A mother is happiest when her bundle of joy enters the world. She seems to have no worries at all while raising an infant. When the baby cries in the middle of the night, she is alert and immediately tends to the baby. However, when her baby reaches the stage wherein they start to take their first steps, pride and worry start to fill a mother’s heart. Instinctively, children are inquisitive and would observe and touch anything that arouses their curiosity.
However, a mother’s nightmare begins when the child, at times with their siblings, is uncontrollable and they begin to unleash their curious minds by running amok and touching anything new to them. Such as when a mother in Yarborough, UK, took a break from painting the kitchen and went to the bathroom for a few minutes. What greeted her when she came back left her devastated.
27-year-old Hayley Kidd is a mother living in the UK with her 2 adorable children, a 4-year-old daughter Bonnie and a 1-year-old son Harry. On the day of the incident, Hayley was painting the kitchen while her 2 children were out playing in the garden. She decided to take a short break and go to the bathroom and left the open can of white paint on the counter, assuming that no mischief would happen while she was gone. She was so wrong.
“While they were playing, I thought I’d run upstairs,” Hayley described. “So I went to the toilet, then I spotted a pile of washing on the stairs, so I picked that up and put it on my bed.”
When Hayley returned several minutes later, what she saw back in the kitchen gave her quite a shock. Most of the kitchen was covered with white paint, and so were the 2 toddlers who froze when their mother arrived. They blended with the kitchen appliances that were covered with paint. “I can’t describe how quickly it happened,” said a horrified Hayley. “It was less than five minutes. I came down, and I was faced with that.”
Hayley explained that the 2 children were the culprit. She said, “Bonnie must have climbed atop the counter and pulled a ladle out of the drawer, which she used to fling paint to the other side of the room at my other child, which is why he was covered in it.”
When the children saw Hayley arrive, they had a look on their faces that said, “Oh no, we’re in trouble.” However, Bonnie was quick to apologize. Hayley wanted to be a good parent to her children, so she took a deep breath and dealt with the problem calmly. “Bonnie asked if I was mad, and I just said I wasn’t happy with them, but it’s done now,” Hayley said.
Hayley immediately took the kids upstairs for a shower, dripping more paint on the floor towards the bathroom. Bluntly, she said, “This is quite possibly the worst day of my life!”
Hayley was able to salvage most of the kitchen and some appliances. However, she needed to replace the microwave, oven, air fryer, and a few plugs, which were damaged and beyond repair. Hayley spent $644 for renovations alone. When she shared the photo of the children’s shenanigan on her social media page, it immediately went viral, and netizens left comments. Some of them were of sympathy, and some were of hilarity.
“Hahaha. Oh, Hayley. My god, children at their finest! Honestly, you have the chill of a Saint. I’d have stuck both mine in the paint and binned the lot.”
“Praying for my children never do this.”
“I think if my kids did this, I’d finally have to section myself. I can’t even begin to imagine what went through your head walking into this.”
“I’d probably scream the house down.”
“I thought I was going to get stuck for leaving the paint out, but people found it funny because so many people can relate.”
Hayley admits that the incident has made her a better parent and warns other mothers of how kids can unconsciously get into trouble. Parents have to be aware of the mischief that toddlers can get themselves into and never underestimate the unusual power of destruction they possess.
Images credits: © New York Post and MamiDaily
