What's the Scariest thing your child ever did..inspired by funniest thread

[Gwene65]

My almost 3 yr old thinks he is independant.

The other day he was washing his hands in the bathroom while I was washing dishes. All of a sudden I hear this crash and him screaming. I ran to the bathroom and he was on the floor sobbing b/c he had turned the water on all the way hot and burned himself. I freaked out-he was ok after a few minutes.
I felt like the worst mother ever.

Kids are resilant (sp?) creatures though.

 

[TinkBoo&ElliesMum]

Ohhhhhh DS has had so many it's hard to keep track at this point!

At a little over two he managed to unbuckle his high chair strap, undo the tray and do a head dive about three feet to the floor landing on the top of his head, I was sitting right next to him and tried to catch him while screaming. About 15 minutes later he fell asleep and didn't want to wake up. That was an ER trip. He fell at the park when he was with my Mom, just let go of the monkey bars and landed on his bum and back, he couldn't breathe. Yet another ER trip. He also had a three week run where he was putting things in his ears and nose that required late afternoon runs to the peds office. He grew out of that thankfully!

DD fell down the stairs at the new house the night we moved in, we were all there screaming trying to catch her. She was also pretty sick as a newborn, horrible jaundice for the first two months, RSV, she just kept us in a constant state of panic!

 

[Lorix2]

My son hid in my unlocked car under the dashboard while we frantically looked for him on a very hot day

 

[Stepharoonie!]

My ex was supposed to be watching Madison while I was getting dressed one day when she had just turned two, and she toddled into the room with one of those clear baby bottle caps stuck in her mouth. She had somehow wedged it behind her teeth, and when she cried, it went back further and further. I was screaming for my husband to help me get it out, and we eventually did. Almost had to go to the ER for that one.

Another time he was supposed to be watching her right after she learned to walk, she crawled out the cat door and headed straight for the pool. I looked out by the pool as I was coming into the house, and saw her leaning over the edge. I screamed at her to stop, and she got this panicked look and ran back into the house. My heart nearly stopped when I saw her there, I never would have made it inside and through the sliding glass door in time.

 

[cynsaun]

My oldest daughter was sweeping out the fort that is attached to her swing set. When she was done, she decided it would be fun to slide down the slide with the broom. Well, let's just say that the broom made it to the bottom first and stopped, but she didn't! The end of the broom (which was metal) cut into her face right above her upper lip, her gums, and her brand-new adult front teeth!

Needless to say, there was blood everywhere and we had to rush her to the dentist because of the damage to the teeth and gums.

Even though she had some root damage, the teeth were fine, the gum healed, and she has a hair-line scar above her lip!! WHEW!!!

At least she wasn't clueless like me (I was four) and walked in front of a swing and got whacked in the head (requiring 6 stictches!!), just because it was snack time!! I have always zeroed in on cookies, and let NOTHING get in my way!

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

My DH used to keep a gun in a locked case in the back of our bedroom closet behind spare blankets on the top shelf. Our door even had child safety locks on it. One day my DD(5) (she was 2 at the time) brought it to me as I was doing dishes. She had used the key attached to DH keychain to open the case and I still haven't figured out how she climbed up to the shelf. Thank God, we never allowed any bullets in the house (I made DH keep them at work)! I freaked out and dropped the glass I was washing on the floor. Remy started crying and threw the gun on the floor. After that I made DH keep the gun at work. From personal experience I can now tell people that kids, no matter what the age, will find a way to get ahold of guns kept in a house. I feel sick everytime I think of what happened and imagine what could have happened if a bullet had been in the chamber.
Since then she has done tons of scary things (some requiring ER visits), but that was the absolute worse.

 

[CamColt]

Cam has given me heart failure a few times.
It could be the time he didnt get off the bus and the bus started pulling away(he wasnt paying attention). Or the time he opened all the drawers on the bureau and it started falling over on top of him, tv and all. Or maybe the biggest scare was when we were riding a merry go round at the zoo and he decided to start climbing off the horse...and he rolled right off the merry go round while I was still going around on it.

 

[two4ruff]

I locked my keys and 3 month old in my car at a gas station. AAA had to come break in.

Needless to say, I wasn't nominated for Mother of the Year that year...

 

[Jenn Lynn]

One day I put Avery down for a nap. When she was quiet I went in to check on her. She was not in the bed!
I started yelling for her calling her name really loud. (I have this fear of someone breaking in a kidnapping her.) My place is not that big and there is not that many places she could go.
Finally I went back into her room and pulled back the covers. She was all the way under them-sound asleep. She had never done that before.

My heart was racing and I was shaking. I had to sit down for a while to calm down.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

I was out on the front steps with DD when she was about 2 years old. I was talking to the neighbors. (We lived in a row house.) DD fell down 5 cement steps. When I picked her up at the bottom, expecting blood and crying, she was still and unconscious. She came around before the ambulance arrived and was fine by the time we got to the doctor.

 

[mrsv98]

A year ago Mother's Day, DD was upstairs with DH and I was talking to my DMom on the phone. DD (then just 3) started to come down the stairs as she has done a thousand times. Well, she was looking at her picture and not the steps, missed one and fell all the way down. I heard a thunk-thunk-thunk and I think my heart stopped! We had the kitchen gated off because the puppy was still little. I dropped the phone and vaulted over the gate to the stairs. DD was holding her arm and wouldn't let me look. After a few mins, I realized my poor DMom was still on the phone and sent DH to hang up with her. We called the Ped and went to the ER. Well, she had dislocated her elbow - really common in young children - and when I was looking at it to see if her arm was broken, I had unknowingly popped it back into place. By the time we were seen at the hospital, she was laughing and having fun looking at the fish in the tank!

A couple of weeks ago, the workmen had left the gate open, I ran upstairs to change while DD was having a snack. All of the sudden, Lilly, 1 yo lab and not the brightest creature on the planet, started barking in an unusual way. I raced back downstairs to discover DD on the front porch! Man, talk about a heart attack. She had gone outside in the back, thru the gate and was picking dandelions in the front. Lilly "knew" she wasn't supposed to be there and alerted me. Maybe she is smarter that we think! DD and I had a long talk about never being in the front alone.

DD is very articulate for her age and doesn't generally get into mischief. I have to always remind myself that she really is only 4 and just because she hasn't done something, doesn't mean she can't or won't.

 

[mom2boys]

DS was about 4. I was washing the van on the side of the house. He was playing in the back yard. I could see him clearly. Well, I looked away and heard him screaming. We live on a mountainside. He was in his wagon flying down the backyard. This was one of those wagons that you cannot steer. At the bottom of our backyard is a 3 ft drop (old stone wall) & then woods. I went racing after him, screaming his name & praying for his safety -all the while imagining life with my son to be paralyzed son. I couldn't catch up to him. He and the wagon became airborne and landed about 15 feet into the woods. Dead silence for what seemed an eternity. Then he starts crying hysterically "my wagon, my wagon" He was fine. And I aged 10 yrs in 2 minutes.

Another time, when my oldest was about 2 and younest 1:
The boys had been playing in the living room. It was a snow day - even the federal gov't had closed. I was putting laundry away when the doorbell rang. I almost didn't answer because I wasn't expecting anyone. I creeped down the hall to peak out without being seen - couldn't see anyone. I went to the door and found both of my babies out in the snow. The oldest could barely reach the doorbell even when he was standing on the threshold to the doorway. All I could think of was a toddler who had been found frozen to death in the snow the week before - he too had wandered outside without his parents knowledge and was found just outside the door.

 

[CamColt]

Jenn Lynn, your story reminded me of another of Cams escapades. When he was 2 we had only been in our new house for a couple months. I was pregnant so I was sleeping in late those mornings, when DH went to work real early. I got up one morning and Cam was not in his bed. He was nowhere to be found. I literally searched the house, closets and everything and couldnt find him. I called DH at work hysterical. He said he saw him in his bed when he left a few hours earlier. I kept searching and screaming Cams name. Finally I found him in our garage, right near the side door ready to go outside!

 

[pjlla]

OH MY GOSH..... I think I got gray hair just reading this stuff!! THe only one that comes to mind for me and my kids was my fault!! DD was almost 2. I was going out in the front yard for a few minutes to water the windowboxes and I told her she had to stay in and just watch me. She wanted to come out and was trying to go through the storm door. I made her go back in and I pushed the door closed. Well.... she was crying and then started crying harder... I thought it was just because she wanted to come out with me.... Then I realized it sounded different. I had caught her pinky finger in the hinge side of the door!! I honestly thought I may have severed the end of the finger. I don't freak out about blood, but I IMAGINED under all the blood that her finger from the first knuckle up was just hanging on by a thread. I scooped her up and yelled for DH who was in the garden rototilling. He came up and we raced to the ER, blood just everywhere. I was trying to hold a clean towel over her finger, but she was very squirmy and I had visions of pulling the finger tip off the rest of the way!! Anyhow, she was fine.... finger was quite intact. Required 3 stitches. Those were probably more traumatic than the injury!! And I'm sure that DH will not let me forget it until my dying day!! ..........................P

 

[sunsprinkle24]

When my DS8 was a year old, I saw him picking something off of the floor and putting it in his mouth. I went over to get it out, and he clamped his mouth shut and shook his head from side to side so I couldn't get it out. It went down his throat and he got choked...I turned him upside down on my knee and pounded on his back like your supposed to, it was horrible, his lips turned this purple-ish blue color and all of a sudden he coughed and started breathing. But, nothing came out of his mouth. He swallowed whatever it was. I called the pediatrician, who said, as long as he was acting normally now, hes ok.

Well, it was Halloween so I took my two other boys trick-or-treating and my mother came over to watch the baby. When we got back, she said, something isn't right, when he cries or lays down he holds his breath--and he was not a "breath holder." I was really bothered by this, even though my now ex-husband thought I was being "overprotective". So I decided to tak him to the emergency room. I really expected to leave there with a huge bill and feeling like an idiot! They did a chest X-ray and they saw something lodged in the opening of his lung! Apparantly, he could get air in, but it couldnt come out. They showed us the X-ray and you could see how it was pushing over to the other side.

They asked us, what could he have swallowed, a toy, what? I had no idea because I kept small toys put up, floors cleaned etc. They called in their heart surgeon to come in and go down his throat to try and pull this thing out....and they weren't even sure they had surgical pieces small enough for his throat. After being in surgery an hour, the doctor finally came out and told us after numerous tries, he said a prayer and thought, I am going to try one last time, if I cant get it out, we will have to send him to Louisville....and he got it out! It was a small rock, the size of a pencil eraser! It must have come off or out of one of his brothers shoes. He was in the hospital in intensive care for a day just for observation, and today he is fine....I just shudder to think if I had laid him to bed that night, I don't think he would have ever woken up. It was horrible!

I always operate under the philosophy of "Better Safe than Sorry" with my children and if I have the feeling something isn't right, I get it checked out because you never know.

 

[piglet too]

The scariest thing any of my children has done happened this past November, right after we moved here. My 9 yr old decided to go with a friend instead of coming home after school like he is supposed to. I even had the police here, giving them a picture when he finally showed up over an hour late. We had litterally been here a week when he did this. Even now, I get chills remembering how scared I was that I was never going to see him again.

 

[Madi100]

My three year old has red hair, and she has earned every last strand of it! The scariest thing probably happened one day while I was getting ready for work. I work a couple nights a week. My 2 year old (she's the three year old now) and 6 year old were sitting in the livinng room watching tv. My 2 year old decided she needed some popcorn. So, instead of asking, she just decided to make it herself. Well, she doesn't know how to make popcorn, of course. I was back getting ready, and the next thing I know my daughter is screaming that there is smoke.

I ran to the kitchen and there is dark smoke just billowing out of the microwave. I yelled at the girls to go in the other room, and I opened the microwave and used tongs to get the popcorn out. There was no popcorn left in the bag, just little black kernels. The bag was completely black. And, she had not taken the plastic outside off of it. That was melted around the bag. When I opened the microwave, the smoke was so bad it burned my lungs.

I threw the bag outside, and when I came back in, I still couldn't breathe in our kitchen. The microwave was yellow in the inside, the counter was yellow, and there was a film on all of the windows in the kitchen. The microwave had 3 minutes left on it. It is very easy to put 10 minutes on our microwave, so I'm assuming that is what happened.

Scared the living daylights out of me!!!

 

[MosMom]

My kids have never really done anything that scared me. The scariest moment with my child was when the van locked her in on it's own in the KMart parking lot. It was a VERY hot July day and we had gone to KMart. We were coming out and I put her in the van. I threw the keys onto the driver's seat and shut the sliding door to walk around. The van immediately locked....with the keys on the seat. I freaked out for a few seconds then left her in the van to run inside and call the police. The police arrived in maybe 5 minutes but it seemed like AGES! I was running to get a shopping cart to smash through the back window when I saw the police car pull into the lot.

He got her out in a jiffy and she was already sweating. The whole ordeal didn't last more than 10 minutes and she was already sweating profusely and HOT! Whenever I see that some parent has purposely left their kids in the car, it just makes me sick knowing how fast it gets hot in a car.

The van turned out to have electrical problems and we traded it in the next month for the mini van we have now. That was so scary. I was crying and felt like a horrible mother.

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The other scary moment was when Mo was going through her head butting stage and I thought she broke my nose in the parking lot of Once Upon A Child. She head butted my right in the nose and blood just started pouring out. It was all over my shirt and the asphalt. Mo just sat there with this shocked look on her face. I ended grabbing some old rag from under the seat I had for cleaning the windows and got it stopped. She never head butted me again after that. It scared us both!

 

[newholiday]

Last Nov DS11 checked himself out of the kids club on Castaway Club and went back onboard the Magic!

 

[Snoopymom]

During a Disney trip at a rental villa with a pool when ds was 2, he jumped in without his water wings on. We were sharing it with our extended family and had 3 little ones so we were very strict about the door and alarm, but I was carrying all the cups etc. into the house after everyone had gone in to get changed and I left the door open. I heard his little feet on the patio go plat plat and I dropped everything to dive in after him because I knew that's where he was headed. I think I may have hit the water before him, but it still freaked me out.

He's now 4 and about 3 weeks ago, he grabbed a hotdog in a bun instead of waiting for the one that I was cutting up in tiny pieces for him and he started to eat it before the rest of us got to the table. He didn't make a sound, just stood up and started to sway. If you have always worried about whether the Heimlich works, it does!!!! I reached around him and you could almost tell where to pull on his stomache because it was hard and expanded, so if this ever happens, just try it, try not to panic. The piece popped out immediately! I don't know what I would have done if it hadn't, but I can't bare to think about it.

About 2 weeks ago we were staying at a hotel in Daytona Beach with a wall of windows and there were two about shoulder height (with no screens) that could be opened and while I was in the bathroom for only 2 seconds, ds had pulled up a chair, opened a window and was waving down to dh at the pool.

10 years of my life went poof during each of these incidents, not to mention my confidence in being a responsible parent, ugh!