I Can't STAND It When My Toddler touches My....

This is a vent thread ;)

Feel free to list all the things in your house that your toddler is constantly touching which is driving you insane!!! Let's see if there is a pattern. List your toddlers age and then the stuff:

My 2yo is always touching:

Textas
The fridge, specifically the yogurt.
Books on my bookcase (leaves his own alone)
The toothpaste
Apples (one bite then leaves them lying around the house).
DVDs in the DVD player... tries to get them out himself.
The dial on the dishwasher (no child lock).
The Cereal box in the Pantry

If he was my only child maybe it wouldn't be so bad.... but my 5yo and 14yo are kinda facilitating my 2yo getting his hands on all of the above when they leave them within his reach.

Arrrrgggghhhhhhh!!!!! :wall: :wall: :wall:

Great Thread!!

I wish my DD would leave the kitchen alone even though we have gates, she constantly whinges to get things from there even though she knows shes not aloud.
Pens!! We have lost count how many times she has drawn on the walls around here
Yogurht is another one for me!! She makes such a mess with it, we give her a spoon for a reason!!
Not leaving her brother alone, if DS is crying she makes it worse by pushing him or scratching his head (thats a new one) or pinching him!!
Water, dribbling it into anything that can hold it and then making a mess with it so we have big wet patches on the carpet or hard floor!

But in all the bad, I still love her!! Luckily she does more good then bad hehe!

My 15 month old touches:

TV remotes
Computer Keyboards
Presses buttons on the dishwasher (so I have to unplug it)
The plasma TV screen
Shoes
Books and book like things (eg: catelogues, magazines, newspapers etc).

Plasma TV screen
DVD player
the cutlery drawer (seriously! The kid picks out stuff and then licks it and puts it back!!!)
the fridge - she gets her milk out (she has special milk) and I am so terrified I'm going to have milk all over my floor!
My lip balm!!!!! She EATS it! Seriously! If it isn't in my pocket - she finds and destroys it!

-Absolutely anything that can mark a wall. The older kids are getting better but still leave them lying around sometimes.
-The kirby bits. I can never find them when I need them
-My shoes. He is always taking one for a walk.

All in all he isnt really that bad.. the older ones drive me more nuts for touching things they know damn well they shouldnt!

I don't hve toddlers but I hate my kids touching my laptop!!!! and the tv! They are always changing settings!

So true Mags... my 14yo touching (and using up) my tweezers and makeup does probably annoy me more because you would think by then you should only have to tell them once! But nooo.... every morning I go into her bathroom and find at least one of my things lying on the sink bench that she shouldn't have been touching. When will it end?

30 months:
Laptop, fridge, tv controls, power points, parts to the vac, cutlery draw, textas and pens, linen cupboard, baby wipes, ear buds,toilet paper and my expensive creams

19 months:
Glasses cupboard, mugs, the mouse and keyboard on DH's computer, tv remotes, nappies, plates and bowls

Keyboard, dishwasher, cat (because he pulls his tail), pens, money (we can't have notes around ds, he just tries to stuff them in his mouth).

And my nipples :lol: Four months after we've finished b/fing, he still seems to think they are comfort objects he can play with when we're co-sleeping :rolleyes:

nipples....

UUmmmm, everything.....

cutlery draw
cats water
shoes
handbag.. money
plasma screen
the hair squirter... he wets everything
the bb's ...:redface: when Kane hears Harmony, he grabs at me to get my breasts out to feed her... cute, but v annoying...
LOVES pulling all the wipes out, and loo paper
my books

I could really be here all day... :rolleyes::lol:

LOL so could I PB... But what I want to be able to do is have my Dragon Mummy Hissy Fits in HERE instead of at my DS... well that's the idea. I ranted and raved this morning when i was trying to get my 5yo ready for school and at 8.30am i was still in my dressing gown trying to shunt my toddler out of the bloody pantry for the 10th time.... *deep breaths* and I just want to be able to calm down!!! I want to be able to accept that nothing I do will stop my toddler touching these things... unless i follow him around all day or put him in childcare which I am obviously not going to do. I juuuuust neeeed to relaaaax.... let it go... it doesn't maaaaatter.


ah who am I kidding!


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hehe

nearly 3 year old - not a "touches my" but a "touches his" - his willy! (nearly every second night he wets the bed because he pulls his willy out of his night nappy and wees the bed - we have taken to putting him in all-in-one suits done up OVER his PJ pants in an attempt to keep him away!)

18 month old - the dirty dishes in the open diswasher (I caught him sitting on the open door playing with the dirty plates the other day :))

Touches my ...central venous catheter implant...usually by headbutting it in the middle of a tantrum. OW.

Ouchies!!! MD that eally puts this into perspective for me! Ta :hug: *Bath decides to deal with the sticky mess DS has made with plum juice in a slightly less peeved state of mind*

Face - my toddler seems to regard it as some sort of activity board with places for little fingers to be put, things to be pulled (mainly my lips and eyelids), poked and pinched. We have a no touching other people's faces rule in our house (mainly for the protection of my DS who has now started his own face fetish and our baby due in Sept).

I also hate my belly being used as a trampoline because it really hurts. That not touching though so much as jumping. Ouch!

DVDs - they pull them out of their cases. DS sucks on them and DD puts them in a pile. At my parents house the other day, DD and her cousin (who is 3 weeks younger than DD) threw all of my parents' DVDs over the railing of the living room and into the stair well. It took ages to collect them all up and put them back in cases and get them on the shelf. Luckily my parents think that their grandchildren can do no wrong and found the whole thing very funny. I can't say that me or my SIL were much more than mortified at the efforts of our children.

My 5 year old touches and strokes my hair JUST when I have for once gone to the effort of blowdrying it and styling it. :wall: Vain I know but it drives me insane!

Other then that they pretty much dont get into/touch too much that I dont want them too. So am pretty lucky there.

Oh except for messing up my bed and pillows when it has been made.:lol:

DVDs: *twitch* that really pushes a button with me too TVG. My nearly 3yo has a habit of getting ours out of the player and then rubbing them on the readable side on the wooden floorboards that more often than not is covered in sand dragged in from the sand pit! Might as well flush $30 down the drain. What ever happend to video tape... at least that could be largely salvaged with a bit of sticky tape. DVDs are just so damn fragile. Oh the joy.

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Oh except for messing up my bed and pillows when it has been made.:lol:

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I think that's what makes it sooooo inviting - there is something about kids and a made bed that just makes it irresistable . . . I overcome that by not making my bed (that's my excuse anyway :))

I have another lip balm eater here, Mother Goose. Drives me Batty!

I think my pet hates at the moment are;
-DVDs, they get shoved in the video player
-Underwear, he pulls knickers/ jocks out of my/ DHs draw and wears them around on his head
-Powerpoints, he turns things off at the wall while you are watching/ using them
-Yoghurt and arrowroot biscuits that he pinches from the kitchen at any opportunity and then makes a big mess
-Food off my plate
-Kitty litter, I guess it looks like it should be fun to dig in, but ooooh.

I could probably come up a million more.

OMG.. I forgot the beds!!! :lol:

The boys just LOVE getting into my made beds, we have 5 and a sleigh bed/cot, and pretending to be asleep..... :lol:

Or pulling them apart, and making cubby houses with them..... :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Kane loves the ps3 and dvd.. Ad has just pulled out 7 dvd outta the ps3.. and it wont work.. he aint a happy camper..... :lol:

My laptop....grrr
Also apples and takes a bight and puts them back or uses them as tennis balls.
Pens
My deoderant and sprays and sprays...thought the last one went quick!
And the shampoo/conditioner/buble bath....likes to decorate the bath:(

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I think that's what makes it sooooo inviting - there is something about kids and a made bed that just makes it irresistable . . . I overcome that by not making my bed (that's my excuse anyway :))

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DS very rarely sees a made bed in this house, but it doesn't stop him making a "pile-o-pillows" on the floor. And then I can't find all of mine (I have 3, DH has 4 - we're pillow mad) when I go to bed.

I wish he's stop touching my nipples, esp now I'm pregnant - he "beeps" them, despite me telling him off every time.

Oh, and he peeled the stickers off DH's X-wing toy - Dh said he's just happy a 30 yo toy is played with, but I feel bad on his behalf.

DS is 2

The dial on the washing machine that puts the tumble dryer on - after I've put washing on! So if I don't check it every 10 minutes things get dried.

The book I'm currently reading. Stop taking it away, after 3 hours of trains I needs some "me" time! (2 hours of trains and I'm on BB as we watch the TV together.)

My washing on the airer. It is wet. It is not a train. Stop mussing it all up or bringing wet things to me. Not helpful.

The next big toy without putting the current big toy away. He knows the rules.

The stuff on the mantlepiece.

Going in my dressing table drawers and trying to drink my (thankfully sealed) Lancombe make-up remover. Or putting perfume bottles all over the house. Or taking my Elizabeth Arden powders and scratching his fingers through it.


eta- DS makes beds. He loves it when I shake the duvets over him and helps me with that, but his own sheets he tends to smooth and pull up himself, if not tuck in properly. I have a strange one LOL.

DS is only one (almost), so I clearly have a long way to go. But the thing he just loves, loves, loves to get into at the moment is the insoles in my shoes. He just adores pulling them out and sucking them. Ew. Gross and very annoying.