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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 262642" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I get the message about the watch. </p><p></p><p>Some kids are deliberately destructive, others are just careless. difficult child 1 was careless in the extreme. He would go to school in new grey flannel trousers (school uniform is standard for most Aussie schools) and would have worn through at least one knee of the trousers, by the first day. So I began to patch his school trousers with vinyl. It looked awful, it wasn't standard uniform, but they only ever criticised me once. I told them that if they didn't want me to patch difficult child 1's clothes, THEY could buy new trousers for him for every day of the school year.</p><p></p><p>They shut up after that, even when I switched from grey flannel to charcoal denim (it holds the patches better)</p><p></p><p>I've been trying to clean out the boys' room, now that difficult child 1 no longer lives here. And I'm finding the most appalling things, clothing in a shocking state. difficult child 1 simply has no idea about clothing. He will wear the same thing day in, day out because he doesn't like change. I snuck into his room once when he was at school, and took his payjamas and bedding to wash them. It as a summer day, everything was dry before he got home from school, I had re-made the bed and put his pyjamas back on the bed ready for him. But he complained - he'd never get to sleep because the bedding and PJs no longer smelled right, or felt right.</p><p></p><p>So I gve him a toffee hammer and said, "OK, you are now in charge of your own bedding."</p><p></p><p>Now he's daughter in law's problem. Hmm, I think I really need to help them make that marriage work, or he'll be back home...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 262642, member: 1991"] I get the message about the watch. Some kids are deliberately destructive, others are just careless. difficult child 1 was careless in the extreme. He would go to school in new grey flannel trousers (school uniform is standard for most Aussie schools) and would have worn through at least one knee of the trousers, by the first day. So I began to patch his school trousers with vinyl. It looked awful, it wasn't standard uniform, but they only ever criticised me once. I told them that if they didn't want me to patch difficult child 1's clothes, THEY could buy new trousers for him for every day of the school year. They shut up after that, even when I switched from grey flannel to charcoal denim (it holds the patches better) I've been trying to clean out the boys' room, now that difficult child 1 no longer lives here. And I'm finding the most appalling things, clothing in a shocking state. difficult child 1 simply has no idea about clothing. He will wear the same thing day in, day out because he doesn't like change. I snuck into his room once when he was at school, and took his payjamas and bedding to wash them. It as a summer day, everything was dry before he got home from school, I had re-made the bed and put his pyjamas back on the bed ready for him. But he complained - he'd never get to sleep because the bedding and PJs no longer smelled right, or felt right. So I gve him a toffee hammer and said, "OK, you are now in charge of your own bedding." Now he's daughter in law's problem. Hmm, I think I really need to help them make that marriage work, or he'll be back home... Marg [/QUOTE]
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