What is the maddest you've ever been with your kids?

[Pandora]

I climbed in the window when I was like 15 I guess and stepped on my father on was in the chair below the window.

I never sneaked out of the house again and I don't know why I just didn't go out the damn door, I only went next door.

 

[meangirl]

I never snuck anyone in but my step-brother and I used to sneak out all the time.

One night we took off and went running around somewhere and when we got home, the kitchen light was on. Jack was like, "Did you leave the light on?"

No, idiot, I didn't leave the light on.

So he goes back around to my bedroom window to sneak back in. I'm going, "What are you doing? We're busted!" He says, "Well, maybe we can just say we were there all along..."

What? Hiding under the bed? Surely the folks looked and that's why they're sitting in the kitchen at 3am.

Anyway, we went in the front door like civilized humans and proceeded to get our asses reamed for the next hour.

I did something similar when I was 15. Snuck out with my friend who was spending the night... we got home around 4 am. We crept up the deck to go in and when I turned the handle to the door, my mom was opening it at the same time. My friend grabs the door and pulls it back shut saying "maybe she doesn't know it's us."

Another time I went to sneak out and had a "heavy" friend over...as we went out the window, my whole window sill fell off.

 

[FromTexas]

Well, the maddest I have ever been was when my first of three children did that horrible thing. I am so much happier with two children now.

 

[persimmoncf]

When I was 16 I snuck out, took my parents car and met my friends at the Marquise Lounge in Capitol Heights. An hour later my dad was at the door Interrogating the bouncer and I was under the pool table. The family dog was patiently waiting for me in the car cause she was a barker.

 

[Wenchy]

Here's a new one. My daughter is now 18, on her winter break from college, and wanted to know what her curfew was. I told her it would always remain the same as long as she was living under my roof. She is not allowed out at night. Period.

She got pissed, and I got even more pissed.

I told her she was welcome to go live with her dad or remain at college during the breaks. I'm not going to stay awake waiting for her to come home at night.

I'm still a ##### mom, but it's working.

Anything to keep her safe whenever I possibly can. That's been my entire role as a mom.

She's still here. Go figure...

 

[Wenchy]

She's still here. Go figure...

This can be taken two ways:

In her graduating class of 160, 3 never made it to graduation due to car accidents. I play the lottery, but that statistic was one I refused to play.
Other parents thought I was mean for not allowing my daughter to "hang" or drive. I watched/listened to one mother stand up at graduation and say how wonderful her daughter was and should never have died. I didn't laugh, but I did think....STUPID #####! Give your daughter a car at 16 and she let her 14 year old cousin drive...right into a tree. Good mom! Waaaaaaah!

My daughter will not "hang" around here (almost as bad as SoMD, but not quite) Still, she has her future and school/art to focus on...not "hanging" and being "cool".

At 18, she does have a choice, but will listen to my rules if she wants to stay here. If she leaves, my heart will not be broken. If she dies, it will be. I know she will always love me even if she does not live with me.

I admire parents who are tough. I might be tougher than most. My daughter has thanked me on numerous occasions for that.

Good for you CMC. I have no idea what your teen did, but show her and the younger children that you do not need to appease others and they need to adhere to your rules.

 

[ashliekay711]

A g/f at work told me that this morning, she'd forgotten to give her daughter the signed permission slip for a field trip, so she decided to go drop it off to her at school. She gets to the class, and low and behold, lil miss thang -- who is 10 years old, mind you -- was no longer wearing the sweater, turtleneck and jeans she left the house in that morning. She was now wearing a small tank top, skirt and make-up. 10-freaking-years-old!

I'd so love to be a fly on the wall in her house tonight.

i used to do that all the time LOL i was a little older but yeah i most definitly did that ALL the time

 

[ashliekay711]

A kid who doesn't give a damn about his/her appearance/choices won't likely give a damn about his/her parents being disappointed. But let 'em get their prized possessions taken away, or their wardrobe slimmed down to frumpy clothes only, or embarrassed in front of the boy/girl they were trying to impress by lookin' like a hooker, and they stand a better chance of knowing you mean bidness.

my mo used to do that with me, that was her punishment for me changing my clothes once i got to school and anything that i got in trouble for as far as my sociall status went like if i was talking to much in class or something she would say she was going to pick out my clothes for me for how ever long she decided and that toutured me when i was in middle school

 

[ashliekay711]

When I lived in Alabama I jumped out a window and landed crotch first on a wooden stake...learned a valuable lesson.

eeeh, gross, that made me cringe, sounds pretty painful

 

[ashliekay711]

ok, well i'm still rather young so i don't have kids but i can say that the maddest i think i've ever made my parents was when i was um.. 13 i think i was being stupid, home alone i went to go light a candle (in the middle of our living room floor) me anyhow we didn't have any regular sized matches so i grabbed a fireplace match you know the like 10 inch long ones, well it burned kinda fast and part of the burned match landed on the carpet and burnt the carpet. so me being stupid i thought if i steam cleaned it it woudl come up, well i couldn't find the steam cleaner so i poured the cleaning stuff on the floor and tried to vacuum it up with the regular vacuum. well that didn't work so i went and put that back and sat down to try to figure something else out, then i heard the garage start to open so i said sh!t and rubbed my finertips on the floor to scrape up some loose carpet fibers and i tucked them down in the small whole that was made, well that worked at first until my dad got home around 9 o'clock and went to go vacuum and pulled out the hose to the vacuum and liquid started to come out. well he fixed it then proceeded to vacuum the whole floor (i was upstairs this whole time) and then he vacuumed up my loose carpet fiber and realized what i did and what i tried to do... well he came upstairs and calmly asked me if i knew what happened to the vacuum cleaner and i played dumb and said, no why whats wrong with it, he told me and then i said oh, no i have no idea, well then he aske, oh well do you knowhow the carpet got burned, and again (thinking i wasn't allowed to change my story halfway through it) said "uh, no" and he said, "ashlie, whats the one think you get you're ass beat for?" i said, "uh, lying" he said, "ok, then which belt do you want?" so i of course started bawling like a baby knowing whats going to happen well he leaves my room and goes in his room (was gone for about 10 minutes while i waited nervously) well i later found out from my mom that when he went in his room she said he got down and prayed to god he wouldn't kill me.... and at the time i was actually supposed to go on a trip with my grandma like that weekend, well in addition to getting my ass beat, i had to write litterally a million times "i will not play with fire" before i was allowed to leave!!!!!!!


and to this day 7 years later, i'm still not allowed to have candles lit in my house unless my mom lights them!!!

 

[itsbob]

Im a her....

Then why did you pick a Male Penguin for your AV??

 

[itsbob]

Manly Stanley!??

 

[keekee]

Having two teenage boys, just over a year apart in age, has been trying on my sanity... but I am shocked by nothing, and deal with things as they come. As they are getting older, the shockers are getting less frequent.

But the one thing I could never and still will not deal with gracefully - is lieing.

 

[Ponytail]

Having two teenage boys, just over a year apart in age, has been trying on my sanity... but I am shocked by nothing, and deal with things as they come. As they are getting older, the shockers are getting less frequent.

But the one thing I could never and still will not deal with gracefully - is lieing.

yea, The lies are a big thing. The g/f is just now starting to see the 13 year old ain't as perfect as she thought she was...she's starting to see her as I've been seeing her for the last year. The 13 year old has been plying her like a puppet. And the battle lines were drawn this weekend...I get to retreat to my own house and watch from a distance.

 

[Chasey_Lane]

And what did they do to make you so mad? What kind of punishment did they recieve and give hypothetical ages too please. TIA.

My daughter was 7 and I had to cut her out of the seatbelt in the Honda. Don't ask how she got twisted around, but I was more than a little upset!

 

[keekee]

My daughter was 7 and I had to cut her out of the seatbelt in the Honda. Don't ask how she got twisted around, but I was more than a little upset!

When I was about that age, I decided that I wanted to sit on the toilet, but have the seat around my waste. I succeeded.

But then I was stuck and had to scream for help.
My mom was puzzled, but helped me get out.
Be glad it was something as normal as a seatbelt.

Why I did this is a mystery to me...

 

[itsbob]

As they are getting older, the shockers are getting less frequent.

I hope you mean they effect your privacy as to receiving less I_II and not them giving you less I_II, cause that would be just weird, too weird for even these forums..

 

[CableChick]

I hope you mean they effect your privacy as to receiving less I_II and not them giving you less I_II, cause that would be just weird, too weird for even these forums..

Bob! EWWWWW

 

[nomoney]

When I was about that age, I decided that I wanted to sit on the toilet, but have the seat around my waste. I succeeded.

But then I was stuck and had to scream for help.
My mom was puzzled, but helped me get out.
Be glad it was something as normal as a seatbelt.

Why I did this is a mystery to me...

My son when he was 4 got stuck behind our toilet....my youngest when he was 3 got his head stuck in our stair case banister. Thank god for video cameras

 

[Ponytail]

My son when he was 4 got stuck behind our toilet....my youngest when he was 3 got his head stuck in our stair case banister. Thank god for video cameras

My brother used to get his head stuck in the banister railing all the time. he just couldn't understand how dad would get it UN-stuck, without removing the rails.

He also had this strange fastenation with sticking things up his nose at very inopportune times...like the white decorative stone that caused a massive nose bleed while he was on the very busy street corner while my mom was working as a crossing guard.

Prolly the worst anger that my mom ever encountered due to me was when she arrived home from a week long vacation with her family to Myrtle Beach, and Bro and I had to sit her down quickly to let her know that a police officer would be stopping by for some info for an impending court date, as would one of our friends mothers with hospital bills for her to pay.

A close second would probably be when I was caught at the Red Roof inn the morning after the Senior prom, when I was supposed to be at a friends house. To make matters worse, my choice of words could have been better when she pulled up next to my car just as I was about to leave with my girlfriend and said "Ma, what are YOU doing here?"

yep, them two got her pretty mad. I still remember thinking to myself "She's literally going to explode".