Do you let your kids draw on their skin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can see how a colorful antibiotic is similar to a colorful bandage. But how that relates at all to drawing on your body with ink is unfathomable.

Are you guys that stupid or you're just pretending?

I'm describing 2 different memories of my childhood. I never compared them.

Jeez!

I didn't know the little lines on my daughter's hand would piss so many of you off. Wow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you live in a trailer? Not that there's anything wrong with that.

. . . Anyway, I remember also my mom applying gentian violet when we got scrapes or little "boo boos" and she'd let us play with another Qtip while she cleaned the wound. We would draw happy faces on the hurt knee using GV... how is that different from those colorful character band-aids???

So when you wrote about drawing all over your body as a kid and DD drawing on herself you were really talking about Band-Aids? Because Band-Aids are like the Sharpies' ink? Yeah, ok.

No lady.

Those were 2 different episodes.

And we're not talking about a toddler with a sharpie. I don't know where you read sharpie in any of my posts.

I think you're having a 3rd episode now. So what does DD write with? A ball point pen? Oh, now that would be just adorable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see how a colorful antibiotic is similar to a colorful bandage. But how that relates at all to drawing on your body with ink is unfathomable.

Are you guys that stupid or you're just pretending?

I'm describing 2 different memories of my childhood. I never compared them.

Jeez!

I didn't know the little lines on my daughter's hand would piss so many of you off. Wow

Wait a minute. First your said scribbling on her legs and belly. Now she just has "little lines" on her hands? Troll alert.

[Anonymous]

You all sound like very cool moms! Nooooot!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can see how a colorful antibiotic is similar to a colorful bandage. But how that relates at all to drawing on your body with ink is unfathomable.

Are you guys that stupid or you're just pretending?

I'm describing 2 different memories of my childhood. I never compared them.

Jeez!

I didn't know the little lines on my daughter's hand would piss so many of you off. Wow

Wait a minute. First your said scribbling on her legs and belly. Now she just has "little lines" on her hands? Troll alert.

I assume you won't see her belly or legs if you're the lady staring at us singing waiting at the grocery line. You'll judge us just for what you see: her hands. And yeah! I draw the happy face on her hand. 8)

[Anonymous]

You're defending the utter cuteness of drawing on your DD because you sing in the grocery store line?

[Anonymous]

I'm not defending anything. I'm having fun with her, like my mom had fun with me.

I was just wondering if other moms did that too.

[Anonymous]

Not a problem. FBFNFTM you are too much. You come up with some interesting scenarios. You so crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a problem. FBFNFTM you are too much. You come up with some interesting scenarios. You so crazy.

What do you mean?

[Anonymous]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

umm.. no

I legt him draw with tyb crayons on himself in the tub though.

I have let(ignored him and didnt stop him when he did type of let) him paint on himself with washable paint because you toss him in the tub and comes right off.

[Anonymous]

No. I remember my mom always saying, "No! Ink is poison! Who knows what seeps into your skin and gets into your system? Not healthy."

Probably there is no truth to it, but I am still struck with revulsion if I see DD drawing on herself and I say it's not good for her.

[Anonymous]

No. Ink is for paper not skin.

[Anonymous]

No, I don't let my kids draw on their skin, because I don't like to scrub them hard enough to remove it, or let their drawing stay on their skin for two weeks looking dirty.

[Anonymous]

Do I encourage it? No. Do I freak out and worry that we're a dirty, nasty family if they do? No.

Are they known to grab a pen and sneak off to a corner and quietly draw on themselves (really it's the 5 year old drawing on herself and her little sister)? Yes.

They'll pay the price when I scrub them really hard in the bath that evening to get it off.

Lighten up people. I used to always draw rings on my fingers, smiley faces on my hands, etc. No harm done.