Dollymix readers share their own "stupid parent" stories

Thanks to the wonders of Twitter (follow us!) Dollymix readers have been sharing their own "Stupid Parents" stories, which are much funnier than the stories reported in the press. Keep reading to read the dumb things Dollymix readers have done - and share your own with us.
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Linda Jones writes: I once sent my daughters to school in fancy dress but the letter was a year out of date and they were the only ones...

Barbara Ford Hammond writes: I sent my daughter to school with a big lump of cheese thinking it was her packed lunch. She was sorry she didn't manage much.

Debs writes (via email): My friend let her late-teen son ride home sitting on his dirt bike, which she was towing in a trailer at the time. She went round a corner and her son ended up in a ditch with a broken arm. She felt like a bit of a dick. Her son thought it was funny.

What's the stupidest thing you've ever done? Left your child at school? Sent them out with odd shoes on? Tell us - we won't tell anyone! Email us, or leave a comment below

Gemma

There are plenty of great stories about my grandad. My favourite was the time my dad (who was probably about 11 at the time) decided to start collecting snakes, which he put in a box in the back garden. When grandad found out, he let them out 'as a punishment'. This would have been fine, were it not for the fact the snakes then all ended up in neighbours houses and gardens, scaring half of North Wales to death.

Susi

When my mother went away for a week to visit her parents it was up to my father to do the weekly shop. He did it online - cue 5 different types of chocolate ice cream and 12 kgs of apples (he thought he was ordering them individually). Everyone who came to visit for the next few weeks left with an apple. Sadly, no bread, squash or juice was ordered.

Vanesita

As I was only two, my parents thought I wouldn't remember being put into a big green rubbish bin and then sealed in with the lid (explanation: I was grouchy and acting like Oscar the Grouch from Sesame Street). Oh, how they laughed at their little 'joke' as I wailed inside. Unfortunately, the traumatic incident formed my first, rather vivid, memory.

Camilla

I've taken my son to school on days where it's been no uniform and wondered what the hell the other kids were wearing when mine is in uniform and had to race home for a change.

That's nothing compared to my in-laws who used to take my partner on holidays as a child to countries with ongoing civil wars. Menatl.

Alex

I have no offspring of my own yet, but I might not have existed if my grandmother hadn't remembered to go and retrieve my infant father from the air raid shelter she forgot him in.