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Wall Murals

I am sure every parent the world over has had to admire their childs art work on their lounge chairs, or the diningroom wall or even on an important paper that just happened to be lying around and our first reaction has been anger. Now I read somewhere that we have to give something positive and not reprimand your child because it is negative and you are breaking your child down. Then you have to explain to him/her that we only draw on paper and not on the walls! Well, I recently walked into my office to find that Reagan had very nicely scribbled a picture in black permanant marker and coloured it in with red chalk! Mackenzie had taken advantage of the fact that she could blame Reagan and added her signature to the mural! Now I ask you, how am I supposed to praise my childrens handiwork and then explain very nicely that here is a sheet of paper, please draw on that next time? It doesn't solve the problem that the wall probably has to be repainted and from what I know of both girls' personalities, a tiny rebuke is definitely not going to stop the next masterpiece from being drawn on a wall! So what did I do? I yelled, and I wacked them both and sent them from the room while trying to figure out exactly what to do with the wall. Do I feel guilty about "squashing" their creativity? Definitely not, and I threatened them with twice the hiding if they did it again!

Now fortunately, there is a little tub of pink soap which in South Africa is known as Chemco and while I was out one morning, my long suffering husband managed to clean the wall with it and a bit of elbow grease!!! So moms, next time you buy the groceries, don't forget your little pink tub! Its handy for a lot more than cleaning walls too!

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  1. JustineJuly 13, 2011 at 2:04 PM

    Ag, tog, it was not even a day after I read this piece that the same happened with James. His new spot is sitting in the window sill of the bathroom and his bath crayons were within arms reach. He made a lovely blue scribble on the wall. When I saw it (I smiled in my head) gently took the crayon away from him and hid them away and washed the wall. Now how could I shout at the poor dude, when he has been taught to use these crayons in the bathroon!

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