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
Yup, I can see it, lol. And the flour is almost impossible to clean when you've got eggs mixed up in there, lol. I sympathize, lol. And yes you definately should have gotten a picture, lol. My kids get so emberrased when I bring up the stories about the disasters they caused, and it's ten times funnier when I show photo evidence!! LOL Thanks for the story :)
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@lynn3024 (198)
• Canada
13 Jan 07
when my daughter was two she loved to paint, she had to get her hands into it and everything. one day when i was folding clothes my daughter was playing quietly in the dining room when i went in to check on her she had a bottle of ketchup and had painted the entire WHITE kitdhen table. she looked up at me and smiled with ketchup in the corners of her mouth. it was hilarious. i just couldn't grawl at her.
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@sabrinam (1203)
• United States
13 Jan 07
Child yelling - Yelling youngster
LOL, that's hilarious! My son had a quite embarrassing but hilarious outburst when he was around 3. I used to have a leather recliner that I was quite greedy with because I like to curl up and read in it, when my son would ask to sit with me sometimes, I would tell him, "No, mommy's butt is too big, you won't fit baby...". That came back to bite me while I was sitting in the gallery of a courtroom, my son blurted as I sat down next to him, "My mommy has a BIG butt!". To add insult to injury the judge stopped the preceedings and asked me to take my son from the courtroom! LOL!
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@forfein (2507)
12 Jan 07
HHhhhhmmmm Nothing like that..... But........ If I go back a long long time!!! to about 1968, when my boy was only Four!!! We lived on a "Coronation Street" type of street, near Nottingham! Across the street from us lived a woman who was called May. Her husband had suffered severe shell shock during WW II and he suffered from a very bad stutter, and he had gained an awful lot of weight. Because of this, May had decided to "let her self go" a little bit! She was a VERY BIG woman!! Her personal hygeine was also a problem!! if you understand me!! However, she became quite close to my first wife, and would "pop in" for a coffee fairly regularly. My wife would always clean the stool after she left!!! However......... One day, my son, who as I mentioned earlier, was only Four at the time, came into the house, after playing with some of his little friends....... He came up to his mummy for a "Cuddle" and as he did so, passed close to May......... "WOW!!... You stink" he cried out!!!!! We shot each other a couple of glances, May left the house immediately, never to return!!! What can you do???? He was only Four, and called it as he saw it!
@jmintuck (114)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
o m g ! If that was my kid, what a spanking he,d get! I would die from embarrassment after I spanked the boy and made him apologize. Steps: Spank-make him apologize-next:Die from shame
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
You'd spank a 4 year old child for saying what he saw?? Spankings, first of all, are considered a severe form of punishment. The 4 year old may have been inappropriate, but not willingly, and deserves no punishment for just doing what a kid does. I won't even get into the fact that in most places, spanking is now considered flat out abuse and you can be criminally charged for it. Yeesh .. spanking a tiny little kid for being a 4 year old kid. Please don't have children.
@NewHeart (528)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
well was nothing he did as a younger kid but something he did when he got older. he took his car to school one winter day and it was dam cold and snowing out. he was coming home its almost 23 miles and his red light came on for the oil he figgered he could make it home in his chev. well needles to say he seized the bearings up but good and burned them out so couldn'd save it. well needless to say dad had to go and tow him back home. well took it and him straight to the garage i know and was taking his things out of car and putting into the trunk. when i opened the trunk staring me in the face was a case of oil of all things when i said something he said was too cold out and he didn't want to get cold putting it in thought he could make it home so he hurried at about 80 miles an hour lol well needless to say had mechanic take his time putting engine back in when it came he was 3 months getting car back. he was 17 then...lol
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@korek222 (701)
• Poland
12 Jan 07
wo i must say that what he did was really a nice selfish asct but i must say eally funny :)
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@korek222 (701)
• Poland
12 Jan 07
i cant think of any disaster which i caused which caused mine aprents to laugh - there was probably no such a disaster since i'm a nice child or there was so many disasters that noone can even remember :P
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@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
Since you're a 'nice' child? All children have thier horror stories, messes they've made and disasters they've caused. It has nothing to do with them not being nice, it has to do with being A KID.
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@korek222 (701)
• Poland
13 Jan 07
well , tried to ask parents which story they think was the funniest but they gave me so many examples say i can't say even a half - but you're right - disasters is the way the kids are!
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@pookie92 (1714)
• United States
12 Jan 07
HA HA HA, that is funny, leave it to a man to leave them unattended for THAT long! I was babysitting a three year old once. (My kids were 4, 6 and 8 at the time) So my middle girl, who is a PILL, went into the nursery where the little girl was in the crib. I didn't hear her go in, and since kids won't go to sleep easily for naps, I didn't check on the little girl for about 20 minutes. My girl had given her a RED marker to play with. It was just horrible, the crib was red, the walls, the blankets, HER FACE, her hands and she had chewed on the marker too. It was a washable marker, but all moms know they don't wash out ALL THE WAY. To say the least, I was VERY embarrassed when her mother came to pick her up.
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
Oh no, lol ... I can just picture the mess. My oldest daughter had an addiction to my nail polish when she was little .. specifically bright reds and hot pinks on white walls and white furniture. At least you got a washable marker, lol. Even nail polish remover doesn't get nail polish off of white walls, lol. Thanks for the response :)
@jolanda33 (720)
• Netherlands
12 Jan 07
well i don't have a horror story yet, but i remember one from my niece! she was 3-4 years old, playing with her friend a boy. My aunt keep an eye on them, and after 10 minutes she did'nt hear them anymore. So she went to the room and she saw this: both of them where naked, my niece under the boy, my aunt asked them what they where doing? o she said mum we are just f#cking! she closed the door right away because it was funny to see, after one minute she get back in to the room and punished them both(not with her hands ofcourse)
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
I wouldn't find that funny, I'd be furious actually. Not at the kids, at the person who taught them that. Kids don't pick things up from nowhere, they would have had to have seen or heard about it either from the people around them or from television, indicating someone wasn't bothering to actually supervise them. That story is far from funny, it's simply pathetic what some people will allow their children to pick up at those ages. And that was at only 3 or 4, hard to imagine what other 'interesting' habits she was exposed to.
@Sarah1977 (495)
• United States
12 Jan 07
This one is kind of disgusting. When my oldest son (he's 10 now) was about a year old, I put him down in his crib for a nap. He usually slept for about 2 hours and would wake up and scream for me to get him. On this day, I noticed that 2 1/2 hours had already passed, so I went in to check on him. He was completely covered head to toe in crap. He had removed his diaper and managed to smear every drop of feces all over himself, his crib, and even used it to paint pretty pictures on the wall next to his crib. I started crying, because I didn't even know where to begin cleaning...I didn't even want to touch him! LOL...I somehow managed to clean him up, but I left the crib and the wall for my husband to take care of! 9 years later, I am able to laugh about it....
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
Oh don't feel bad, nearly EVERY kid has done this, we just don't like to remember it, lol. I know out of my 5, the only one who didn't was my youngest, and that was likely because I always had him close to me while he slept. The rest all definately did. My 8 year old daughter was famous for it .. to the point where my husband and I literally duct taped her diaper .. I'm not kidding, lol. So yeah, most of us have been there and done that one, lol.
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• Canada
18 Jan 07
haha..yeah, I've been there too. Luckily enough I caught her in time so that she didn't put what she referred to as "choc latt!" in her mouth..lol.
• United States
12 Jan 07
Coming back from the hospital with our second child , my older daughter asked when is the baby's mom coming to pick him up,when her father answered we are his mom and dad , she replied , that is not fair he should go look for his own not take somebody's
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@jsgrand0 (246)
• United States
12 Jan 07
This isn't really a horror story, but it was funny. When my daughter was 1 (now 5) She was in her high chair. I had dumped a few cheerios on her tray and then went to the bathroom. When I came back, i called my husband over and we both stared at her. She had dumped an ENTIRE NEW BOX of Cheerios all over her tray and the floor. She just stared at us waiting to see what we would do. We burst out laughing, and our daughter burst into tears! lol...it was so funny!
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• Melbourne, Florida
12 Jan 07
My niece and nephew smeared poop all over their room one time. On the walls, on the carpet, on every toy they owned. We had white carpet in the room so it was easy to bleach it out. If the toys couldn't go in the dishwasher or the washing machine, they got thrown out. The walls were the hardest to clean. They used the poop to finger paint all over the place. It was absolutely horrendous. And I can't even tell you how much I threw up because of the smell.
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• United States
12 Jan 07
My beautiful daughter was a bit less than 2 and just finished her potty training..we went to Sears to find fall clothing and I was looking for black bathroom sink and bidet..my husband took the younger kids to the displays for the bath, and I took the older kids for clothing...we finished and the 4 kids and I and ALL the bags went to look for my husband and the babies...we spotted a display with alot of people surrounding it...I thought, hm, they must be showing off a new cooking product, so we made our way to the front of the line...to my amazment, my daughter was sitting on the commode, ruffly panties around her ankles...I cried M..what are you doing...she looked up with big shiny eyes smiled and said Poo-pooing Mama!! I dropped bags, scooped her up and ran...boy was I mad at her father!!
12 Jan 07
LOL, that's so cute ha ha! I bet you were SO mad at Dad for that -- has she done something like that since? That's SO sweet, really, you must have been embarrassing for you, though...
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
OMG. I would literally die of emberassment if one of mine had done this. Oh good lord, I'm surprised you didn't kill the father, or at least threaten his life, lol. I give you credit, lol .... I would have keeled over right there, lol.
@candygurl24 (1880)
• Canada
18 Jan 07
Well, I was about 8 & 1/2 months pregnant with my youngest when my oldest girl decided to take on an early career in hairdressing. I was sitting on the couch relaxing after dinner one night and my daughter walked out and said, "Mommy! Aren't I beautiful?"...oh dear. I sat there as hormonal as possible and bawled, but then as I looked at her, those tears kept falling but because of uncontrollable laughter. Her bangs were cut up to the root on the right side and slanted down at a mean angle from there. I still laugh like crazy when I look at the photo of her sitting on my hospital bed holding her new baby sister. One of those moments that will forever be remembered. She still talks about how she made me cry for two reasons that night :)
• United States
12 Jan 07
When my son was three, he found a huge tub of vaseline in my bedroom and smeared it all over his hair. He came out with this big, beautiful, bright smile, so proud of himself, and declared, "Look, I got shiny hair!". I nearly cried. I put him in the tub and washed, and washed, and washed his hair and it would not come out, no matter what I did, and finally we resorted to giving him a buzz cut later in the day. When I called my mother to tell her the story she said, "You know, you could have just put cornstarch in his hair to absorb the oil and it would have washed right out." So my poor kid was bald for his Easter pictures and I learned a valuable lesson, which was that my mother really does know everything, lol. And the cornstarch trick really worked, as we found out six months later when he did it again ::groans::
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
LOL ... thanks for this, it was adorable. I had the same type of incident with my oldest two when they were 3 and 4. My 4 year old son dumped a bottle of baby oil over his sisters head, and I think I had to wash it about 20 times in a row to get the oil out .. and even then it was still greasy! I took pictures ... it was an adorable disaster, lol.
12 Jan 07
Well, I don't have children of my own yet, but my cousin does some pretty weird stuff -- once, we were going to the airport early in the morning on the bus, and she fell asleep, and ended up resting her head on some strange woman's lap -- when I FINALLY woke her up, she screamed "Eww, that woman smells!"
@jmintuck (114)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
I dunno what I,d do. At least tell her to say sorry. And that is not a nice thing to say. Then I,d tell the woman sorry , too. and I,d be embarrassed all day.
@imakella (665)
• United States
17 Jan 07
my father use to play jokes on me and on all others.
@lucky001 (18)
• Pakistan
12 Jan 07
hey.. Being a parent,s u not have only tis duty that just making child,s....u have take care of them bcz children,s r so sensitive.........So take care of them and give them proper time otherwise u have too face a big problem in future.......
@Ciniful (1587)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
Which has nothing to do with this discussion. This topic was for parents to share funny stories about their kids, not for some young guy who likely doesn't even HAVE kids to come in lecturing parents with far more experience. Thanks for your completely off topic and useless post.
@tocika (970)
• Romania
12 Jan 07
I asked my granddaughter for 3 years old,what wish to be when she would grew up?She told me that she wants to be bride and in her free time or holidays,she want to be visitor. Have a nice day!
• United States
12 Jan 07
When my daughter was 1 and 1/2 we went to a Sears store..the older kids needed fall clothing, and I wanted black fixtures for our bathroom...I took the older kids to the clothes, hubbie took the younger ones to the houseware department...armed with many bags my older kids and I went to find the rest of the family...we came upion a large gathering of people, thinking it was a new display for a new product we made our way to the front...only to see my daughter sitting on a commode, her ruffled panties around her ankles...I screamed "M"..what are you doing?? She looked up eyes shining, and smiled Poo-pooing Mama.. I dropped bags, and snached her up and ran to the car..never to return to that store again...boy was I mad at hubbie..who just stood on the side line laughing!
@jmintuck (114)
• Canada
12 Jan 07
There goes that urban legend I heard somewhere. Some parents with their kid was at a toilets and plumbing store and the kid hollered "Where,s the toilet paper?" Turns out the kid made a poo. I guess now that urban legend is based on an actual event.I dunno how that urban legend got around, though.