Today In Modern Parenting...

[MrScorpio]

[lunatica]

1. Very funny and creative!

If you don't laugh, you'll never stop crying!

[lame54]

10. and also only the beginning...

better look for some good frame sales

[GeoWilliam750]

2. Excellent

[DiverDave]

3. Thats cool

Recced

[secondwind]

4. I did this with my daughter! She could draw on the walls of her bedroom with water-based

crayons... I would stick old wooden frames around her artwork... She loved it!

[marble falls]

5. My kids taught me an amazing amount of the best lemonade can be made from ...

teeny inconsequential (in the grand scheme of things) lemons.

We still laugh about them. And now they're making lemonade, too.

Life is good when you give it a chance.

[fierywoman]

6. L*O*V*E it !!!

[Sienna86]

7. Love it!

Thank goodness for a sense of humor.

[uponit7771]

8. Thx for this !!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. THAT'S WONDERFUL!!!

So often when you first see something like that, as a parent you just hit the ceiling. But this is a much better way to deal with it. Just so long as that young artist doesn't keep on producing such minor masterpieces in situ. Hopefully, creating on paper or other media, and the resulting ability to have an ever-changing art gallery will replace the less moveable works of art.

[Hekate]

11. Those are some great parents

[handmade34]

12. ....

[Honeycombe8]

13. My sisters and I decided to play Teacher once.

We wrote in crayon all over the wall in our walk-in closet. We had a great time. Mom never said a word.

I also wrote my name, backwards, in crayon, all the way from the toilet in the hall bath, out to the hall, down the hall, through the living room/den, and to the side door. Mom asked me who did that. I told her "Marjorie," one of my sisters. Mom laughed, despite trying not to. Like Marjorie would write MY name, backwards. Esp since Marjorie couldn't write yet.

Mom could be cool.

[panader0]

14. When my kids were little they were fingerpainting one day.

My daughter went to the bathroom and pushed the door open, leaving her hand print
on the door. So I had all four of them put hand prints on the door. all in different
colors. I did it too. I
used that door for years, and when I replaced it, I kept it in the storage room.

[kanda]

19. cool

This story made me smile. That door should stay with you forever, no matter where you are. Awesome memories.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

15. I love it!

(I refuse to let Jr.'s use of that phrase to stop me using it. Though I did hesitate.)

[applegrove]

16. My parents had a folk artists painting done in housepaint. I used to

color in the white parts with pencil when I was a kid. Of course it erased perfectly fine because it was a folkartist. My parents had an auctioneer in to look at some of their inherited furniture and we told him the story. He almost fainted.

Sometimes a wall out of the way can be handed over to kids as a graffiti wall. I've seen that work great.

[treestar]

18. my brother had a wooden play house

with a short ladder up into it and a sliding board that came out of it to get down.

The kids were allowed to use the wall for graffiti. Underneath is had a sandbox. Really cool!

[applegrove]

20. Lucky you.

[3catwoman3]

17. What a sweet story. Priceless.

When we moved into our current house in 1994, it was brand new, just built. Our sons were not quite 4 and 16 months. We discovered very quickly that the fastest way to make a new house look old is to move into it with 2 busy little boys, in the middle of the frozen winter season in the greater Chicago area, when it is too cold to go outside for very long. My husband would freak out any time they would touch the walls, which was many times a day, of course. "The paint! The paint!"

I finally said to him, "This is cheap, basic, builder grade paint. It's not the Sistine Chapel. Chill out!"

[Hamlette]

21. My son took a marker, a bottle of 409 and a rag around the house

seeing what the 409 could clean up. His "art" was the number 4. It came off glass, the stove, the dishwasher and he thought the brown wood cupboards (it was a brown marker). It was the hardest thing to leave when we moved. The brown 4 on the wall. But I kept the shorts he was wearing.

I love these parents' solution. I'll try it if my grandkids slip up! (They have a chalk board wall and a magnet wall so I might not get lucky.) I love kids' art. When done on paper, I have it turned into fabric and make quilts out of it.