what is the craziest thing you children have done?

[forestdale]

Without a doubt, this wins first prize for me.

When my youngest son, Kerry, was in grade 1 he wore a snake on his head. Yep, a live, deadly brown snake.

When he was in grade 1, the bike safety helmets were just newly released. This was the mid 80s. He and his brother, Shane, rode their bikes to school which was one street away. It was a small country town and perfectly safe to do this. I'd walk them to school on their bikes and they were allowed to ride home together.

When they came home, they'd take off their helmets and thrown them and their backpacks on the floor of the family room. Grrrrrrr!
Anyhow, this day that happened, and as usual, I told them to put their things away in their rooms before they had their snacks. Kerry picked up his helmet and threw it into his room. Grrrrrrrrrrr x 9 million.

About 30 minutes later, I went into his room to open the window and there on the floor was a snake body poking out of his helmet. A brown snake - one of our deadliest, had crawled into his helmet, which was outside his classroom, while he was in class. He didn't notice it when he put the helmet on because it slid under the padding between the padding and the helmet casing. He wore the helmet home and brought it in the house. He said it felt heavy !!!!

I picked up the helmet by the strap and threw it as far as I could from the back door into the back yard. The snake removed itself.

I was the editor of the town's newspaper then and I wrote a story about it in the newspaper that week. We lived in that town for about another 10 years after that and people still laughed about it until the day we left town. The ranchers in particular just loved Kerry and he became quite the boy around town for a while.

When I think of it now, I just wonder what would have happened if that snake had bitten him on the face. We were 3 hours from the nearest hospital.

What have your kids done that really freaked you out.

[Katybird]

That is scary! My DS2 did something similar when he was about 10. I had let him go the lake with his best friend and his family. I had known them for years so I was comfortable that he would be safe and well supervised. DS and his friend decided to take a walk around the campsite, while they were out walking along a dirt road around the camp area, they found a "dead" rattlesnake and boys being boys they decided they would take it back to camp to show the parents of his friend. DS reached down to pick it up and appearantly it was only injured and not "dead" and made a half hearted strike at DS, thank heavens he missed him. DS and his buddy ran back to camp and told the parents and the Dad went back and found the snake and finished killing it and then gave the boys a stern lecture about the dangers of snakes and that they were never to touch any snake, dead or alive. I guess the lecture worked because to this day, DS has never tried to touch another snake.

[frugalbutterfly]

Humm, well ds(19) was about 11 and he went fishing in the "creek" and hooked his face with the hook . Iguess he was trying to catch himself .
Then when our house was being rebuilt after the fire, Johnathan(5 1/2 at the time) was climbing on the counters(a no no and he knew it), Andrew was 3, we dh just home and I went out into the garage to meet him. Well, Johnathan jumped up on the counter as soon as I walked out. We came right back in and Andrew heard daddys voice, so of course he comes running through the house to see dh. Well, as we came in Andrew was running over through the kitchen, Johnathan bolted off the counter, he smacked AJ right smack in the middle of his head. I had to rush ANdrew to the ER, his head swelled up so fast it really made us panic. Well, scans, blah, blah and we head home with the watch for x,y,z. His poor little head was black and blue for about 3 months, everytime it would "clear" up, he wouls pop it again, he was rechecked within a few days for weeks. It looked horrible, his eyes where black, and his face was all puffy, so where his eyes, he looked like something bad happened to him. And mr, Johnathan did not even have a red mark on his head(he just has a really hard head ). Andrew has scar tissue built up there now(not bad just a tiny bit bumpy).

We have had many snakes(some poisonious(sp) some not) in our yard and our garage. They I don't think have "touched" them but got right up to see them(especially our little crocodile hunter Andrew, he is more causious).
Oldest ds went after this little itty bitty snake that snuck in our garage(he was 12). I was after it too We thought it was "just" a harmless garden snake, well it went under dh's tool chest and he came out and it was a baby rattler, thank goodness we did not get a hold of it. DS1 jumped from a tree at mil's and it was a very high brank, well he borke his growth plate in one foot(he was all about the same age with all these things he did), I was very pregnant with AJ and rushed him to the hospital and it was a "minor" break, now he was suppose ot stay off it anyway after that, funny watching a very pregnant woman carrying as "big" kid cause he fell again after this before it healed(yes, we wanted to tie him to his bed).
I don't think ours have done such crazy things though with snakes

[Missy]

well, dunno if this counts, it isn't too dangerous or anything. DS1 was about a year old, he had a fishtank in his room. He took a entire 20 ct pack of diapers and put em all in the fishtank. of course, they swelled up and you could see smooshed fishies against the side of the tank.

[pita1213]

missy!!


my kidshaven't done anything scary like playing with snacks. they are more likey to do something they shouldn't that looking back is funny as heck.

when ds war 4 or 5 and dd was 2 they got hold of markers. they colored all over some white laminate shelves attached to ds's bed, all over each other, even in between their toes! i'm not sure who did teh coloring, but dd had eyebrows drawn over her real ones, a mustach and beard. one side of it was ornage, and the other was green. i have pictures somewhere of that.
then a year or so later, they got hold of a fairly new bottle of baby powder. i came downstairs one morning to find powder all over our living room. the carpet, sofa, my bin of fabric.
all my fabric had to be rewashed. and for at least i year, everytime i vacuum the living room, it smelled like powder.

[pita1213]

oh and one ds really got in trouble for. around 5 years old, i let him upstairs to watch tv in our room because he didn't want to watch what his sister wanted to watch. well he decided to go into our bathroom and squirt toothpaste everywhere, pop open some bath beads i had, and once he figured out they had liquid inside, he popped all of them. lotion and liquid soap were everywhere. man was it ever a mess. he had to tell daddy what he did and help clean it up.

and to this day neither are allowed to watch tv in our room alone, unless they are too sick to be getting into trouble.

[staceyy]

My daughter (she was about 6 at the time) wanted to make some money and went door to door selling my tampons. A neighbor called to report her. She didn't know what they were for but knew they were something all women seemed to need.

[Emerald_Mommy]

My girls aren't quite old enough to get into much, thank goodness. Tonight I found them coloring the couch with chalk though. Ingrid somehow found a piece of chalk and rubbed it on the couch. Isabel knows better than to do things like that and I didn't actually catch her "drawing" but she was rubbing her hands around in the mess that her baby sister had already made. All things considered, and compared to the snake stories above, I feel like I've gotten off easy so far.

[kettel6]

The Poop Factory...

When the boys were younger I discovered something brown smeared all over the front of their clothes chest. With further inspection I realized what it actually was doo-doo. Nobody knew where it came from or how it got there (we still don't know who did it), until ds#2 spoke up and said, "maybe it came from the poop factory."

While I was still going to college I came home one evening to find hubby in the bathroom with the mop, strange in itself...I walked over for closer inspection and saw "brown" smeared all over the floor. Apparently dd#1 (about 3 or 4 at the time) had an accident in her underwear and when she went to the bathroom the poo fell on the floor and she tried to pick it up, unsuccessfully. My hubby looked at me and said, "poop factory #2."