writings and drawings on the wall

Philippines
March 20, 2011 12:43am CST
does your house walls full of writing and drawing of your children? it looks messy right? i just want to ask a question about this. i only have one child and me and my wife teaches him to draw on a paper and not on the wall. and he follows those orders. i am just amazed of how other children writes on the wall or draw and not on paper. i have a friend who works abroad and he post pictures of his children that his wife's send on facebook. their house is new we even attended the house warming a few months back. now that we see the photos of their house it was filled with children's drawing on the wall. it this natural? i am just asking for i see my siblings house's and their walls are full of child's writing and drawing too. well i guess some kids are really artistic... or they are just hard headed.
10 responses
@enruschew (247)
• Malaysia
20 Mar 11
Hey, you reminds me when I am still a kid. Same with other child, I used to draw on the wall. Well, I do not remember the reason I did that; I just remembered my mum was scolding me each time she found out there were charming drawing on the wall. However, even I am a universities student now, I still think that there are no wrong for the kid to draw or paint on the wall. It is a good way to practice their artist skill and then they grew up, the wall will be such a good memory for them. Haha!
• Philippines
21 Mar 11
i guess the wrong on that is it makes the house look dirty. maybe they can practice on a big paper but not on the wall. or maybe on the wall but at the far end of the house har har har. its nothing wrong if they want to practice drawing but they need to know where to put it. thanks a lot for the response and hope to see you more. congrats for getting your star on the 100th... goodluck.
• Malaysia
21 Mar 11
Hmm....how about this, paste a big piece of paper on the wall?
• Philippines
22 Mar 11
By the way, how young is your kid? I have 2 kids, a girl (14 yo) and a boy (12 yo), yes, before we have the same problem but if I'm not mistaken that took only several months and after that my kids are behave. Just beat his hand and tell him that is not good and once he do it again beat again his hand to frighten him, it will work that way. It is natural on some children but it is a matter of teaching and be patient to the kid and sooner they will follow you. God Bless Your kid.
• Philippines
24 Mar 11
welcome to the wonderful world of mylot anna. my son is five years old. my wife does the disciplining i am only at the look out har har har. my son listens to my wife, but not much to me. but i am so proud to say that our walls are clean and my son if he wants to draw he will get his doodle pad and he do is artistic works... if that is what other parents call it in paper. i see my wife spank my childs hands when she is teaching about something that is bad and not to do it again. so i guess its effective. thanks a lot for the response
• Philippines
20 Mar 11
I don't have children of my own but I think I drew on the wall once or twice when I was a kid. It's normal for children to do this because they're still exploring their environment but when they're already told not to and they still do it, the children are already being hard headed and parents should try their best to make the child know that it isn't appropriate to do that. The funny thing is now that I'm grown up, the interior of the house was repainted and I drew on the wall in our room. I drew 2 cartoon characters and they're part of the design
• Philippines
21 Mar 11
har har har if it is a part of the design then i think it does not look messy or dirty. it sounds like you are happy with it and it jive to the whole room. i am talking about messy walls and i agree with what you said that kids do explore but still parents plays a big role on control. like supporting what they want and give them things were they can explore their art skills. thanks a lot for the response.
• Philippines
20 Mar 11
ha ha ha kids loves doing it, i have 5 kids and I was very tired cleaning all over our house drawing with a lot of characters, most of that drawing stick man with smiley face. I never trained them to write on the wall but they always did it, maybe it's a attitude of a kid.
• Philippines
21 Mar 11
thanks for being honest. well i guess it is tiring to be a mother of triplets and a son right? you need to be tougher i guess. my mother was a tough woman. we are 5 children of her and 3 are boys. can you imagine. but she gives tough love or else we might end up in prison har har har. goodluck, its hard to be a mother... but if you guide your children it will be a wonderful feeling if they grow to be wonderful children. hugs my friend. thanks a lot for the response.
@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
20 Mar 11
I guess some children can't help themselves. I have had friends that their children will go to any length to sneak a crayon in their room to write on the walls. There is this really neat product though..it is a piece of white wall paper that is easy to hang temporarily so that artistic children can write as long as they want and then it can be taken down. Some parents save them and some parents just throw them away and replace them. I think it is a double edged sword though because it might be teaching them it is ok and they might go to a friends house and do it There is also this thing here called the magic sponge. It's made to take off anything from the walls. Just wet it and rub it across a mark or scuff and it's gone. Amazing thing really. I have never really had the problem either..I have always kept something for them to draw on.
• Philippines
22 Mar 11
now that point is true some kids cant help themselves har har har. that even they know that mommy or daddy will get angry they will insist on doing what they want to do. cool i know that magic sponge and they also retail erasable colors if that is what they call it. but sometimes parents still get lazy on doing the sponge har har har. had fun reading your post thanks a lot.
@umabharti (3972)
• India
20 Mar 11
hi, hard work and earning comes to parents .With lot of care and love parents buy a new house so to hav shelter.Kids play all the time they dont hav the responsiblity or think that it spoils when they write on hte walls , parents should make the kids understand things .
• Philippines
24 Mar 11
"parents needs to let kids understand" very true, we parents must never get tired of telling them what is the do's and the don'ts. if we get tired then our children might grow like wild grass. we parents needs to be drawing also, but a different drawing... har har har drawing the line of what is okay and what is not. thanks a lot for the response.
@shibham (16977)
• India
20 Mar 11
Hahaha... I am unmarried but when i was a child, i never did that... but when i was in hostel, i made some paintings on wall... but when colorman colored the wall.. my all paintings got erased. Yes, i have seen some families having kids and all the walls are full of drawings. Just entering in house like that, you can easily imagine, how many kids are there? take care.
• Philippines
21 Mar 11
my wife has a friend who have 4 children and their walls are clean. thats amazing i guess, to handle four children and not single one is disobeying rules that they can not write on the wall. i mean if you have a lot of children then the house is not that groomed but if the walls are full of hand writings and drawings it adds up. my brother has two sons and goodness their house looks like a vandalized wall on the street har har har. if only the kids can reach the ceiling i know they will draw and write there too. thanks a lot for the response.
• China
21 Mar 11
I am still single so don't have any child. But my sister is a child and she loves to draw and write in wall moreover when my younger brother was child he have done the same thing. I think it's all children habit. Still some place of my home are drawing by mu sister. Good day!
• United States
20 Mar 11
I believe that as soon as a child begins to say mama, papa the word no needs to be said often. When a child is not guided with consistency they really do not understand why the last time it was okay. Neither one of my children wrote on my walls and I was amazed how others came to visit and I had to constantly watch them like hawks because in my mind if I did not allow my own children to do so then I certainly was not going to allow other children to do so. So my friend it is on how they are being consistently "trained" or not. I used the word trained simply because we as parents are their guides until adulthood.
• Philippines
21 Mar 11
i heard that too from a friend... if her children are not allowed to do such things in the house, and the visitor's children cant do it too. we all have are different styles of disciplining kids and in our own house we should also show our kids that the things they are not allowed to do, is not allowed to for the visitors. thanks a lot for the response, i guess it shows how good the parent is if they can insist the rules in their homes. just my opinion.
• India
20 Mar 11
See the children what if they doing just the parents are seeing towards their children even they wrote on the walls and other things and they make a draw on a wall but the parents are thinking and they personalize about their kids your future how it was finally where their kids wrote on the wall they didn't clean it they set and put the drawings and writings on the wall as a sweet memories. See some kids are like this they are really fantasitc kids and they don't anything abou that one its not a miracle.