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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 435517" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>It is possible to get chemical etching, depending on what is used for cleaning... but it has to be pretty potent stuff - the kind of stuff you probably don't have "within reach" of a 6yo. (bleach? toilet cleaner? muraic acid?) And chemical etching wouldn't give you the "line" effect - the others, maybe.</p><p> </p><p>There are ways to buff out some chemical etching - but not anything that can be done at home, and not without risk of breaking the mirror... </p><p> </p><p>But this combo of damage looks more like physical stuff... that pumice stone idea might be part of it.</p><p> </p><p>Agree, though - ask him what happened... you might be surprised. Sometimes these difficult child kids have a logical, rational reasoning to what they did, in which case they somehow don't mind telling on themselves - in which case, you have to treat kid-training like dog-training: figure out what happened, then figure out how to keep it from happening, but it really isn't the dog's/kid's fault ... evey at 6 yrs old. Especially if he hasn't tried this one before. </p><p> </p><p>difficult child kids really are like dogs sometimes... praise works better than punishment, they have VERY short memories so if you catch them after the fact its already too late, in spite of the problems we love them, and so on... plus, they really don't get the concept of situational transfer... OK, so I can't scratch up Mommy's counter top - but this isn't a counter top, its on the wall... Oh, I can't do that either? well... hmmm... what happens if I rub this across Daddy's Dacks?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 435517, member: 11791"] It is possible to get chemical etching, depending on what is used for cleaning... but it has to be pretty potent stuff - the kind of stuff you probably don't have "within reach" of a 6yo. (bleach? toilet cleaner? muraic acid?) And chemical etching wouldn't give you the "line" effect - the others, maybe. There are ways to buff out some chemical etching - but not anything that can be done at home, and not without risk of breaking the mirror... But this combo of damage looks more like physical stuff... that pumice stone idea might be part of it. Agree, though - ask him what happened... you might be surprised. Sometimes these difficult child kids have a logical, rational reasoning to what they did, in which case they somehow don't mind telling on themselves - in which case, you have to treat kid-training like dog-training: figure out what happened, then figure out how to keep it from happening, but it really isn't the dog's/kid's fault ... evey at 6 yrs old. Especially if he hasn't tried this one before. difficult child kids really are like dogs sometimes... praise works better than punishment, they have VERY short memories so if you catch them after the fact its already too late, in spite of the problems we love them, and so on... plus, they really don't get the concept of situational transfer... OK, so I can't scratch up Mommy's counter top - but this isn't a counter top, its on the wall... Oh, I can't do that either? well... hmmm... what happens if I rub this across Daddy's Dacks? [/QUOTE]
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