What is the naughtiest thing your child has done to themselves because they were bored?!?

Question

I was looking after my nephew last night and we had a power cut. I told him to sit on the couch while I went down to the fuse box. Within 5 minutes I came back up to find him cutting his own hair with a blunt scissors!! Has anyone else experienced the dangers of boredom with children?! Would love to hear your examples!

Answer 1

Oh god. 3 kids, all have had their little "giggles"

When my eldest daughter was 4, me and my husband bought a new sofa, my husband and Lola got in from the park and fell asleep (i was at work at the time). Lola must ahve woken up and got bored, after her attempts to wake daddy failed. so she got out her little nailpolishes and started painting the "feet" of the sofa. My husband woke up, caught lola in the act, and knowing id be mad, after spending a little over a thousand pound on this new sofa, started cleaning like mad. I came home to find him on his hands and kness, wearing rubber gloves and singing along to Blondie.

I just wish id caught this moment on camera. I couldnt help myself i just stood there, and stared open mouthed at my husband, and my daughter who appeared to be directing him. She was going "No Daddy, you ahve to put some elbow grease into it"-this is what i say to her when we clean the kitchen. This just sent me into hysterics, and noy was i mad about the sofa, but after about 2hours of hard work and "elbow grease" Lola and my husband finished.

Its one of those occassions where however mad you feel at the beginning, you cant help but let it fade away into nothing,

Thats what kids do to you.

Unfortunately my daughter is now 13, and has figured out that making me laugh whilst telling her off is like a secret weapon, although she doesnt appear to relaise that i cottoned on quite some time ago.

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Answer 2

hehe i cut my fringe wen i was lil too. Got the worst haircut ever becos of it!!!

:)

N i just remembered my sister "painted" her carpet with nappy rash cream wen she was a baby! Mum still cant get the stains out!

Answer 3

i dont have children, but the naughtiest thing i did when i was bored as a child (and my mother still brings it up after all these years) was use crayons to color underneath the seats of the all the dining room chairs....

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Answer 4

Not my child, but my godgirl;), was board and cut all her hair off, lol think she was 5:D o dear

Answer 5

A couple of years ago, my son who was seven years old and extremely hyperactive, left an ear bud on his ear and started running up and down the house. Unfortnately he hit something and the earbud shot straight into his ear. I have never seen him in more pain than that and it was certainly not amusing at all.

Answer 6

My child (was 3 at the time, now 4) was toilet training and was playing in the yard with our puppy. I had been watching him out the kitchen window while doing the dishes. All of a sudden, he disappeared out of view and went very quiet so I went out to check on him. I found him next to the shed with his pants down, pooing on the gravel....'because the dog does it!' Only a week before mind you, I had caught him doing a wee on the outside of the glass sliding door. I wasn't very impressed

Answer 7

my son cut off his sisters hair ..... and my daughter cut her own hair at school.... makes you wonder how good the school is ?

Answer 8

my son took a permament marker and wrote all over his body and tried to draw pictures too

Answer 9

My son is an absolute monster for this. About a year ago, when he was just two, he had a wooden bed in his room. We put him to bed and went back downstairs, when we heard a big bang. I ran upstairs to see if he was alright to find him standing there with a massive grin on his face. He told me that he had been doing karate chops and the bed frame in front of him was split right in half - solid wood. I don't think I'll ever understand how he really did it.

Painting walls with lipstick, drawing on important paperwork, colouring his face with green felt tip and saying he is the Hulk. My son does so many of these things, he's always getting up to mischief. He has done the classic giving himself a haircut as well and also decided to stick tictacs up his nose.

Answer 10

I have to say i am lucky to not be able to come up with anything. My kids are quite good at keeping busy. Maybe it is because they have a constant play mate (they are twins) and good imaginations. But they never get up to anything like that.

Answer 11

When I got home from the hospital after having my second child I just dumped my bag on the bed and didn't unpack it, I had stuff to do, lol. My then 2 and a half year old daughter disappeared for a few mins and when she re appeared she had her "cream" on all over her face and head, she found the tube of tooth paste and was putting it all over herself. It was very difficult to remove from her head, lol.

Answer 12

Oh God my list is endless, I have 3 children and they have all got up to mischief at some point.

My son painted himself and my new sofa with sudocrem - an absolute nightmare to get out!!!!

My 13 yr old daughter cooked a cake in the microwave in a metal tin !!!!

Answer 13

When I was 5 I was playing at a friends house and somehow we managed to get hold of one of her mum's disposable razors and we shaved our legs!  My mum went mental and funnily enough I wasn't allowed to go to that friends house again.

Answer 14

when iwas 5 i took off my diaper and started running around the house naked but then my aunt caught me and put me on the changing table put me in the diaper postion and started spanking me till i learned my lesson then she put a new diper on me

Answer 15

When my best friend and I was 5, we painted her ginger cat, not just one colour, but a whole rainbow of colours.  Her mum was not impressed to see it, ginger, blue, yellow, pink, black, green.... etc

We were not aloud to have paints for a really long time.  Although she did enjoy telling that story at both of our 21st birthdays.

Apart from that all four of my neices have cut their hair or something else they weren't suppose to at one point or another.