What Are Some of the Nutty Things Your Child Has Done?

Updated on February 04, 2011
C.C. asks from Morrisville, PA
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My kids are now 4 1/2 yrs 6 1/2yrs and 11 yrs. Some yrs back when my middle child was 2 1/2 he really enjoyed viewing the different holiday decorations at Michael's craft store. His favorite holiday was Halloween. Sometimes we would go 2-3 times a week just to look at the spooky decorations. Well one day we go over to the store. My little one is still tiny. She is in the carseat attached to the shopping cart. I am pushing the cart and holding my son. I was holding him so he was able to see the Halloween decorations that were higher. I put him down for one second and he takes OFF LIKE A JET. Honestly I had no idea what just happened. It was craziness. There was a lady I knew shopping. I said please watch my baby. I have to find my son. Another women yelled I saw him run this way. He ran clear across the other side of the store. Obviously he was scared of the Halloween decorations. I explained to him as calmly as I was able to..you scared mommmy you can't just away like that again.

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D.B.

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I could write a book I think. Stripping naked in the woman's department, crawling down the middle of the table at daycare licking the frosting off all the kids cupcakes, telling the principal in 4k that he was going to kick his butt, hiding in the closet and eating a package of oreos, etc. Best one was when big sister allowed 3 year old brother go into a crowded McDonald's bathroom by himself while I stood outside holding 2 dogs, helpless. He emerged fully naked. Some guy asked me if that was my kid (must have been the look on my face!) and offered to hold the dogs while I rescued his pants.

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C.C.

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Oh man. Where to begin?

When my older daughter was 18 months, she could speak clearly and in full sentences. We went to the grocery store and there was a man shopping who had an obvious toupee. She pointed at him and said in a loud voice, "Look Mommy! That man has a monkey on his head!" (and then began making monkey noises) I wanted to die!! I grabbed her and ran out of there.

Then there was the time when my younger daughter was 2 years old and had been quiet a little too long. I went to find her and found that she had lined up all my shoes on the floor of the closet, had grabbed the Costco-sized bottle of hair conditioner (with a convenient pump dispenser), and filled ALL of my shoes to the brim.

And the time she got out her green poster paint (which she had to climb the closet shelving to reach), and painted the cat. (The cat is a very laid-back breed or I'm sure my daughter would be minus an arm or two after that experience.)

And then the time when she had been interested in "helping" me do laundry. She saw a dry load of laundry (whites, conveniently) in the dryer, added an entire box of crayons, turned the dryer on, and voila! An hour later when I went to get the laundry out of the dryer, I found both the laundry and the dryer drum to have been redecorated. Nothing like spending a whole Saturday scraping crayon off the dryer drum with a butter knife.

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S.B.

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Both of my kids are so hilarious. They have certainly been entertaining, to be sure.
My son was 3 and I was in the kitchen getting ready to make dinner. He came in with his hands behind his back, acting like he'd been into something.
I asked him what he was hiding and he said, "nothing".
I asked him to show me his hands and he said, "no, thank you."
I wanted to know what he was up to and he finally told me that he cut his finger.
Cut his finger? What the heck had he been doing? How bad was it? He needed to show me so I could check it out. Maybe he needed a band-aid.
(Or stitches...I didn't know....)
He said, "Mommy, it's okay. I already used one of Sissy's band-aids."
He showed me his finger.
He had a mini-pad wrapped around it.

His sister was 13 and he'd been exploring in her bathroom cabinet.

His finger was just fine, by the way.

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M.G.

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my husband calls mustard mouse terds for fun around the house, we were at a resturant one day, the waitress asked if there was ne thing else she could get us, my daughter yelled out MOUSE TERDS PLEASE....yeah, we had to explain it to the manager (they were ready to call cps on us) was soooo funny after we explained it.

my eldest sd was acting out BIG time 1 year, we were eating at the table one night when she was grounded, my dd said (sd) i'm kinda glad you act this way...my dh and i are looking at her soo confused and i said, i hope you didn't mean what you just said, my dd goes hold on mom, let me finish, she then said because it's teaching me what i can and cant get away with at that age...sd turned soo red, she straightened up shortly after that

M.R.

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At 18 months my oldest son pushed our cat out through the screen in the living room window and pushed over a toy and climbed out after him, right through a rose bush, while my husband was around the corner making a sandwich--he didn't hear a thing. Thankfully, he was sitting in the bushes pointing at the cat with just a few scratches.

Recently, my 2 1/2 year old broke half the eggs in the refrigerator all over the kitchen floor and crushed a bunch of hard boiled eggs into the carpet for good measure. The next night, my 4 year old decided to regress and paint the bathroom door and front of my fridge with feces. I was not impressed.

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S.G.

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All of a sudden I remember the time when my brother and I, ages 10 and 6 respectively, put the cat down the laundry chute.

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R.P.

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well my daughter is almost 2 and she is a nut. every once in a while she will go to a wall in our living area (we live with my bfs parents so we spend most of the time in the finished basement) and she will whipe her hands on the wall walk over to us and want us to whipe her hands on ours and if we will say no she will goofy smile and keep doing it

L.B.

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When my daughter was younger she had a neighborhood friend over to play (my husband was suppose to be watching them). When the neighbor came to pick up her daughter she found both girls covered in Vaseline, COVERED, hair, face, it was everywhere!

When my niece was little she talked to everyone, and one day when at the store she ran off and engaged in a conversation with strangers. My sister grabbed her and told her "not to talk to strangers" My niece replied "Mommy they are not strangers, they are Chinease (sp) people"!

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M.A.

answers from Houston on

My husband went in for a second surgery at the same hospital. It was early and when we arrived at the waiting room, it was FULL of people that were tired, worried, sad, ....that is when MY sweet, cute, absolute angel of a child screamed out, "its a booger!!!"....It indeed WAS a booger, but I said in my Mommy way..."thats not a booger, its just dirt"......I am pretty sure that people knew the truth.....that was a really looooong day!!!!!

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C.S.

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My very mature 4 year old, asked me to cut up some more peach for him. I had a half peach on my plate, so I asked him to bring me the knife and be careful. It was literally 3 feet from where i was!! He picked the knife up, looked at it and said whoa and then put the point of the knife to his cheek and cut himself!! i stood there just in plain shock. it was a very tiny cut, but i just looked at him and said did you figure out that the knife is sharp? & he said yep! and I said, "you know that wasn't very smart right?" & he resonded, "oh yeah, sure mom, but I am 4 you know!" How do you argue with that? then we had gym that afternoon and he told everyone to look at his cool scar. Boys!

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