Has your child destroyed an item at home?

[gr8tpanther]

My DD emptied the contents of the refrigerator onto the kitchen floor! AND, she removed EVERYTHING from the containers and mixed them together in a pile on the floor! Try cleaning up.. mayo/ketchup/mustard/butter/milk/lunch meat/cheese/and whatever else was in there, up! Needless to say, I was NOT a happy camper! And what made it WORSE... she did this while I was at work and in the care of my EX, HE left ME the mess to clean up! And she did this in the MORNING, he left it lay ALL DAY, so I could SEE what MY daughter had done!

 

[PixieDust32]

My DD emptied the contents of the refrigerator onto the kitchen floor! AND, she removed EVERYTHING from the containers and mixed them together in a pile on the floor! Try cleaning up.. mayo/ketchup/mustard/butter/milk/lunch meat/cheese/and whatever else was in there, up! Needless to say, I was NOT a happy camper! And what made it WORSE... she did this while I was at work and in the care of my EX, HE left ME the mess to clean up! And she did this in the MORNING, he left it lay ALL DAY, so I could SEE what MY daughter had done!

Oh boy!


My DS was 3 and he couldn't reach the cereal, so we put dog food in the bowl then he told me that the "Candy's" cereal tasted weird.
He cut the 15lb bag open with a fork.

 

[SpecialK]

When my oldest was 7, he decided it would be agood idea to rub a fake shark tooth back and forth across the screen of our brand spankin' new flat screen TV. Every time I see those scratches I still wonder what he was thinking.

 

[tiggersmom2]

Melted the living room carpet with an iron. $1000 for new carpet
All four kitchen chairs have been broken and fixed. not replaced yet, but soon
His bedroom window, broken. $200 to replace
Set of glass nesting bowls, broken.
Two different sets of blinds, pulled down. Just tossed those and put up curtains.
Pulled down the curtain rod in his room several times.
Pulled off some wall paper in his room.
Colored with crayon on wall in his room.
I'm sure there are countless other things that I can't think of.

WOW!!!! You are so lucky he didn't burn himself!

The worst thing mine has ever done is color on the walls.

 

[justhat]

We have sorta eliminated crayons too, like DisneyPhD. A few months ago I was taking a nap and my husband was 'watching' Madison. Well I woke up and the ottoman was colored with just about every color crayon we own (my mom bought her a pack of crayons). Nothing I did got it out, so our pink and white striped rocking chair ha s amuch more colorful ottoman now! Madison also colored all over our couch with a blue marker a couple of weeks ago. Literally all over, I mean, there was hardly a spot left not blue, including the pillows. Luckily it was a washable marker, but it took forever to clean. Then there was the Sharpie on the wooden kitchen table. The pen on the wall. Marker on the coffee table. I should probably take away all the writing utensils and then I'd be fine!!

The only other thing was the toilet handle. She loves to flush the toilet and did it so much that the handle got very, very loose. My husband fixed it yesterday though, so I guess it wasn't destroyed like I thought. And of course she's broken a few small decoration type things and a plate, but that's really my own fault for keeping things like that within her reach. Of course we just put up the Christmas tree so we'll see how that goes .

 

[clh2]

I huge thank you to all the posters on this thread. I am just about in tears I am laughing so hard.

I just don't remember my DD (now 11) doing anything that destroyed something of value - either sentimental or of $$$ value - so I can't really add to this thread. Or - I've just repressed the memories.

 

[Mariposa]

DD has "decorated" her room with crayons, pencils, markers, NAIL POLISH, and a variety of stickers. She also spread white paint (craft stuff) all over a table.

Although it didn't technically destroy anything, my personal favorite was when she was around 3 years old and spread a 10 lb bag of rice all over our living room carpet. She waited until I was in another room on the phone (for all of 3 minutes), got the bag out of the cabinet, drug it into the living room, ripped it open and spread it EVENLY all over the floor. And when I asked her about it she told me that Daddy did it. Uh-huh. Sure. Daddy was at work an hour away, but he snuck home and spread rice on the carpet. Yeah.

And, not my kid, but my darling cousin once spread peanut butter all over the inside of the flip front control panel on my grandparents' console TV-- you know, the part on the front of some of the older ones that was supposed to blend in, but you could flip it open and change the channel and what not? Yeah.. and the best part was that he'd broken the remote by JUMPING UP AND DOWN ON IT for no reason just a week earlier. Yep, he's the bad cousin.

 

[Sandcass]

Somebody scratched hearts and stars into the paint of my mini-van. (we never were able to identify the guilty party. It could have been my DD or one of the MANY neighborhood children who are always lurking about!)

 

[Poohnatic]

Ohhh, I've got a few good ones:

My younger sister (now 35):
*Using permanent marker to draw "Barney Rubbles" all over her bedroom wall, the upstairs hall and down the stairs.
*"Making a cake" by mixing flour and milk in a melamine bowl and putting it on the 50's era electric stove with push buttons on the front. It melted and earned us a week of take out (in the days when we NEVER went out to eat-I think that was my first experience of McDonald's or Burger King)

My sons:
Oldest decided to clean the TV screen that he'd gotten fingerprints on, uses probably half the bottle of windex on it. Liquid gets down onto the sound card and we don't have sound on the TV for about 20 minutes, until it warms up. I think DH liked that, because I went out and bought a new TV two months later.

Poured a bottle of bright pink nail polish on my bedroom carpet in the new house we moved into just three weeks earlier. Light gray carpet and nail polish remover didn't take it out. It was interesting to see the creative way we covered *that* up to sell the house!

Used a red sharpie on my stairwell. Magic Eraser was my hero, but I still needed a coat of paint over that.

Decided that he wanted something on the kitchen counter, opened up the dishwasher and stood on the door to get it. Seal for the door had to be replaced.

We're pretty lucky. My sister's youngest causes some serious damage and he's not even three yet! I bought sis a DVD player and gave it to her in July. He put crayons in it in August, so it was only in service 5 weeks.

Suzanne

 

[Nancy]

have you all ever heard my ceiling fan story? Funny now, not funny then!

Three DD's and 1 friend at my house for a sleepover. This was over 4 years ago (more like 5-6 now) when I worked overnights. I have a nice big king size bed, great for doing gymnastics on!(NOT) I also HAD a gorgeous expensive ceiling fan above it.The girls had been told multiple times not to do flips and stuff on the bed, but Mom is gone, Dad is sleeping on the couch...so let's flip my youngest through the air, have her do a somersault and land on the bed. Trouble started when her foot hit the blade and broke it off. They decided to try to hot glue it back on, that didn't work. Oldest DD had the brilliant idea..Let's trun the fan on and see if you can tell the blade is gone if it's going around really fast. They turn on the fan, fan is on high speed and is now wobbling really bad because it is off balance. The other blades are hitting the ceiling, second blade breaks off and flys through the air and lodges in the wall above my headboard, (thank god it wasn't a kids head!) 3 out of 4 kids and 2 cats run from the room, kids screaming. Dh wakes up and runs down to the basement to shut off the power....hears screaming from upstairs because middle dd is buried under the bed covers because she couldn't get out of the room! Now it is pitch black and she thinks it is because the fan fell down or something. DH turns power back on and remebers he can just get upstairs and flip the wall switch. I come home to a ceiling fan sitting in the middle of my kichen. I had a gouges in my ceiling, a big hole in my wall, a a useless fan. Can I tell you how much I love my kids? I didn't even yell at them, I figured they were so scared they didn't need me to yell.

 

[MomofKatie]

Lots of little things- dropped dishes, written-on books, etc. The biggest thing is the wall-to-wall carpeting throughout the house- practically each and every room- ruined over the past 5 years by DD and her friends. We've spot treated, steam cleaned, the works- and nothing has helped.

*Living room- red Koolaid stains, red clay mud stains, and various food item stains.
**Dining room- dark brown vomit on Halloween night after eating way too much chocolate .
*DDs bedroom- liquid Benadryl mixed with liquid Childrens Motrin. Had to call Poison Control over that one, since she drank some and poured the rest on the carpet. Poison Control had us give her syrup of ipecac, resulting in...
*DH and my bedroom- pink throw up when the ipecac kicked in .
*Bonus room- DD and her friend decided to take the CranRaspberry juice I gave them one day and pour it all over the carpet to make a "river"- when they saw the mess, they covered it up with an antique quilt (ruined it, too) and DD's play tent. I found it about 8 hours later.

We will be replacing the downstairs carpet with hardwood floors this summer, but the upstairs will have to wait for a while. Kids- bless their rotten little hearts!!

 

[Mariposa]

Somebody scratched hearts and stars into the paint of my mini-van. (we never were able to identify the guilty party. It could have been my DD or one of the MANY neighborhood children who are always lurking about!)

Hee! This reminds me of my ex..

Apperently he wrote MOM in HUGE, HUGE letters on both sides of his mom's station wagon when he was little. He used pencil (or something??) that ruined the paint job, too. Heh.. When she finally decided to get something new to drive (years later) she announced to her family that she felt it was time she 'got something that didn't have Mom written all over it...... literally.'

 

[Nancy]

Hee! This reminds me of my ex..

Apperently he wrote MOM in HUGE, HUGE letters on both sides of his mom's station wagon when he was little. He used pencil (or something??) that ruined the paint job, too. Heh.. When she finally decided to get something new to drive (years later) she announced to her family that she felt it was time she 'got something that didn't have Mom written all over it...... literally.'

I had hearts and BSB (for backstreet Boys) and NSync written on the hood of my car. They scrathced it in with stones. Luckily it wasn't deep and you could only see it up close.

This thread is bringing back so many memories!

 

[Marseeya]

I am SO GLAD after reading all these that neither of my kids were the type to get into anything! They spoiled me, because when I used to watch my niece, it felt like a major chore because I couldn't take my eyes off of her for one single second. She had her hands into everything. She's 8 now, and still gets into stuff.

That doesn't mean they didn't do anything, though. When DD was a tot, she loved getting hold of Daddy's old cassette tapes and sticking her chubby little fingers inside to grab the ribbon. I always blamed Daddy for leaving them within reach. (fortunately, we'd already changed everything over to CDs by that point and the cassettes were just for sentimental reasons)

DS had a problem with rages when he was younger (bipolar) and he'd punch holes in his bedroom wall. He did that twice in our old house and once in this one.

 

[delilah]

Most recently, my son broke his gameboy, which he played almost constantly up to that point. A game he was playing frustrated him somehow, so, he threw the game (I think) and broke the LCD display. The game wasn't replaced. So, now we have a box full of GBA games, and, maybe, a 7yo who has learned not to intentionally destroy things. This is the main thing that he has broken.

Now, the dogs, that's a different story. I could write a book on that--including but not limited to chewing pens in the bedroom, so we needed to replace the carpeting, then, chewing pens in the bedroom on the new hardwood floor. I almost have DH trained to not leave pens out where the dogs can get them.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Or - I've just repressed the memories.

You got that right--I think that I've repressed the memories.

With four kids I should have lots of examples, but I can't think of many. My youngest is the only one who has written on the walls. I tried to keep the pens, markers, etc away from him, but with 3 older siblings that was fairly impossible.

When my DD was 2 1/2 we were visiting my sister in The Netherlands. We were in the car, waiting for someone and she was out of her carseat and in the front seat. She looked up at the rear view mirror and before we could stop her, she snapped the thing off. My sister never did get the thing back up well. I don't know if the dealer could have done better if she had of been living in the USA (American car), but it was never secure after that.

Just yesterday my youngest RAN into our foyer, into where I was walking with the vacuum cleaner. He hit it just right and broke off the part that locks and holds the vacuum in an upright position. Maybe not he understands why I tell him to walk and to look where he is going.

Actually, we have more breakage now that the kids are older. It's not that they are trying to be destructive, but they are big and they seem so hard on things. My 15yo is the bull in a china shop. He was getting something out of a cupboard one day and something that was in the cupboard fell and landed on my favorite Universal Studios "Got Coffee?" mug and broke it.

The wear and tear and the house gets worse when they are older even if they are not trying to break or damage stuff like some little kids do.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

have you all ever heard my ceiling fan story? Funny now, not funny then!

Nancy, how FUNNY! I'm sure it wasn't then, but what a great story to be able to tell. And you are a much better mother than I am--my kids would have wished the fan hit them.

 

[Miss Park Avenue]

Robert Munsch has a book you would enjoy called "Purple, Green, and Yellow"- about a girl who promises she won't write on anything but paper but.....doesn't! Just like your girls. It's funny.

Jackie

Oh good grief! We have that book!!! The girls used to make me read it all the time. A lot of questions have now been answered...

 

[Tiffann4k]

Oh my gosh, I dont know if I can remember them all..lol

* blue crayon in the dryer as well
* destroyed the cupboards in our entertainment center
* had to repaint a bedroom & living room because of crayon and pen all over the walls
* poured toilet bowl cleaner on the NEW carpet and it ate a huge hole in it, I sat there and cried
* smeared a dozen eggs in bedroom carpet so we replaced with wood floors
* broke the bottom shelf of the fridge by standing on it
* broke the cupboard door by using it as a ladder


I think that was all the major ones

 

[Miss Park Avenue]

have you all ever heard my ceiling fan story? Funny now, not funny then!

Three DD's and 1 friend at my house for a sleepover. This was over 4 years ago (more like 5-6 now) when I worked overnights. I have a nice big king size bed, great for doing gymnastics on!(NOT) I also HAD a gorgeous expensive ceiling fan above it.The girls had been told multiple times not to do flips and stuff on the bed, but Mom is gone, Dad is sleeping on the couch...so let's flip my youngest through the air, have her do a somersault and land on the bed. Trouble started when her foot hit the blade and broke it off. They decided to try to hot glue it back on, that didn't work. Oldest DD had the brilliant idea..Let's trun the fan on and see if you can tell the blade is gone if it's going around really fast. They turn on the fan, fan is on high speed and is now wobbling really bad because it is off balance. The other blades are hitting the ceiling, second blade breaks off and flys through the air and lodges in the wall above my headboard, (thank god it wasn't a kids head!) 3 out of 4 kids and 2 cats run from the room, kids screaming. Dh wakes up and runs down to the basement to shut off the power....hears screaming from upstairs because middle dd is buried under the bed covers because she couldn't get out of the room! Now it is pitch black and she thinks it is because the fan fell down or something. DH turns power back on and remebers he can just get upstairs and flip the wall switch. I come home to a ceiling fan sitting in the middle of my kichen. I had a gouges in my ceiling, a big hole in my wall, a a useless fan. Can I tell you how much I love my kids? I didn't even yell at them, I figured they were so scared they didn't need me to yell.

I am laughing so hard right now~!~!~

I would be totally speachless if I came home to that. They would have to put ME in a time out!!!