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30 Crazy Yet Hilarious “I Looked Away For One Second” Stories Shared By Parents Online
Becoming a parent is like instantly gaining 37 levels in a role-playing game—some acquire superhuman reflexes for whenever your kid decides it’s time to tumble down the sofa, while others get that perk where you don’t need a ‘long rest’ for days because you divide up your sleep into naps to coincide with the kid’s sleep schedule.
However, even heroes can err, and sometimes—just sometimes—there is a moment when we turn away for one gosh darn second and our kid is already gone like Copperfield vanishes from his glass boxes.
A netizen by the nickname of u/blamingpig456 asked parents of Reddit to share their I looked away for ONE second stories, which prompted nearly 10,000 comments and brought in over 42,500 upvotes and 180 plus Reddit awards.
We’ve collected the best stories from the viral post to create a curated list that you can find below. Scroll down to learn what the little critters ended up doing during that moment of complete freedom from their parents, and why not vote and comment on the stories you enjoyed the most!
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#1
I swear babies that can't even flip over yet can teleport short distances when no one is observing them. You put that thing down in one spot, turn your back on it for one second and then it's moved a few feet away.
They can do this because they don't understand how it's impossible. When babies learn enough about physics and object permanence to be able to move and navigate they lose the ability to teleport, because then they know enough to figure out it can't be done.
Chris Scritchfield 3 years ago
Don't forget the telekinesis. They get that noisy toy that breaks your sanity you put it on the fridge, cabinet, closet whatever and the next morning you and your spouse wake up to it screeching away at 3:49am with them giggling away
Joran Quinten 3 years ago (edited)
Same as flying: There is an art, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. … Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties. Courtesy of Douglas Adams
Chelsea Meacham 3 years ago
Okay, so I have to agree with this one. It finally explains how my under 6 months and couldn't crawl or even sit unsupported daughter got across the room, retrieved the bag of sun chips from under the couch and got back to her spot. My two full length couches and a love seat were set up in a U. I had her propped up in the corner of the loveseat and couch on the floor, and was laying on the couch above her, dozing off because babies are exhausting. The sun chips were at the far end of the couch neither of us was touching. 15 years later I'm still curious. Lol.
Samantha Will 3 years ago
As a young Nanny this was my greatest fear. I swear I always had one hand 👌 n that baby when I had to look away. Thankfully now in my much older age I nanny for 11, 13 & 15 yo kids. Lots of driving to soccer practice but I can generally call them when I can't find them.
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#2
My son was 3. We were leaving Target. He left my sight as I was adjusting my bags. Maybe two seconds, tops. Poof. He was gone. I try to act cool , but my true crime podcast obsession got the best of me. The store locks down. We are all looking for him. People are checking cars outside. I’m calling my son’s name louder than any intercom system. We were just about to call police.
And then my toddler slides out of the cart area and acts like,”’Sup?” He decided it would be a most excellent idea to shimmy underneath the carts and sit there as the world turns inside out searching for him.
I hugged him and yelled at him for a good 10 minutes, ugly sobbing.
100/100 grateful for my Target folks. We catered lunch for them as a huge thank you and sorry my kid is an a-hole.
Emerald Ocean 3 years ago
I misread it and thought the kid came zooming by ON THE CART yelling Sup. I was laughing so hard. LOL
Tuna Fish 3 years ago
Had dang near the same experience with my demon child at Wal mart when he found a nice spot to play with a flashlight inside a cabinet in the electronics department. It was another child that found him when his dad saw him playing with the little beams of light coming through the cabinet. I sure wish I hadn't accused so many people of kidnapping him when I was totally freaking out for about 15 minutes. I really don't go to that wal mart anymore.
Jane Paulsen 3 years ago
So happy you found him! I think it's AMAZING that you showed your gratitude, with lunch! These days, people have NO problem complaining & yelling at store associates. Rarely do people bother to take 1 minute to praise or thank an associate! I'm very grateful for people like you, in this world!
Bonnie Rose 3 years ago
Target is AMAZING! My 12 y/o step daughter was supposed to be hanging out in the clothing and decided to wander off... I know she's a teenager, but she's my stepdaughter so that immediately heightens my responsibility here (if you are a stepmom you know). They shut down the mall and outside entrance and intercom called her for 30 minutes while she "didn't hear it." The manager was watching on the camera and found her looking at toys.... OMG that took too much time off my life but Target was fabulous!
Erin Eubanks 3 years ago
Ours hid in the diapers at Target, had the whole lockdown and everything
Tobias the Tiger 3 years ago
This kind of thing apparently happened to my 8th grade English teacher once - she was looking for her kid at the hardware store, thinking it was possible the kid got kidnapped... only to find that the kid was just hiding in one of the display cabinets.
#3
When I was a kid my mom was watching me play while hanging laundry. When she turned to hang a garment I discovered a “bouncy spot” in the grass and fell down a 100ish year old abandoned well. She said that day took years off her life.
Dana Lynn 3 years ago
I scrolled back up to see what you meant!!! So worth it!!!!🤣🤣
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Elizabeth Sieben 3 years ago
While moving into a new house, toddler me got tired, went behind the couch and fell asleep. My mom freaked, called the cops, cried, then found me after I started snoring.....
#4
We moved into our new house on Halloween in 2001. Most of the heavy lifting was done, so the wife decided to begin unpacking the important stuff and I would take our 8 year old daughter out trick or treating. We stepped outside and I realized I left my phone.
Standing on the front porch I tell her..."Don't move, I have to get my phone. I'll be right back. Do not move."
Narrator: She moved.
New neighborhood. Kids and parents everywhere. I'm running up and down the street frantically and after about 15 minutes later I spot a family, mom and dad and a handful of rugrats...with mine in tow.
They had a good laugh telling me they just turned around and there she was, having appeared out of nowhere. Decided to stay close assuming some hysterical parent would eventually come running.
Henry Russell 3 years ago
the same thing happened when my little sister who was like four walked out door and thankfully was found by a group of teenagers when my mom found her
Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
Facts, Rissie; I can completely believe a 3-year-old doesn't have the presence of mind to stay by their parent's side, hence my laughing at the Target anecdote above involving that toddler, but at 8 I was considered old enough to stay at home by myself and fix very basic food items such as scrambled eggs and toast and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (and clean up after myself) so unless this child has some neurological issues I don't get why they would simply wander off after being told not to.
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Adrian 3 years ago
Why is it that a little kid who refuses to walk anywhere, can move at high speed in a dead straight line when no-one is looking? My 3yo daughter did that when clothes shopping. The kid exited the store, then the mall, crossed a 200 car carpark, and halfway across the local football oval when found - all more or less in a straight line. Maybe the teleporting theory (#1 above) is actually a law of pediatrics.
C W 3 years ago
Right?? My 1.5 yr old is that way. Slow as molasses most of the time but when we are in a public store she's suddenly capable of miraculous speed. Husband and I either hold her hand the entire time, she sits in a cart or she's carried. Ridiculous lol
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Christina Gomez 3 years ago
First rule of RPGs: if somebody tells you not to do something, you must go do that thing
MysticMerman 3 years ago
My friend was at Disneyland with her family when she was about 6 or 7. She loved the Haunted Mansion ride so much that she just got back in line again and again. After a while, she wondered where her family was. She asked a staff member and was reunited with her frantic mother shortly!
Tami Woodard 3 years ago
So I was born in '62 when I was about 3 I somehow managed to climb down the very steep set of steps to our apartment out into the street in nothing but my older brothers rain boots.. there on the street I spotted a Pepsi truck that was open in the back parked so naturally, I hop right in & crouch down behind the crates. The driver comes & shuts the truck, heads off to his next delivery some 3 or 4 miles away (we lived in the country) & only realized be had a stowaway when he heard the door to the truck fly open.. he carefully stops & goes to the back where he finds me- a completely bare red headed toddler sitting on a crate furious that she can't open a bottle of Pepsi. I was so lucky this man was a good person & thankfully returned me to my mother who was hysterical searching the small strip of businesses we lived above while trying to wrangle my other siblings at the same time, I can't imagine going through that in 1965 when there's no amber alerts we didn't even have a phone!
Orréssa Vee 3 years ago (edited)
I walked away from my home daycare and walked home to my grandmother's house (down the street and around the corner). SHE called my mom, who in turn called my grandmother who informed my mother I been faithfully on my stool watching Days Of Our Lives with her for the last 30 minutes. I was the first and LAST she ever let get out. SHE moved the lock to the top part of the door; out of reach.
Llama King 3 years ago (edited)
Something similar happened to my friends little sister who happened to walk out the front door and wound up around the corner at my house.
Lulu Lemons 3 years ago
I did this on a beach when I was 1 or 2, I apparently joined a different familys kids in a hole they dug, and their parents didn't notice as they were asleep. Gone for 2hrs, police were called. No idea how the other parents didn't notice me for 2hrs.
#5
I glanced at the salt, and toddler daughter grabbed a whole new potato off my plate and shoved it in her mouth. She then tried to swallow it and choked. Longest 15 seconds on my life getting it out of her. Learn child first aid people! They are suicide machines as toddlers.
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
Not even close to a parent. We better sit the dog down and show him a power point project on how not to s**t in the house.
Load More Replies... Amy Stone-Chandler 3 years ago
I choked on a big chunk of banana when I was about 2. Yes I actually remember every terrified second of it. Even what I was wearing!. Back then, we were more scared to notify our parents of getting hurt then kids today. Can't believe I was choking(no breath moving kind) qnd didn't want to get in trouble. It was YEARS before I stopped cutting up my own kids bananas into small pieces.
Alexia 3 years ago
Yep. Heimlich maneuver, first aid in cuts, burns, severe bruises, fractures and others than I cannot remember now. I'll never forget how my 6 y.o. cousin entered the house screaming and he was literally covered in blood (he had cut his hand). I myself, as a child, played with an axe (yeah, I know...:)))) and accidentally crushed my fingers; lucky me that it was not sharpened.
Charles Bosse 3 years ago
There is literally a game about being a toddler trying to do yourself in vs a "parent" trying to stop you.
Tomas Anshelm 3 years ago
True, but they're also pretty much indestructible at that age. Well, atleast mine was. That kid has taken blows to the head that would kill a Terminator and juat shrugged it off.
Wesley Lucas 3 years ago
Omg, suicide machines is right! The first 3 years of my son's life, my husband and I were just on constant deathwatch, lol. It's like they're magnetized and attracted to any dangerous object or situation 🤣
Lisa Panek 3 years ago
My son did that with a french fry! He was being fussy and I broke off a piece of a fry thinking it would kind of disolve in his mouth. Did I mention I was driving on a busy road? Luckily, I had him next to me in the front seat - I know, you're supposed to put them in the back, but I'd get nervous having him in the back with long drives- I managed to "sweep" his mouth and get it out and he was fine. Never did that again though!!
#6
It was 23 years ago, but still fresh in my mind.
I looked in my rearview mirror, and my son, in his car seat, was happily gazing out the window, gnawing on a chicken McNugget.
I hadn't been to McDonalds in weeks.
My memory is fresher than that Mcnugget was.
Frances M 3 years ago
All I can think of is the level of preservatives needed to keep that thing from turning green...
Rissie 3 years ago
Just frying stuff is all you need to do. Keep it in a box in dry surroundings and you're good.
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Katerina Huskova 3 years ago (edited)
McDonald's is full of preservatives...here in the CZ we have a joke that it's healtier to eat the plastic toy from Happy Meal than the meal itself 🤷🏻♀️
Amy Stone-Chandler 3 years ago
In our vehicle it was always cherries. Those suckers hide everywhere!
Marcellus II 3 years ago
I remember the period where the whole back what such a sticky mess of grapes and raisins and whatnot that on a day you accidentally forgot the booster seat, you could just like them and stick them in place perfectly safe for the trip.
Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
See, the first time my mom spotted any sort of food residue in the back seat would've been the end of my ever getting to eat at all in the vehicle. I honestly understand that sentiment so, so much. Why let your kids trash a vehicle you worked hard to get?? Unless they're little babies who accidentally spilled something or had a diaper emergency, which are both completely reasonable, or they're a little toddler who accidentally dropped some Cheerios or animal crackers or something similar, that is, and even then that little toddler's not really making a mess.
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I thought this would be a horror story, turns out it was even worse
#7
I was making dinner for my twin 18mo when boy twin starts to fuss, so I carefully put the knife about a foot away from the edge of the counter. I intentionally put it away from the edge because my girl twin is NOT to be trusted. I go change my boy and turn around and my girl is casually holding my large, sharp chopping knife. I had to get it from her like a hostage negotiator so she wouldn’t run away with it. I couldn’t figure out how she got it so I looked at the video and as soon as my back was turned she was grabbing the cutting board to pull the knife closer and then immediately skipped over the carrots and peeler to grab the knife. I was clearly correct in not trusting that feral child
Jessica Rabbit 3 years ago (edited)
"I was clearly correct in not trusting that feral child" had me crying with laughter...
Mazer 3 years ago
There is a YouTube short featuring a dog going after it’s owner who faked a faint, the dog grabbed a knife..priceless https://youtube.com/shorts/FwVwhlt74bk?feature=share
Cheryl Honick 3 years ago
It's like kids scheme these things up in their mind waiting for the exact moment when they can do something Lol
Reyna Rudy Dharsono 3 years ago
This is exactly why I don't really wanna be a parent. The amount of years a single child can take off of my life
#8
My older brother was the kind of baby that would get into things if you didn’t pay attention to him for second and it drove my parents crazy. My aunt told my mom she was just a bad parent so my mom said “Ok then. You babysit him tomorrow when I’m at work.” The next day my aunt called my mom while she was work freaking out. There was white smoke coming from up stairs and it turned out that my brother got ahold of baby powder and was just going ham on it upstairs. After that my aunt apologised to my mom.
Orange is aging 3 years ago
Never say that parent don’t know what they’re doing or are “bad parents” (unless they actually are). You probably don’t know the HALF of what their children do!
Katy McMouse 3 years ago
My first born was two months premature. From the start, the NICU nurses warned us that for the next year or two, any kind of stimulation would result in a very fussy, upset baby. This included the way we held him (no rocking) and too many encounters with people not living in our home. Fast forward three months and my SIL, along with her two boys, came from Florida to visit for a month, like they did every summer. They were around every day, especially in the evenings. After the first day or so, my baby wouldn't settle down for sleep like before. SIL said I needed to put him on a schedule and refused to believe my explanation of why he was fussing. Finally, one night I gave in to her demands that she could get him to sleep, she came out after an hour and a half , admitted defeat and finally accepted what the nurses had told us. She kept her mouth shut from there on in and actually listened to my husband's request for keeping the visits to a minimum for the time being.
LittleLiz 3 years ago
I'm the oldest of 3 siblings. I was a very happy, easygoing baby. My parents thought that parenting was a breeze and they anyone who has ever complained about getting babies to sleep or stop crying was a complete idiot who shouldn't have kids. It was so easy that they decided to have another baby. My little sister was the worst baby. Couldn't tolerate any change at all. Wouldn't sleep or stop crying for anyone other than mom. It was humbling for both of them
Load More Replies... MJ 3 years ago (edited)
Every single kid is different. My three year old girl can find more ways to cause trouble in the ten seconds I might turn away than most folks would never believe. Sure, they may have similar traits or tendencies, but dont think for one second that you know every kid just because you know one (or several). And never, EVER, push that know-it-all thinking onto ANY parent. Sharing knowledge is most welcomed (and most times desired) by many parents, but nobody enjoys judgement being shoved down their throat. A little kindness goes a LONG way, especially when a fellow parent is concerned.
Sarah Burnside 3 years ago
My Niece decided to give her 1 or 2 month Cousin a Powder Bath😕😕😕 my Mom, her Grandmom whooped that butt😁😁😁
Stacey Campbell 3 years ago
I did that when I was a baby. I was a few months old. My 16 yr old sister was watching me. Apparently I got into some baby powder and had it all over the room before she knew it.
#9
She found some glitter
Virtually Fabulous 3 years ago
They're implying that the glitter is gonna get EVERYWHERE in the house and never come out
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Catherine Binder 3 years ago
In the crafting community some refer to it as crafting herpes.
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Søs Rasmussen 3 years ago
I love this comment. So few words, such big picture in every parents head 🤣
Libby Tailor 3 years ago
Actually, in my head there is a nice glittery toilet (or diaper) now 😂🤣
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#10
Not me but my wife. Our two younger kids are 14 months apart. When our daughter was around 3 and our son was 2, my wife went into the garage to grab a frozen pizza out of the deep freezer and one of the kids, not sure which one, shut the door and locked my wife in the garage. She was banging on the door and could hear the little boogers in there laughing at her. My wife was not amused, she got a flathead screwdriver from my toolbox and manage to unlock the door. This all took 15 minutes or so, when she got in the house they were in their room watching cartoons and eating cookies they manage to steal. They would’ve left her out there all night. Its funny now 10 years later but my wife was scared s**tless. We have kept a spare key hidden in the garage ever since.
Kookamunga 3 years ago
Once I saw her screwdriver, I had to find a picture of the Mom.... giant-lady...f555e4.jpg 
Sherri Mantooth Bagwell 3 years ago
My then 2yobdid this to me when I stepped out on porch to shake out a rug. He's screaming, I'm pregnant and panicking. On the plus side, I met a new neighbor 2 houses down who had a ladder, and helped me break into the laundry room. 2yo is snot covered, sobbing, "Why did you leave me!?!"
C W 3 years ago
Mine is close to the same age, I am pregnant and I can 100% picture this happening. Note to self!
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Daisychain 3 years ago
My 2 year old locked me out of the house, smeared green eyeshadow all over himself, lipstick on the dog, rolled in baby powder, and strung dental floss all over the house. We left a spare key under the mat after that.
Dean Turner 3 years ago
What this story tells me is that they have an indoor k**b on a door leading outside the house. That's a serious security risk, especially if you neglect to close the garage.
Simply Mina 3 years ago
DUDE. MY NOW 3 YR OLD DID THIS TO ME LAST YEAR IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER. IT WAS FREEZING. He JUST turned 2. Brought then 4 yr old special needs son out to his bus. Obviously I closed the front door cus the booger could open the storm door. Well, after waving my other son off, I went back up on my porch, tried to open the door, & it was locked. 🙄 How? Idfk. There's a window right next to the door & that lil s**t was pointing & laughing. Spent a good 5 mins trying to get him to unlock it before I remembered I had left a window unlocked that morning. I'm not tall at all. The bottom part of the window is JUST above my head (I'm 5'4). According to my neighbors, they said I became a spider monkey cus I SCALED the side of the house to get in 😂
#11
I was shopping in Sears with my son who was 4 years old at the time. I had to speak to one of the employees and I turned and he was gone in a matter of seconds.frantically calling his name, people are helping me look for him 10-15 minutes go by I'm crying I am extremely distressed of course and I hear a man calling and waving "over here over here " I run over to where he was and there is my 4-year-old sitting on a riding lawn mower that was on display making his vroom vroom noises, happy as a lark.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago (edited)
Can't help but be reminded that John Walsh's son Adam disappeared from a Sears around the same age. His partial remains were discovered several weeks later, and John Walsh went on to become a victim advocate and create the TV show America's Most Wanted. His personal tragedy has led to a lot of missing children being tracked and found and a lot of violent criminals being captured.
KatHat 3 years ago
If you feel that sad reminder is necessary, then I'll add the reminder that the VAST majority of child kidnappings are family, not strangers.
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Lisa Bollinger 3 years ago
And people look at me funny when I leash my toddler. I'm 40 she's 3 and super fast.... For about six feet.
Robin Roper 3 years ago
Have a friend who'd son went missing at the state fair - it's a huge area with tons of people in attendance. She was loosing it with the support team which included a pastor they call when this happens. They asked her where she parked her car, went it it and there he was. They were, of course, looking for him and also told her afterward, if the child isn 't found right away in the immediate area, they always go to the car. Their experience was this was where many "lost" kids go - they remember where the car was left and they go there. She aged many years that day.
Cheryl Honick 3 years ago
I remember when my daughter and I we were in pennies and I turned my head for a second looking at something on the rack and she ran off into the clothes like disappeared into the clothes and I was calling her and calling her and all I could think for the next 3 seconds was somebody grabbed her to clean the bathroom cut her hair short and put a hoodie on her so she look like a boy and kidnapped her I found her like a minute and a half two minutes later but I was hysterical.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Us kids were "trained" to a very specific clap my parents made when they were looking for us. I don't even know how they got us to react to it so instantaneously, but wherever we were in a store, once my parents clapped (a loud *clap-clap*), we came running. We NEVER didn't come. It still works, even 40 years later. (It also works other-way-round now. I sometimes clap-clap my parents when they get lost in the frozen aisle ;-P )
Rebekah Wooten 3 years ago
My dad had a snap pattern. He'd snap his fingers and not matter where we were we knew to come running. I'm 30 years old and if I loose track of my brother or mom when out I end up doing the same thing and it still works 🤣 my dad had us trained lol
Load More Replies... Jane Paulsen 3 years ago
The first thing that came to my mind, was also, Adam Walsh. Rest his little soul!
DS Mom 3 years ago
We went to Walt Disney World on a wish trip for my son. On our last full day there, my 6 year old son took off as I was at the front desk getting our plane tickets. He decided that he didn't want to wait anymore. I turned around and he was gone. I stood in the middle of the lobby in a daze trying not to panic as everyone started to look all over our resort, staff & guest, they put out the word to all of the resorts & parks. He was found getting of the bus at Epcot and trying to get on another bus to Animal Kingdom. Scariest hour ever! 😢
Elizabeth Carnegie 3 years ago
I lost my not even 2 year old (21 months) at a Sears. She was there one moment, gone the next. I was understandably frantic, yelling and searching for her. NOT A SINGLE EMPLOYEE helped me look for her. No one cared that my toddler went missing. Folding underwear, straightening t-shirts, and sitting at an empty check out register were more important than a missing toddler. Fortunately another mother heard me and helped. She found my toddler looking at Dora the Explorer watches. Never shopped at a Sears again.
Kimi Tomminello 3 years ago
Laughed my butt off at the happy ending on this one. 😂😂😂 little crapper!!
#12
I had been drinking scotch one evening while doing dishes. So I'm standing at the sink. I hear my 3 year old stumble into the room, pull a chair out from the table and climb up. I'm not thinking anything of this until I hear a small voice say "Juice!" as I turn to watch him dump about 1/2oz of single malt into his mouth. This was immediately followed by a gasp, then he turned bright white, then bright red.
He went to bed early that night.
Rissie 3 years ago (edited)
Hardly, it's about 15 ml. Edit, well waddayaknow. Scientific research is not very helpful, it being not something byou can test very easily, but this amount might still be enough to experience some serious side effects and asking medical advice is recommended. Hypoglycemia seems to be the thing to worry about. Most likely this dosis is not going to cause major problems, but tiny bodies do react more extremely.
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Amy Stone-Chandler 3 years ago
I used to ask my papa to tie my shoes all the time. That way when he was bent over, I could drink his beer. Yup. The 70s
Artsy Bookworm 3 years ago
Bright white then bright red🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm dying here. Apparently I did something of the sort when I was two.
DDmaybeandor 3 years ago
Yup, I drank momma’s orange juice at that age. It was the best I’d ever had! They found me with it boozing under the table, orange juice with peach schnapps. I was three and drank like, 10oz.
Shadow 3 years ago
I think I may have told this story before but my father has a story he tells about me, I was 2-3 years old at the time. While doing chores/work around the house one weekend he decided to make himself a rum and coke, he took a sip, set the glass down, went back to whatever he was doing. Time goes by, he remembers that he has a drink, turns to pick it up and it's empty. Enough time has gone by that he believes he must have drunk it all, so he makes himself another one, sips, set it down goes back to work. More time goes by, reaches for the drink finds it empty, makes a third, sets it down, tinkers with something, turns back to the drink to find me guzzling it down. He yells "HEY" which startles me, I thump the glass back down on the table and run away giggling.
Denise Green 3 years ago
Years ago my 4yr found my magic brownie , it was well out of reach, he ate the whole thing, he slept all day and 1/2 the night woke and ate hell of the cross ,I was so scared
Adrian 3 years ago
It was a hot day, me and my mate (6 year olds) were really, really thirsty. I went to our fridge and got the cordial bottle and the bottle of cold water and made up a couple of drinks. I went "Yuk" and poured it down the sink. My mate drank his and went home next door. A few hours later the mother comes knocking on the door to find out what we'd given her son - he was laying in the bath tub puking his guts out. Well how was I to know the bottle of water was actually a bottle of wine. Adelaide tap water at the time was anything but clear.
#13
Getting ready for my first Christmas party at a company. It's a family affair. We all looked great. Hubby was already in the car, ran to the bedroom for something I forgot, we were running a little late. Ended up going to to the party with my 3 year old looking like a smurf because he thought my blue nail polish was "just like mommy's makeup". Still to this day don't know how he got the cap unscrewed because he's 10 now and can't open an already cracked bottle of water to save his life
Queen Jackson. 3 years ago
My little sister did this the other day, except it was pink polish and she got it in my mattress too. I was painting my nails and she came over, so I painted one of her fingers. I saw her glance at her other hand but I didn’t think anything to fit because I would’ve been there all day if I painted all of her fingers. Well as soon as I left, she took it upon herself to paint that hand herself. Right before we were supposed to go to church.
Nicole Weymann 3 years ago
It's a gift. My mum used to ask me to open medicine bottles with child-proof caps. Apparently we got the mum-proof version. I was three.
Antonia Peter 3 years ago
Heh, that reminds me of how my mom told me the story about me and the bottle of liquid glue. We were preparing to leave for my aunts birthday party and my mom left my 4 year old self in the living room for like 5 secs to get me a new shirt cause there was a paint blop on the old one and in that little time I kinda was able to grab the glue bottle and smeared myself with it like I was applying sunscreen,according to my mom. Needlessly to say we were a few hours late that day 🧐😂😂
#14
Left my son at the kitchen counter while preparing pancakes. One minute he’s there, the next thing I know he’s successfully empties the syrup bottle All. Over. The. Couch. I mean puddles of syrup in our cushions and pillows. First time as a parent I remember calling my mom crying because I was at such a loss for how to clean it all up.
May 3 years ago
I once babysat my 3 year old niece, who was the most well behaved little girl. She was drawing peacefully at the kitchen table, when I left her for 2-3 minuets to go pee. In those minuets she had run to the other bathroom, grabbed a shampoo bottle and squirted shampoo all over the couch, kitchen chairs and her fathers very expensive soundsystem. I was impressed with how much she had managed to cover. No permanent damage, thankfully. But a whole lot of cleaning up.
Adrian 3 years ago
Better send her to Hogwarts and learn to control her magic.
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L. Murphy 3 years ago
Husband feel asleep on couch, and I came home to find our 2 year old son sitting in the kitchen, happy and proud of himself, covered in a gallon of vegetable oil and a family size carton of old fashioned oats. He somehow managed to open the latch, and luckily it was only food, but he was greasy for a week. I could barely hang on to him and there was a lot of Dawn involved. I almost broke my ass on the kitchen floor trying to clean it up.
Adeeb Sheikh 3 years ago
Oof once I was making eggs for my 4 year old cousin. I take mine w black pepper, so I was carefully sprinkling it over top of my egg and she was watching closely the entire time. After I finish, she pipes up that she wants it too. I go to add some for her, but she insists she's a big girl and can do it herself. My dumb ass is like 'yeah -- no way this can go wrong, she watched me do it.' She proceeds to fully invert our black pepper shaker and dump a pile on her eggs. I had to swap with her, and it turns out she doesn't even like black pepper.
Monica Rogers 3 years ago
When my son was not quite 2 we had a Fry Daddy deep fryer (remember those? ahh the 90's) I guess he was intreaged by it because I always made a big deal about keeping him far away from it when I cooked with it. Warning Hot! Hot! One day he was playing on the cabinet that I stored it in. He snuck the completely cold fryer into the living room, got the lid off and dumped close to a gallon of oil all over the couch and carpet. Mostly I remember the house smelling awful till we tore out the carpet.
Veronica Mathews 3 years ago
I've had this happen twice, with two different kids. My little one was about 18 months old. I asked my then husband to get up with her because it was my birthday and I wanted to sleep in. He didn't get up but she did! I found her happily playing with my red-ish brown lipstick. It was everywhere! All over her face, all over the carpet, all over the bedding. She looked like a Native American child by the time I found her. The second time, I was babysitting a kid, he was down for a nap. I went to check to make sure he was still sleeping and he wasn't. He was happily playing with my strawberry flavored lube. It was all over the bed and pillows. He was painting the walls and himself. Let me tell you, there isn't a stain I can't get out after raising hellions.
Krisi Harris 3 years ago
How do you clean up a gallon of syrup off a couch? I think I'd be buying a new couch.
#15
Not my kid, but about 20 minutes ago a toddler just kinda... wandered into my apartment. I had the door unlocked so maintenance could come in and out while working on something. My daughter and I heard the TV go on and sure enough some little blonde girl with cute pigtails is just plopped down watching cartoons. Lol. Her parents were probably s***ting bricks.
Robin Roper 3 years ago
We have friends who many years ago were staying in a hotel with their toddler child. It was quite a while ago and the locks on hotel doors were not as secure as now. Somehow, their daughter got up in the night, and left the room. Another guest woke up with the little girl standing in their room. The took her to the front desk where a worker remembered the family with the cute little girl who had checked in earlier in the night. Imagine waking up in the middle of the night from a knock at your door and standing there is the front desk worker and your 3 year old child "Missing anyone?" was what the person asked. I'd have had to go to the hospital from a panic attack had this happened to me.
AngelWingsYT 3 years ago
Then came the 20 question game with said kid to find out who she is n where she lives
Randy Volz 3 years ago (edited)
Last year I was sitting at my desk and I heard the softest little knocking noise. I thought it was a neighbor bumping a wall or something. I went back to my work. Then I heard the knock again, so I went to the front door and opened it. Standing there as shocked to see me as I was to see her was a tiny 3 year old girl who wanted to know where "Mommy" was. Turned out she had figured out how to push the buttons on the elevator, except for the part about selecting the correct floor. She recognized the door just to the right of the elevator and thought she was home. After wandering the halls hand-in-hand for about 10 minutes, we found Mommy who was freaking out. The little one and her family lived two floors down.
#16
Went to the toilet, leaving the newborn asleep on a blanket on the floor (on top of a large fluffy carpet). 3 year old was watching tv nearby. Came back to find baby literally rolled up in carpet like a dead body, 3 year old sitting on top, with a cushion under him too. Still don’t know how he did it at all let alone so quickly, and how the baby was totally chilled and unharmed.
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
I laughed so hard at this! Why was this something I could picture myself doing to my little sister? Mom!
Amanda Wilson 3 years ago
When my youngest was 6 months I was "talking" with him. My oldest (then 3) decided he wanted to "talk" with me. So he climbed on the chair and pushed his brother down. He sat on his brother's head grinning. I made him get up before I held both of them. To this day (15 years later) my oldest still thinks it's funny.
Sarah Burnside 3 years ago
My eldest Niece, my MiniMe was 2 or 3yrs old when I came home on vacation after moving across country from west coast to east coast. This was back in 94', she has a at that time a 6 to 8 month old brother. I'm watching them in my Mom and Dad's bed just chilling then I realize something wasn't quite right. I look over to where they were playing and my Niece had set her little brother arms length away from her and took his binky from him. She would put it in her mouth, take it out and tease him with it by waving it in front of his face. He'd reach for it and she'd snatch it back and put it back into her mouth😕😕😕. Fast forwards to teenager early/adulthood my nick name for them at that time was "Bonnie & Clyde" yeah, they were getting in trouble big time🤣🤣🤣
Gabrielle B. Marcelo 3 years ago
when i read this i remember i did the same thing to my brother the only exception being i did not sit on him
#17
I was the child in question, two years old at the time. We were at the beach, where about two feet into the sea there's a shelf where it suddenly gets twice as deep. My parents were distracted by my brother, so didn't notice me wander into the surf. When they next looked up, all the could see was my hat away floating on the water. Panic set in, and my dad sprinted into the sea. Discovered that I was still wearing the hat, and was somehow floating completely vertical with just the hat showing above the water.
Turns out this is not that uncommon! Remember, when you're near a body of water, never stop watching the kids.
Debbie 3 years ago
You cant never stop... like you said yourself, distracted by your brother. Even if there are 10 adults watching 1 kid, they can all get distracted by something at the same time, and that kid then has an accident/wanders off. Being startled by a seagull makes you look around, stepping on a sharp seashell, picking up the toy the kid has dropped. It can be anything.
Rissie 3 years ago
Never have multiple people do that. One will think the other is looking.
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Leslie Jabine 3 years ago
Thanks for posting. This is why I cannot relax by pools and beaches when kids are around.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago (edited)
Yep. My kid also isn't allowed near water without floaties on except for during her swim lessons. I'm terrified of deep water and more than a bit paranoid.
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Julia Mckinney 3 years ago
I was at a private pool with my husband, 2 of my sisters, both kids and couple of their cousins. Older daughter, slipped out of her float and started going down. Both my oldest sister and I started for her- oldest sister did a flat racing dive into the pool and I did the "push up from bottom to dive down" thing. I got underneath her and pushed her up, my sister grabbed her on the surface and towed her to the side. We couldn't have been more synchronized in our movements if we'd rehearsed them. Of course, all the others had just started noticing that something was wrong. I still shiver when I think about "what if I hadn't glanced in her direction as she slipped under".
snipergun 3 years ago (edited)
Yep, happened to my cousin too. Except she was in sitting water at lake (20 cm water or so, no higher), her mom standing right next to her. Her mom, my aunt turned around for second and my 1,5 yo cousin stood up in water, fell to the front and float some meters away with the hat still on her head. That's how her mom ran and grabbed her. We still make fun about it, 20 years later.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Me, 6 years old in Aden, Yemen, 1964 - swimming with a snorkel in the Red Sea and managed to get in the middle of a shoal of Barracuda (large fish, big, backward sloping teeth that have been known to attack people), about half a mile off shore ; not scared and swam back unscathed. Told my Mum later on that day, she went very white and had to sit down with a stiff Scotch as I vaguely remember .....
Marguerite Lindemann 3 years ago
when I was 5 and my brother was 4. We were at Stenson beach and our parents were distracted. A creeper wave caught both of us when our dad saw us, he ran into the surf and was swimming when he caught my brother by the seat of his pants and me by my ponytail. My brother was OK but I had stopped breathing. Luckily there was a DR. on the beach that got me breathing again. I ended up in the hospital with phenomena.
SCamp 3 years ago
Surf beaches in Australia are killers for this. You have to swim between the flags and watch for the rip - kids NEVER swim unsupervised. Happened to me as a 15 yo, pulled out in the rip, scared the &$%# out of me, got back in ok but geez what a scary experience
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
I got caught in a strong current of tide going out, in france. I was maybe 14? I don't quite remember, but must be about that age. I somehow remembered that I'm supposed to swim WITH the current and only slightly angled towards the beach, not trying to go perpendicular. But those few moments when I'd forgotten were freaking scary!
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First death I ever witnessed was as a young child at a beach in Southern California. A strong rip had taken a young boy right off the beach and into the ocean. I remember the woman being hysterical and pleading for someone to go rescue the kid. There was no lifeguard and the locals were all too familiar with the power of a rip to risk going in.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Oh God... what a tragedy! Knowing you absolutely won't be able to help the child and just being relegated to watching... Oh god :-(
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Richarlson Benjamin 3 years ago
Happened to me, my siblings and our neighbor kid. We were walking to close to the shore while our parents were distracted. We decided to play catch the empty bottle and all of us got pulled in by the current. I dig my nails so deep in the ground that it was bleeding. Everyone held together like a human chain fighter to crawl over each other to get to shore. By the grace of God we all made it out alive without our parents knowing any knowledge of the near death experience.
#18
I work from home. My son is usually with me while I work in the evening. One night I take a call, he was sitting on the floor next to me playing with his cars (he's three). The next minute, I look over and watching him as he is flying through the air next to me. He had climbed up on our table and just launched himself off! I always mute myself when I'm not speaking when he's home so thank god the customer didn't hear my OH MY GOD as i caught him lol
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
parent: *on a call* son: AH CAME IN LIEK A WREEEEEEEEEECKING BAAAAAAALL
Erin Mitchell 3 years ago
My little cousin used to do that to when he was 3. We'd be walking down the stairs and i would turn around to see he was still at the top of the stairs. And as soon as he saw me looking at him he would LAUNCH himself off the stairs at me. I always caught him but dangit if i didnt lose a few years off my life lol.
Reyna Rudy Dharsono 3 years ago
Is that a bird? Is that a plane? No! It's little Timmy! Wait- TIMMY
Rebekah Wooten 3 years ago
My uncle's kids where daredevils as kids. One broke their arm using their dresser as a launch pad (supposed to be napping) another tried the same thing a few years later and ended up causing an avalanche (also supposed to be asleep. Think this is why non of them sleep alone anymore 😅) one decided that insulation makes a good pillow (he picked the lock to the side door and got in the construction workers truck) and the youngest broke her arm climbing out of a boat...on dry land...that she was told not to play on multiple times.....I swear they were all made out of rubber 😅
#19
So we took the kids (7, 3, 3 and 3) to a water park. One of us would stay in the kiddie area with 2 of the triplets and the other parent would take one of the 3 year olds and the 7 year old on a ride. It was working pretty well.
Note, the kiddie area was mostly contained, but there was no gate or anything. At one of the swaps, we blinked for a second and our adventurous 3 year old was gone. Instant oh f**k panic. Get security there, staff is looking, I'm running around looking.
Anyway, we eventually found him. He had ridden a waterslide with my wife earlier, and decided "That was fun, I'm gonna do it again" The 3 year old had gone back to get in line for the waterslide by himself, and they found him about 2 from the front of the line.
Rissie 3 years ago
My condolences for having triplets. So sorry for the loss of any normalcy. Thoughts and prayers.
Vicky Z 3 years ago (edited)
But they love to live dangerously getting them all together in a water park😅😅
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Catherine 3 years ago
Oh I have a story at a water park! So my whole family, 6 siblings and parents, go to a water park for the day. I was like 16 at the time and my youngest brother was 3 or 4. I cannot see my hand in front of my face without my glasses on. Well I left them in our locker to go down a slide, and don't know who's great idea it was to leave me to watch my 3yo brother because here were the 2 of us lost in a huge park. He had to lead me and I kept asking him if he saw Mom or Dad or anyone else we knew 😅. It look an hour to find them and they had the audacity to tell me off for being gone so long!
Christina Keenan 3 years ago
We were driving south on 95 as a family. I had to go to the bathroom. My husband was watching the kids. When I came out of the bathroom, my older son was waiting for me outside the building. I took his hand and headed back to where I had left everyone previously. My husband was there with the younger son. He looked relieved and sheepish. He said he had only turned his back for a minute because the younger child was climbing up on the table and he, my husband, didn't want him to fall. The older child saw me and took off running. It's an inter state highway and kidnapping isn't uncommon. My husband was upset with the child, of course. I was upset with him for not just scooping the 13 month old up and paying attention to both.
Brenda Minturn 3 years ago
When my daughter was probably five or six we went to our local amusement park. One of the rides in a park was a water ride and it had a bridge that you walked across before you got to the actually ride. Below the bridge was a large pond full of ornamental goldfish . My daughter decided she needed to get a closer look at the fish and got her head stuck between the metal bars. We tried everything to get her head unstuck, finally one of the staff went and got some soap and a bottle of water. Ten minutes later she was finally lose. She never really enjoyed the ride after that. Lol
Sarah Burnside 3 years ago
There is a place called "Dutch Wonderland" in Pennsylvania. My son was in a daycare program and it was a summer trip for the center. My Son was 2 not yet 3 but very adventurous and outgoing. We get to the Dutch Wonderland, its an amusement park but not big or overwhelming. They had this massive water slide, my Son was like "Let's go". I couldn't because of health reasons but the young volunteers had fun with helping him to the water slide. It was a fun day then me and the Mom (who became a great family friend) drove home abd got lost. The one thing I love about where I live is that you can drive to 3 to 4 states in a day. We started in Delaware, went to Pennsylvania got turned around and was in Maryland😶😶😶 we finally made it home. Only with a good friend can you get lost like that and laugh about it🤣🤣🤣
Glen MacLeod 3 years ago
Me, age 3. Disneyland with my parents. I'm smitten with the Rocket ride in Tomorrow Land. Dad turned for one second and I'm gone. Found me ten minutes later, climbing the chain link fence to get into the Rocket Ride. Poor dad, white as chalk.
DSBGWolfie187 3 years ago
You should 'o said, *cough* irresponsible. Live and learn tho 😆🤣
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My daughter said "Ouch" and was looking at her thumb. A few minutes later the same thing happened. That is when I realized she was trying to stick a paper clip in an electrical outlet.
Fortunately no harm. I think that was the last time she was allowed to go to work with daddy.
Rumple Schleppskin 3 years ago (edited)
I used to pound nails into outlets with a hammer. Oh how fun those flashes of sparks were. Until dad comes roaring in the dark room, due to tripped breaker, stubs his foot on something. The shear levels of anger escalation, eventually led to therapy and a Valium script, for dad.
Chinmayee Kalghatgi 3 years ago
I once did it with a hairclip but i never felt any pain. I did manage to turn off all the electricity in the house and caused spark to fly out of the outlet
Nichole Cason 3 years ago
My daughter @5 took my hair pin &separated it&plugged herself right on up..thank God it didn't pass through her heart but messed her hands up to where I had to wrap them like a mummy for a month..Thanksgiving was interesting that yr.
#21
I had taken my four year daughter into a public toilet in France, which was next to a main road. As we left, I let go of her hand for a split second as I looked away to close the door behind us. When I looked back she was running into the main road as she'd seen her Mum on the other side. From where I stood, my view of the road was obstructed so I couldn't see if any cars were coming, and she had gone too far for me to catch her. By a complete miracle, she got safely over the road. It sends shivers down my spine remembering the helpless terror I felt when I saw her in the middle of the road.
Cheryl Honick 3 years ago
It's scary isn't it when you think about what could have happened in all these different situations
the awesome Piplup 3 years ago
"Mommy, mommy! I made it!" *splat* "I am a Stegosaurus!". ASDF movies anyone?
Julie Welch 3 years ago
I lost my son at a Scottish festival. I had a better understanding of futility that day, running up and down rows yelling, "Ian!"and having numerous Scotsmen answer me but not my 8 year old. When I found him at the back gate there were tear stains through his face paint. That kid got everything he wanted for the rest of the day.
#22
When my daughter was little, probably about 3, she went with me to shop for some tools. I turned away to look at something and heard behind me "Daddy, what's this?" "Uh, honey, that's an axe. Please give it to me." She did, and all was well, but I'm glad my wife wasn't there--she would have panicked.
Emalee Bespflug 3 years ago
This reminds me. So I am married and my husband and I have a 1 year old boy. Well my mom had 2 surprise babies so I have a 6 year old sister and a 1 year old brother who is 2 weeks younger than my son. During Covid my husband and I were both laid off so we were living with my mom and we took care of the kids, he’d watch the boys so I could homeschool Bella as I had been a teacher at her school before Covid. Well one evening my mom is working in her room. I’m sitting on the couch playing dolls with my sister. And hubby is playing in the floor with the boys. My husband keeps a knife strapped to him in case of emergency need for a knife. It’s bound in a leather knife case that’s very hard to open. Well my little brother was behind him and I’m playing with my sister. My brother walks over to me starts babbling I look up he has this knife in his hand and had walked about 6 feet to me with it in his hand. Then proceeded to drop it on my foot. Thankfully it barely tapped me and he was okay.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Better update your husband with a pocket-knife.
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lola rushartland 3 years ago
Aww - my son was 3 when he owned his first TommyHawk. We travelled for 2 years straight around Australia and camped day in day out. Firewood was his chore and he took that very seriously. At that point he was splitting the kindling. And age 4 he was also building and starting the fires each night. Chopping the ‘real’ wood from age 6. Start (but guide!) them young! 😊 Glad your girl was ok though!
May 3 years ago
Meh - must have been a pretty small axe if a 3yr old could lift it. Doubt she could have done much damage with it. A few stitches worth at most.
Cheryl Honick 3 years ago
This reminds me of when my son and I were up at the trailer and I had let him use an axe in his dad was always like he's not old enough to use that thing. So then when we're walking through the woods looking for little sticks the axe he banged it down on his knee and got a slit in it and I took the axe and I said whatever you do don't tell your father haha
#23
My toddler at the time grabbed a stick of butter out of the fridge and tossed it into the fish tank. Minutes later all the fish were floating dead in the fish tank. Last time we owned fish
May 3 years ago
I've never owned fish, but how did cold butter kill them so quickly? Did they nibble it and instantly die from an allergic reaction?
Nupraptor 3 years ago
I'm not sure, as I've never before read about the interactions of butter in a fishtank. But tropical fish tanks have heated water, so the butter probably melted pretty fast and the oily substance killed the fish. I would think.
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olx 3 years ago
a boulabaise (don't come at me about spelling lol) perhaps?
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Cecily Holland 3 years ago
Weird. Must have melted and covered their gills thereby cutting off the oxygen
Ben Tinerino 3 years ago
When i was 4 or 5 i poured shampoo in my dads fishtank thinking i would give the fish a bath or something. I still feel bad to this day about killing all of his fish.
Kassy Newman 3 years ago
My 3 year old put Dawn dish soap in my saltwater tank while his Dad was supposed to be watching him. He wanted to help mom clean the tank. It was heartbreaking coming home from work to that.
#24
Went to pee , put my kiddos in there room with the door open and the gate up. I also had the bathroom door open...come out to find a dozen eggs cracked on the kitchen floor and into the butter and my youngest covered in peanut butter naked. My now ex husband was sleeping...I walked into our room woke him up and tagged out..my brain was fried at that point. To this day I have no clue how they escaped, they are 16&18 now.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
>More precisely - what's with that styrofoam-thing that seemed to have been inside the egg???? So confusing, that picture
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UrWhyteFright IsUrProblem 3 years ago
When my daughter was 2 she LOVED collared greens. One days she comes in and says, Mom, the geens is nasty and I have bees in my mouth, ouch the bees are stinging me in the mouth!" I'm like greens nasty and bees in your mouth??!!!!?? Then I realized that we had rather large leaves that grew around the house that looked like collared greens and that she had eaten some. Her mouth was swollen and broken out in hives!! I rushed frantic to the hospital with a hand full of those plant leaves screaming about nasty greens and bees in her mouth. They were confused and I was crying hysterically. Luckily they calmed me down enough to get an explanation. The hives were leaving and the plants turned out to be harmless with the exception the hives outbreak. We cut every last one of those damned plants after that. She still loves collared greens to this day, I needed her as a friend for dinner when I was a child🤢
Krisi Harris 3 years ago (edited)
Woke up at 3am one morning from the noise of my 18 month old sitting on the kitchen floor throwing eggs in to the air and watching them smash on the floor. Having the time of his life. What made it worse, is when he opened the fridge door, a brand new jug of coffee creamer fell out and was chugging out of the cracked jug, also covering the floor. He was sitting it in, splashing. Great time for him. Not souch for me. Lol
Katie Brandon 3 years ago
Oh, I feel this. When I was babysitting my younger cousin (who was 2 or 3 at the time) I went upstairs for a second to grab a diaper. When I came back I found her reaching into the fridge. She had a tendency to take food so I thought nothing of it and closed the fridge door and went to change her diaper. Only to find she had thrown two dozen eggs on the floor rug and couch.
Cheryl Honick 3 years ago
This is why I love having a playpen you could put the kid in there I mean not for a long long time you know I'm supervised but you know they just don't make playpens anymore
Annett Nyrud 3 years ago (edited)
Do you not think that a sleeping room with the gate up (gated off doorway) is like a large play pen? If they managed to cross the gate, do you think that a play pen would be able to hold them?
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Misty Williams 3 years ago
Please tell me you got pics of that so you can prove it to your kids 🤣🤣😉😉 LOL LOL
#25
Woke up once and my two sons had climbed out of a window onto a flat roof. They were 1 and 3. I still don't know how they even got the window open.
M O'Connell 3 years ago
My parents were afraid of this happening and screwed blocks of wood to the window frames in my bedroom so the bottom sash could only open 3 inches.
Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
But what if there's a fire? Hope it's breakable glass!
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PandaGoPanda 3 years ago
Kids who lived on the far side of the block (our gardens backed onto each other) climbed out ONTO THEIR WINDOWSILL above a concrete patio. Whilst my husband and kids tried to encourage them to go back in without frightening them, I grabbed my 6 year old son's bicycle for extra speed and got round as fast as I could, hammered on the door and gasped "your kids ..are ...climbing out ..the window!" Guy, who turned out to be in charge whilst his wife had a night out, didn't even answer but turned and legged it up the stairs. Took me a full 24 hours to stop panicking about what might have happened.
Laura Polaski 3 years ago
This happened at my babysitter's house many years ago to her own child. The baby was asleep on the bed and somehow rolled to an open(had a screen) window and fell through to the driveway below. Thank God she wasn't killed or permanently disabled.
Vicky Z 3 years ago
My brother was able to open the balcony door at a very young age and throw his toys off the balcony! He liked the way they were falling!! I don't know how he managed not to kill anyone from the 2nd floor we were living until we found out what he was doing and put a net around the balcony!!
Reyna Rudy Dharsono 3 years ago
There's a reason why you have bars on your windows. To keep things out... and in
#26
My daughter was 18 months old. Standing in between my husband and me in the kitchen, arm distance from both of us. She slipped, fell and broke two front teeth.
Esca Sav 3 years ago
Without them two front teeth, I'm picturing a Jolly Chrithmath 😂
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Sylvie 3 years ago
When my bother was 3 he fell at the park and cracked 1 of his teeth all the way to the gum. My mom was freaking out (obviously), but luckily we were with her friend who has 5 boys (plenty of experience). He had to get it pulled and it the adult one grew in 2 years ago (he's 11).
Janice Parks 3 years ago
The children in DH’s side of the family tend to get buck teeth as did my daughter’s. She was 3yo and for some reason she decided to stand on the sofa arm. She slipped and fell almost face first hitting her face on our wood coffee table. I don’t remember that she even cried. I might have been too shocked to notice. The fall had managed to straighten her front teeth. We had her checked to see if there was unseen damage but she was lucky to avoid it.
Amy Stone-Chandler 3 years ago
My son broke his 2 front adult teeth. Tripped in gym, was OK till a heavier set girl tripped on Jim laying there. Fell on top of him busting the teeth. The imprint is still on that gym floor today!
Brenda Minturn 3 years ago
When we lived in New Jersey my brother happened to come for a visit my daughter who was 2 at the time, saw Uncle Michael in the basement and decided to go down the steps by herself, she toppled down 6 stairs and hit her head when she landed at the bottom. She had one hell of a knot on the top of her head but surprisingly didn't suffer any serious injuries ,she was really really lucky. Me on the other hand spazed out!
#27
Growing up we had a shed with our laundry room attached to our porch. My mom had me sitting on the floor of the porch playing with some toys (I was about 2), while she was doing laundry. I was just out of her eyeline for the time it takes to start a load of laundry, but by the time she turned around I had somehow managed to find a snake and had picked it up and was playing with it.
Emerald Ocean 3 years ago
When I was one I grabbed a yellow jacket and was playing with it. Got stung. Haven’t gotten stung since
Buzz 3 years ago
I got stung once when I was like 5 but at 7 I decided I wanted to be a beekeeper and learned all about bees and never got stung. Now I get stung more often than most people because I actually became a beekeeper 🤣
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Annie Bieber 3 years ago
I wanted a puppy...my dad was a Herpetologist...o stead I got a cuddly 5ft yellow Rat Snake...🙄
MikeWheelerFan 3 years ago (edited)
You’re so lucky! I would love to have a rat snake.
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MikeWheelerFan 3 years ago (edited)
This isn’t a dangerous situation though? Unless the snake is venomous if it bites you it isn’t going to do anything.
Bored Panda 2 years ago
If they’re Australian it’s a heart stopping situation!
Load More Replies... Lisa Panek 3 years ago
We lived out in the country when I was little, and being the youngest and only girl with 4 older brothers was tough on my poor Mom. I had garter snakes put in my crib to play with, they'd put them around my neck, ring the doorbell and run and tell me to say "Mommy, do you like my necklaces?" 😆 I still freak people out that I have no fear of snakes but my Mom was always terrified!
Thay 3 years ago
So I just remembered when my sister was in preschool, a bee landed on her forehead while playing outside and instead of shooing it away or anything else... She tries to smash it. It stings her and she kept it cupped on her head idk why. We still tease her for it. Critical thinking people lol
#28
Telling it on my dad's behalf. On a fishing trip and I fell in a rapid while playing on the rocks. Never a strong swimmer, just kinda started my travel to the sea. He barely caught me by the arm.
Daisychain 3 years ago
So I deny this, but my dad, mom, brother and cousin swear it's true. In Alaska, in March, we're fishing and I'm about 2ish. Suddenly I leap (fell) into the rushing river. My cousin fished me out and the plopped me on a rock bundled in everyone's clothes. We have a picture with me in my brothers clothes, cousins socks up to my hips, blankets, even the dog to keep me from getting hyperthermia.
#29
He was playing outside in the sand box just 10 feet from me. I had the window and door open and could hear him playing. Suddenly I was aware that he wasn't making any noise. I couldn't find him. I searched the yard, I asked strangers on the street and made a larger and larger circle and met my neighbors. 10 long minutes and he was nowhere. He had curled up in his stroller and was asleep.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago (edited)
I might get some flack for this, but I don't like the idea of letting a child small enough to still be in a stroller play outdoors in an open yard while the parent is indoors, even with a window and door open. If it's a fenced-in back yard, that seems fine. But kids can disappear in the blink of an eye, as this poster learned. They were lucky the kid didn't wander too far away or take off running into the street.
Christina Hill 3 years ago
I worked in a clothing store, busy weekend and i watched a small girl (2-3) curl up underneath a rack to nap. I watched her for 25min before the parents even noticed she was "gone".
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Jole Sankey 3 years ago
I always new my daughter was getting into something when I couldn't hear her anymore
Cheryl Honick 3 years ago
I remember when we lived in Florida my youngest son he we couldn't find him and I always kept a really good eye on the kids so we're outside looking everywhere looking everywhere and I'm like oh my goodness I hope an alligator didn't get him well here he fell asleep under the corner table in their bedroom and I called my husband he came home from work but we were we were terrified
Mark Buckrell 3 years ago
When I was young, we had a quick sand box. I was an only child...eventually. -Steve Wright (must be read completely deadpan)
Willow Swan 3 years ago
My son was always escaping when he was little. Once he climbed the fence over to the neighboring yard 3 houses down.
#30
I was sitting in a high chair, climbed out of it, onto the counter, and stole my mother’s coffee.
All she did was to put her shoes at the door, 3 feet away
May 3 years ago
My nephew had to be strapped in to his highchair. One time we were clearing the table and he pulled the tablecloth to get a hold of the cake that had been left in the middle of the table. We came back to find him face deep in it.
Adrian 3 years ago
Do you notice that no kid grabs hold of the tablecloth to pull a bowl of vegetables closer?
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Obligatory not a parent: I was watching my sister's kids and told them we would grill for dinner and have pie. I went to the bathroom, came back, and the pie was ALL OVER the living room. When I asked them what happened, they told me it was daylight savings time, so dinner was now. I couldn't help but laugh.
#32
Not a parent, but my little brother somehow made it to stick 3 discs and a 50ct coin into the Wii. We needed tweezers to get them out again
#33
On more than one occasion my daughter jumped into her bath fully clothed. I was turned around to get the bubbles or her toys or something and then SPLOOSH. She was like 2. Lol
Most recently I was sitting down after finishing some chores and she walked up to me really proud with a chunk of her hair. "Look mama, I cut my hair!" She just turned 5...
Mari 3 years ago
All my kids did it at least one, and always in the week before the school pictures...
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#34
when my sister, brother and I were young, probably 2, 4 & 5 or thereabouts...my mom left the room for 2 minutes and in that time we had managed to spray an entire container of baby powder around the room. She said it looked like it had snowed in there.
Diane Aguilar 3 years ago
That's even worse, wow. At least with baby powder it's just a slightly annoying mess.
Load More Replies... #35
My mom recounted a visit at the zoo where I ran into the pond and she had to fish me out before I submerged myself under the water.
#36
My mom had gotten me one of those huuuge snickers bars for Christmas one year. My kiddo was 3 at the time, I was doing something and come back to the kitchen to see the snickers with the chocolate eaten off of one end, like, teeth marks scraping off the top layer of chocolate, and the whole thing in the trash. Kiddo was smart enough to try and hide his crime.
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
Aw man. I hope they got a new Snickers bar; I would have been really ticked off.
#37
Nothing compared to others , but last week I took my 3yo son to use the public urinal after dinner in the city, I look away and he’s lent forward and placed his hands on the urinal to watch the water fall over his hands… gross to say the least
#38
I looked away for 1 second and my son (1yr at the time) ate my pack of cigarettes that I thought he couldn't reach. Called poison control and they told me he'd be fine, and he'll probably throw up. When he did throw up, noticed he only ate a little bit if the tobacco, no filters or anything. I quit soon after that.
May 3 years ago (edited)
What? Poison control thought a 1yr old had eaten a pack of cigarettes and said the kid would be fine? That's either gross incompetence or this story is made up. That amount of nicotine would have been deadly.
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago (edited)
For the folks who think this story could be real: https://www.poison.org/articles/my-child-ate-a-cigarette . . . The link includes the story of an 8-month old who swallowed two cigarette butts who had to be intubated and receive gastric lavage, spent the night in the ICU, and then spent another few days in the hospital recovering.
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Mari 3 years ago (edited)
My husband was smoking and talking to someone, they went looking to the car and my husband left his burning cigaret in the ashtray. Trough the glass door I saw my 2year old picking up the cigaret and put it in his mouth. I busted my toddler smoking but it was my husband who got the punishment!
What do you think ?
Annamagelic 3 years ago
Toddlers can be surprisingly fast when they want to, are exceptionally creative problem solvers, and have absolutely no sense of self preservation. I believe every one of these stories, and that the parents in question were all being reasonable, responsible people supervising their children as well as is humanly possible.
Rissie 3 years ago
I would not call it problem solving, chaotic creativity is more like it. I'm happy my oldest wasn't like that (sure he had some bumps and bruises but never the put a metal object in the socket kind of adventures) and the youngest was a little more spunky, but still well within manageable limits. Keeping him contained at playgrounds and at those indoor play areas was the best way to let all that energy out. I like to believe that providing ample other opportunities to let that out is the way to go. As in, if I couldn't take it anymore, which was pretty fast, I would go somewhere where they had fun and I had coffee. Yes. Great combo.
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Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
I need to go and hug my kid because apparently she was the most angelic toddler ever
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, my girl is chatty and a little smarty pants who thinks she's grown when she's only 2-and-a-half, but thankfully the worst she's done so far is scribble on the wall.
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not your average weirdo 3 years ago
When I was like 7 my parents had left the room, so I grabbed a fistful of powdered sugar and tried to eat it. My parents came back into the room, asked me what I ate, and I started laughing. There was powdered sugar everywhere 😂
tuzdayschild 3 years ago
For about the first 5 years, nature has their brains locked on test and discovery mode. No reservations, no filters, just 'what does this do' and 'how does this taste'. You can't fight it.
Shelbi S 3 years ago
Thank you for reminding me that not having children is the best thing I could ever do for my mental health! LOL!
Pille P 3 years ago
As a baby/toddler I managed to pull a container full of permanent marker ink (soviet union, mom had to refill markers by soaking the felt innards in ink over night) from a window sill all over me right before we were supposed to go somewhere. My brand new clothes were for the dumpster and mom had to soak and scrub me for days. Luckily my face was clean so she had to put on new clothes and take me with her like I was. At about 3 I pulled soot out of the heating oven into moms freshly washed plates and crawled into the oven to sleep.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
When my little brother was a baby he was sitting by the stove and my mom told him don't touch the burner it's hot. He decides to be tough and says it's not hot and goes to touch the burner the next thing we hear is his scream. Lesson learned. Also one day when I was watching him I turn my back for a moment and he had taken a stick of butter off the counter and smeared it all over the floor and the counters I don't know how he got it done so quick but it took forever to clean up the grease smears! That may be one reason I don't have children now. LOL I can love my friend's children and send them home at the end of the day
John Smith 3 years ago
Best sort of kids, someone elses. Much more fun to be the uncle that buys them the drum set, than the parent that has to explain why they can't play it at 3am. :)
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NIKKI ADDO 3 years ago
My parents lost me at the zoo when I was a toddler and found me sleeping with the sheep in the petting zoo. It’s still one of my favorite stories and my parents always tell it like that was when they knew I would be a HUGE animal lover.
Shanique Gordon 3 years ago
I was at a toddler pool party with my husband. The pool was big but it was a blow up pool on the porch. My son was 2 at the time There were several older children in the pool so I put him in a float. There were adults all sitting to the side of the pool. My husband and I were also pretty close we could see the pool and our son clearly. But I was eating a patty n it was really hot, n was trying to break off a piece to give my husband who at this time was watching me break it. Just looked down a couple seconds. When I looked up I didn't see my son. The other children were blocking him. Then I saw his feet in the air. I ran as fast as I could to get my son, who was still in his float. By this time another adult saw me running and assisted me to pull him out. It seemed he got knocked over in the float n was upside down in a pool pull of children n surrounded by adults n noone saw my son. It was really really scary.
De Burke 3 years ago
Those floats are insanely dangerous because of this. Jackets are a much better option.
Load More Replies... Annamagelic 3 years ago
Toddlers can be surprisingly fast when they want to, are exceptionally creative problem solvers, and have absolutely no sense of self preservation. I believe every one of these stories, and that the parents in question were all being reasonable, responsible people supervising their children as well as is humanly possible.
Rissie 3 years ago
I would not call it problem solving, chaotic creativity is more like it. I'm happy my oldest wasn't like that (sure he had some bumps and bruises but never the put a metal object in the socket kind of adventures) and the youngest was a little more spunky, but still well within manageable limits. Keeping him contained at playgrounds and at those indoor play areas was the best way to let all that energy out. I like to believe that providing ample other opportunities to let that out is the way to go. As in, if I couldn't take it anymore, which was pretty fast, I would go somewhere where they had fun and I had coffee. Yes. Great combo.
Load More Replies... Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
I need to go and hug my kid because apparently she was the most angelic toddler ever
ForgotMyPWSendHelp 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, my girl is chatty and a little smarty pants who thinks she's grown when she's only 2-and-a-half, but thankfully the worst she's done so far is scribble on the wall.
Load More Replies... not your average weirdo 3 years ago
When I was like 7 my parents had left the room, so I grabbed a fistful of powdered sugar and tried to eat it. My parents came back into the room, asked me what I ate, and I started laughing. There was powdered sugar everywhere 😂
tuzdayschild 3 years ago
For about the first 5 years, nature has their brains locked on test and discovery mode. No reservations, no filters, just 'what does this do' and 'how does this taste'. You can't fight it.
Shelbi S 3 years ago
Thank you for reminding me that not having children is the best thing I could ever do for my mental health! LOL!
Pille P 3 years ago
As a baby/toddler I managed to pull a container full of permanent marker ink (soviet union, mom had to refill markers by soaking the felt innards in ink over night) from a window sill all over me right before we were supposed to go somewhere. My brand new clothes were for the dumpster and mom had to soak and scrub me for days. Luckily my face was clean so she had to put on new clothes and take me with her like I was. At about 3 I pulled soot out of the heating oven into moms freshly washed plates and crawled into the oven to sleep.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
When my little brother was a baby he was sitting by the stove and my mom told him don't touch the burner it's hot. He decides to be tough and says it's not hot and goes to touch the burner the next thing we hear is his scream. Lesson learned. Also one day when I was watching him I turn my back for a moment and he had taken a stick of butter off the counter and smeared it all over the floor and the counters I don't know how he got it done so quick but it took forever to clean up the grease smears! That may be one reason I don't have children now. LOL I can love my friend's children and send them home at the end of the day
John Smith 3 years ago
Best sort of kids, someone elses. Much more fun to be the uncle that buys them the drum set, than the parent that has to explain why they can't play it at 3am. :)
Load More Replies... NIKKI ADDO 3 years ago
My parents lost me at the zoo when I was a toddler and found me sleeping with the sheep in the petting zoo. It’s still one of my favorite stories and my parents always tell it like that was when they knew I would be a HUGE animal lover.
Shanique Gordon 3 years ago
I was at a toddler pool party with my husband. The pool was big but it was a blow up pool on the porch. My son was 2 at the time There were several older children in the pool so I put him in a float. There were adults all sitting to the side of the pool. My husband and I were also pretty close we could see the pool and our son clearly. But I was eating a patty n it was really hot, n was trying to break off a piece to give my husband who at this time was watching me break it. Just looked down a couple seconds. When I looked up I didn't see my son. The other children were blocking him. Then I saw his feet in the air. I ran as fast as I could to get my son, who was still in his float. By this time another adult saw me running and assisted me to pull him out. It seemed he got knocked over in the float n was upside down in a pool pull of children n surrounded by adults n noone saw my son. It was really really scary.
De Burke 3 years ago
Those floats are insanely dangerous because of this. Jackets are a much better option.
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