Hi, my name is Incogneato,,,,,and I am a Destroyer........
LOL!
Yes, that was me, but I don't ever remember what I had done to "wreck" whatever it is I wrecked, I just remember getting yelled at all the time.
DD6 is our adorable little destroyer.
Let me attempt to speak for the destroyers of the world. Now, obviously I can't speak for your children, however, I am quite immature, so I consider myself an expert on child-like thinking.
I'm pretty sure when DD took a ball point pen and dug it into my dining room table and pulled it part way across, she wasn't acting in a hostile manner. When I asked her why she did it she said: I wanted to see what would happen.
We say destroy. They say investigate.
Now, we have boundaries and rules of course. There are things that are off limits to their "investigations". But I try to remember when my six year old wrecks our stuff, it's not fulfillment of a personal vendetta against us.
I never buy anything full price: clothes, toys, food, whatever. So when DD dumps spaghetti sauce on her white shirt to see what random designs it will make it takes just a little of the sting out if it.
I even buy scratch and dent furniture for very low prices and fix it up at home. No one has noticed(or at least hasn't mentioned it
). So when the inevitable happens, it doesn't bother me as much.
