Emptying dressers

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It is a real pain - when Elie emptied drawers over and over, first we turned

thedressers to the wall. He soon learned to return them. Then DH drilled

holes from the top to the bottom, put dowels in the holes so the drawers

would not open without the dowels being removed. When that didn't work

anymore, dh put rings in the dowels and strung window chain through the

rings on the top of the dowels and then around the dresser. Eventually, we

had a small simple combo lock on the chains, through the rings on the top of

the dowels. (anyone want to do a song on this???!!!)))

Elie has out grown this behavior. We just sold the last dresser with the

hole going through it to another family with a child with the wild throwing

behavior.

There is hope that this too will pass.

Sara - Choose to make lemonade, not complain about the lemons.

>From: duffey48@...

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>To:

>Subject: Re: Mic is a little wild man today

>Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:08:07 EDT

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>In a message dated 8/25/2006 10:17:28 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,

>mick8_7@... writes:

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>Now hes after the pets.Hes gonna get it hes throwing his toys at the cat

>and

>the cat wont take it for long. UGH!!!! Laurie

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>Laurie, when Maddie gets frustrated, or bored, she hits or kicks the dog

>too. Poor Muggsie. I make her pet him to say sorry.

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>Maddie is super destructive too. Drives me crazy, but it's a phase she's

>in. Dress up. So every morning I come in to find her drawers

>completely

>emptied. Often I'll come in to wake her for school, and find her

>sleeping

>with numerous outfits on (and not appropriately.....like bras will be

>around

>her waist, and underwear under her arms...LOL)

>

>Congrats on the house. It's a ton of work to move, but SUPER hard with

>kids like ours. Take lots of deep breaths, and know that eventually,

>it'll

>get done.

>Donna

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