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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 274006" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We had problems with the other kids, especially easy child 2/difficult child 2, wiping soiled fingers on the toilet walls. An inexperienced kid wipes, gets stuff on fingers and then instead of THINKING and using toilet paper to clean off fingers, would just wipe it off on the walls. I tried to make the culprit clean it up but each kid blamed the other, so I had to make them take turns as well as clean it myself, to show that the job had to be done and as we all wanted the room to be clean, we all had to work to keep it that way even if it wasn't our fault.</p><p></p><p>difficult child 1 did something similar. We have a mosquito problem in our area (can't do anything about it - salt marshes on the headland) and despite good screens, mozzies get in. difficult child 1 would squish them on the walls of his room and insist on leaving the streaks there because he said he wanted to discourage other mozzies! He just didn't get it, that mozzies aren't smart enough to 'get' it. I kept having to nag him to clean the squished mozzies off the walls. He wanted to keep them as trophies, like notches on a gun belt.</p><p></p><p>Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids can be VERY single-minded about some surprising things, even when they are extremely bright in most other areas.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 274006, member: 1991"] We had problems with the other kids, especially easy child 2/difficult child 2, wiping soiled fingers on the toilet walls. An inexperienced kid wipes, gets stuff on fingers and then instead of THINKING and using toilet paper to clean off fingers, would just wipe it off on the walls. I tried to make the culprit clean it up but each kid blamed the other, so I had to make them take turns as well as clean it myself, to show that the job had to be done and as we all wanted the room to be clean, we all had to work to keep it that way even if it wasn't our fault. difficult child 1 did something similar. We have a mosquito problem in our area (can't do anything about it - salt marshes on the headland) and despite good screens, mozzies get in. difficult child 1 would squish them on the walls of his room and insist on leaving the streaks there because he said he wanted to discourage other mozzies! He just didn't get it, that mozzies aren't smart enough to 'get' it. I kept having to nag him to clean the squished mozzies off the walls. He wanted to keep them as trophies, like notches on a gun belt. Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) kids can be VERY single-minded about some surprising things, even when they are extremely bright in most other areas. Marg [/QUOTE]
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