IABU. Slap me out of it please.

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My DD is 3. She has just coloured in one on my cream leatherette dining chairs with a purple pen and it won't come off. She knows that she should only use pens on paper, we go through it every time she uses them. She did it on purpose and told me she'd been naughty which is infuriating. But, she is only 3 in my heart I know she doesn't understand consequences. I told her off, put her on the step and did the whole 'you have made mummy so sad..' thing. Now I'm sulking, she is running around being normal and I'm giving her one word answers because I'm so gutted. I'm being pathetic. I only bought the bloody table and chairs last year. The stupid kitten ripped a hole in one and now dd has ruined another with her bloody art work. I could cry.

The hairspray, veg oil and baby wipes have lightened it. I think I need to embrace the fact that I need to recover them and stop sulking.

And chocolate. No suggestions for how to get it off, especially as you've already tried magic eraser. If you've not binned the pens, next time bin them, or better still get her to bin them and explain she can't have them if she can't use them on just paper.

My now 6yo still remembers me putting her favourite plastic wand in the bin because she kept marking the walls with it at the same age. She's never marked a wall deliberately since as any indication of going to was met with "do you want mummy to bin that like the wand?"

Nail varnish remover? Leather cleaning wipes? Mayonnaise? Or is that for chewing gum...

I used shaving foam (cheap stuff only) on various stains on my carpets and it worked.

have you tried the fairy power spray - spray it on and leave it about a few moments (always do a test area first :) )

i swear it lifts everything

Thanks all. Will try everything.

Will alcohol take the stain off perhaps?

The isn't a child in the world that hasn't done this.

Kids and pets ruin nice furniture.

The lesson is that you can't have nice furniture when you've got kids, and never give them free reign with felt tips.

Sorry about your chairs, you will get over it, I lost a dining table to the same fate :(

I totally sympathise i bought a print id wanted for a few ur for £200 on holiday once, my son sneaked into the holiday home bedroom open the sealed tube it was in took the tissue paper off and scribbled all over it in biro , also within a week of buying a lovely next oak table and chairs he scribbled pencil over the top, i tried to remove it and just room the oil varnish off so it left a big light patch grr, sthe thing is i had bought a table protector mat to keep the top 'safe' but he just lifted it up and scribbled under it!

Try acetone nail polish remover, removes all sorts of stains

the crayola washable felt toys generally come off most things.I've banned anything else, but to be honest we don't have nice stuff because we have kids

OP I sympathise. Dd was a scribbler. Of course, I would do my best to make sure there were no pens and pencils lying around, but inevitably one would slip through the net, and she'd go decorating.

She grew out of it. She's 5 now and never does it any more.

Dd used a fork to scribble on our days old kitchen table.

Have you tried wd40? Brilliant at getting out stains and pen!

I would never have dream of having anything in cream in our home!

4 very messy kids meant that everything was washable or have the ability to hide dirt.

YANBU for buying cream furniture when you have a baby/toddler

Has anyone found bogeys on the kids bedroom wall?

I found that beauty only a month ago, and he's 6.

Chocolate in bucketloads and a curry tonight. Solves every problem.

I had a dining table with cream fabric chairs hahahaha

So not only did it end up covered with felt scribble, the chairs were brown stained effect before long.

I opted for black leather chairs after that.

Lying if alcohol gets the stain off, does that mean that booze IS the answer??

Hi,

Nail polish remover (the pads) removes pen from leather apparently. I was told this last week in a local jeweller where a kid had written all over their leather topped tables in pen! I think they used Quickies but I'm sure they're all the same.

Might be worth trying if nothing else works!

I don't know, Deal? White wine might be (for cleaning and drinking) - ethanol might be too harsh (for cleaning and drinking)....

I'd be inclined to give her another pen and tell her to do her worst on the others too... I'm sure Hockney started somewhere?

OP... If you're going to have curry tonight, keep that well away from your chairs!

Pyjamas DS put bogeys on my bedroom wall [boak]

He also drew a triangle on each wall. Again, in my room. His room has washable paint. My room has cheap, scrappy paint that the builders used and if you try to rub it the paint comes off showing the plaster underneath. It's like he knew.