'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My SIL swore by those crayola markers that only work on a certain kind of paper. That was the approach they took when D was 2-3 or so. Of course, all bets were off in some ways because my brother would leave sharpies lying around. (Which lead to the child with the fully sharpie- colored feet, and quite the masterpiece of the floor and wall. )
But when he was using the markers he was allowed to, it was contained.
Argh. Just got this email from our transportation coordinator:
It is a presidential visit and It has already closed and re-opened. At some point later today the motorcade will be coming back our way and they will shut everything down again. However, we have no idea what time that will be.So commute, not so good after all. I'm going to run out of here at the stroke of 3 and hope to skirt past the worst of it.
My SIL swore by those crayola markers that only work on a certain kind of paper. That was the approach they took when D was 2-3 or so. Of course, all bets were off in some ways because my brother would leave sharpies lying around. (Which lead to the child with the fully sharpie- colored feet, and quite the masterpiece of the floor and wall. )
We have the Color Safe markers and they're great! I've been trying to branch out into other crafty stuff for them because of the rotten, cold weather keeping us inside. I've done my best to secure any ordinance but this morning, the delivery guy didn't have a working pen so I took a ball point out to sign the order sheet and somehow, forgot to put it up out of Owen's reach.
The result was that he drew giant circles on the walls of the playroom. It's not a complete disaster because I can scrub it all off with the Magic Erasers.
We've had a long conversation about the proper place to draw (PAPER ONLY) and I hope it sticks. I just have to be careful until the lesson sinks in. This started right after he started school so I think maybe the chalk board or the art he's been doing there is jump starting his creativity.
I've been planning on putting an easel down there for the kids or maybe putting up some dry erase/magnet panels for them on the walls so they can draw anyway and this is just my impetus for doing that sooner, rather than later.
What about painting the playroom with that chalkboard paint and letting them go nuts with it? Or would containing it to the one room be too much of a wild card?
What about painting the playroom with that chalkboard paint and letting them go nuts with it? Or would containing it to the one room be too much of a wild card?
That's a good idea. We do have a corner we could do that in. I'm checking my options and what would be easiest to do.
Note to self: start buying Mr. Clean Magic Erasers in bulk.
oh no.
unattended children.
Thing is... (and I hope I don't offend anyone) - in Baltimore there was a family we knew who thought of restaurants and shops as free babysitting. Not exhausted parents, by any means. they had a nanny. They were just used to it. I got really angry after her son did something absolutely crazy and muttered something like "she may just be the reason people glare when they see ANY toddler now." Of course, with my badmouth-karma, she was just coming around the corner and I still don't know if she heard me.
Timelies all!
I got nothing.....sorry.
Sox, one of my cousins was like that with her daughter at one point (from what I hear, she's since seen the light.) Eating out with them was like whoa. Afterwards, my mom and I were a bit stunned and feeling like meanies because we kept telling the child to stop whatever, and her parents would just laugh.
They kinda went overboard with the "let children be children" philosophy (lovely people, but very... philosophically bound at times.) Things started to change when she started pre-school (funnily enough, I think it was a super crunchy child led type place) and they discovered it wasn't helping her social skills at all.
They kinda went overboard with the "let children be children" philosophy
this was past that. waaay past that.
but yeah.
Kristin, I took the 10. It took an hour to get home. Almost exactly an hour, actually. Which is par for the course. But I'm off 26th at work, so it made sense.
Noah is STILL at the doctors office. K took him to his appointment at 1:15. Apparently they were thinking about admitting him to the hospital but they are short staffed so nope. He'll come home and go back tomorrow. They think pneumonia. It's going to be a long night, isn't it?