JFF: My Son Went Streaking Today... What Did Your Kid Do?

Updated on July 11, 2012
S.H. asks from Kailua, HI
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OMG.
So my son... we were all in the family room playing nicely.
I went to the kitchen for a SECOND. My daughter starts screaming... MOMMY!
I say nonchalantly... "Yes, what is it, Mommy is busy doing dishes..." (and I mean like washing 1 cup and 1 bowl).
She says "Brother took off all his clothes!"
I say "Okay... Mommy is washing dishes... be there in a minute."
Ya know, how everything with kids, is an exclamation?
Well, so I don't get phased by much when they call me.
So then my daughter tells me "Johnny took off all his clothes and is running around outside!"
Omg.
I drop everything and RUN outside.
Meanwhile my daughter is running after him too.
My son, is totally naked, LAUGHING his head off, and running all around our property.....
sure, we have walls around our yard, but not the front area. And he is running naked, all around, the property. Even the front area.
Laughing his head off.
Catching him, is like trying to catch an oiled up seal.
It was nearly impossible.
And he runs FAST.
I am "threatening" him with all kinds of things.
I couldn't just play reverse psychology and say "okay bye, have fun...." because who knows where he would run off to. Naked. Because he would dare start running around up and down the street and neighborhood too. Naked. If me and my daughter didn't try and keep him in the property.
So me and daughter are running after him, and trying to catch him.
FINALLY, we corner him, and I tackle him.
Carry him, back in the house.
Put him in time out. I had to put him somewhere
Then he got remorseful.

I was so sweaty and out of breath by then, plus carrying him back into the house like a wild boar.

Yah. that took like 20 minutes.
Of sweaty running.
And to think, we are home today without any vehicle. All day.
Sure, we did the walks around the neighborhood and to the park nearby.
But my son, gets these bright ideas!
Drives me, nuts.

So, what did your kids do today?
Gee whiz.

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So What Happened?

My son is 5. Almost 6.
My daughter is 9.

While running around totally naked outside, he is saying "nyah nyah you can't catch me!"
Wanted to strangle his neck.

Oh and then, I had to get his clothes back on him.
That was a whole other, adventure.

*My son, puts things in his underwear waistband too, or his pants waistband. He's done that since he was a toddler.
Its like his "tool belt."

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J.M.

answers from Missoula on

My 2yo DD has started tucking things in her shirt and underwear band. I have NO CLUE where she picked it up... I don't use my bra for storage, neither does anyone else we know. But that's exactly what she's doing...

We got a lot of laughs at the mall the other day...I gave my DD a $1.00 bill to hold until we got to the little carousel so she could ride it...She immediately tucked it into her waistband. THEN when she went to climb onto the carousel, she lost her balance and grabbed the pole for balance, one leg went UP and she spun around the pole... with a dollar bill sticking out of her waistband...

It got a lot of laughs from the people who saw, but...

I swear, I'm not raising a stripper!!! lol.

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C.D.

answers from Los Angeles on

We went shoe shopping and after awhile my daughter sat in a seat next to a woman in her eighties. I could see her the whole time and saw my daughter was talking her ear off, (and I thought oh goodness, lol).
When I was getting ready to leave the woman told me how she is the kindest child and such a joy to talk to (oh how sweet is that!). :)

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J.K.

answers from Kansas City on

Well when my youngest (who is now 14) was about 3, I took the kids and all the cousins to McDonalds for lunch one day. I asked the older kids to keep an eye out for the little ones while I went to order the food, and they were in the play place. And is was noon, very busy at that time. Anyway, there was about 3 people ahead of me in line, and lots of people behind me, So I feel this little tap tap tap on my leg, and i look down there is my son, buck naked, handing me his pile of clothes. He says "here mama". I about died. There was this man standing next to me cracking up, and I was thinking to myself that I should scoop him up and run to the bathroom and redress him. But I did not, I just stayed in line and dressed him there, and everyone thought it was funny. Of course with him it was only one of many times he stripped, and he still does it occasionally just because it makes us laugh hysterically.

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S.G.

answers from Grand Forks on

Good for him! Every child should know the joy of running around outside naked at least once! Of course I'm assuming he is under five, and not like 15...My kids didn't do anything nearly as fun today.

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T.M.

answers from Redding on

:)
wish I could run around nude for 20 minutes without getting arrested and sent to the 3rd floor.

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W.H.

answers from Sacramento on

when my son was little (under age 5), he and the neighbor boy were playing in the back bedroom. it got too quiet, so i went to investigate. found both of them buck naked, climbing to the top of the waterbed headboard and belly flopping onto the mattress. crazy boys!

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J.W.

answers from St. Louis on

Both my sons were pretty much nudists until they were five. Not really sure what sparked the need for clothes at that point but with starting school I was grateful. :)

Don't really know what my kids were doing, they are on vacation with their dad. Pretty sure driving him up the wall. I think they enjoy when the veins pop out on his face. :p

Oh my favorite with my oldest nudest was him throwing off his towel after swim class and running through the locker room yelling I'm wanger man. I used to look at the horror struck old ladies and say one of the lesser known super heroes. Then grab the bugger and wrangle him into clothes.

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H.W.

answers from Portland on

Okay, Susan, that's truly funny...for those of us who didn't have to chase a naked kid around the neighborhood. :)

Ours was a 'holey' day.

Outside, I was working and he decided to dig next to me-- which meant dirt on me. Flying dirt. Not cool. Needed a shower. Very cool.

Later, doing artwork, he kept telling me "watch me shoot out a hole" with the hole punch and paper. Trouble was, I accidentally gave him the harder hole punch to work, so there he was, grabbing with both of his little hands and squeeeeeezing until his face turned red. "Watch. Meeee. Shoot. Out. A. Hoooole!!!" he commands through clenched teeth. Poor kid; I realized my mistake and gave him the other hole punch.

It did use up a bit of time and energy, though!

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A.F.

answers from Fargo on

Hahahaha! Your story was fun to read!

Yesterday the kids and I were walking through the market and I looked down to see that my daughter had gathered her dress and tucked it into the front of her underwear. Yikes!!!!

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J.F.

answers from Bloomington on

GREAT story. Sorry you had to endure it, though! :)

My 2 y.o. GIRL argued with me and her sister (age 4) that she was NOT a girl. She was a booooyyyyy. (In the tiniest, whiniest voice possible.) "W not a girrrlll. I a boooooyyyy." We had to stop telling her she wasn't. She was getting sooooo pissed off. (Got it on video!)

Thank goodness after the 4 hour nap (not feeling well), she woke up a girl again. :)

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R.J.

answers from Seattle on

ROFL...

No worries! My mum tried reverse psych with my brother and he DID go all over the neighborhood.

Headsmack.

Just saying' ... You were probably ON the money about FREEDOM! running down the street waving at everyone and sharing his nekkid joy with the world!

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I have no idea what my son did today. So even though yours added grey hairs and didn't just get in the doghouse... But designed it, built it, and ran in full speed.... I'm sitting here smiling for you that he was with you, and grinning at the thought of lines of girlfriends who'll make him blush to his ears as you relate this story forever!!!

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L.A.

answers from Austin on

Oh My!

How old is he?.. That little stinker..

Our daughter was helping me empty a home for an Estate Sale I will be doing..

She hates getting dirty, is a germaphobe.. and you know, these homes when an older person passes away is so dusty and filled with old stuff, every time we moved something.. the dust was just on everything.

I finally gave her a bottle of Purel for her pocket and she draped me in a hug and said.. Oh thank you Motherrrr, you have saved my life!!!!

I thought oh, brother, good thing she will not end up doing this for a living, she would never make it.

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L.M.

answers from Cleveland on

I don't know what is funnier your story or Sherrie G saying good for him as long as he is under 15. Yikers like 14 and a 1/2 would be ok, lol, That totally struck me funny.

I was wonderign how old he was too so i'm glad you put that.

So what did my kids do today, VBS where i had to Yell at them in church for acting lilke lunatics. nice mommy moment!
then in general trashing the whole house like Pigpen from the peanut gang.
oh and i did tell my almost 9 yo to go run laps in the drive way,
.................. I assume he stayed clothed the whole time, but I didn't actually check.

hope tomorrow is a good day for you :)

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K.J.

answers from New Orleans on

I don't think any of my kids did anything that crazy. My 3 1/2 nephew is a different story. We were at the baseball game for his older brother(6 years old) and my 5 1/2 daughter(who they are on the same team) and my 3 1/2 nephew was on top of a dirt pile,had his pants down a little and was holding his "thing" about to pee when I heard my sister scream "riley!". Needless to say when she said it loud heads turn around and see what was going on. His daddy rush over there and pulled his pants up and brought him to the bathroom. It was funny.

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M.W.

answers from Billings on

It's summer, I think my two boys have spent more days around the house in only their underwear than they have in full clothes. Luckily we live in a rural area where it doesn't really matter and I'm glad it cuts back on the laundry!

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L.B.

answers from Biloxi on

Ah, I miss having a toddler.

While mine never ran around naked, he often ran around the neighborhood, and went grocery shopping, etc. in costumes. And not just around Halloween - he needed to be Batman or Spiderman year round at that age. I just ignored the odd looks and let him be. I thought it better than when he used to wear mismatched sneakers on purpose because they made him "faster" that way.

He is 16 now, and today he went to work (his first job ever), and came home and bought himself a PS3 with some of the money he earned. He also bought me a couple of candy bars when we stopped at Walgreen's this evening. He now plans on saving the rest of his summer earnings.

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A.A.

answers from Tulsa on

Oh my, something to look forward to! The kid across the street never wears a shirt. Warm, cold, raining, it doesn't matter. The other day he was shooting fireworks in his whitey tighties...

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answers from Montgomery on

well it wasnt today but a couple days ago...

my 9 1/2 month old was getting up from a nap and i wasnt coming and getting him fast enough, and when i turned the light on.....

he had taken his diaper off, threw it out of the crib, and the poo that was in it..it was all in the floor and he was sitting there like..NEXT TIME I BET YOU COME FASTER..LOL..

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K.B.

answers from Detroit on

My daughter (almost 5) informed me that she wishes she were a boy, so when she grows up she doesn't need to have a baby come out of her vagina. She's been rather obsessed with the whole concept lately and keeps telling me over and over how she doesn't want to have to have a baby come out of her vagina. I'm getting to be, like, okay, will you please stop worrying about it and drop it now?

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J.D.

answers from Cincinnati on

LOL!!! gotta love kids. This is one of these wonderful parenting moments. I have been there and done that.

My son went to camp like he does everyday and then we went to Toys R Us and I could not find any good toys for the nieces and nephews birthdays.

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B.C.

answers from Norfolk on

At 3 my son would have tired that inside the house.
By 5 he definitely had a well developed sense of modesty he'd make me look away when he put on his swim suit.

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