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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 262056" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>:<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/sigh.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":sigh:" title="sigh :sigh:" data-shortname=":sigh:" />: I feel for you! difficult child 1 wrote <strong>all over</strong> the walls in the downstairs bedroom. Fabric paint, crayon, indelible marker, white-out, lipstick, eyeliner, nail polish and regular washable marker.</p><p> </p><p>Let me tell you, washable marker <em>isn't</em>, on eggshell paint.</p><p> </p><p>She used a Mr. Clean magic eraser on it and gave up when the eraser fell apart.</p><p> </p><p>We tried isopropyl alcohol, Goo Gone, denatured alcohol, Windex, even a <strong>wire</strong> scrub brush.</p><p> </p><p>Then we painted over it with KILZ which is a primer. Three coats.</p><p> </p><p>Then - I am <em>not joking here</em> - five coats of white paint.</p><p> </p><p>There is a small pink heart on one wall that just keeps bleeding through. And a swear word in white-out that does not match the paint. We gave up.</p><p> </p><p>When we painted her room upstairs to help with the anxiety issues (it seems to have worked, somehow), in white with black and red stripes, we used semigloss all the way. Looks tacky, but boy does it reflect light, and you can even wipe off indelible marker easily with Windex. Drives her crazy!</p><p> </p><p>She also wrote all over the shower in pencil, crayon and indelible marker. We use a bio-friendly cleaner called Krud Kutter for other stuff - and it worked on that (plastic, not tile). There is only the faintest shadow of indelible marker now. Fortunately this is the downstairs-in-the-basement shower that only she uses.</p><p> </p><p>She doesn't write on the walls much anymore (or anything else except paper and her hands and arms). She told me (only last weekend) that she used to get in trouble with biomom because when biomom told her to do "this", and we didn't go off the deep end and message biomom, that apparently difficult child 1 didn't do "this" well enough...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 262056, member: 6705"] ::sigh:: I feel for you! difficult child 1 wrote [B]all over[/B] the walls in the downstairs bedroom. Fabric paint, crayon, indelible marker, white-out, lipstick, eyeliner, nail polish and regular washable marker. Let me tell you, washable marker [I]isn't[/I], on eggshell paint. She used a Mr. Clean magic eraser on it and gave up when the eraser fell apart. We tried isopropyl alcohol, Goo Gone, denatured alcohol, Windex, even a [B]wire[/B] scrub brush. Then we painted over it with KILZ which is a primer. Three coats. Then - I am [I]not joking here[/I] - five coats of white paint. There is a small pink heart on one wall that just keeps bleeding through. And a swear word in white-out that does not match the paint. We gave up. When we painted her room upstairs to help with the anxiety issues (it seems to have worked, somehow), in white with black and red stripes, we used semigloss all the way. Looks tacky, but boy does it reflect light, and you can even wipe off indelible marker easily with Windex. Drives her crazy! She also wrote all over the shower in pencil, crayon and indelible marker. We use a bio-friendly cleaner called Krud Kutter for other stuff - and it worked on that (plastic, not tile). There is only the faintest shadow of indelible marker now. Fortunately this is the downstairs-in-the-basement shower that only she uses. She doesn't write on the walls much anymore (or anything else except paper and her hands and arms). She told me (only last weekend) that she used to get in trouble with biomom because when biomom told her to do "this", and we didn't go off the deep end and message biomom, that apparently difficult child 1 didn't do "this" well enough... [/QUOTE]
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