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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What type of kid is your child? My oldest boy (6) is a calmer kid who loves to follows rules. He never wrote on walls, ate on the couch, stood on the table, etc. My youngest son (4) writes on walls, spills on the sofa, jumps on furniture, tapped the fork into dining room table to see how many little holes he could make, took a toy saw and made gashes in a chair (the serrated toy saw really made marks). [/quote]

To me, you don't leave pens and markers out unsupervised.  No drinking on the sofa and consequences for furniture jumping (yes, we have a couch jumper and he gets taken off and to his room each time).  No way would he take the fork into the dining room table that many times or at the first mark it would have been taken away.  Likewise, with the saw - why give them that kind of access if they abuse things/it.  All kids will test limits but to me that behavior is not acceptable.[/quote]

I was a smug parent like you with my first. My second made me eat humble pie. Same parenting method, different results. I get tons of compliments on how well behaved my first is. The second one I get compliments on how creative he is. Of course we don't hand him sharpies or leave them where he can reach them. He looks for objects until he finds them. He learned to drag a little chair around the house to reach objects when he was 15 months. For Christmas he got a Playmobile forest animal playset. He soon learned that the little raven will make marks on the wall if you slide his beak up and down the wall. He was pretending the raven was swooping down on the other animals when this  happened. Intrigued he marked up the wall. Of course he gets consequences, but he will test, test, test them over and over again. [/quote]

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