Share a story of destruction.

[motzie]

Last week I installed a mosquito net over DD1's crib. She's 2.5, and she loved it, just wanted to hang out in there, etc. She's been getting eaten alive during the night, not even sure how, but this was my solution.

Yesterday I went to get her from her nap because I heard a banging noise. She had ripped down the net AND tore the 15" iron plant hanger that was holding it up (with mollies and screws!!!) out of the wall. She was hitting the wall with the iron rod. OMFG. I was so mad, probably mostly at myself for thinking my not ever destructive child would leave it alone.

[rootbeerfloat]

Oh no!
My car console. The little criminal was not clever enough to cover her tracks

[loreleigilmore]

The console would probably come clean with rubbing alcohol.

Necklaces. My kids regularly destroy my costume necklaces and my good ones are in hiding now

[sunshine608]

One earbud on My Bluetooth headset. He grabbed it as he Tripped.

[jewel]

He's only 7 months, so he hasn't had many chances yet....

He did shit on the carpet the other day, though. He was in his bouncing/activity thing, in just a onsie (rookie mistake). He pooped, it ran all down his leg, into the carpet, and then his little feet jumped around in it.

[Deleted]

We have a leg less turtle and an earless bunny in Swarovski crystal because my H said she could hold them. I disagreed. He said 'what could happen?' Oh wait that was the bunny. The turtle was 'why can't we play ball in the house?' (My H asked that not my child)

[mmmomof2]

DD2, who I think was 2 at the time, some how got a hold of a blue sharpie and colored all over (and I mean ALL over) DH's white leather arm chair. He searched high and low for this arm chair and finally found the perfect chair. When I caught her I literally ran around the house like one of those people on Maury Povich because I didn't know what to do (after I took the pen out of her hands of course!). I ended up texting DH a picture, and he took it really well. If it was done by the 5 yo or on our brand new $$$ sectional I don't think he would have taken it so well!

[ilikedonuts]

I'll try to find a picture of our crayon colored tv and entertainment center.

[deo]

Recently,  DS2 (1.5) threw a toy at the TV. Ugh.


A couple of months ago DS1 (3.5) decided to use the towel rack like a monkey bar and it ripped out of the wall.   I still haven't fixed it yet... it's on my list.

[Marmee]

DD1 sharpied my living room couch, chair & ottoman...actually she wrote on everything and anything whenever she could get her hands on a writing instrument.

DD1 & 2 got into my spice drawer and emptied the spices all overly kitchen floor.

One of my girls took a fork or something and carved into my dining room table a heart & initials in it.

One of my girls dropped and broke a bottle of nail polish all over the bathroom floor

One of them hung on the door handle to my French doors and ripped the door knob off

DD1 had a temper tantrum in my Mom's trailer and literally broke the door from the frame from kicking it so hard

They've broke every decorative/breakable vase/item I owned for a few years there

DD3 COVERED my living room with diaper cream...that was the worse.

There are other incidents......

[rugbywife]

Omg. Why the hell did I have kids???

[arebee]

This thread is scaring me.

[sent]

I knew there was a reason I am hesitating to introduce my kid to crayons.

There is a small decorative stone llama someone gave us from Peru. Somehow the llama is missing a leg.  We have no idea when this happened but are pretty sure DD had to have been involved in the llama amputation.

And our carpets are terrible. She is always spilling or puking on them. My husband's first home project in May is to get them cleaned.

[sent]

Apr 26, 2015 22:05:11 GMT -5 @natariru said:

Our TV looks like deo 's.

THANKS A LOT PARUM-PAPUM DRUM! (He hit it w the drumstick when he was about 10 months old).

The first thing I did when I unpacked that drum was to hide the sticks. Nothing good could come from giving a 1 year old sticks.

[heygrey]

my ipad screen is cracked and the wifi receptor is damaged. it still connects so i can check email or facebook, but i can't stream or use facetime. the battery drains significantly faster now than it did, too.

my iphone wifi quit working a few days ago after being dropped on the floor. magically today, R got it again (and dropped it, of course) and now the wifi is working perfectly.

you'd think i leave these items lying around for him, but i do make a solid effort to keep them out of his reach. unfortunately he has a sixth sense when they are at his level and beelines for them. it doesn't help that our house is all tile floors so any drop is a bad one.

[lilac05]

Apr 26, 2015 22:09:49 GMT -5 arebee said:

This thread is scaring me.

Me, too!

Sometimes I think I'm mostly in the clear with DS1 because he's 4 & he knows better.  Obviously that doesn't always matter!

my recent fave parenting motto:  Just because they never HAVE, it doesn't mean they never WILL.

[motzie]

Apr 26, 2015 22:34:13 GMT -5 sent said:

I knew there was a reason I am hesitating to introduce my kid to crayons.

Washable crayons. Don't let anything else enter your home. I don't even know why they even make the non-washable ones anymore.

[caramia17]

The day before the final walk through when we were selling our house, Caramini got a Sharpie and colored everything: walls, floor, leather sofa, white kid-sized table and chairs, leather dining chairs. Every. Fucking. Thing.

My H was in he same room. It all happened so fast.

Pro tip: spray sunscreen and rubbing alcohol were the best for getting sharpie off the cream leather of our dining chairs. Magic eraser for floors and walls.

[mdana]

N isn't too destructive yet, but when I was a kid my grandma used to give us lots of books autographed by the author and illustrator. I thought that meant we were supposed to write our names in all books and on several pages, so I have several books that may well have become valuable at some point with my name scrawled all over them. Oops.

[mainelyfoolish]

This isn't nearly as bad as sharpies and diaper cream, but I just did the laundry and found my DD, who will turn seven in two weeks, put a hair clip into one of her knit shirts. She didn't clip it on, she pushed the metal alligator clip part through the fabric in two place, leaving two 1/4" holes in the chest of her tee shirt. A couple of months ago, she cut a 1" hole into the skirt of a Hanna Andersson dress because she was holding a piece of paper on her lap while she was cutting it. I used to think she was rough on her clothes as a preschooler, but she's destroyed far more clothes as a grade-schooler.

[gibbinator]

Ds1 broke the arms off of my glasses soooo many times when he was around a year old. He'd just unexpectedly pull them off my face and bend the arms out. That was a pain. Thankfully they were still under warranty so I kept going back to the optometrist "so my glasses broke again..."

[mainelyfoolish]

I thought of one I did as a kid: my dad had a set of leather bound books in several volumes. The volumes were labeled in Roman numerals. I couldn't read the Roman numerals but I knew the books were on the shelf in order, so I took a red pen and labeled the spines with Arabic numbers. The "3" is backwards, so I figure I was around 6 or 7 when I did it.

[redheadbaker]

Oh man. DS got a hold of a sharpie, and the worst thing he did was draw extra stripes on his Fisher Price Little People Zoo tigers.

Oh, wait, he drew on the dining room table, too, but that's a hand-me-down that's almost literally on its last legs, so I didn't care too much.

[auntie]

So many things.

DS carved a heartogram on my refrigerator within an hour of its delivery when he was 6.

He carved his initials on the door of DH's Jeep also when he was 6.

He took out all the pots and pans in the house and pissed in them while I was in the shower when he was 3.

He outlined all the veins and arteries he could see with a red and blue Sharpie when he was 5.

He shaved off his eyebrows twice, once at around 4 and once around 6.

He and another kid exchanged haircuts on the bus home when he was 7.

He locked himself in the bedroom with my old himalayan and my sewing box. He cuts all the fur off the starboard side of the cat with my razor sharp shears and then took the pinking shears to his head leaving a kind of mohawk effect. The damned cat never moved. By the time I got into the room, there was white hair floating everywhere from the ceiling fan. It was like a snowglobe.

He used to stash his sandwich crusts behind DH's huge old school speakers in the corner of the living room behind a chair when he was about 2. I thought he was eating them- nope he'd climb on the chair and toss them over. We had ants, which led to me finding a pile that was about 12" deep.

He covered all the furniture in his room with Star Wars stickers.

He fell asleep on the toilet a couple years ago when he was about 17 and fell off putting his head through the wall.

[auntie]

Apr 27, 2015 8:06:45 GMT -5 @natariru said:

Ok auntie wins. And now I'm scared for my future.

My kid's 21. He's had a longer run and more opportunities.

[djc315]

This was last week. He did this with pliers. If you ask him he was "just fixin it!"

(Thats our console table)

[motzie]

Apr 27, 2015 6:48:29 GMT -5 swizz said:

So the moral of this thread is that sharpies should be kept in a lock box, yes?

I wish I could find the picture of when DD decorated my MacBook on moving day when I foolishly left a sharpie out.

[jeaniebueller]

Apr 27, 2015 6:48:29 GMT -5 swizz said:

So the moral of this thread is that sharpies should be kept in a lock box, yes?

When my sister was about 5, she took a black sharpie and drew a horizontal line across the carpet the entire length of our fancy living room. The carpet was white. My mom was not happy.

[tigress]

I learned last night that to get permanent marker off of counter tops you use nail polish remover. This did NOT work on the sharpie on the neighbor's cement patio or on the pink/purple pen on my white bonded leather couch. LOL.

[sweetday]

Apr 26, 2015 16:27:02 GMT -5 sunshine608 said:

One earbud on My Bluetooth headset. He grabbed it as he Tripped.

Ugh yes! The Peanut loves to snatch necklaces. My sister says she has a bill for me of the ones he's broken.

I just remove mine the second I pick him up from daycare.