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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-19-07 10:33 PM
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Parents - whatever your kids did today, show some perspective: they could have done this.


I don't know the context; I found it on an image search looking for something totally unrelated to that picture, and I cringed.

That's gonna be tough to clean. Hopefully it's water based, and not latex.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-19-07 10:34 PM
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1. Oh my Lord. I hope that stuff isn't toxic to kids
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 08:56 AM
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18. kinda looks like latex n/t
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-19-07 10:35 PM
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2. Parents....
Edited on Mon Nov-19-07 10:36 PM by greatauntoftriplets
Please do not leave open paint cans anywhere near where your kids can reach them. Especially if they are this young.

Sigh.

Edited to clarify.
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-19-07 11:10 PM
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3. Reminds me of the time our girls used my cd collection as skates
across our tile floors
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-19-07 11:37 PM
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4. When I was a kid, we moved to Long Island ...
It was a new subdivision, and most of us kids were around the same age (six, seven, eight).

The neighbors down the street had gone shopping for the afternoon, and their daughters (Marian and Suzie) convinced all of us kids to 'surpise' their mom and dad by 'painting' their new brick house white.

There was no actual paint available, nor brushes. So we mixed the bags of white lime fertilizer they'd bought for the lawn with some water, and used mops and brooms to paint with.

Mom and dad were surprised all right - but NOT happy. Marian and Suzie got grounded. That was in 1956 - and I never saw either of them again.
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HuffleClaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:06 AM
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5. and ya just know the older one will blame the toddler
yet one more reason to have cats instead of kids
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:31 AM
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6. Wow, those parents are bummin'!
great picture, though. :D

Reminds me of the time ShineBoy put a PB&J sandwich inside the VCR. He was about 2. :crazy:

:hi:
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:01 AM
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7. Oh. My. Gawd!
That makes me just want to :cry:

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Godhumor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:07 AM
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8. When I was much younger, my little sister and her friend...
Edited on Tue Nov-20-07 01:07 AM by Godhumor
Got into my model paints and used the red color as nail polish and lipstick. I was too young to be wrroied about putting model pain on their lips, but damn was I angry at that.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 10:59 AM
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20. Did their lips fall off?
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marzipanni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 01:07 AM
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9. "When finger painting goes terribly wrong"
Maybe the parents left the paint can out on purpose in hopes of winning a large prize on America's Funniest Home Videos.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 02:51 AM
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10. I'd kill 'em
yes
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 03:42 AM
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11. But in this case
somebody thought it was worth taking a picture of instead.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 04:14 AM
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12. It seems to have started as a simple, passing comment on a TV program...
or image, for which the one kid seems rather pleased to have initiated...I remain, however, unconvinced the little guy will know much-if-any success in his application for divestment by merely standing less-near the aftermath :(
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Midlodemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:29 AM
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13. That is beyond funny.
:rofl:

I am SO SURE I wouldn't be saying that if those were my children, however.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:39 AM
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14. Latex is water based
Oil based is troublesome - need turpentine.
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Eagle_Eye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 06:48 AM
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15. I hope the parents are renting, because that paint is going to stain the floor and couch
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unpossibles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:11 AM
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22. even worse!
that means they screwed up someone else's property.
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 08:42 AM
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16. He looks so pleased.
Oh dear...
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 08:53 AM
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17. Seriously - if those were my kids I'd be selling them on Ebay after that
probably why I choose to be childless
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 08:57 AM
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19. Mom! I helped you paint the house! n/t
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LynzM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:05 AM
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21. Look how pleased that kiddo looks!
Bet they had wicked fun doing that... gonna be a real pain to clean up, though. :) Had a friend whose kid decorated her bathroom with mascara... luckily, that was easier-than-expected to clean up. Whee, kids!
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:23 AM
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23. Here's what scares me:
How long do you suppose it took these imps to do this? Half an hour? Which means that they were UNSUPERVISED for at least that long. Where the hell was a parent in that time? This is how REAL tragedies happen.

Haha, but let's take a pic documenting our neglect. :puke:
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momophile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:45 AM
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24. I'm betting my 2 yr old daughter and her 4 yr old boy cousin
Edited on Tue Nov-20-07 11:45 AM by momophile
could do this in about 3 minutes. that's why I watch them like a hawk, and I don't have cans of paint sitting around.

oh, and of course, it would all be her boy cousin's fault.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:46 AM
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25. Half an hour? Are you kidding?
Do you have kids?
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quip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:51 AM
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28. Well, yeah, but they're growed up now....
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:02 PM
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29. Half and hour? They don't look like slackers. I give it 1.4 minutes.
And part of the delay in that one is only because it looks like the one kid wasted time taking his pants off.
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Cabcere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:47 AM
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26. Well, it's too much. There's too much f*cking perspective now.
/Spinal Tap
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 11:49 AM
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27. Hah... genius move on mom & dad's part - leaving the paint out!
:rofl:

Live and learn...
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Lord Wortherington Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-20-07 12:18 PM
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30. Curiously they left behind a lot of evidence.
There is a spoon which I assume they used to pry the top off the paint canister. Well, there is that and the foot prints... and the picture of them with paint all over them, standing in paint with a empty can of paint in the picture which also happens to be the same color as the paint which is all over them and which they are standing in. Also, why did they only paint themselves up to mid-torso? And notice that the toys are virtually unscathed.
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