These stories are the most shocking, hilarious, and unbelievable "I looked away for one second" moments! Get ready for a journey into the crazy world of parenthood, where a single second can turn into a memorable adventure.
Brace yourself for the unexpected, as moms and dads reveal their experiences that will leave you smiling and saying, 'Yep, been there too!'
1. The Supermarket Chase
My son was 3. We were leaving the supermarket. He left my sight as I was adjusting my bags. Maybe two seconds, tops. Poof. He was gone. I tried to act cool, but my horror 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 the 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 turned inside out searching for him.
I hugged him and yelled at him for a good 10 minutes, ugly sobbing. 100/100 grateful for my supermarket folks. We catered lunch for them as a huge “thank you” and “sorry my kid is an a-hole”.
Italics12
2. To The Moon And Beyond
I'm pretty sure I fit the bill for this one, but as a kid, not as a parent. My dad was watching me and my two cousins play SNES down in our den, and got up to pee.
Somehow, in the 2-5 minutes he was gone, we'd gotten one of my cousins on the treadmill, got it angled into a downhill descent (pretty sure we're the reason treadmills no longer have these) and jerked the dial all the way to max speed.
My dad came in just in time to watch my cousin and I launch our other cousin four feet through the air into the wall. No worries, nothing was broken, but trying to explain why my cousin had a big pump knot on her head got my dad in a lot of trouble.
unctuous_homunculus
3. Getting Some Fresh Air
Our firstborn was about 18 months old. He was walking, but not that agile. I was downstairs on the computer, and my wife yelled down that she was using the bathroom and for me to watch him. We misunderstood each other so he was alone for about 3 minutes.
She comes out asking where he is, and he is nowhere to be found in the house. Thinking he's just hiding, we start a full search only to notice the back patio door is slightly open after a few minutes of hunting. We were growing concerned at this point but figured he just snuck out back.
A full search of the fenced/gated yard shows nothing. Now the heartbeat is going. We started running out and down the street. We found him two blocks down. He was heading to the park which would have required crossing 2 roads, one of which was a busy one.
Some nice neighbors found him and were walking him home as they'd recognized us from previous walks. Years later, the little neighbor girl would remind us how he "saved his life". Needless to say, this child's locks went on all the doors in the house after that.
Rancethetank
4. Nightmare Surprise
I went to the toilet, leaving the newborn asleep on a blanket on the floor (on top of a large fluffy carpet). My 3-year-old was watching TV nearby.
I came back to find the baby literally rolled up in the carpet, my 3-year-old sitting on top, with a cushion under him too. I still don’t know how he did it, at all let alone so quickly, and how the baby was totally chilled and unharmed.
peripateticpeople
5. Mom Needs A Break
I was the kid in this scenario. I was about 4 years old and wanted a carrot to snack on. Mind you, the carrot absolutely had to be peeled and no other way was acceptable to me.
My mom was exhausted and lying down on the couch but didn't mean to doze off, but hey, parenting is tiring and she did deserve that nap. Instead of disturbing her, I decided to attempt to peel the carrot myself and sliced the hell out of my thumb, and freaked out.
I remember the blood vividly. She freaked out too, but managed to stop the bleeding and doctored me up.
Thinking I learned my lesson because I was presumably a smart kid she laid back down after that incident. No...she should have known better. I proceeded to stick a pair of tweezers in the light socket of the kitchen while snacking on my carrot. I shook myself for good and blew the power out.
Affectionate_Ad_6902
6. From 0 To 100 Really Quick
I was around at my buddy's place, he had kids about 7 and 5 years old. Both are super nice kids and a nice family. We were sitting in the garden with a beer.
The eldest had a foam-covered baseball bat that he'd been hitting foam balls with. Out of nowhere, he calmly walks up behind his dad and takes a full home-run swing at his head.
He clobbers him. This bat is coated in foam but it's still wood beneath it, so it hurts. Dazed, the dad turns around to defend himself, at which point the 5-year-old sees his opportunity, grabs the beer from the table, and starts chugging it.
Not just drinking it, full-on frat boy chugging it out of nowhere. In the three seconds it takes me to recover from the shock and reach across the table to stop him, the kid drank about 2/3rds of the bottle. Not much for an adult, but a skinful for a kid weighing about 1 stone.
Within about 3 seconds, we went from a nice family BBQ to a concussed adult, hurt by a 7-year-old, and a wasted 5-year-old. Went real dark real quick.
Black_Sky_Thinking
7. A True Miracle
I had taken my four-year-old 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.
Goose-rider3000
8. Adventurous Kiddie
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 panic. We got security there, the staff was looking, and I was 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.
RoboNinjaPirate
9. Telling A Kid Not To Move Does Nothing
We moved into our new house on Halloween in 2001. Most of the heavy lifting was done, so my 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 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, appearing out of nowhere. They decided to stay close assuming some hysterical parent would eventually come running.
catching_comets
10. Too Young For This
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.
theservman
11. Curiosity Can Harm
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.
retailguy_again
12. What A Jumpscare!
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 they could see was my hat 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 vertically with just the hat showing above the water.
Lankymjc
13. A Spare Key Is Always Helpful
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 managed 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.
It's funny now 10 years later, but my wife was really scared. We have kept a spare key hidden in the garage ever since.
1980pzx
14. Flour, Sugar, Coffee
One of my uncles locked Grandma out of the house once when he was a toddler. She heard him singing, "flour, sugar, coffee, four, sugar, coffee, flour, sugar..."
Sure enough, when she got back in, there was a pile on the floor of flour, sugar, and coffee that he'd scooped out a spoonful at a time. She said it was worth cleaning up the mess because she knew exactly what he was up to the whole time she was outside.
BobosBigSister
15. Don’t Play With Keys
I'm not the parent in this scenario, but I'll share the story anyway. I was in college and had a club meeting. Some of the people involved were non-traditional students with a toddler, and they had the kid there at the time.
OK, no big deal, he was pretty much entertaining himself. The parents were trying to pay attention to what was going on, much like the rest of us, when this one guy jumped out of his chair with a yell and grabbed the kid.
Turns out the kid had been playing with his dad's keys and was headed for the electrical outlet with them.
shaodyn
16. Trust Issues
I was making dinner for my twin (18 months old) when the boy twin started 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.
try_new_stuff
17. Yucky!
My sister baked some cookies to share at work, and when her 3-year-old daughter saw them on the plate on the counter, she asked for one. Instead of explaining she wasn’t allowed to have one, my sister lied and said they were “yucky”, implying it was a bad batch.
My sister, confident that her lie was successful, turned her back to finish cleaning up. She heard the plate being removed from the counter and turned around just in time to see all the cookies slide off the plate into the garbage. Her daughter smiled and just said, “yucky”.
DickyBurd
18. Kids Are Full Of Surprises
I went to pee and put my kiddos in their room with the door open and the gate up. I also had the bathroom door open... came 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.
HolyPallyGirl
19. Cute Intruder
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 desperate.
GarbageDayyyyy
20. Pie Disaster
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.
RubyRogue13
21. That’s… Not Chocolate
My 18-month-old son was playing with his toy trains. I turned on my computer to play my new game. While it was loading, my son came up to me with what looked like chocolate on his hands.
I said to myself where did he get chocolate and sniffed it. It wasn’t chocolate. I turned around to see the most horrible sight of poop smeared over everything.
The floors were the worst. We lived in an old farmhouse and the cracks between floorboards were like a centimeter wide and poop was pressed deep into them. I had to use a toothpick to scrape it out. I learned a lesson that day.
Gastrobatch
22. How Did That Happen?
I was the kid in this situation, but when I was about 3, (16 now) my mom was helping me out of the shower and she turned around to grab a towel, turned back mere seconds later, and I was standing in the same spot but my face was covered in blood.
I somehow managed to fall onto the rail for the sliding door and shoot back up to my feet instantly. I passed out shortly after, and went to the ER. 17 stitches in my forehead, and a major concussion. I was lucky to survive.
Tv663
23. I Believe I Can Fly
I work from home. My son is usually with me while I work in the evening. One night, I took a call, and he was sitting on the floor next to me playing with his cars (he's three).
The next minute, I look over and watch 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.
[deleted]
24. Just Like Mommy
We were 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, and ran to the bedroom for something I forgot, we were running a little late.
We ended up going 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".
To this day, I still 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.
Regular_Award_3200
25. Kids Are… Unexpectable
I had just moved into a new neighborhood on a cul de sac with my two young daughters (ages 5 & 2). I walked out to the community mailbox to grab my mail and met my next-door neighbor while I was there.
We chatted for a couple minutes when I heard my older daughter yelling from the front door “Hey Dad! Younger Daughter (YD) is naked!”. I look over at my house and YD is standing at the end of the driveway as naked as the day she was born.
I locked eyes with YD, and with a laugh, she turned around and started bolting the opposite way from me up the street. I quickly said goodbye to the neighbor, tucked my mail under my arm, and started chasing her down the block.
I ended up scooping her up with my other free arm a block later while she was laughing her head off. All of the other neighbors got a good laugh seeing me chasing her down. I couldn’t get mad at her as it was so funny and was impressed she could get undressed so fast.
Lintman1
26. Not My Intention, Mom
This happened last year as we were in Lockdown. My 2 children (8&2) were jumping on the bed. I walked in, scolded them and they stopped. Not 2 steps out of leaving the room, I hear the springs again and the worst scream in the world.
Obviously, the eldest pushed the youngest in excitement, a bit too hard, and the youngest hit her eyebrow hard against the side cupboard. It was bloody anarchy!
Rush to the emergency room with screaming from the baby the entire drive. And only one of us could go in. Ended up needing plastic surgery and he was lucky to have full eyesight.
[deleted]
27. Have A Good Day, I Guess
My daughter (5 at the time) was very defiant. I was four weeks postpartum, dressed in sweatpants and a nursing tank. No shoes. She wouldn't get out of the car in the kiss-and-drop lane.
I hopped out to open her door, not thinking about what would happen next. She locked the doors. Here I am, lactating, blocking the line, ready to either collapse in an emotional sobbing heap or break the windows out of the car.
This escalated to the entire parking lot being rerouted before my neighbor showed up with spare keys. When DD saw her with the keys, she hopped out of the other side and yelled "Have a good day" as she ran into the school.
[deleted]
28. Not The Right Time… And Place
My son is in 1st grade this year, and we've been doing virtual learning. He's also on the spectrum, but he's able to do normal classes so far.
I have a desk and his computer set up in his room. While his lesson was going on, he accidentally spilled some water on himself and his desk. I'm just like, "It's ok! Hold on a second! I'm going to get you a towel!"
So, I ran downstairs to get him a towel. I'm gone for 10 seconds. I came back upstairs, he took off his shirt and his pants and was searching his drawer for dry clothes in his underwear... while on camera.
I feel like I did the slow-motion action movie, "Nooooooooo!!!!" When I went to turn the camera off. I'm pretty sure his teacher at least saw him stripping down to his underwear, but she didn't say anything.
michonne_impossible
29. Making A Mess
I left my son at the kitchen counter while preparing pancakes. One minute he’s there, and the next thing I know, he’s successfully emptied 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.
ashleynr12
30. That’s Ssssscary!
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, picked it up, and play with it.
imwalkingafteryou
31. Sorry, Mom
I'll tell one on my mother's behalf. When I was three or so, we lived in an apartment with an arched set of monkey bars out back. A standard rule was that I shouldn't play on them when she wasn't around to supervise.
Well, one day I was playing on them when the phone rang, so she ran inside to answer it, but not before ensuring that I'd gotten off the monkey bars and repeating her usual warning.
One of the things she never allowed was for me to try and walk atop said monkey bars, and already being primed to play on them, I seized the opportunity.
I'd made it to about the middle before I lost my balance, and fell through the bars, wanging my head on them as I passed and then landing more or less head first onto hard, packed dirt.
I had a stutter for years after that, and I suspect the process of getting over that is why I don't speak as if I grew up where I actually did. This was one of many, many times that I got hurt the instant I chose to disregard her warnings.
Also included are: the time I crushed my finger in a dumpster (The warning being to come and get her should I find the lid closed; my sister and I judged that she could toss it open and I could just time throwing the trash inside. We were mistaken.);
Or the time I was impaled on a tree (I was told to not climb cedar trees, especially the one that I climbed and then promptly slipped out of only to be helpfully caught by a branch through the groin on the way down), a number of bicycle wrecks and pseudo-fencing accidents, and...well… you get the idea.
EclecticDreck
32. Splashing And Unprofessional Haircuts
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.
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.
kannakantplay
33. Literally Losing It
I’m not a parent, but when I worked in childcare, I lost a child. We needed more workers scheduled, just me and one other, for an event. The policies for the place were horrible and for this event, we had to accept any kids that parents wanted to drop off.
So we had about 20 kids, around 12 toddlers, 4 kids who were too old to be in the nursery (4-6 years old), and four infants.
Well, we should've been in the same room as we only had two workers, but we knew the toddlers would end up playing with the infants if we did that. So we split up. I had the 16 kids, the other worker had the four infants.
One of the toddlers had to use the restroom (attached), he went on his own, and after, he needed help buttoning his pants again. So I turned my back to the room, fixed his pants, directed him to the sink to wash his hands, and then turned back into the room.
I immediately performed a head count and realized I was off by one. So I counted again. And again. Then I started frantically checking the closet, and mentally figured out who I was missing.
I was freaking out. I told the other worker and they're freaking out. We don't know where the kid is. Mentally I'm thinking I have to call the cops now and it's going to be a huge deal.
The other worker calls the church's pastor (church event) and they call the child's parents. They had picked up their child. In the 10 seconds, I had my back turned the child's father had walked up to the half door, the child saw him and ran to the door and he just picked them up and walked away.
Didn't sign the sign-out sheet. Didn't see an adult. Didn't do anything but walk up and carry their kid away. We were absolutely pissed and now that I'm older I wouldn't work an event like that or I'd turn away kids once we got to the point we couldn't take care of them. I wouldn't be in that situation again.
siero20
34. Sweet Dreams
He was playing outside in the sandbox 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, 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.
DarrenEdwards
35. They See Me Rolling
My Dad's story: I was just an infant, my mom was working an overnight shift so it was just the two of us for the evening. He had me on a blanket on the floor and had just changed my diaper.
He left the room long enough to throw the diaper away, came back, and infant me was gone. After a few minutes of frantic searching and freaking out because his baby seemingly disappeared in less than a minute, he finds me.
I had rolled all the way under my crib, almost against the wall. He said he was unaware that I could roll yet, it really gave him a start.
WilburWhateleystwin
36. He Was A Star
I was the little annoying kid they turned away from. Family outing to the mall when I was 4 and obsessed with Star Wars. My mom ran to the ladies' room.
My dad was to watch my older brother and me. Brother wanted to see something on a top shelf. I ran off while my dad’s back was turned. My mom comes back to me missing and the search starts.
A few moments later over the loudspeaker: “Would the parents of a little boy named Luke Skywalker come to the security desk?” There I was with a lollipop, a Star Wars coloring book & a smile.
PuddinPacketzofLuv
37. Naughty Kid
Not me but my mom; She let me play in the backyard and told my uncle to keep an eye on me as she went to do the dishes in the kitchen. She came back and asked my uncle where I was, and he said ” In the backyard”.
Nope. I had climbed the fence and ran across the block to the pavement along the main road. Mind you, I could’ve run in any direction:
-Towards the inner area of the block
-To the next block (any of them)
-Towards the woods, etc.
For some reason, my mom found me and tried to trick me that a woman with a cute dog wanted to play with me. I hesitated and considered running across the road.
The only problem was that a HUGE truck was heading my way at full speed. I did for some reason decide to run to my mom to see and play with that hypothetical dog.
And lo and behold, I was met with a whooping. Rightfully so. I remember pretty much everything of that event. I can’t understand how dumb I was as a child. I get anxious just by thinking of it.
aidv
38. Everything Is Ruined
My five-year-old had a drawer of plastic cups that were always accessible to him. He could get a cup, fill it at the sink, and get a drink of water whenever he wanted. It was great. He had been doing it since he was three.
Anyway. One day, he decided he wanted a glass glass of water. So, we are eating breakfast. I got up to pee. I was away for literally a second. He pulled out a chair. He moved the chair to the kitchen counter.
He climbed the chair. He used the shelves as grips and foot supports to climb up to the glasses. I came out of the bathroom. I walked back into the kitchen the moment that the top shelf broke.
He fell backward. I dove forward. I caught my son in midair, moments before his back landed in a pile of shattered pint glasses. My forearms, hands, and wrists were all embedded with broken glass.
Ironically, he literally put the chair directly in front of his little drawer full of child-safe cups. The glasses that were broken were among some of my prized possessions.
So many unique pint glasses, ski resorts, out-of-the-way American towns, the super cool ones that had been stolen from countless bars, grills, and restaurants (my wife has a compulsion), and even my PBR pint glass that my grandpa gave me (he stole it, too). Anyway. It was quite a day.
MajorasJock
39. Mom Is A Superhero
Not mine, but my mother's. My brother and I were little, and he must have been around 2 years old. We were sitting in the living room coloring and mom left for the kitchen for 2 seconds.
Within that time frame, my brother SNORTED A CRAYON. It was stuck in his nose and he then proceeded to cry hysterically. My mother obviously freaked out (from here on out I remember everything).
But she is a superhuman and had her brain still working. She got hold of a pair of forceps to try and pull out the crayon out of my brother's nose. The crying was NOT helping since every time he gasped for air the crayon would go further in (the other nostril was open).
Finally, in what seemed like forever, my mother managed to pull out the crayon. All our crayon rights were revoked immediately until we got FAT crayons that would not enter any body cavity lol.
Prestigious_Tax_2743
40. Bad Luck
I was on a trip to the Oregon coast with my sister, niece, and nephew. My nephew was right at the indestructible 2-3-year-old toddler phase and kept wanting to run out into the surf. We were letting him play in the shallow water as it rolled up the beach.
I turned to my sister to say something and we both looked away for no more than three seconds. In that time a smaller, but powerful wave came up and knocked him over.
He was still in no more than one-inch deep water but was lying on his back, rolling around, trying to get up. There was no danger, but man, that kid has always been accident-prone.
[deleted]
41. Accidents Happen
I have so many of these stories... maybe the most consequential was my 4-year-old pulling out a dresser drawer to climb up to reach the TV on top of the dresser.
In an instant, the dresser began to tip, and my 5-year-old daughter right next to him, stopped the dresser/TV from crushing him. She ended up with a hernia that had to be surgically repaired. SO SCARY.
This was WAY back in 2000. I think parents hopefully know better now. Makes me sick/guilty thinking of it right now.
momsthoughts
42. I Would Never Believe He’ll Do That
Not a parent, but the child of the parent. When I was 6 years old, we were at the pier and I wanted to play with the fish in the water. At that point, I had tried to jump off the pier 2 times prior and my mother knew better than to take her eyes off me or just me and her.
She took my grandpa who didn't believe I tried to jump off the pier to play in the water and he took his eyes off me. All my mom heard was my egrandfather say “CRAP” louder than she ever heard and saw me dangling by my ankle from my grandpa's hand just bearly in time before he would have grabbed my shoe.
Ri0sRi0t
43. A New Ingredient
I was making cookies with my 2 sons and the younger one was being potty trained. I turned around to grab some ingredients, turn back around and my youngest proudly showed me how he managed to pee in the measuring cup.
Sure enough, little stinker had had like 3 accidents in his undies that day but every drop got into the measuring cup. That cup was promptly thrown away.
TLDR1417
44. I’m Fine, Mom!
I swore I would never tell this. At 19, I had a 9 month old baby. I leave her on the bed to go pee. A beautiful spring day, windows open. Cleaning. I come back. She’s gone. Yet I can hear her! I AM FRANTIC, ALONE, AND LOSING IT.
I check under the bed, in between the bed and the wall, everywhere. Until I look up and realize the screen is out. She fell out the Window into a bush outside and was laughing hysterically. NOT ONE SCRATCH ON HER.
She’s 17 now and I haven’t ever shared that story with her or anyone but my therapist until today.
ManicMondayMother
45. Breathing Through… My Hand?
I was the kid, maybe 2 or 3 years old. I walked off the end of a dock into 20ft deep water. I was bobbing up and down trying to keep my hand out of the water (Yes hand, not head).
My uncle pulled me out and I got mad at him for dunking my hand underwater. I had a grasshopper, it was very important that he not get wet. The grasshopper may or may not have been the reason I didn’t see the end of the dock as I walked off it....
My uncle and I had many more misadventures together throughout my childhood, this was probably the first though.
Vaa1t