How bad were your kids about writing on walls?

[Anonymous]

I want to know what a normal amount of this is. I assume most people have a few incidents of this. I have one ES kid with SN who has done this recently during a meltdown and his preschooler brother is now showing a high degree of interest in all things fine motor. He’s coloring and doing worksheets all initiatived by him. No matter how many times I talk about not writing on the walls it keeps happening.

[Anonymous]

My NT boys never did this. Not once

[Anonymous]

Never

[Anonymous]

Never. One instance of writing his name on the carpet.

Have him clean it up.

[Anonymous]

My boys (now 10 and 14) never did this.

[Anonymous]

There have been a couple of accidental pencil swipes on walls, but that’s it. Never deliberate.

[Anonymous]

It happened here exactly once with my boys (mild ADHD but mostly NT). I screamed my head off, timeout, took away things, they knew I meant business and never tried it again.

[Anonymous]

Never happened. DS had an easel (sp) that he could use with chalk and dry erase markers. He seemed to understand that was were he drew.

[Anonymous]

DD (NT) did once intentionally at about 18 months. We still get a few marks on the floor when they’re doing an “art project” (they are very into these), especially from my 2 year old DS who is never careful even when reminded, but never another intentional incident. They always do their best to clean it up.

[Anonymous]

Yes, one way more than their twin. There were consequences and it didn’t seem to matter but it wasn’t constant either. Just a new masterpiece would appear here and there. The walls and furniture were not safe. They grew out of it.

[Anonymous]

Never. 3 kids ages 5-15.

[Anonymous]

My oldest did it once, right after she learned to write her name and was practicing it pretty much everywhere. I took away all of the markers and crayons for a little while; if she wanted to draw, she had to ask me and I set her up at the kitchen table. That was enough to teach her not to do it again. My youngest never did this.

[Anonymous]

I have boys and they never did this. Teenagers now.

[Anonymous]

My normal kid did it once, my special needs kid never did it.

[Anonymous]

Never.

I did put butcher block paper up on the wall for a month once and had a big marker/crayon/collage city going. But I made the boundaries very clear with painters tape, so it never went outside of the paper.