My son wrote on my carpet with crayon.
@shaggin (72262)
United States
November 30, 2010 11:40am CST
Yesterday while I was on the computer my son took a blue crayon and wrote on the floor. I can see them while they play but aparently I didnt notice him doing this because when I came out of the room I saw the crayon scribble on the carpet. I asked him if he did that and he said no. My son is 3 and has just learned to lie and is unfortunatly very good at it. He kept denying that he did it but I was pretty sure my 6 year old would not do this and I didnt think the marks were an accident the way they looked. I told my son that writing on the carpet is very naughty and that I hoped he wasent lying to me. He said he was not. I told him Alyis if you are lying to mommy you will be in big trouble. He then said Mommy I am lying. I thanked him for telling me the truth and told him to give me a hug and tell me he was sorry. He rushed right over and gave me a hug and told me Mommy Im sorry I wrote on the carpet. How could I stay mad at that hehe.
Have your kids ever colored on the carpet with crayons? What did you say to them about it? Were you able to get the crayon color off? I dont know if I will be able to get the color off I am going to try baby wipes but I really dont expect the color to come off the carpet since the crayons are made of wax.
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@MJ7262 (12)
• United States
30 Nov 10
Well I can't say that my kids had drawn on the carpet with crayons, yet. Though my 3 year old did take a sharpie marker out of my mothers purse while we were all driving and drew all over the back of the drivers seat. Needless to say the purses now stay in the very back of that vehicle. We tried everything to get it out of the fabric but nothing has seemed to work.
As soon as we realized what had happened when we got to out destination my mother and myself asked my daughter why she did that and she simply looked over at her at the time 6 month old sister and said Lakyn did it. Now knowing that no way did my 6 month old do this we looked at her pulled the whole Santa Clause is watching story and she confessed with tears hugs and kisses and even appologized to her baby sister.
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
1 Dec 10
Aww that is so cute though really. I would be very upset at what she did to the car but in the end you realize they are kids and they are going to do bad things once in awhile because they dont always think about the consquences before they do things. I was little once to and I try not to get to mad at my kids for doing things that they shouldnt do.
@mrgeebee (133)
• United States
1 Dec 10
I have 5 kids, theyve done everything from drawing dinosaurs to cats on everything from walls to floors . One day I went to open the trunk of my first ever new car, above the lock I see one of my sons names scratched in , then crossed out like it would dissapear . Another one was dinosuars all over the wall, my one and only daughter,lip stick and nail polish, even the dog couldnt escape her although he was stupid enough to allow her to do anything she wanted .The lying was fantastic and comical, I started with twin boys and believe me one would lie and the other would swear to it . If anything as they get older you get to tease them and add the old adage of I hope yours do to you what you did to me twicw over..lol
@shaggin (72262)
• United States
6 Dec 10
I can only imagine the mischief twins would get themselves into and then cover for each other lol. Thats probably one of the worst things seeing your sons name scratched into your car because a fresh pain job is so expensive. Thats funny your son thought if he scratched out the name you wouldnt know he was the one who did it lol.
@sid556 (30959)
• United States
1 Dec 10
Hi Shaggin,
My kids never wrote on the carpet but they did write on the walls. One thing that I found gets crayon out is toothpaste. I don't know if it will work on carpet but it worked on the walls really well. You could get a cheap tube of it from the dollar store and give it a try. Make sure it is the regular toothpaste and not the gel type. Good luck!
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
2 Dec 10
Hmm that is an interesting thing to try. I think I actually do have the paste kind right now rather then the gel kind because the paste stuff is grittier and helps get the plaque off better which is why I think most whitening toothpastes use the paste kind instead of the gel. It is slightly abrasive so thats probably why it worked to get crayon off your walls. Thanks for the advice.
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@Nadinest1 (2016)
• Canada
2 Dec 10
You are doing such a good job with your son.
You are a great mother.
I don't have crayons stories, but I do have one about a little boy and a pen who walked down the entire length of the hallway, into his room and marked around every poster, back out into the hall and to the length of it.
I used a Mr Clean scrub pad to get it off and even that didn't work all that great.
Keep up the good work to instill the right morals in your children.
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
6 Dec 10
Thank you for your kind words. I can imagine what a problem that would be with a little boy taking a pen down the length of the hall and tracing around everything lol. Mr. Clean works great but not for everything :( Kids can ruin a house so fast. Between the cats and my kids this house is getting pretty beat.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
9 Dec 10
You know, my children have done a lot of things and I still have my son's handiwork above the mantle where he decided to draw a picture there last year just after Christmas. However, I don't think that they've ever drawn on the carpet with a crayon. I think it is so difficult as a parent when the children get to the stage where they start lying because of the fact that they are all good at it. They are able to make themselves believe their lies because of their own innocence in life.
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
9 Dec 10
I hate when I go to peoples homes and see where their kids have written all over the walls. It drives me nuts. I bed your mantle was beautiful lol and then your little stinker decided to draw on it. Did you try the mr. clean magic eraser? It works really good just not on carpets which would be good for me if it did work for that though.
@bounce58 (17385)
• Canada
7 Dec 10
Not on the carpet, but on the walls. It's on the wall adjacent to the stairs. The wall is painted red, so you wouldn't really see it at all unless there was light on an angle. And I imagined that this happened a long time ago, so now nobody would admit to doing it. I have a 10 year old and a 4 year old, and I have a good idea who did it. But unless I have proof, I couldn't really punish them for it. I just remind them not to do it again.
Thank goodness for Mr. Clean Magic Erasers!
@shaggin (72262)
• United States
8 Dec 10
I hear ya on that! Mr. Clean magic erasers work great on walls that are painted. My parents though have walls that were just colored primer and so the magic eraser takes off the marker but it also takes the paint off as well lol. In the three rooms we have painted we have satin paint or semi-gloss its easy to clean.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
30 Nov 10
Hi shaggin
Hows ya? Been a long time we met here. Hope all is fine.
I do not have any kids but my nephew used to sketch out his imaginations and creativity all across the walls in the house. They have still kept those walls as they were after he did all his creations. Now he is 8 and feels a bit uncomfortable when I remind him of his creations that are still preserved.
Cheers,
theSids.
@shaggin (72262)
• United States
1 Dec 10
lol oh boy. That is really sweet that they liked his creations so much that they left all the drawings on the walls long after he has gotten out of the coloring on the wall stages. I hate seeing coloring on the walls and other places it drives me nuts. Maybe they just honestly havent taken the time to paint over his creations.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
1 Dec 10
maybe that is also a reason 
we often tend to shy away from facts and so that wouldn't be a surprise to me.
But the kid is still doing some sketching on paper (these days) and they both believe that he was a painter in any of his earlier births . These days, he is more into sketching his versions of dinos and rhinos, fishes.
I dunno what he would start painting once he gets the computer as from next year they have computers on their syllabus.
we often tend to shy away from facts and so that wouldn't be a surprise to me.
But the kid is still doing some sketching on paper (these days) and they both believe that he was a painter in any of his earlier births . These days, he is more into sketching his versions of dinos and rhinos, fishes.
I dunno what he would start painting once he gets the computer as from next year they have computers on their syllabus.1 person likes this
@cicisnana (772)
• United States
30 Nov 10
I never had this problem with my kids because when mine got to that age I was really worried about it, after all, I had 6 little kids all under the age of 8 at one time!! Anyhow, when my oldest was about 2 I took 4 pieces of poster board and tacked them on the wall in the hallway...that was their drawing wall I told them...and anytime they felt the urge to want to just write or draw all over everything they went to their wall...I would have to change it every so often and I do still have pieces of that "writing wall." My granddaughter was a little under 2 and started writing on walls, I couldn't figure it out at first, why she was doing it, it had been years since I had been around a baby, and then I remembered my kids "writing wall" and made her one too. This has stopped her from writing all over everything...
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
1 Dec 10
What a cute idea. I taped up big coloring sheets to the wall but the problem was that my son got coloring crazy and didnt stay on the paper and got it all over the wall. All the marker came off except for a pink. I have to use a mr. clean eraser and see if that will take it off. If not then I will have to repaint the wall.
@shia88 (4571)
• Malaysia
1 Dec 10
Hi,
That is kid...they are pretty innocent and don't
know what they are doing is right or wrong.
So we as a parent should educate and train them well.
Sometimes, my son also get naughty,but I always tell him
not to do it again. Few scolding has to be done.
And I always stay firm with what I said.
Alot of patience is needed to train our kid to be a good person.
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@sender621 (14893)
• United States
1 Dec 10
I can wholeheartedly identify with this situation. When my son was 2, we lived with my in-laws for a short time. My son got hold of a purple lipstick off the dresser and proceeded to write on everyhing, walls, doors, carpet. My mother =in-law went ballistic. Try to clean up purple lipstick everywhere you go. It was not a pleasant scene!@shaggin (72262)
• United States
2 Dec 10
I would be really upset to seeing purple lipstick all over everything. I can imagine that it probably didnt come out. Anything that has a red pigment to it is almost impossible to get cleaned. It stains fabric. Hopefully the walls and doors you could scrub down but gosh I really dont know what you could do to get that out of the carpet :(
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
1 Dec 10
My daughter had a really bad habit of taking any and all lotions and whipping my couches with the lotions. I suppose she recalled the many times she saw me freshen them up with special cleaners.
It was so horrible each time she did this and it did not matter where I hid them as she would always find them. Funny one day she was sitting on the couch, she was 3 also, and I sort of had an inkling that she was up to something well she was. As I pulled up the cushions they were drenched in lotion and when I would ask how did that get their she would say I don't know. Funny now to look back but it was such a headache at the time.
I had a professional cleaner to clean my couches several times a year.
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
1 Dec 10
Oh boy lol. My son likes to write on my couches with markers. It drives me nuts. Baby wipes take it off pretty well but sometimes it doesnt come out unless you strip the cushions down and wash them. He is always spilling things on the couch and I have to wash the cushions all the time. It is such a pain.
@sweetloveforeve (13120)
• Portugal
1 Dec 10
your son is so cute shaggin^^ i really love him now ^^ so cute it sounded for sure him saying mommy i lied ahah so cute 
im happy that you just hug him and he said sorry. he really seems to be a caring sweet baby^^ im very happy that you are so sweet to your kids and i can see that you are a great mother^^ you should really be proud of yourself 
im happy that you just hug him and he said sorry. he really seems to be a caring sweet baby^^ im very happy that you are so sweet to your kids and i can see that you are a great mother^^ you should really be proud of yourself 1 person likes this
@shaggin (72262)
• United States
2 Dec 10
Aww thanks so much sweetloveforeve! He is a very sweet little boy but at the same time he can be such a little monster! Today for instance he was being so good when we went to the post office and so good while we got our groceries at the store. He knew he was getting cars themed chicken noodle soup for lunch and gummies for a snack while he waited for his soup to coup. So thats why he was good while we were at the post office and getting groceries. But then when I was paying for the groceries. He took off running outside the store and back in and out the automatic doors. I had to go run after him. Its so embarrassing he is almost always so bad in that store the workers must hate to see me come in.
@pastigger (612)
• United States
30 Nov 10
My daughter has never drawn on the carpet but she did color here sheets one time luckily it was a white sheet and she used a yellow crayon it washed out. I did find this on-line http://www.ehow.com/how_10695_clean-crayon-carpet.html I could remember that an iron was involved but not sure how. Basically you scrape what you can with a butter knife then put a brown paper bag over the spot and use your iron on the highest setting it will melt and stick to the bag. There are other instructions also but that is the just of it. I have had crayon on the wall before that I used the Mr. Clean Magic eraser for and it work although it will take the shine off your wall with it. But it was in the basement and I didn't really care. I have used Mr. Clean magic eraser to get crayon off my little tykes plastic tables too and one time off the kitchen table where from the other room my daughter kept telling me she got crayon on the table and when I went in to look it was the understatement of the year she has colored the side she was sitting on with crayon. Good luck and remember just search the internet you can usually find something to help you out.
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@shaggin (72262)
• United States
1 Dec 10
Another commentor left me similar instructions on using an iron to get the crayon off the carpet. I have a mr. clean magic eraser as well. I dont think it would work on the carpet but it has worked great on other surfaces. My kids never really write on the walls intentionally but sometimes my kids will write on their toys for what reason I dont know. It works good to take the writing off.
@zamosangel1984 (21)
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30 Nov 10
Awww bless him, i also have a 3 year old son and a 7 year old daughter, i have been fortunate to not have that problem as i have laminated so it wipes straight up but unfortunatly my walls have not been so lucky , again with a little questioning you find the answer and im lucky that he has not decided to do it since......yet lol
@shaggin (72262)
• United States
1 Dec 10
Well I think it was yesterday that he did this. He was being a terror yesterday and this was just one of the things that he decided to do. I was really glad he finally told me the truth and seemed to feel bad about what he did. He said to me after he hugged me and told me he was sorry he said... now your not mad. lol
