OMG NAP

[ailbhe]

Emer's asleep so I can switch my other brain on.

Non-judgmental play supervision: How do you go about allowing your children to choose their forms of independent play when you know that they are acting out violent, gender-stereotyped, or other undesirable roles? I don't have time to go into much detail now but am thinking of stuff like Barbie, guns, etc. Some toys give me the screaming abdabs but I also feel I ought to allow them to play with them, so I try to keep out of it and let it go on around me without voicing a judgment, but there again, I'm fairly sure they're not dim enough not to realise when I'm judging my little heart out.

Property: My kids have SO MUCH STUFF and one of the ways Linnea expresses naughtiness is to destroy her own stuff. In general I either confiscate it and mend it or confiscate it and bin it. I do not replace destroyed stuff. There's too much already. What Would LJ Do?

Consequences: Linnea ate the icing off the defrosted cake in a box on the counter this morning. The cake itself is fine, though probably not fit to be given to guests, but I think she has forfeited her right to eat any of it now. Am I a tyrant or is that a reasonable, connected to the event, direct, comprehensible consequence?

Laundry: Do you think small spatters of orange turmeric staining on the front fly area of a pair of brand new beige trousers would be better or worse than small spatters of white marks where I failed to bleach it properly? I need to make this decision soon. I suppose I can always dye them brown...

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[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Laundry: stooooop. Scrub it with kitchen oil and that will probably dissolve the turmeric.

This LJ would mend the broken things and then give them away, and re-ice the cake and give it to everybody else.. I have no idea about the rest.

[ailbhe]

Olive oil?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Something like that, yes. Anything oil-based and itself non-staining will do it, because the pigment is much more soluble in oils than in water.