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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know what?  Kids don't have to destroy cars.  They don't have to create filth or damage things.
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Seat liners don't do a thing for things that drip off of the child's foot, especially when those feet are waving around in the air.

A child leaned against the car and slid down, the zipper pull scratched the paint.  How should I have predicted this?

I had seat liners.  I put seat protectors in.  I still ended up with ruined seats, carpets (even under the edges of the mats), windows which were constantly smeared/painted with food/cracked, broken back window, scratched paint and sundry other issues.  What else should I have done, in your expert opinion, to protect the car?  And I should still be open to kids' ruining my investment and parents saying that it's not their responsibility to pay because it's my car?![/quote]

I have four kids and live in a climate that has a full set of seasons including a lot of rain and mud in the springtime, grass clippings in summer, dry crumbly leaves in fall, and snow, salt and sand in winter. Never have I had the sort of damage you're talking about, despite nine years of kids traveling in our cars.  You're doing something  (lots of things) wrong.

Kid kicks? Incredibly easy solution: remove shoes when they're strapped into seat. Vomit? Rare, but washable. Poop blowout? You should have been ready to wipe first, have blanket handy to wrap around/under the poopy kid, and then extract from car. Poop on floor? Again, washable. Smudges on windows? There's a product called Windex. If the kids are cracking your windows, you are REALLY doing something wrong, the kids have superhuman strength, or your car is a seriously cheap POS that is absurdly fragile. Are the kids in there playing with sledgehammers or something? Rogue zipper pull: covered sufficiently by IRS rate. I don't know what the kids were eating in your car but unless it was beets with a side of blueberry juice, I don't see why you couldn't manage to clean up. [/quote]

Hey practical reasonable mom - I love you.  We would get along![/quote]

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