Andrew had taken off his diapoer and had his hands in the mess.  I do not know how another parent would deal with it, but I knew I needed to get him clean along with the walls.  I was fortunate everyone was sleeping.

After giving him a bath, I put him in my bedroom with some toys to play with.  One thing about Andrew was his long attention span.  He would spend hours playing with a certain toy if it was of interest to him.

I used Lysol to clean and disinfect the walls, as well as his crib.  I was right about the smelly illustrations.  Andrew had drawn representations of his family and playmates.  He tried to draw the playground, too.  I really wanted to show the pictures to Ron, but since I did not have a camera and the room reeked, I had to forget the notion.

Later, after the children had been picked up by their parents and Ron came home from work, I shared the information about Andrew's smelly pictures.  At first, Ron though about spanking Andrew, so that it would not happen again.  I was shocked, because we had never spanked our children, except for Lisa and it only happened once.

One day Lisa refused to leave an apartment store, because she wanted to go up and down on the escalator.  After taking her several times up and down on it, she still wanted more and began screaming.  I was able to get her out of the store, but not into her car seat.  I gave her a quick slap on the rump and she got in.  I never had anymore problems after that.  Of course, nowadays if my action had been caught on a survelliance camera, I probably would have been arrested for striking my child.

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