Wierd one this......Kids drawing on their walls with mums permission!!!??

I mean, a can of spray paint is cheap, you can go to the bridge or that back alley and paint some nice designs. Its just expressionism right, kids should be free to express themselves. And you know, a can of paint is cheap so the council can paint over the graffiti when the kids have grown up.

No wonder the UK is the way it is.
 
LoL reminds me of when i was about 10
I had a barney with my mum and got my dads roll on deoderant stick and wrote " i hate mum on her wall " you couldnt see it until the sun lit up the room in the morning.
 
*shrug* We were allowed to draw on certain bits of wall as kids. Can't say I think it's particularly a matter of right or wrong. It's just a difference of approach, provided they understand that there only certain places they're allowed to do it.

One of my friends has a wall painted with blackboard paint so anyone who wants to draw/write on it with chalk.
 
Gavin said:
just suggested the black board paint idea and apparently that would look crap. I thought that was a good half way meeting point.

TBH im fuming that mum told an 11 year old its ok to grafeeti on walls and thats its the in thing.
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wait till she gets pregant because its "the in thing" :rolleyes:

i think your mum needs to stop beeing a lazy parent
 
D.P. said:
I mean, a can of spray paint is cheap, you can go to the bridge or that back alley and paint some nice designs. Its just expressionism right, kids should be free to express themselves. And you know, a can of paint is cheap so the council can paint over the graffiti when the kids have grown up.

No wonder the UK is the way it is.
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Well summed up.

I would never allow my children to write on any wall, so I am with you OP.
 
I wouldnt want my daughter to do this on her walls either, but if your looking for a compromise take her to a DIY store and buy enough lining paper (as its cheap) to cover either a wall or the whole room, get her to help you put it up and tell her to graffitti away :) That way its cheap to replace and easy to replace and she feels like shes got her own room and you feel shes contributed towards the making of it.

I remember when i was a little girl i had a pink painted bedroom and a border with little dollys in pink dresses with bonnets and the bottom half papered and i hated it, mum and dad wouldnt decorate due to "theres nothing wrong with it" so for the next 3weeks i remember peeling bits of paper off the wall until one day just ripped an entire sheet of paper off and tried to tell my parents it "peeled off" lol never had the urge to graffitti though.
 
I'm really ancient and can't help thinking why most replies are stating "it's HER room, so let her" etc; it is a room provided by you for her to sleep in NOT her domain where her decisions count.

Same goes for letting toddlers choose their hairstyle or clothes; only when they have learned what is acceptable and are paying themselves, should they be given the freedom/privilege of choice IMO. That is not to say that they can't earn such luxeries as having a say in the decoration of 'their' room but letting them think that they have a right to such things is wrong, again IMO.

Look out for the old .... playing one against the other trick too.

Best of luck whatever you decide.
 
Just because 'times have changed', it doesn't mean you should have to change. Times have certainly changed, have you seen the state of most kids in schools these days, they are like wild beasts. Society is going down the gutter, so you should hold onto your own values/morals and teach them to your kids because that is the only real education they will get at this age.
 
I can honestly say that if my daughters had asked for an 'expression wall' in their bedroom I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.
Too many people bring kids into this world as their little playthings/toys and then treat them inferior when they start to think for themselves.
OP - give her a wall, let her express herself for 3 months and she will soon get bored of it.
 
simulatorman said:
LOL. How to bring your kids up to be graffiti artists. Just wait until they do it at a friends house or at school.
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So what you're saying is what they do in their room = what they do at school or at friends houses?


Man it must have been uncomfortable sitting next to you in lessons with all the fapping.
 
jbs said:
Well summed up.

I would never allow my children to write on any wall, so I am with you OP.
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If had written on the wall when I was a child I would have been in it very deep.
Now I am an adult I can say I would never allow anyone, under any circumstances write on the wall.
Even if I lived in some grotty council flat I still wouldn't do it.

Is there something wrong with people? No matter where you live you should have pride in your home!
 
mglover070588 said:
If had written on the wall when I was a child I would have been in it very deep.
Now I am an adult I can say I would never allow anyone, under any circumstances write on the wall.
Even if I lived in some grotty council flat I still wouldn't do it.

Is there something wrong with people? No matter where you live you should have pride in your home!
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it sounds like she wants it done in grafiti art not scrawled with crayon.


http://www.graffiti4hire.co.uk/graffiti_living_room_graffiti_artists_for_hire.html
 
mglover070588 said:
If had written on the wall when I was a child I would have been in it very deep.
Now I am an adult I can say I would never allow anyone, under any circumstances write on the wall.
Even if I lived in some grotty council flat I still wouldn't do it.

Is there something wrong with people? No matter where you live you should have pride in your home!
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do you not find this a bit of an over reaction? I mean... if you take a bigger (not so narrow minded) view on things, drawing on a wall means very little; especially since they even asked permission before doing it.

So weird how this is a big deal to some people?

I get the deal with respect and ownership... but as long as they're not tastlessly spraying garbage on public/unowned to them property - then go for it? It's their room after all, and they asked permission.

Also, doing something just becuase your parents did it is a bit backwards is it not?
 
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steve-h said:
do you not find this a bit of an over reaction? I mean... if you take a bigger (not so narrow minded) view on things, drawing on a wall means very little; especially since they even asked permission before doing it.
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You could make some great father daughter bonding time out of it too,get an old over head projector from a school/ebay/freecycle and some acetate, then work out the design together in pencil/on acetate etc mask it and paint it up so it looks nice.

And afterwards you can turn the OHP into a proper computer projector if you get an old lcd.
 
Tefal said:
You could make some great father daughter bonding time out of it too,get an old over head projector from a school/ebay/freecycle and some acetate, then work out the design together in pencil/on acetate etc mask it and paint it up so it looks nice.

And afterwards you can turn the OHP into a proper computer projector if you get an old lcd.
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That sounds like something from a textbook, a complete and utter waste of time. :p
 
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