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Jul 13, 2005

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    1. That's the best way of paying for a doll I've ever heard. You really should make tiny cow shirts in honor of this feat. Especially for your Isao! 8) I'd love to see photos of your Isao in a cow shirt, posed in front of one of your real cows. That would be the best. I also thought it was funny that you said your mother is going to hide some of her things in your "dollie bomb shelter." That's great. :lol:
       
      #61 Snow Song, Jul 16, 2005
    2. :oops: Iam lucky I guess, most of the doors in our house have locks about a foot down from the ceiling on the outside of the door, its really odd, but its pretty much early childproofing!

      Lacking some place similar to put them, if you have an extra bathroom perhaps you can lock them inside? Most bathroom locks have a hole to put a screw driver in so you can release the lock from the out side. (again, our house is old enough that there is a key of sorts for it)

      I was a pretty calm kid, although I knew not to play rough in the house...then again there where always a lot more adults around than children when I was very little, so I couldnt have gotten away with much even if I tried!

      Theres also the fine art of distraction! Get some little toys for them to play with (perhaps some thing that they have to use out side like bubble soap and side walk chalk)
       
      #62 PookieNoodle, Jul 19, 2005
    3. *twitches*

      I agree with nearly all the suggestions made here but basically, I think you need to set the ground rules before they even enter the house (make them stand outside and listen, even if it's raining/snowing/armageddon) and make it quite clear that breaking these rules will mean they get turfed out immediately. The most important thing though is that you must back up everything you say, empty threats don't work with hellions like these (I include their mother in that) and so you really have to be firm. It might be mean but it sounds like they need a good kick up the arse for their own sakes, as they are definitely old enough to understand basic concepts like respect for others.

      Personally, I'd sit on my roof with a sniper rifle and take potshots at anybody who went near the house but I'm antisocial like that...
       
      #63 Ishamael, Jul 19, 2005
    4. I'm a parent. My daughters are currently 14 and 10. While I love them to bits, I would NEVER have let them manhandle anyone else's possessions, especially valuable ones. They were taught from a very early age to RESPECT other people's stuff; their own stuff they could pretty much do what they liked with (except shredding books), but other people's stuff (including parents stuff!) was to be RESPECTED. "Don't touch" unless invited to (always ASK first), and then be very very careful. My daughters are by no means quiet and demure (they do martial arts and often raise general hell), but they HAVE learned manners of this sort.

      This is one of the ways my children have proven that they both deserve dollfies of their own now (which they are earning their way toward purchasing.)

      If the parents of your niece and nephew don't teach their own children this, you HAVE to be firm AND keep your valuable and beloved dolls OUT of their reach (and preferably sight) as well. (BTW, it's highly disrespectful for anyone - even family - to drop in on you unannounced too - they need to ask YOU when it's convenient and then schedule their visits - giving you time to stash your dolls away where out-of-sight = no temptation.)
       
      #64 Karisu, Jul 19, 2005
    5. You know, I think I might have to do that. Get them all duded up and take a trip out into the cowfield! A photostory like you've never seen before...
      :cow

      As the time for my stepsister's arrival approaches, we've fallen into a general frenzy of, metaphorically, tying every thing down. Mostly it involves the movement of anything we couldn't live without to my house. :wink: So--thankfully with Mom's full backup--I shouldn't have many houseguests beyond the initial "here's my house bye now" visit. We're going to try and keep them at the farm, which is much more kid-friendly anyway. We're even moving the farm gunsafe over to stow in one of my locking basement cupboards, because that's just a topic we neeeevvver want to confront with the kids. :oops:

      It's hard for me to totally understand this "uncontrollable kids" thing, because I was almost overcontrolled from a very young age. It wasn't my mom cracking down on me--I just didn't break things. I went out of my way to not break things. I could have had one of these big expensive dolls when I was 7. Not that that's normal or even healthy, either--frankly, I'd much rather see kids (esp. girls) taking martial arts and raising a bit of hell, alongside learning what situations require careful behaviour...

      Unfortunately, my niece, nephew & stepsister are not those kinds of people. :| They just raise hell indiscriminately, whilst my stepsister appears not to notice (or is too busy trying to sneak through your stuff....ugh!!! She's so great and I just can't WAIT for her to get here!) :barf :barf :barf

      Ishamael, I'm rather antisocial like that, too...I'll have to make sure that I keep the sniper rifles packed up in the gunsafe. (just kidding^^, hermit humour) Thankfully, my house is generally creepy enough that I don't have to worry about visitors too often.
       
      #65 grey_roses, Jul 19, 2005
    6. :barf :barf This is my last Heathen Brat -free day. :barf :barf

      I've got their boxes out and ready on the office floor. :cry:

      I've got a great big backlog of pictures to tease into possible photostories whilst they're...ummm...on their meditation retreat. <----sounds better than "stuck in my closet" :oops:

      I just got 2 Pullips to keep me company, but I guarantee that I'll be here whinging and whining and obsessively trolling for Isao, Heath & Sharmin fixes until mid-August, at least. :crushed

      Must contemplate what to do for the Box Escape Party...the only pleasant thing about this little interlude! (Yeah, like I need another reason to spend all my money on them...)
      :barf , one more time.
       
      #66 grey_roses, Jul 31, 2005
    7. You MuST report back on how it goes!!!!! They are coming for TWO WEEKS? Sheesh! the houseguests who would never leave, ne?
       
      #67 sher, Jul 31, 2005
    8. Wow. What a bunch of little hellions you've got running around up there. o_O

      Society's discipline on children is charging downhill these days. I am the youngest in my family 3 ways, (My close family, I'm the youngest child, my mother's side, she was the youngest in 9 and got married/had children late- my closest cousin is 22, and my Dad was an only child, so I'm the youngest there.). So, I might not be the best authority on small kids, BUT...

      I have been a witness to several random stranger-type children in public who have been SO terrible.. I can't imagine what they do in a private home!! Like the other day in a toy store(yes, I go into them regularly xD), and there was this kid, shouting at the top of his lungs that he wanted something. The mother was desperate and embarrassed, and said, "Okay, okay, I'll buy it for you, just stop shouting!!" that's like the worst Child psychology I've ever heard. Kid is bad, buy him something to make him stop... guh.

      A while ago, I was at an art museum, and I guess these kids' parents decided they wanted 'cultured' children, so they brought them along. There was a toddler in a stroller- and another little kid- probably 5, 6, who was walking. And this little kid was EVERYWHERE. The curators of the museum were going bonkers because he kept trying to touch the exibits(SHAKING a marble statue) and shouting through the museum... And this was the Smithsonian, no less! Meanwhile, the Parents were so focused on the squalling toddler, they couldn't keep their eyes on the kid x_X ugghh.

      I also go to a K-12 school, so there are a lot of little brats running around... is it just me, or is ADD becoming like, an infectious disease? One day in March, I think it was, I was walking to lunch and this line of 1st graders was walking the opposite me, and one of the kids jumped RIGHT OUT in front of me, and shouted, "HOOHA!!!!" and started pumping punches at my stomach with this " :evil: " expression on his face. The teacher did NOTHING, and the kid jumped back in line and walked off.... O_o;;; The weird thing is that similar instances have happened several times...

      I think recently, parents are so parinoid they'll look like abusive parents, that they don't sit on their kids at all. When I was growing up, my mom just told me the rules, and if I didn't follow them, there'd be a spanking/sent to room/something terrible xD and so I was a pretty good lil kid. Nowadays I don't see any parents trying to scold or discipline their children at all, so kids re becoming harder and harder to handle.

      I think you made a wise choice locking up your babies. Hopefully after your firmness, your neices and nephews will get the message that there is such a thing as decency, and your step-sister will get her butt in gear and discipline her brats!
       
      #68 bluegirlwish, Jul 31, 2005
    9. The sad thing is that the parents give up all responsibility of their child now-a-days, and they just say that he has ADHD, and send him to the doctor. But then when the kid takes the pills and gets even more hyper, they still say 'it's just ADHD'. Instead of punishing their little brat of a child, they blame anything he does on ADHD and just let him continue to destroy things, kill pets, and torture other little children. >.<

      </rant>

      But that's totally OT. ^^ Please let us know how the in-law brats act while in your home. ^^
       
      #69 Shana-chan, Jul 31, 2005
    10. No matter how you phrase it, it's not going to be well received given the fact that your step sister does NOTHING to stop her kids.

      If its me, I rather keep them in their boxes in a cupboard that is locked. Its a small price to pay than to risk them grabbing the dolls or worrying incessantly over the matter every time they are let loose in your house.
       
      #70 Lilian, Jul 31, 2005
    11. Unfortunately, I think that now far too many parents and doctors are writing off simple parts of growing up as Disorders, and putting kids on pills. Kids by nature are a bit hyperactive. They just are, let's be honest. But instead of claiming responibility, Parents blame their bad parenting on a disorder. Also, if a teenager is like, "hmm. I'm feeling a bit down today"(as most teenagers feel a little down in general), their parents wig out and put them on happy pills. Seriously, most of my class is on medicine for either ADD/ADHD or depression.

      In grade school I went to school with a kid who really did have ADHD. If he didn't have his medicine, he had to be sent home, because he was too wild to deal with... But when he got focused, he was brilliant. In grade school, he took a CD-drive and got it to work when it was outside of the comptuer. O.o

      xD but that's enough about that. More about dolls!
       
      #71 bluegirlwish, Jul 31, 2005
    12. *evil for her double post*

      I'm so sorry, Grey Roses, but I just noticed, you live in KY! Awesome awesome! x33

      I live in 200 year old farmhouse with a barn, too! x3 we use the barn for storage. Unfortunately we dun have any farm animals, except for the ever-present horses on little horse farms all around us. There's even a miniature horse farm nearby! But no cows. :cow

      And I agree. Cow t-shirts must be made!!! xD
       
      #72 bluegirlwish, Jul 31, 2005
    13. Yay Kentuckians! Looks like you guys had a big meetup...makes me feel better about KY in general, really. XD

      My parents' farm (the 200-year-old place...we used to raise beef cattle & tobacco, now just cows--I TOTALLY have to do cow shirts now, they're eating my brain! :cow ) has...let's see...7 barns! Of course they're out in the country--my main comfort for these next few weeks is that our guests are staying with my parents, not me. :oops: Surely the kids will be soooo busy traipsing around out there that they won't even bother coming to visit my boring old house and all of its breakable things & hidden dolls. It's just barely on the outskirts of (our very small rural) town, and is about 100 years old, and as such has this huge anachronism of a barn at the bottom of my huge sloping backyard, even though my neighbors all live in modern homes.

      I love being The Crazy Goth Spinster in the Creepy House Down the Road. :D If they ever got a look at the huge lifelike dolls currently lounging in my den (Aubrey had to have one last cigarette before he would consent to go back into the Heath box!), my Weirdo status would shoot through the roof!! At least according to the local populace, heh.

      I keep threatening to keep peacocks in the barn...somehow I'll bet that would be frowned upon. :daisy But I am grandfathered to keep livestock if I care to!! The only other guy with an old enough property to do so keeps 2 horses, which is just funny in a residential area (he's further into town than I am).

      But anyway. Our guests arrive tomorrow before noon, & my mother is in a frenzy of "tying things down," metaphorically, and spent part of this afternoon stowing things in my "dollie bomb shelter." I'm just getting ready to give my apologies & send the dolls there as well...I am going to miss them so!! *clasps Pullips convulsively* :cry:

      I feel kind of doofy about feeling so torn up about it, but I realise that I've come to rely on their company. My health is very poor and I'm mostly housebound...I can't always deal with real-person interaction even when I do want it. Their symbolic human presence has gone a long way towards helping me feel much less isolated.

      Of course, I'll probably WANT isolation by the end of the week!
       
      #73 grey_roses, Aug 1, 2005
    14. My god. that sounds horrable. First, i think it's the most impolite, horrable rude thing of parents to let their childern do that. You NEED to talk to their parents and explain the situation, and if the parents aren't willing to control their kids, then neither should be welcome in your home. You could meet up with them in more child friendly places, but if both the parents and the children aren't willing to respect your things, then you don't have to let them in. It's your house, if people won't respect that they shouldn't be welcome, regardless of who they are.
      If you talk to the parents and they're willing to help control the kids, providing child friendly things and locking doors to bedrooms and studios might help. If you go to the dollar store and buy some barbies for them or some coloring books, your things might not look as tempting. Then put all the breakables in a LOCKED room. Also, request that if the children come over, they bring things to do. A child with a gameboy is more likely to sit down and shut up than a child with nothing of their own.
      But honestly, if it were me, they wouldn't even be allowed in if they couldn't respect my house and my things.

      PS. I'm not a rampant child-hater. I just really feel children should be taught to be respectful of others, and honestly it's the parents who are dropping the ball here. I was a fairly wild child, but i would never touch anything belonging to anyone unless i asked first, and i respected other's property. If I could do it, any kid could do it.

      ~Erin
       
      #74 eptrauma, Aug 1, 2005
    15. Oh Cammy, I have you beat! I lived in a house with 5 adults and 3 kids under 18 for over a year! The house has only one working bathroom!

      How it worked was this: I was living with my parents in a nice 3 bedroom house. My younger sister had a falling out with her apartment mate and moved back in. Then my older sister got kicked out of her house and she and her 3 kids came to live with us.

      Thankfully, we got enough of a heads up and I was able to install a lock on my bedroom door. My collectibles are worth quite a lot you know! XD

      And just to keep this on topic...I might not have a BJD yet but I want a cow shirt!
       
      #75 Diefbaby, Aug 2, 2005
    16. WOW!! :o You do have me beat! *_* We both deserve medals of bravery! You can have the gold one and I'll take the silver. :grin:
       
      #76 Cammy, Aug 2, 2005
    17. Ahhhhhh! When I make cow shirts, you two get special glittery cows or something! :cow

      My stepsister and her sprogs have exceeded expectations--they're even worse than last time they were here! :barf The farmcats are all hiding, & the farm dog, endlessly patient and darling creature that she is, has started acting nervous and looking for an escape route every time they get near.

      I've managed to steer clear of a visit to my home so far, but if, as I've predicted, a flying object (hopefully not the cat) goes through the original glass of my mother's Federalist china cabinet, I might not have to worry about them staying around long enough to menace my domestic breakables! :shudder Mom may be digging shallow graves in her backyard as I write...

      The house seems so incredibly empty without my 3 ornery BJDs lounging about! *hugs Pullips closer*
       
      #77 grey_roses, Aug 3, 2005
    18. So when do they go home? I can't wait to hear they've finally LEFT and you can bring out the boxes from your closet and have a homecoming all over again! :grin: Please let them be leaving soon! You know, I've been thinking about this for the last week or so, and had to find the thread to check on it... The things that stick with us! :daisy
       
      #78 StephG, Aug 8, 2005
    19. *_* ...one...more...week. And--knock on a whole lot of wood--nothing major has been broken. I've only had the whole lot in my house once, and my stepsister over twice.

      Of course, now she's talking about moving back here. Just shoot me!!!! :cry:

      And those poor poor boxes in the closet. I want to open them but I can't or I'll keep them open & that is just asking for trouble...of course, I've overcompensated by buying wayyy too much stuff for them recently (my checking account is crying harder than I am!!), but maybe it'll make up a little for being stuck in a box for two weeks--or in Lucy's case, in a box for two weeks with her SPARE EARS!!!! :oops:

      Thanks for thinking of us, Steph!! :daisy
       
      #79 grey_roses, Aug 9, 2005
    20. Eeeks! :o "Nothing major"??? Does that mean they have broken something in your home? :? I hope it wasn't anything precious to you! :(

      Just hang in there! I'm sure your dolls will understand the wait, especially since it's their resin at stake!
       
      #80 Cammy, Aug 9, 2005
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