When we spotted these painted walls over at Baby Toolkit, our first thought was "Wow, cool parents!" They let their (now grown) 7 year old and 5 year old loose with paintbrushes and, more amazingly, have kept it this way for decades!
Look! Kid-Painted Walls
In a world controlled by adults and the decisions they made for us and our environment, we're not sure we can think of anything that would have thrilled us more as a kid than an opportunity like this. Young artist grown up Adrienne of Baby Toolkit writes:
Over the years my excitement about the room has waxed and waned. At the height of my embarrassment (late high school and early college), I begged them to let me paint the walls again...All requests were denied...
The room now charms me yet again. Maybe now because I can clearly see in my childish work exactly how adoring and supportive my parents have always been.
See more photos, meet their new baby and see lots more great stuff at Baby Toolkit.
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I came in here to say what was in the article - this is something parents might love, but that kids will go through a very, very long period of hating.
On balance, maybe just keep the paper art projects (even framed and displayed on the walls), and skip the permanent room paint.
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I think the paintings are funny, inspired, great and am dismayed by the Oust.
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I let my kids paint and repaint the walls as they want. they have free reign of the house but have kept it mostly in their room and the hall. Periodically I paint over something, but mostly they vote for the change themselves.
I don't allow for random doodling or using pencil. if they are going to paint they have to put the effort in to setting up with brushes and having a vision.
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My parents let me do this in my bedroom when I was in the eighth grade. I painted a huge peace sign and a tribute to the band The Cure.
It was hideous, but another thing they let my sister and I do was to have our friends sign yearbook-like messages on our closet walls. The closets could always be closed to hide the graffiti and it was always a fun thing to look back on when we came home from college or whatever.
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