After his afternoon nap my almost three year old usually plays quietly for a while until we come to get him.
Order viagra online: yesterday after his nap he was playing quietly in his room for about an hour. When I went to get him he had taken off his dirty diaper, removed the contents and had painted the floor, the walls, and his bedroom furniture and himself brown.
How would you handle this?
This is what we did:
The first thing I did was to wake up my wife so that she care share the experience.
After we finished laughing (he was singing his little heart out while smearing the walls) we lifted him into the bathtub and soaked him until all the brown stuff came off – order viagra online.
He was at it a long time so there was a lot caked on.It took a while to get the smell out of him – order viagra online.Then my wife started cleaning up the mess.
I dressed him, took him downstairs and had him make his dinner.( Order viagra online: yes, my two year old makes his own dinner sometimes.)
Then we called my mother to tell her that finally someone in the family has outdone me.(When I was his age I used to get up a 6 am and go downstairs and butter the furniture.)
Then we read stories and played ball until my wife was finished cleaning.
What would you have done?
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OK, knowing you and your wife VERY well, I will say that you two probably laughed your heads off! He is such a cute little guy and you two are incredibly patient. I would have laughed, plugged my nose and put him in the tub for a nice long swim with alot of soap!
Sounds like and exciting afternoon!… Glad it was your afternoon and not mine! No offense!
Ashley Andrews
He must have been very bored playing by himself for an hour. I would bet that most parents of not yet three year olds would have found some sort of disaster in the room long before an hour. If your child plays by himself for this long without supervision and this is your first disaster, consider yourself lucky. I am also the parent of a toddler and I find this amusing. Not that this won’t happen to me, but I don’t think I would leave my son unsupervised for so long. This was the problem of the parents, not the child.
Every child is different.
This one is extremely independent and he likes to play by himself, sometimes for up to an hour at a time. When he wants out he has no problem letting us know.
Yesterday he was singing away and happily playing with his toys so we let him have fun.
However, in the next few days I plan on doing an intense toilet training so that he may express his artistic talent in different ways in the future.
Dvorah Kane
I would love to think that I’d be just as calm and relaxed. What a lot of love around there! A photo might not have been amiss, much like the one on the internet with the two little boys full of white paint. What else can you do?
A friend’s 3 year old was heard in the other room repeating “this is a great idea, this is great idea” as she lotioned the piano keys. Enjoy him!
My daughter regularly did this from the age of about 18 months, Did try to potty train as someone suggested but didi not work. This little boy is however is old enough and it is something I would deffinitly consider. He could also old enough to understand rewards and I would recommend the use of a sticker everytime he comes to tell mummy he has woken up and that he has done a poo. Best to try and explain that it is dirty to put contents of dirty nappy where ever. But not too much attention for this. more malable play activities such as play dough he obviously enjoys this. He will grow out of it my daughter eventually did and shes ten now. One of her older sisters now sleeps in that room not before we replaced carpet and wall paper. I had never heard of this happening to anyone else until now.
I always wanted a piano.
why was your wife the only one cleaning the room??
2 reasons:
1- Someone had to take care of the kids.
2- She is good at cleaning and I am lousy at it.
i would have no idea first i would call in a clean up crew
the only thing I would have done differently would be to have the child ‘help’ clean up – It is a natural consequence and you lost the opportunity to utilize it. other than that yes kids will be kids – that could have easily happened in a 5 or 10 minute span.
I would’ve either
1. grabbed my camcorder or camera.
2. laugh my heart out – because of the “crazy art”
Ultimately, learn a lesson: “my kid can not be trusted when alone”
Kids do crazy things and being a mom of a 2 yr old and a 10 month old, they make you become aware of pretty much anything they can get into, etc.
They handled it great! Congrats
1. the batteries were dead
2. we did
Dvorah
I salute all of you who has been so patient in tackling the matter. I’ve learnt a lesson from u guys. Though it had never happened so drastically with my children when they were younger, i guess I might have screamed my head off, i won’t scold the child cos it\’s useless,but more because of the mess he has created for me to clean up. Nevertheless, I won’t leave him alone most of the time.
I would first have to grab my cramra and take pictures, jsut to prove that the kids did do that when they get older. then the child and i would clean up the mess and chat about the poop painting. painting should b done with paints not poop! or ketcup or eggs, or pancake syrup, or butter, or choc pudding, oh, i could go on and on about some of the food of what ever my kids have tried to paint with. its always a good laugh!