What's the most expensive damage your children have caused to your property?

[Anonymous]

And if they were old enough how did you resolve the issue?
I'm a nanny for a family and their 5yo had a #2 accident in his underwear last night. He was to ashamed to tell anybody and flushed his underwear down the toilet.
DB made the kiddo help him to take the toilet apart and fix it.
I just love my family, I learn from their parenting every single day! I would never have thought of that myself!

[Anonymous]

My son colored with marker on our pre-kids Italian leather sofa (which I'm ashamed to state the orginal cost of the sofa). I have the repair people come out and dye over it, for $85 a visit, they have come twice. I wish I had just gone to marlo!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And if they were old enough how did you resolve the issue?
I'm a nanny for a family and their 5yo had a #2 accident in his underwear last night. He was to ashamed to tell anybody and flushed his underwear down the toilet.
DB made the kiddo help him to take the toilet apart and fix it.
I just love my family, I learn from their parenting every single day! I would never have thought of that myself!

That family has issues. No child should be made to feel ashamed of a toileting accident. Poor thing.

[Anonymous]

I dont think a 5 year old should be punished for an accident but he should definitely know better than to flush to underwear down the toilet. I know my son would have been excited to "help" fix the toilet!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And if they were old enough how did you resolve the issue?
I'm a nanny for a family and their 5yo had a #2 accident in his underwear last night. He was to ashamed to tell anybody and flushed his underwear down the toilet.
DB made the kiddo help him to take the toilet apart and fix it.
I just love my family, I learn from their parenting every single day! I would never have thought of that myself!

That family has issues. No child should be made to feel ashamed of a toileting accident. Poor thing.

I'm the OP. Not sure if I used the right word... but wouldn't YOU be ashamed to poop in your pants? I think any child would be no matter how supportive and understanding the parents are. He has been fully potty trained for 2.5 years and this is the first time it ever happened.
He had a wonderful time with daddy helping handling the tools and stuff and fully understood why he was being punished: for flushing the underwear, not for having the accident. They often help with laundry so he definitely knew better. I don't think there's anything wrong with the family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And if they were old enough how did you resolve the issue?
I'm a nanny for a family and their 5yo had a #2 accident in his underwear last night. He was to ashamed to tell anybody and flushed his underwear down the toilet.
DB made the kiddo help him to take the toilet apart and fix it.
I just love my family, I learn from their parenting every single day! I would never have thought of that myself!

That family has issues. No child should be made to feel ashamed of a toileting accident. Poor thing.

I'm the OP. Not sure if I used the right word... but wouldn't YOU be ashamed to poop in your pants? I think any child would be no matter how supportive and understanding the parents are. He has been fully potty trained for 2.5 years and this is the first time it ever happened.
He had a wonderful time with daddy helping handling the tools and stuff and fully understood why he was being punished: for flushing the underwear, not for having the accident. They often help with laundry so he definitely knew better. I don't think there's anything wrong with the family.

Sorry, I'm probably too sensitive to that word. There's a distinction between shame and embarassment, IMO. Shame is more of a core self-hatred while embarassment focuses more on feeling bad about the actions. Shame means he feels bad about who he is; embarassment or guilt mean he feels bad about what he did.

Yes, a child (anyone) would feel very embarassed about soiling their pants. I hope no child feels true shame though.

I misread the situation. I'm sorry.

[Anonymous]

My kids broke my DH's $600 guitar. They are constant reminders to DH (who was pretty materialistic before we had kids) that people are more important than things. Having been a refugee and losing all of my family's material wealth, I'm less concerned with accumulating expensive things.

[Anonymous]

Mine have not caused too much damage yet -- I'm sure they're saving it up for when they start driving!

[Anonymous]

My son used crayon on our $1200 dresser. I got some of it off but there is some residue.

[Anonymous]

Haven't even begun the damage tally yet - our youngest is 1, so we are waiting until a little older to really start figuring out what needs to be replaced or repaired. Our first child is like a walking destruction path - still! As far as we can tell - kids have not done as much damage yet as our pets, who have all been around much longer. Either way, glad we haven't spent much on decorating.

[Anonymous]

We have a high-end persian rug that is much the worse for wear. I found a raisin smashed into it the other day. It will cost around $200 to clean, and I'm sure we'll have to do it more than once. But we've been really lucky so far.

Agree with PP... we'll see how lucky we feel when the driving years hit! I once smashed the window on the family minivan by trying to close the sliding door with the brakes (get the car moving a little, hit the brakes, let the momentum close the door). Oops.

[Anonymous]

Nothing yet by my kids.

My friends kids decided to make a swimming pool in their powder room by stopping up the sink. By the time my friend found them in there, they were naked and frolicking on the floor. The water came out in the finished basement through their vents, smoke detector, ceiling, etc. The clean up and repair cost them $5000 (their insurance deductible) and then insurance covered the rest. The kids were 3 and 4.5 at the time.

[Anonymous]

^^ I think we have a winner.

[Anonymous]

when DS was 2, he threw my phone into the pool. Months later, he decided to take some scissors to my computer's power cord.

[Anonymous]

The day after my brother and sister-in-law brought home and installed their big, flat screen TV, my nephew (3) threw a golf ball at it and broke the glass.