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During the month of May, five Chicago Parent readers will win a family pack each week to visit the "Glass Experience" exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, as well as general admission to the museum and an MSI hat. For more information on the "Glass Experience," visit www.msichicago.org. Each week, we'll post a different question to answer. For this week's chance to win, tell us your funniest story about something your kids have broken in your house. Post your answer here, then e-mail your answer, name and your Chicago Parent ID to e-dition at chicagoparent.com. You must post and e-mail us for your answer to be counted. We will not release your information-it is purely for contact purposes. Some answers may appear in Chicago Parent magazine. Winners will be chosen at random and may have no affiliation with Wednesday Journal Inc. or its employees.

This contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated.

 

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Kate Pancero
Assistant Editor/Weekend E-dition Editor
FabMama columnist
Chicago Parent

When my son, Justin, was about 2 yrs. old he got into my china cabinet.  He came over to me holding up one of my crystal goblets by the stem.  He thought he had a find.  On instinct, I yelled "no" and tried to grab the glass from him, but not quickly enough.  He did drop the glass and thankfully, the glass only broke at the stem.  He just looked at me and held up his hands like "what did I do?".  The look on his face was just too precious to be angry with him.  It suits me right for not locking up the cabinet.  At times like this, I just have to laugh and not be upset.  The important think is that no one got hurt.

We have a window wtth a small ledge in our living room.  On Tuesday mornings at 7am sharp when the garbage (my 2-year old son also prononces it bargage) truck picks up, my son must stand up in our front window and watch them.  He stands there half dressed, usually in just underwear alone, watching them in amazement.  Anyways, this past week he pulled down the curtain rod by accident. All from watching the garbage men....

For some reason, my kids are great at cracking the toilet seats.  We have gone through three of them already.  I have no idea why or how.  I ask them how it happened, and apparently their sibling "I don't know" did it.

When my son Christopher is 4 years old , he learning and doing many trouble and run for the whole house, a one day was running non-stop for the room he was  too close the window and the glasses was clean, but he thing was opened, when I touch his head with the glass, this broken in many pieces and he was scare and crying, it did not get hurt.

 

Mike

Something my kids have broken in my house: 

How many times have you asked your boys to stop banging so hard on their drums?  Well, mine just don't seem to understand.  My boys think beating the drum means bang a hole through it.  Yet, the drum was not the only thing destroyed.  I  looked at my son one day, and to his surprise, he was holding half a drumstick in his hand.  All I could say is, I told you so.    '

Senia Durns - Chicago

we have broken at least five doors with my boys kicking soccer balls in the house.

We had to smash open a car window when we were locked out of the house and car with no cell phones and no shoes on the kids! (The kids locked the keys in the car.) We used an actual sledge hammer that happened to be at the side of the garage and smashed a small back window in our old car. They thought it was wild to see mama with a sledgehammer. We kept the car for a few more months, but never bothered to fix the window. 

My youngest son broke our DVD/VCR player! He loves to push all the buttons and we couldn't get him to stop. Then he realized that he can put things in the slot where the VHS movies go! He stuck little toys in there and cheerios! The DVD player is right at his height and there's no where else to put it! Needless to say, we had to get a new one, and we redirect him every time he starts to go for it!!

One day I told one of my daughters that we would share reading a book before bedtime, well I went to tuck my son into bed and came back and found the book rip.  I asked my daughter, “Why did you rip that book”?  She stated, “Well you said that we would share the book, so I gave you half and I got half”.  I laughed my pants off.

 

Momw4kids

When my son was two years old, our utility cabinets started to detach from the wall. The night my husband began to fix it, I was scrapbooking with some friends that night. Well the next morning when I was changing my sons diaper he sneezed at least five or six times. Which I thought was alot. Then something foreign came out of his nose and freaked me out. At first, I couldn't figure out what it was then I showed my husband when he came home and he said it was the felt piece from the inside of the cabinet door. My son stuck it in his nose and it didn't come out till the next morning. Otherwise, I wouldn't of even known it was there.

I'm sitting here thinking ... and I don't think my daughter has ever broken anything.  Trust me, it's not for lack of trying.  She must either be very, very good at pushing the limits or very, very lucky.

 I thought I would submit my comments anyway since we love the MSI and want to head out there again and check out the new "house". 

Congratulations to the following Chicago Parent readers. They have won a family five pack to visit the "Glass Experience" exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, as well as general admission to the museum and an MSI hat. For more information on the "Glass Experience," visit www.msichicago.org. Readers who won this week will not be eligible to win tickets for the duration of the "Glass Experience" contest. Thanks to everyone who participated, we wish you the best of luck in future contests.

BillDG
NSTOVER
Heather0520
momw4kids
gr8mom
 

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Kate Pancero
Assistant Editor/Weekend E-dition Editor
FabMama columnist
Chicago Parent