“It’s not easy being me, wash your face and brush your hair. Nag nag nag, it’s just not fair I’m Horrid Henry”
Every time a tantrum breaks out at our house, I can’t resist singing this to Dexter - so inevitably I’m doing so eleventy billion times a day. In fact, my three year-old has tons in common with Henry. He’s what we lovingly refer to as a “high-spirited” child, and what others might call a pain in the backside. His first word was No, and it appears to have a special place in his heart as he uses it frequently.
Henry’s mum is wearing my default expression too… how lovely!
Horrid Henry is, however, one of the less irritating programmes he insists on watching on Netflix. I can quite happily sit and watch a few episodes without popping a paracetamol, and I live in the hope that one day Dexter will work out that the basic premise of each episode is that bad behaviour doesn’t pay. Yep, I’d much rather watch Henry being mischievous and teaching my impressionable child that life isn’t fair, than watch a single ear-splittingly awful Ruby & Max or Caillou. Ruby and Caillou should do us all a favour and walk straight into Room 101 as far as I’m concerned.
My own cheeky monkey
Dexter isn’t alone in his love for the flame-haired Horrid Henry either, apparently Francesca Simon’s storybooks are taught in schools to educate children on right and wrong, and parents up and down the country are all admonishing their children for calling their baby brothers and sisters “Worm”. He’s a modern day Dennis the Menace and he never did us any harm… right?
Well now fellow fans of the Horrid Henry books and BAFTA nominated TV series, will be thrilled to hear that a delightfully horrid new app, Horrid Henry’s Big Box of Pranks, is now available on iOS and Android devices for £2.99. The app is a collection of fun, fast and funny action-packed mini-games based on Henry’s love for all things mischievous! Visit www.p2games.co.uk for more information
*** Win a Horrid Henry Bundle! ***
To celebrate, P2 are offering a fantastic prize bundle containing the new Horrid Henry ‘s Big Box of Pranks app, a Horrid Henry Costume and a copy of the Horrid Henry It’s All Your Fault DVD. This little lot is bound to get your little Horrid Henry fan excited, and will make a perfect extra Christmas pressie to boot. Enter via rafflecopter below and, as always, best of luck!
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I Have twins and when they were around two and I was just about to go to work they decided to cover each other from head to toe in butter x
My daughter emptied a jar of my expensive face cream onto my bedroom carpet and rubbed it in! She was just little so I couldn’t really tell her off but I did feel like crying and ended up having to buy a rug to cover the carpet patch which never seemed to blend in!
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When my 2 yr old daughter put deep pink lipstick all over my cream leather saofa.
rip some wall paper in a temper
Drew on the chair. I couldn’t tell her of because it was was a really good picture!
Cut all her hair off !
When she was 18 months old my daughter climbed to the top of a 10 foot fence and I had to go and get stepladders to get her down.
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My son got hold of my sister’s nail varnishes she had left out and he decided to paint the carpet with them
Cut off his sister’s ponytail!
Cut their hair and running to the middle of the road x
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smeared sudocrem all over the livingroom :O
she locked herself in the bathroom when it was time to go and would not come out!
The naughtiest thing my child has done was steal my wallet and put it down the drain - there was cash in it too
Pull the skirting board off the wall…
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covered the cat in bum cream x
I can name a million things my girls have done….lol
The one that springs to mind is when my youngest who was about 5 at the time got ALL of my make up and covered her bedroom and herself in it! Waterproof mascara is not easy to get off anything. lol
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My son once coloured my cream carpet in with black crayon
put sun tan lotion all over the bedcovers and carpet!
Xander isn’t that naughty but he’s never good at keeping his bedroom tidy and always blames others for getting all his toys out!
my son found the hubbies stash of £2 coins he collects in a pot and had been nicely spending them £20 went missing before we realised
Kicking a hole in the hole
Coloured the dog in with lipstick
He’s honestly never done anything I would say was really naughty. He did find a lipstick pencil once and covered his arms, hands, face, ears and belly (under his t-shirt) right before nursery. There wasn’t any on the furniture, walls or carpet thankfully
A bottle of toilet duck up the bathroom walls, floor, window & doors!
My daughter took my son’s pound and put it in her own money box! She was trying to tell me she’d put it in his and actually took me up to his room and showed me which money box she had allegedly put it in.
My daughter is 3 and her hair has only just really started to appear! It’s like a very short bob. She decided to have fun with scissors the other day and give herself a haircut. I was wrapping bday presents and left the scissors on the table to answer the door! Doh!!
make up disaster
My Son wrote the word ‘Poo!’ on his Sister’s bedroom wall! He was 4 and it didn’t go down well with the Sister lol!
I’m relieved to say my two are pretty good, nothing on the scale of Horrid Henry- but we’ve had occasional tantrums. When my little girl was younger she’d only ever act up if she was tired . . . but when she was tired I’d have a full-blown monster in tow - screaming, hitting at me, lying on the floor and refusing to move . . .
One of the children bit one of the others
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When my son was 2 he climbed on next door neighbours garage roof and I had to send my eldest son up to coax him down!
Definitely locking me outside the front door ‘as a joke’ for an hour!! I was panicking, ringing anyone I knew that had a key seeing if they could get there and trying to persuade them to open the door again!
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My Niece once ‘Borrowed’ My lipstick & got it absolutely everywhere!
He cut his own hair off and his brothers.
My son’s a bit of a Perfect Peter but he did have one huge tantrum where he kicked & hit me, screamed, threw books etc That was pretty bad.
ooh too many to choose from - i was pretty cross when he tipped all my herbs and spices down the sink!
Phoned the police when she was 16 months old, which I got a good telling off for!
My son was 3 and we were out shopping when he wanted to keep climbing up and down the steps in a shop I was telling him no then got his hand to walk out when he ran to the corner and starting screaming help and please don’t smack me well I’ve never smacked him ever I was mortified all because he wanted the steps
drawing on the walls and a chair
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My son covered himself in uv paint when he was younger
scratched their name in my car bonnet
full tub of sudocrem into a rug =O x
I think the naughtiest thing he’s done is squirrelling away sweets and chocolates to eat in his bedroom. I didn’t realise until I moved the furniture last month and found lots of sticky lolly sticks and sweet wrappers!
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Brought the water hose in the house!
My daughter painted our brown cooker with white emulsion
Drew on the walls with crayons
drawing all over the walls
So many things to choose from. My twins once got hold of the two part epoxy resin and they each had a tube
I just got to them before they joined hands. It never came off the suite
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My little boy is only 20 months so not had many naughty moments yet, he did paint my cream cushions with red paint the other day after our creative messy day went a little wrong
Id come in one day with the shopping when there was a knock at the door. When i came back in my youngest had fed all the fresh mince and sausages to our dog!
Smashed the lamp off the table. Then tried to hide afterwards!
poured my exspensive bubble bath down the toilet
my twins when they were about 3 somehow managed to cut open a bean bag and spread the white bits everywhere pretending that it was snowing! they were everywhere!
oh wow. so many that not one really stands out haha. last week my son was hiding underneath a rail of clothes in a shop and knocked the entire thing over. i had to reassemble the rack and put the clothes back on . so embarassing. luckily it was early so not too busy
weeing in the cat food bowl…. that was full of food
My little one was sitting in his highchair eating pasta bolognaise. I went into the living room to make some calls. When I went back in the kitchen he had been throwing his food, and covered himself and every surface in food. I even had to wash the curtains!
My eldest cut his little brother’s hair.
Pushed his little brother Down the stairs!
Taken the batteries out of the remote
My son who is being assessed decided he would wash his bedroom in feces x
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Painted the carpet
Chucked some mud on the wall
One of my daughters got hold of some silver glittery nail polish and highlighted her bed, the woodwork, furniture so her room sparkled! The other refused to be washed for a week…the reason…she was hiding the fact that she was colouring in her legs in green pen so she would turn into the Little Mermaid…
Thrown her aunties bottle of poison perfume down the stairs, the bottle broke and the house smelled lovely for months!
Found Easter eggs and ate them all before Easter lol
My grandson is forever trying to stick his fingers up the dog’s nose x
I love a cheeky watch of horrid henry when my nieces are over.
He ran into the middle of the road once… never again, he got the fright of his life!
sexted (he is 16 though!)
my son cracked eggs into my shoes and i only discovered it when i put my foot in!
Drew all over her daddys very expensive suit (it was for our wedding) with a black sharpie
My daughter stuck some pictures she had drawn around the the living room - with glue !
has to be drawing lots of pictures all of her room walls
Drawing a family portrait on the dining table!
Drawing on my walls or ripping my wallpaper off whilst sitting on the loo :O
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Would love these for my daughter she lives horrid Henry
Poured a jug full of water out of the bath onto the carpet
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