I think my kid is baiting me this morning

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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 1:59 pm

We have to get my father from the airport in 2 hours....doing last minute cleaning here....

How safe do you think asking a child (9 years old) to clean the bathroom is? There's really nothing to do. You spray the cleaning solution on the sink - you wipe it off. Right? Easy. Right?

So - let's say that you didn't know that the kid had taken a bottle of paint to the bathroom after painting and then had not returned it to the box where paint went - but had returned the rest of it - and you didn't pay attention.

When children remove things from around sinks/counters and put them on the floor so they can clean the surface - they sometimes drop things. Well when paint bottles burst - they can make a splat that goes about 4 feet in every direction - ruining the mats you have in the bathroom (all of them) and splatting on the doors of the cabinets - on the walls - etc. It gives you a good 10 minutes of cleaning to do.

So when you get the paint cleaned, then everything should be fine, right? The kid can then finish cleaning the sink - put the stuff back on - spray the toilet - clean the toilet - and Voila - the bathroom is clean. Right?

But what if the kid decides to leave the water running?

How long does it flood the floor before the kid WHO IS STANDING IN THE ROOM remember - - realizes water is all over the floor?

And then - before letting you know....

How many of your NEWLY WASHED towels go in the floor to clean the water?

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:42 pm

Can I get a help line in on this one? Confused

So your kid messed up the entire bathroom? Shocked

Just a kid, remember that, just a kid, count till ten and keep breathing...

Baiting Guru Joined: 03 May 2007 Posts: 18313

From my experience, children do those things at the exact wrong time. Wouldn't have been a big deal if it had been any other day. . .

It's the day when you're having an event, the house/food is ready, the kids are clean/dressed etc. and THAT's when your three year old son (wearing white)decides to spoon with the cat (who is black), and decorate himself and the hardwood floors with magic marker.

They simply wouldn't do it any other day.

I don't know if its called baiting though. . . . there's got to be a better word.

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:39 pm

Kids have the "best timing" in the world... they sense it miles away...

All will be well when grandpa is there... remember, your dad loves you and will not pay attention to the painted bathroom, wet towels, and other kid's adventures... (an if he will, he will laugh and tell a story about YOU having similar "great timing")

Take a deep breath, relax, and enjoy the visit.

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 3:52 pm

Ima Baeder wrote:

I don't know if its called baiting though. . . . there's got to be a better word.

Yes, there is a better word. It's REVENGE. The child (with a sharper mind than you would suspect) simply reasons "If I really screw this up, she won't ask me to do it again".

How do I know this you may ask? One word.......RADDEN

Laughing

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 4:38 pm

Just sit back, have a laugh because it could be a lot worse.

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:13 pm

Sorry Eliza, a bit funny though. Like Dionysius said you just have to laugh. Remember it is just stuff, bad timing yes but no injuries or loss of life so just bad timing. So like everybody else said laugh and don't chastise the kid too much. Smile

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:57 pm

As a dad meself I can sympathize..

They definitely do it to bait you - all kids are a cross between candidates for the Apprentice, Damien and Bart Simpson.

If they were not, they would be boring...

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:28 pm

I recall the panic when I discovered that the smell I mentioned to my wife (now ex) when I had a bath was due to her using some chemical depilatory there before me.

I should have known better than to use what she turned into a toxic chemical zone before being decontaminated, but I spent several days worrying what I would look like completely devoid of hair.

Baiting Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 5905

Harry Bawls wrote:

It's REVENGE. The child (with a sharper mind than you would suspect) simply reasons "If I really screw this up, she won't ask me to do it again".

Men (like me) take this tactic into our adult lives Laughing

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:43 pm

GomerPyle wrote:

... I spent several days worrying what I would look like completely devoid of hair.

What did you look like without your hair... Laughing

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:22 pm

The kid will remember it and think it was hillarious (and so will you eventually I hope).

Reminds me of the time was about five, I took all my clothes off and used my felt-tips to draw on extra eyes and legs and colour myself in so I could be a spider. I ran round the house covered in marker pen stark naked yelling and whooping Laughing

My poor mother wasn't impressed - with less than an hour till her sister (major sibling rival) turned up she had to chase me, pin me down, and scrub till all the pen came off.

(She eventually bought me soap crayons so I could be a spider 'at bath time' Very Happy

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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:57 pm

Hmmm...lets, see.....small people events....

Feeding cornflakes (With milk) into the video recorder.

Cleaning fish bowl (With fish still in it) with washing up liquid.

Stinkbomb in the dishwasher just before a dinner party.

Dropping a bowl of ravioli onto a cream carpet After being told to eat in the kitchen. (Splat of red that's on the carpet to this day)

"freeing' the rabbit.

Playing baths in the shower. This is where you block the plughole and let the water fill up in the base bit. Water floods onto bathroom floor. Over time roof below floor collapses.

Honest, the list is never ending!

Deep breath, count to 10 and remember, it's all so you can embarrass her on her 21st Wink

Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:01 pm

Quote:

Dropping a bowl of ravioli onto a cream carpet

Done

Quote:

Playing baths in the shower.

Done

And i'm 26 Embarassed

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:22 am

@ MB

You wrote:

I took all my clothes off and used my felt-tips to draw on extra eyes and legs and colour myself in so I could be a spider.

I'd say you were ahead of your time. I didn't do that until I was in my 30s

You then wrote:

I ran round the house covered in marker pen stark naked yelling and whooping

Yup, still a regular occurance around my house. I just have to wait until the kids aren't home so I can do it. Laughing

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:34 am

you guys think you got problems-when i moved when my house sold my 18 yr old was pissed at me so he crapped in a plastic bucket and put it in the freezer of the empty fridge-lucky the fridge was on-still cant get an answer why he did it

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:17 am

Eliza_Doolittle wrote:

How many of your NEWLY WASHED towels go in the floor to clean the water?

That simply wouldn't happen in my house. The kids keep all their stinking mouldy towels on the bathroom and/or bedroom floor anyway. Towels (and other laundry) only get washed if they are placed in the correct receptacle next to the washing machine. Clue: It's that large, white metal cube with a round glass window in the front and a row of buttons with mysterious symbols and lights next to them.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:13 am

Eliza_Doolittle wrote:

So - let's say that you didn't know that the kid had taken a bottle of paint to the bathroom after painting and then had not returned it to the box where paint went - but had returned the rest of it - and you didn't pay attention.?

...pictures please!!! Laughing

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:54 am

As a father of an autistic child, the day wouldn't be complete without at least one story like that. Yesterday's was bleach spilled on his brand new tee shirt brought back from Disneyland by my mother and put on for the first time. After that he sneaked out in the rain with an umbrella to go play in the water filled hole he's dug in the garden. Today he's helped himself to frozen melon balls, chocolate orange rolls and mini toad in the hole (the last 2 eaten raw when they should have been cooked)

(edit) and let me add, since then he's managed to break his bed, attack his brother with water pistols and try to crash the computer by putting a paperweight on the keyboard.

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