This weekend my beautiful little girl decided to "Poop Paint" again. I was at the end of my rope and didn't know where to turn for advice on how to stop this or if I had the only child in the world who ever did this. I turned to google. It led me to a web site that not only gave me some sound, logical advice but also gave me a sense of comradery because there were lots of parents who had posted the same questions. The sound, logical advice was to let her finger paint or be creative in a messy way and see if that helps. I went home Monday and Tuesday nights and let her finger paint in the bathtub/shower with pudding. I didn't have any finger paints and did not have the money to go buy them. I did however, have some butterscotch pudding in the pantry that no one would eat and decided that would work just fine. At first she thought it was a trap and that I was going to spank her. I convinced her that it was ok and she decided that pudding painting was so much fun! She loved it and also loved cleaning it off the shower walls. The second night went well along with coloring in her color books using mess free color markers (BTW- big rip off-They do not write on anything but the paper that comes with them but they barely mark on that!) She bites the tips off of those though so I have to watch her like a hawk.
I also let her play in the dirt Monday night which was a big step for me. I don't like messy so this has been a testing experience for me. But I am really trying to let her be little, get messy and just have fun. I will pretty much do whatever is necessary to keep her from "Poop Painting" again.
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