I used to
love stickers as a kid. I would jump for joy when I would get them with gifts,
at school, parties, in my stocking at Christmas, etc. About 90 percent of my
childhood things have a sticker stuck to it somewhere. I never understood why
my mother HATED stickers. They were so cool! How could you not love stickers??
Well, now
that I am a parent myself, I see why my mom hated stickers. When kiddo gets
stickers I TRY to sit with him as he arranges them on paper or activity books
or adheres them to appropriate toys (racing stripes and numbers on cars…that type
thing) However, somehow there will be stickers stuck to something they were not
meant to. The fridge, the doors, the hardwood floors…. And they gain this
magical ability to become like concrete and never come off, even with the
hardcore adhesive remover. And Heaven help you if you forget to remove one from
an article of clothing before it goes in the wash. What a mess!
So, I solved
my sticker problem in two parts. #1: don’t give the kiddo stickers. #2 give him
window clings instead!
He loves
them! They stick to the fridge, to the windows, to his whiteboard easel, on the
washer, the dryer, the mirror…. AND THEY COME OFF!! YAY! No more goo-gone
fumes!
They have
these little vinyl pieces of fun for every season at our local dollar store. If
there is a holiday, you can guarantee there is a sheet of window clings to go
along with it. So our little sticker loving kiddo can have fun sticking these all
over and mommy doesn’t yell and scream.
Sticker
problem solved!
God Bless Y’all!
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