To expect after days of work and stacks of money my toddlers wouldn't trash their room?

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I've cried about it. It doesn't help.

We spent ages decorating, got new furniture and toys.

Every day bits of the wall are chipped off, they somehow smuggle crayons in there, so the walls are covered in scribbles. Their beds end up in the middle of the room with the bed linen thrown off, drawers are emptied.

I'm sick of it.

Yes sorry YABU

They trash their room. That's what they do. They don't understand about the money or the work. How old are they? Depending on age, you can introduce systems for tidying.

how old?

Bring the toys into the front room and you can keep an eye on them.
No crayons till they can be trusted not to wreck things.

try chalks. they rub off...

My little buggers have put stickers all over their extremely expensive bunkbeds.
But it's me at fault, I shouldn't have wasted my money, lesson learnt.
Toddlers do not give a shit about our interior design plans, stop reading Junior magazine, it'll help I promise, on so many levels.

Paint one part of one wall with chalkboard paint, tell them that is the only place they may draw on the walls, and with these special chalks only?

Then hide all other writing implements until they leave home.

errr, YABU

you should have waited a few years...

or they shouldn't be unsupervised with a deadly weapon (crayons)

sorry, they are children. They don't care how much work you put into it.

It is fun to draw and paint and bash things.

You have to wait until they are teens for your revenge, when you show nekked baby pics to all their mates and to their first love, and you run to them in the street when they are 'hanging' with their pals, give them a big kiss, call them "Sweetums" and clean a smudge off their cheek with a spitty hanky.

Some days such thoughts are all that keep me going.

shame when you have made an effort to get it looking nice

Their beds end up in the middle of the room?
What are they doing in the room? Are they mini Hercules or are the beds easy to move? Don't you notice the noise of the beds moving?
How long has it been going on for?
Children do get carried away with things at times but after the first couple of times you need to be more vigilant and jump in before they get the chance to start again.
Explain to them how the room is starting to not look very nice and wouldn't they prefer it to be nice.
Don't leave them alone if you think there's a chance they're going to trash it again.
Put them to bed at separate times if they get up to mischief together at bedtime.

Poor you - I don't think YABU - I'd be mightily pi**ed off. I guess they are only little, but they need to understand that this behaviour is not on. What have you done/said?

Yep, my little girl says to me'but i like it messy!'

and she does exclaim 'it's all TIDY' like it's a rare occurance if i hoover when she is at playgroup

Yep, my little girl says to me'but i like it messy!'

and she does exclaim 'it's all TIDY' like it's a rare occurance if i hoover when she is at playgroup

One other thought - I don't let my boys go upstairs on their own - I keep my eye on them down here at all times. Perhaps their bedroom should be out of bounds to your toddlers during the day?

PS we do have limits though... how oold are they? do they just need more supervision?

Er, call me suspicious but where's the OP gone?

off to scrub walls and move beds i expect

why suspicious Alan? of what?

My toddlers do this too. They are 3 and 2 and share a room. They always manage to draw on walls/furniture when no one is looking and have stuck stickers all over their bunks and drawers.

They can tidy up quite well now but it takes some effort.

DS will just find a tiny space and say, 'oh but there's space here to play/get more toys out etc.'

Or the other day when I said,'you need to tidy before Daddy gets home or he'll be angry'
DS replied, 'But we can just shut the door so he doesn't see.' !

it is a pretty innocuous post,hardly provoke a response duck n run stuff.i see nowt suspicious

they are toddlers, they trash things (if they are allowed to - I have 3 DC , only have had 2 drawing on wall incidents EVER - you can hide the crayons you know!!). Why come on here asking AIBU and then not hang around for replies? How old are they? Is this behaviour new, since the new room, or were they like this already, in which case OP should have laid down the law. Why redo room if behaviour so bad, why not wait till outgrown it? Kids do not need loads of money spent on their room anyway - just a lick of paint and some basic furniture.

I just thought something about the post did not ring true. But then I am just an old cynic. So shoot me

LOL your cynical!lovin the kids dont need nowt spent on room.aye just a drawer to sleep in

didn't say nowt, just not stacks of money

I don't allow DS in his room unsupervised for more than a nanno second.

How are they strong enough to move their beds?

Oh and if they are big enough to be moving the furniture around willfully, they are big enough for rules and discipline - and yes Juuule, what about the noise - how long are they left unsupervised/unchecked (while OP is busy on MN no doubt!)