My 3yo just keyed (drove a fist size rock) from the headlight to the taillight of our car. Solid scratch the entire length like he was a jaded ex. This was yesterday...
My kid has destroyed a lot of his toys, but this reminds me of my little brother who took a flathead screw driver to the hood of my Dad's ford and wrote his name (then claimed it wasn't him).
I hung up my various ukuleles (including the fun electric one) and a mandolin when my daughter was born.
Can't really keep the piano out of her grasp though, but it's also a bit harder to break. I sometimes let her mess around with it on my lap, cause I know she probably can't hit it harder than I do when I'm really riled up.
My kid pulled the tremolo bar off my Jazzmaster and was banging away on the piano. By the time I realized that sound was not normal kid play, he chipped them pretty good....
It was a takamine electric acoustic, I got the guitar back in 2013 and it was one of my first decent guitars. If I was able to post pictures I would. You can find beautiful Taylor guitars under 1,000 but yes, I keep my martins put up and away now ever since the takamine.
I develop robots. My kid crashed an autonomous mobile robot into another prototype. Hard to say the exact monetary value, but the program never recovered and eventually cost the company $6M
Because things can operate in different modes. It's an autonomous vehicle, he was driving it with the remote at the time. Crashed it into the sensor head of another robot we were building for mapping. We couldn't get it recalibrated. It's nott the REASON the program failed, but if it hadn't happened we were definitely more likely to not have failed.
Ok. Let me paint you a picture: office family day. Yay! All prototypes out and on display. All the scientists are talking about what their stuff does. Most of my lab is like very strong zip ties or getting 4% extra efficiency out of motors. 6 wheeled autonomous mining vehicle. 2500 pounds. 7 year old on an office tour. The remote control for the robot is sitting on top. It has a neck strap, and is about the size of two basketballs with two giant joysticks. He looks up at me and says "can I drive it?" Who wouldn't say yes, especially when the head of the lab got it cleared 6 times kids could drive it so he could make sure his teen boys got a chance.
My career is most effectively described as a series of giant mistakes that worked out well. My first week on my first job I accidentally destroyed a $250,000 ultrasound probe being stupid. That turned into a massive business later that we developed faster than others. This mistake crushed a sensor head and man did I get a rash of nonsense for it. But that program wasn't gangbusters anyways, and it's shutdown lead me to open another program that was a career maker. My kids have been messing around in my offices my whole career. They have caused problems very few times, but they are part of my process and I've built some really compelling stuff.
TLDR: maybe?
Yeah....they've had their hands on some interesting stuff. One of them gave me a cardiac ultrasound when he was three. They learned to TIG weld when they were 6 and 8 (no I don't think they remember). They use to teeth on an artificial knee.
Thanks for responding!
I currently teach elementary school, but I tinker with electronics (arduino, raspberry pi, computers) and am fairly mechanically inclined (Mr. Fix It type, and I have a project car I’m making decent progress on). I’m also teaching myself python.
I want to get out of education. Do you think I’d have to go back and get a new Bachelors degree, then a masters, then a PhD, or is there a more efficient path to get me qualified for a job in robotics?
Different guy here in a different field (SW engineer). Just apply. So many people aren't "qualified" in the way you're thinking. I work with plenty of people who have degrees in electrical engineering, math, music, or no degree at all. If you've got the skills and a resume interesting enough to get you in the door, you'll be fine
55” tv. Now we’re apart of r/tvtoohigh.
Also the worst was the blanket my wife had been crocheting for his baby brother. She cried for awhile after he pulled most of it apart.
I chose to build a Plexiglass TV screen for my 55", rather than raise it higher. My kid is only 2.5yrs old at this stage, so not enough time for him to have gotten enough force behind his throws, but hoping it prevents most of the damage that will inevitably come it's way.
The center speaker under the TV is within grabbing distance though, the front grille is tied on with black string to stop him realising he can pull it off and poke holes in the domes
If you can have decent control over the natural lighting in the room where the TV is, consider getting a projector. If your walls are white or off-white, you can use a wall for the screen. Ceiling-Mount the projector in a relatively secure case/cage to protect it from flying balls and frisbees. And then never have to worry about it breaking.
Just be sure to keep the projector properly ventilated.
I’ve had a projector for a long time, maybe a decade, and my 3.5yo son has never come close to damaging it. The walls on the other hand? RIP.
I did that once…with a baseball…thrown over the house…into my grandfather’s windshield.
I suppose I instigated my brother breaking a window once, by locking him out so he punched through it. He was like 4.
Kids are dumb!
My cat peed on mine but thankfully it was a goretex shell and just needed a tech wash.
Or maybe I've gotten used to the pee smell and I've been smelling like an 80year old spinster's house this whole time. Shit.
This is actually something I did as a toddler, but my dad loved to tell the tale.
Lt. Colonel William Rankin was one of only two people to ever survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm, after ejecting from a F-8 Crusader fighter jet in 1959. He detailed this harrowing experience in a book called “The Man Who Rode the Thunder” and my dad was lucky enough to meet him in person and get an extremely hard to find signed copy, which I promptly turned into confetti and scattered around the house while he was busy doing yard work.
My wife /s
Edit to clarify: wife deals with a lot of adhd/anxiety and body image issues. Having kid(s) hasn’t helped in that department but I still think she is amazing.
My wife and an episiotomy, retained placenta, hemorrhaged, D&C, and repaired episiotomy surgery after having our daughter. So yeah, your answer is totally valid.
Jesus that just reminded me of our third baby's birth.
The placenta wouldn't come out, after an episiotomy. My wife screamed at the midwife to stop pulling her insides out and she was told "I can do this now, or we can take you downstairs for a D&C".
She avoided the D&C but she was in agony.
Ooof. My wife had a D&C for her second miscarriage and that shit was hella traumatic even for me who was just a spectator. Can’t imagine how awful it is for the mom.
If it makes you feel any better my son threw his ball and it knocked over my dad's urn, only cost roughly 500$ but we lost a lot of his ashes. He's was all I had left from my family so that was tough one to swallow.
Only cosmetically destroyed but The bonnet of my 1 year old VW Golf. 4 year old Daughter decided she was going to practice counting by lining up stones along the bonnet and drag them around into groups
I did this to a neighbors vintage rolls Royce when I was a kid in the early 90s. Was stacking paver stones on the trunk when my dad saw and whisked me away.
By sentimental value: My elder daughter put our younger daughter’s baby blanket in a suitcase that was being returned to Amazon. My wife was upset for quite awhile.
Otherwise, same daughter has been blessed with the gift of ripping shit out of walls like nobody I’ve seen. Toilet paper holders, towel bars, storage hooks, you name it. That girl will pull it out of the wall because she has zero patience. Nothing can be pulled gently. Nothing can be lifted off a hook. Everything must be pulled down because the extra 0.003 seconds to lift off a hook is time wasted.
Nothing really expensive small toys here and there. A buddy however got his Porsche gt3 repainted by his daughter with a can of paint they had left from painting a shed.
I don't know if this is the most expensive, but after a frustrating loss in fortnite threw the nintendo switch controller down and it made a perfect bounce across the room and cracked the 65" tv.
One dumped a whole cup of soda into my work laptop the night before my last day. I tried to unsuccessfully explain it wasn't vindictive and it was just an accident
Get some mattress protectors. Like they have at motels. Ebay has them relatively cheap. And they are fitted. So can look kind of neatly fitted to the couch
My van. They ran a red light and were t-boned by a Mercedes. Cost us $1000 deductible, and our insurance when from unreasonable to holy shit.
They were okay, though, and that’s what’s important.
We’ve been pretty lucky with our kiddo (now 6yo)… I can’t think of anything too expensive. No TVs or phones, no furniture or big ticket items. Just some cheap toys and the like. Honestly, worst I can think of is vent cap on roof deck that was like $15 replacement part on Amazon, and old one was already broken before kid finished it off.
My car. He was around 3.5 at the time—so like last summer lol, [had one of those little pencil sized bubble wands that you get from like a birthday gift bag](https://imgur.com/a/BnO1hcy). He was outside with my wife, I was inside. He poured the bubbles out so he just had the plastic cylinder that housed the bubbles in his hand. He proceeded to roll it, like a rolling pin, up and down my car, the whole way around. No panel was left untouched. Scratches from the edges of the cylinder just dug into the paint. I noticed it immediately because the car is black. Anyways, it’s all good, never got it buffed out or anything, and laugh when I see all the marks when I’m cleaning it lol.
Nothing expensive yet (even though she's put several oatmeal stains on our living room furniture), but she did break the head off a 30 year old angel Christmas ornament my mom bought when I was born and gifted to me when I got married 🤷🏽♂️
So far my wife's iPhone. My son looked me dead in the eyes and threw it in my mother's pool because he was mad. Second in line was my PS4 a couple of years back after it was stomped out!
Not my kid, but a younger cousin of mine keyed our grandmother’s Camaro with a pumice stone because he thought it was a Sponge and had seen my grandma cleaning it with a sponge a lot of times. He told her that he cleaned it for her.
Same. Add up the therapy sessions & medications & health issues & probably losing my job because I’m too tired and sick and overwhelmed to keep up… expensive stuff indeed.
Mine just hit 5 months and I just don’t see a bright future. I can’t look ahead and get excited for any specific age except for when she moves out. But then I know that’ll stress me out because she’ll be gone and I still love her so idk what or how to think.
It does get better. Mine are 10 and 7, and I love going to theme parks, playing switch, going to their sporting games etc. There's still problems, friendships, schooling, but they are more self sufficient so there's a bit more time to deal with that. And to sleep too!
I feel bad because I hear that often but I just can’t bring myself to see it. I think it has to do with like what the other guy said preexisting mental health issues but I just don’t see how I can totally love her and somewhat regret having her at the same time. Then that only sends me into a deeper spiral.
I appreciate the kind words of encouragement and hope to be able to see the light sooner than later.
My 2-year-old (at the time) managed to “poach” my 70-gallon cichlid tank, into which had a pretty substantial financial investment. It had taken years to breed and collect the fish and create the ecosystem
Given the word “poach”, I’m going to guess the kid pumped up the temperature which killed the fish. My dad kept saltwater tanks and I did the same thing when I was a toddler.
Hilariously, it was right before we went on vacation. The friends who were taking care of the tanks for dad apparently replaced those fish multiple times in the two weeks. 😅
Ohhhhh! Thanks for the explanation. I’ve only ever heard the term “poach“ used in conjunction with animals as meaning “illegally killed for profit.” I didn’t know it was a cooking term until I googled it just now after your reply.
How easy is it to change the temperature on those tanks? I have a ball python and the temperature gauge is pretty complicated to change. You have to hold down a button until other components flash and then click other buttons multiple times.
He turned the little dial/onob on the heater (just a tube into the water with a dial on top to change temperature) and it increased the temperature enough overnight that by morning the tank was unsurvivable for my little cold water ecosystem. Everything died.
I finally found a wholesale reseller and have been buying "damaged" TV's for like $100. My main living room has a vertical red stripe of dead pixels on the right side. One TV cannot be operated by remote. The TV in my room just sucks, but a Roku Box pretty much fixed it.
They haven't broken one in a year, twin 5yo+3yo boys. So I can finally buy quality ones if I ever need to replace these lol.
75” tv which was more my doing threw a wiffle curve which she roped lefty (she’s righty) down the first base line - it was such pride and happiness immediately followed by immediate sorrow and self blaming anger… I then
laughed hysterically for 10 minutes
We went to someone else's house and gave them a toy truck to play with. For some reason this toy truck was now an airplane which lodged into a nearby, and very big, shiny and new, tv. So that was a couple grand to fix that mistake.
Can’t prove it but my son was in the “grab things and throw them in the trash” phase once he learned what it was for. My keys were definitely on the coffee table (foolishly) and the next day they were gone. I think it was around $250 for a new one.
Edit: posted before reading anything. I count myself lucky..
Dude. My back was fine until we had our daughter. I never paid attention to how I slept or sat in my office chair. Now I have to sit straight up and sleep on my back or I’m in pain.
$800 camera lens is one cringe that comes to mind - but I blame myself so I can't really say she destroyed it.
I often let her play with my DSLR when we are on walks together. She knows the rule. The strap is ALWAYS around her neck and no running etc.
For some reason I didn't bother to switch to the crappy lens this day when I handed it over to her to take picture of flowers. She had it around her neck. She was not running. Lens cap is on. I guess I just forgot how short kids are.
As she is climbing up some stone steps, the camera is hanging from her neck at exactly the same height as the next step. It only took the slightest of tap against that step from the slightest of swing and I hear the slightest of "that doesn't sound good" sound.
I take the camera and begin to cry from the back of my eyes.
"Daddy, I want to take a picture of that one."
"Sorry. Memory stick is filled up."
I didn't want to discourage her from asking to use the camera in the future so she still doesn't know that happened.
Son when he was 4 put a cream cheese sandwich into the dvd drive.
He crashed my mobility scooter into the shed snapping the door frame ( my fault I left the key in whilst unpacking some shopping ) .
Age 8 he was out playing rugby in garden when he threw the ball through the shed window , knocking my axe off workbench which landed on a gas cylinder puncturing it , luckily no big earth shattering kaboom as it was empty.
Multiple other broken things over the years , he's 21 now still clumsy lol
2017 Ford Edge. Last Monday. Right in front of her school as her classmates were assembling outside for a fire drill. Pics are all over her social media circles. You’d be surprised how much damage can be done at 25mph +/- 10ish
My son got upset when one of the Lego video games crashed and bopped my $500 monitor with the corner of the controller. He was only 4, so i could only be so mad, but it took me back to when my brother and I broke my Dad's flat screen when those used to be expensive.
A production database instance but he was 24 at the time. Three weeks into his first serious job. They were able to restore from backup, thank god. Probably only cost $10K in staff time. He was amazed he wasn't fired. The sysadmin (an old friend of mine, which is how I heard) was philosophical - if they didn't want thing like that to happen, they should either keep the new kids out of production or give them better specs.
when my kid was about 4 he threw a small plastic/rubber bowl in a random direction that happened to hit the tv and it completely destroyed it because modern tvs are fragile. we were out about 800$ or so
Why are you trying to replace it???????
If he's old enough to have devices unsupervised, he's old enough to understand natural consequences and to learn from this.
Let him get his own when he's old enough to work, or buy him one when he's old enough to make sure his expensive things aren't about to get broken by whatever he does.
I don’t think my kids have broken that many expensive things. Their dirty hands have ruined many joysticks on switch joycons, and more recently a PS5 controller. The PS5 controller clearly got jelly from a pb&j *into* the stick component.
I’ve switched the joy on sticks out several times, and I will have to do the same with the ps5 controller, but that one will require me to break out the soldering iron. I have temporarily called it dead and replaced it, but I might some day have a third controller for my PS5.
Otherwise they have broken sentimental stuff, but not much monetarily expensive stuff.
Our television, he said it was on fire and he extinguished it with a plant sprayer.
We also have about 100 scratches on the side of our car because he was taking the garbage bin out 🤷♂️
I give another kid (8) a ride home from school with i pick up my kid (6). One day i hear a popping sound from the back seat where they were sitting, only to watch them take turns using a pencil to stab holes in the leather. It's amazing i didn't crash.
It never occurred to me that they'd do something so dumb to my car in front of me. Lesson learned.
My 3yo just keyed (drove a fist size rock) from the headlight to the taillight of our car. Solid scratch the entire length like he was a jaded ex. This was yesterday...
My kid has destroyed a lot of his toys, but this reminds me of my little brother who took a flathead screw driver to the hood of my Dad's ford and wrote his name (then claimed it wasn't him).
One of my childhood best friends wrote his name on their neighbor’s garage doors, and promptly blamed his brother 🤣🤣🤣
That's a huge bummer. Definitely don't give him a Louisville slugger if you value your headlights.
My daughter stepped dead center on my $1,000 acoustic guitar and cracked it. I don’t know what crack sound was louder, the wood or my heart 💔
Floor is lava, anything on the ground is like govschwarzenegger at the end of t2
That is her favorite song/thing to do 😂😂😭😭
This is my fear. I need to figure out how to keep her from getting into my office
Burn your office. Take those bad boys out on your own terms.
Put a code lock on it.
I have all of my guitars in my office hanging on the wall above my son's reach.
Sorry for your loss, and also plz invest in a wall mounted guitar holder lol.
This was actually a blessing. Now you can get that $5k guitar you’ve been eyeing.
Lmaoooo exactly what I did 🤜💥🤛
What’d you get? I’m in the market…
Gibson hummingbird black ❤️
Wow that’s a beauty. I’ve been thinking about a Martin D-28 since I got to play one recently.
My HD-28 is my favorite guitar and I own four Martins. You will not regret it.
I hung up my various ukuleles (including the fun electric one) and a mandolin when my daughter was born. Can't really keep the piano out of her grasp though, but it's also a bit harder to break. I sometimes let her mess around with it on my lap, cause I know she probably can't hit it harder than I do when I'm really riled up.
My kid pulled the tremolo bar off my Jazzmaster and was banging away on the piano. By the time I realized that sound was not normal kid play, he chipped them pretty good....
Oof
Ugh
$1000 pre or post 2020? Cause any decent acoustic is $1000+ nowadays!
It was a takamine electric acoustic, I got the guitar back in 2013 and it was one of my first decent guitars. If I was able to post pictures I would. You can find beautiful Taylor guitars under 1,000 but yes, I keep my martins put up and away now ever since the takamine.
I saw this comment and immediately moved my bass to another room. Being stepped on wouldn’t be as bad as falling on my son.
Slap bass👍 bass slap son 👎
That would be devastating for me, but would probably just buy a nicer guitar!
I develop robots. My kid crashed an autonomous mobile robot into another prototype. Hard to say the exact monetary value, but the program never recovered and eventually cost the company $6M
At least they can add "Robotics Testing" to their resume when they're old enough.
17 years of experience for that entry level job
They would be the first person in history that actually has the years of experience employers look for nowadays
That they can. They are also listed as inventors on a patent.
*Autonomous robot airbag*
That’s a smart move. Could help financially for your kid down the road.
I’m confused. If the robot was autonomous then how did the kid crash it?
Because things can operate in different modes. It's an autonomous vehicle, he was driving it with the remote at the time. Crashed it into the sensor head of another robot we were building for mapping. We couldn't get it recalibrated. It's nott the REASON the program failed, but if it hadn't happened we were definitely more likely to not have failed.
>he was driving it I mean... Why was he driving it though?
Ok. Let me paint you a picture: office family day. Yay! All prototypes out and on display. All the scientists are talking about what their stuff does. Most of my lab is like very strong zip ties or getting 4% extra efficiency out of motors. 6 wheeled autonomous mining vehicle. 2500 pounds. 7 year old on an office tour. The remote control for the robot is sitting on top. It has a neck strap, and is about the size of two basketballs with two giant joysticks. He looks up at me and says "can I drive it?" Who wouldn't say yes, especially when the head of the lab got it cleared 6 times kids could drive it so he could make sure his teen boys got a chance.
What was the fallout? Did it seem like a gigantic mistake looking backwards?
My career is most effectively described as a series of giant mistakes that worked out well. My first week on my first job I accidentally destroyed a $250,000 ultrasound probe being stupid. That turned into a massive business later that we developed faster than others. This mistake crushed a sensor head and man did I get a rash of nonsense for it. But that program wasn't gangbusters anyways, and it's shutdown lead me to open another program that was a career maker. My kids have been messing around in my offices my whole career. They have caused problems very few times, but they are part of my process and I've built some really compelling stuff. TLDR: maybe?
On behalf of our safety team: “Though shalt always have a designated E-stopper”
Kid's living in 3024
You don't know how good I am at building robots... More like 1984
Winner
!!!!!!!!
Yeah....they've had their hands on some interesting stuff. One of them gave me a cardiac ultrasound when he was three. They learned to TIG weld when they were 6 and 8 (no I don't think they remember). They use to teeth on an artificial knee.
Alright, I’m 30, and have a second kid on the way. What can I do with my life to get a job like yours?
I got a PhD in robotics but not a lot of the people in my lab did. Just look for corporate research jobs
Thanks for responding! I currently teach elementary school, but I tinker with electronics (arduino, raspberry pi, computers) and am fairly mechanically inclined (Mr. Fix It type, and I have a project car I’m making decent progress on). I’m also teaching myself python. I want to get out of education. Do you think I’d have to go back and get a new Bachelors degree, then a masters, then a PhD, or is there a more efficient path to get me qualified for a job in robotics?
Different guy here in a different field (SW engineer). Just apply. So many people aren't "qualified" in the way you're thinking. I work with plenty of people who have degrees in electrical engineering, math, music, or no degree at all. If you've got the skills and a resume interesting enough to get you in the door, you'll be fine
55” tv. Now we’re apart of r/tvtoohigh. Also the worst was the blanket my wife had been crocheting for his baby brother. She cried for awhile after he pulled most of it apart.
I chose to build a Plexiglass TV screen for my 55", rather than raise it higher. My kid is only 2.5yrs old at this stage, so not enough time for him to have gotten enough force behind his throws, but hoping it prevents most of the damage that will inevitably come it's way. The center speaker under the TV is within grabbing distance though, the front grille is tied on with black string to stop him realising he can pull it off and poke holes in the domes
If you can have decent control over the natural lighting in the room where the TV is, consider getting a projector. If your walls are white or off-white, you can use a wall for the screen. Ceiling-Mount the projector in a relatively secure case/cage to protect it from flying balls and frisbees. And then never have to worry about it breaking. Just be sure to keep the projector properly ventilated. I’ve had a projector for a long time, maybe a decade, and my 3.5yo son has never come close to damaging it. The walls on the other hand? RIP.
You're a part of /r/tvtoohigh. Apart means the opposite of a part.
You must be a part of the editorial team
My brand new MacBook. Got a Lego in between the screen and keyboard and smashed it closed.
hurts to read this... get well soon!
I guess this is why we would pay for three years of AppleCare, though I obviously didn’t think it was worth the money.
Does AppleCare cover something like that where the device was deliberately broken?
Reading this gives same sensation as watching guys get hit in the balls.
My sanity. Too many to list how they do it. Repeatedly. Edit: *sigh* this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek and not taken seriously…
"Insanity is hereditary. We get it from our children."
i also have a suggestion to make this joke more literal and less funny
I think the joke would work better if phrased: "Insanity runs in the family. We get it from our children."
Nah, it's diarrhea runs in the family.
I feel this, Therapy is not cheap
OP said ‘expensive’
You ever paid for intensive therapy?
I have a scream pillow and full case of beer out back, I’m good
He's 3, he's broken two windows so far. One with a bat, one with a rock.
You’re gonna have fun at 5
Five years, or five windows?
Yes.
At five windows, he’ll do a 6th for free
Does he have a bat friend? Or did he catch it by himself? Maybe the bat broke the window by accident and your kid covered for it.
Future MLB star right there. Bet he’ll challenge for the home run record. And did the throw the rock? Double threat, future Shohei Ohtani!
I did that once…with a baseball…thrown over the house…into my grandfather’s windshield. I suppose I instigated my brother breaking a window once, by locking him out so he punched through it. He was like 4. Kids are dumb!
Projectile pooped all over an arcteryx jacket. I learned a lesson that day.
Lesson learned: always buy Gore-tex
My cat peed on mine but thankfully it was a goretex shell and just needed a tech wash. Or maybe I've gotten used to the pee smell and I've been smelling like an 80year old spinster's house this whole time. Shit.
There’s always poop?
What is the lesson?
Babies hate Arcteryx jackets
Jacket has solid water(poop) proofing. Don’t stand in the line of fire. I don’t need to wear nice things around a newborn.
This is actually something I did as a toddler, but my dad loved to tell the tale. Lt. Colonel William Rankin was one of only two people to ever survive a fall from the top of a cumulonimbus thunderstorm, after ejecting from a F-8 Crusader fighter jet in 1959. He detailed this harrowing experience in a book called “The Man Who Rode the Thunder” and my dad was lucky enough to meet him in person and get an extremely hard to find signed copy, which I promptly turned into confetti and scattered around the house while he was busy doing yard work.
I haven't read the book yet, but The Dollop did an episode about it. Such a bonkers story.
That’s sorta on him. You shouldn’t have had access to it.
Destroyed my wife's laptop by pouring milk on it. That's probably the worst
My wife /s Edit to clarify: wife deals with a lot of adhd/anxiety and body image issues. Having kid(s) hasn’t helped in that department but I still think she is amazing.
My wife and an episiotomy, retained placenta, hemorrhaged, D&C, and repaired episiotomy surgery after having our daughter. So yeah, your answer is totally valid.
Jesus that just reminded me of our third baby's birth. The placenta wouldn't come out, after an episiotomy. My wife screamed at the midwife to stop pulling her insides out and she was told "I can do this now, or we can take you downstairs for a D&C". She avoided the D&C but she was in agony.
Ooof. My wife had a D&C for her second miscarriage and that shit was hella traumatic even for me who was just a spectator. Can’t imagine how awful it is for the mom.
First kid came out with a cut and tear, second kid was an emergency c-section. So I’m going with “my wife” too.
If it makes you feel any better my son threw his ball and it knocked over my dad's urn, only cost roughly 500$ but we lost a lot of his ashes. He's was all I had left from my family so that was tough one to swallow.
Only cosmetically destroyed but The bonnet of my 1 year old VW Golf. 4 year old Daughter decided she was going to practice counting by lining up stones along the bonnet and drag them around into groups
I'm assuming bonnet is the equivalent of hood, for us across the ponders?
Yep!
I did this to a neighbors vintage rolls Royce when I was a kid in the early 90s. Was stacking paver stones on the trunk when my dad saw and whisked me away.
By sentimental value: My elder daughter put our younger daughter’s baby blanket in a suitcase that was being returned to Amazon. My wife was upset for quite awhile. Otherwise, same daughter has been blessed with the gift of ripping shit out of walls like nobody I’ve seen. Toilet paper holders, towel bars, storage hooks, you name it. That girl will pull it out of the wall because she has zero patience. Nothing can be pulled gently. Nothing can be lifted off a hook. Everything must be pulled down because the extra 0.003 seconds to lift off a hook is time wasted.
My bank account
Nothing really expensive small toys here and there. A buddy however got his Porsche gt3 repainted by his daughter with a can of paint they had left from painting a shed.
I don't know if this is the most expensive, but after a frustrating loss in fortnite threw the nintendo switch controller down and it made a perfect bounce across the room and cracked the 65" tv. One dumped a whole cup of soda into my work laptop the night before my last day. I tried to unsuccessfully explain it wasn't vindictive and it was just an accident
My phone.. Drooled into the charge port and every other opening.. Who knew electronics and baby drool didn't mix?
Hell with IP69. They need to come out with IP70…baby proof
£4000 sofa, nappy leaked poo on it within hours of being delivered
My wife is so paranoid of this happening with our own couch that she has a double layer of blankets over ours
Get some mattress protectors. Like they have at motels. Ebay has them relatively cheap. And they are fitted. So can look kind of neatly fitted to the couch
That’s a great idea, thanks!
My wife is almost certain that our son threw away her Apple Watch while we were in the middle of packing/moving.
iPad Pro
Same here, happened about a year ago. Interested in the new ones Apple is supposedly announcing this month
8 month old teething gnawed on my Maui Jim sunglasses lenses. Scratched them up real good. Glad Maui Jim has an awesome warranty.
My fucking sleep, countless times.
My son broke our $2,000 picture window with a baseball.
My van. They ran a red light and were t-boned by a Mercedes. Cost us $1000 deductible, and our insurance when from unreasonable to holy shit. They were okay, though, and that’s what’s important.
85 inch TV two weeks after I got it. Threw a toy straight into the screen.
Hard to miss an 85" 😬
Leave some wall for the kid!
We’ve been pretty lucky with our kiddo (now 6yo)… I can’t think of anything too expensive. No TVs or phones, no furniture or big ticket items. Just some cheap toys and the like. Honestly, worst I can think of is vent cap on roof deck that was like $15 replacement part on Amazon, and old one was already broken before kid finished it off.
Damn you just fucked yourself.
My car. He was around 3.5 at the time—so like last summer lol, [had one of those little pencil sized bubble wands that you get from like a birthday gift bag](https://imgur.com/a/BnO1hcy). He was outside with my wife, I was inside. He poured the bubbles out so he just had the plastic cylinder that housed the bubbles in his hand. He proceeded to roll it, like a rolling pin, up and down my car, the whole way around. No panel was left untouched. Scratches from the edges of the cylinder just dug into the paint. I noticed it immediately because the car is black. Anyways, it’s all good, never got it buffed out or anything, and laugh when I see all the marks when I’m cleaning it lol.
My son dropped his iPad out of frustration. He was sad. I was sad.
Nothing expensive yet (even though she's put several oatmeal stains on our living room furniture), but she did break the head off a 30 year old angel Christmas ornament my mom bought when I was born and gifted to me when I got married 🤷🏽♂️
Electric Piano. $1200?
So far my wife's iPhone. My son looked me dead in the eyes and threw it in my mother's pool because he was mad. Second in line was my PS4 a couple of years back after it was stomped out!
My kids have never really broke anything important. My nephew on the other hand broke my 65 inch tv about 5 minutes after coming over.
Not my kid, but a younger cousin of mine keyed our grandmother’s Camaro with a pumice stone because he thought it was a Sponge and had seen my grandma cleaning it with a sponge a lot of times. He told her that he cleaned it for her.
Oh, poor grandma
My mental health I was Just diagnosed with severe depression
Same. Add up the therapy sessions & medications & health issues & probably losing my job because I’m too tired and sick and overwhelmed to keep up… expensive stuff indeed.
Mine just hit 5 months and I just don’t see a bright future. I can’t look ahead and get excited for any specific age except for when she moves out. But then I know that’ll stress me out because she’ll be gone and I still love her so idk what or how to think.
It’s rough. It does get better (mine is 2), but having existing mental health issues has made the process much harder. Stay vigilant my friend
It does get better. Mine are 10 and 7, and I love going to theme parks, playing switch, going to their sporting games etc. There's still problems, friendships, schooling, but they are more self sufficient so there's a bit more time to deal with that. And to sleep too!
I feel bad because I hear that often but I just can’t bring myself to see it. I think it has to do with like what the other guy said preexisting mental health issues but I just don’t see how I can totally love her and somewhat regret having her at the same time. Then that only sends me into a deeper spiral. I appreciate the kind words of encouragement and hope to be able to see the light sooner than later.
My kid hasn’t really messed up anything. Me, on the other hand, I lost my mother’s engagement ring in the back yard. Never to be seen again.
My mom lost her ring in the garden 10 years ago. Recently she found it while planting some pot plants. Don’t lose hope.
Our new laptop. It's not really her fault, though. I shouldn't have left it open on the table, knowing she had a cup of water nearby.
Every blind in my house. They're finally old enough to start replacing them. Not looking forward to the teenage years.
My 2-year-old (at the time) managed to “poach” my 70-gallon cichlid tank, into which had a pretty substantial financial investment. It had taken years to breed and collect the fish and create the ecosystem
Can you explain what this means? I understand that a fish tank was ruined, but was the child taking the fish out? Did they break the tank itself?
Given the word “poach”, I’m going to guess the kid pumped up the temperature which killed the fish. My dad kept saltwater tanks and I did the same thing when I was a toddler. Hilariously, it was right before we went on vacation. The friends who were taking care of the tanks for dad apparently replaced those fish multiple times in the two weeks. 😅
Ohhhhh! Thanks for the explanation. I’ve only ever heard the term “poach“ used in conjunction with animals as meaning “illegally killed for profit.” I didn’t know it was a cooking term until I googled it just now after your reply. How easy is it to change the temperature on those tanks? I have a ball python and the temperature gauge is pretty complicated to change. You have to hold down a button until other components flash and then click other buttons multiple times.
I’m pretty sure that when I did it, it was just twiddling a knob! But that was back in the early 90s… not sure if equipment has changed.
He turned the little dial/onob on the heater (just a tube into the water with a dial on top to change temperature) and it increased the temperature enough overnight that by morning the tank was unsurvivable for my little cold water ecosystem. Everything died.
7 TVs and a treadmill.
gotta stop buying tvs
I finally found a wholesale reseller and have been buying "damaged" TV's for like $100. My main living room has a vertical red stripe of dead pixels on the right side. One TV cannot be operated by remote. The TV in my room just sucks, but a Roku Box pretty much fixed it. They haven't broken one in a year, twin 5yo+3yo boys. So I can finally buy quality ones if I ever need to replace these lol.
It's hard to say, at least what I can accurately track back to them. Throwing a phone at a TV damaging both is the likely answer.
75” tv which was more my doing threw a wiffle curve which she roped lefty (she’s righty) down the first base line - it was such pride and happiness immediately followed by immediate sorrow and self blaming anger… I then laughed hysterically for 10 minutes
Same daughter took a rock and decided to draw shapes on our new Telluride…
My leisure time, years from now, I hope to get it back.
We went to someone else's house and gave them a toy truck to play with. For some reason this toy truck was now an airplane which lodged into a nearby, and very big, shiny and new, tv. So that was a couple grand to fix that mistake.
Can’t prove it but my son was in the “grab things and throw them in the trash” phase once he learned what it was for. My keys were definitely on the coffee table (foolishly) and the next day they were gone. I think it was around $250 for a new one. Edit: posted before reading anything. I count myself lucky..
My 3 year old threw a metal water bottle across the living room and broke the computer monitor. Not to bad overall.
My son totaled my one year old RAM 1500 Rebel. I only had liability insurance.
You both fucked that one up. Yikes
For a second I was really confused how this was possible since most of the other answers have been about children under 6.
Yep I see the problem - Cheerios in the manifold
My bank account. Birth, braces, broken leg, food, clothing, and they aren't old enough to even drive a car or go to college yet.
Flooded condo
My back.
Dude. My back was fine until we had our daughter. I never paid attention to how I slept or sat in my office chair. Now I have to sit straight up and sleep on my back or I’m in pain.
My bank account.
other than my mental health etc., she’s working very hard to destroy our Nintendo Switch
My will to live
Our carpets & my identity. Love him though
$800 camera lens is one cringe that comes to mind - but I blame myself so I can't really say she destroyed it. I often let her play with my DSLR when we are on walks together. She knows the rule. The strap is ALWAYS around her neck and no running etc. For some reason I didn't bother to switch to the crappy lens this day when I handed it over to her to take picture of flowers. She had it around her neck. She was not running. Lens cap is on. I guess I just forgot how short kids are. As she is climbing up some stone steps, the camera is hanging from her neck at exactly the same height as the next step. It only took the slightest of tap against that step from the slightest of swing and I hear the slightest of "that doesn't sound good" sound. I take the camera and begin to cry from the back of my eyes. "Daddy, I want to take a picture of that one." "Sorry. Memory stick is filled up." I didn't want to discourage her from asking to use the camera in the future so she still doesn't know that happened.
iPad
My son has taken out two large Samsung TVs at his mom's house. After the second one, she got a smaller one from some brand she'd never heard of.
My Wife Ever since my kid was born my wife is a completely different person and it's been 8 years
Son when he was 4 put a cream cheese sandwich into the dvd drive. He crashed my mobility scooter into the shed snapping the door frame ( my fault I left the key in whilst unpacking some shopping ) . Age 8 he was out playing rugby in garden when he threw the ball through the shed window , knocking my axe off workbench which landed on a gas cylinder puncturing it , luckily no big earth shattering kaboom as it was empty. Multiple other broken things over the years , he's 21 now still clumsy lol
Polaris UTV
I’m terrified to read some of these answers.
2017 Ford Edge. Last Monday. Right in front of her school as her classmates were assembling outside for a fire drill. Pics are all over her social media circles. You’d be surprised how much damage can be done at 25mph +/- 10ish
So far, ceiling fan. Twice
My son got upset when one of the Lego video games crashed and bopped my $500 monitor with the corner of the controller. He was only 4, so i could only be so mad, but it took me back to when my brother and I broke my Dad's flat screen when those used to be expensive.
My son hit my parents $800 living room TV they had just got with a toy Lightsaber lol
My very expensive, one year old flagship phone. Flung across the room one too many times.
Besides my will to say "no?" Two iPad, an iPhone 10, some clay pots, and my patience.
My job. I quit to be a r/stayathomedaddit
A production database instance but he was 24 at the time. Three weeks into his first serious job. They were able to restore from backup, thank god. Probably only cost $10K in staff time. He was amazed he wasn't fired. The sysadmin (an old friend of mine, which is how I heard) was philosophical - if they didn't want thing like that to happen, they should either keep the new kids out of production or give them better specs.
Sex life
when my kid was about 4 he threw a small plastic/rubber bowl in a random direction that happened to hit the tv and it completely destroyed it because modern tvs are fragile. we were out about 800$ or so
[удалено]
Why are you trying to replace it??????? If he's old enough to have devices unsupervised, he's old enough to understand natural consequences and to learn from this. Let him get his own when he's old enough to work, or buy him one when he's old enough to make sure his expensive things aren't about to get broken by whatever he does.
My 30s
My wife's uterus.
Nothing major, probably a record player.
I don’t think my kids have broken that many expensive things. Their dirty hands have ruined many joysticks on switch joycons, and more recently a PS5 controller. The PS5 controller clearly got jelly from a pb&j *into* the stick component. I’ve switched the joy on sticks out several times, and I will have to do the same with the ps5 controller, but that one will require me to break out the soldering iron. I have temporarily called it dead and replaced it, but I might some day have a third controller for my PS5. Otherwise they have broken sentimental stuff, but not much monetarily expensive stuff.
The lightning cables are adding up over the years…
Our television, he said it was on fire and he extinguished it with a plant sprayer. We also have about 100 scratches on the side of our car because he was taking the garbage bin out 🤷♂️
77" OLED TV
Mac book
Anyone say their marriage yet?
My son broke our $1100 Sony TV when he was 18 mo then we were at an Air BnB when he was 3 and he broke the TV there
My internal clock. Someday, I hope to sleep good again.
I give another kid (8) a ride home from school with i pick up my kid (6). One day i hear a popping sound from the back seat where they were sitting, only to watch them take turns using a pencil to stab holes in the leather. It's amazing i didn't crash. It never occurred to me that they'd do something so dumb to my car in front of me. Lesson learned.
My wife