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Toddler Covers Herself in Paint While Mom Is Distracted
Yahoo!Parenting ^ | July 9, 2015 | Esther Crain

Posted on 07/09/2015 1:34:16 PM PDT by Kaslin

Anyone who has spent 30 seconds with a toddler knows that kids this age are wired to explore the world around them. That means they require 24-7 supervision to keep them safe, or at least to keep them from making a huge mess all over the house

One Colorado mom found this out the hard way. While nursing her infant son, Madox, Victoria Farmer momentarily took her eyes off her 2-year-old daughter, Anistyn. And suddenly, she realized the entire house was “scary quiet.”

Putting her son down, Farmer went into the next room and found Anistyn completely drenched in white paint from her hair to her toes, thanks to her curious nature and an open paint container nearby. When her mother found her, Anistyn was standing still “like a statue,” Farmer wrote on Facebook, according to Fox 31 Denver. “It looks like she just climbed right in and went for a swim.”

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To: Blackirish

I think the post sucked deal with it


61 posted on 07/09/2015 4:16:19 PM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: R. Scott

I am not sure if people still use play pens or not. I know I used them for my kids when they were little.


62 posted on 07/09/2015 4:21:58 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Blackirish

Thank you


63 posted on 07/09/2015 4:22:39 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: CGASMIA68
If you think I am going to ask you what I can post you are mistaken. I will not and now get off my thread
64 posted on 07/09/2015 4:25:31 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

If you look close the latter steps are not white


65 posted on 07/09/2015 4:26:59 PM PDT by Kaslin (The rHe needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I don’t think it is a set up. I think the child was somehow able to pour it all over her front. I’ll bet her back is not painted. The arms show that she reached down into the bucket, leaving her shoulders and face bare. That is why only the edge of her hair is painted. You can see her artwork on the fireplace and her footsteps across the floor.

You're reaching . . . There is no way a child playing with paint won't get it on her face. Children always touch their faces.. . or the tops of their heads. The symmetric adult hand sized bare spots on each upper arm show she was placed in the bucket. The foot prints are not steps because they are equally imprinted and don't lose definition as the paint wears off. Instead the steps are equal with each impression. There are no distinctive drips as she moved across the room, yet there ARE drips where she is posed for the photograph where she was put down and, in my considered opinion, told to stand. There are no runs down her legs from what would have been sopped underwear. All of these are red flags to me.

Your assumption that her back was not covered is just that, an assumption. No child would be so carefully, completely covered except on her face by herself. Hurt hair shows signs of just being just having brushed against her paint wet shoulders. There is so much about this that was staged starting with the drips of paint below the can's lid on the hearth.

66 posted on 07/09/2015 4:52:00 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Hurt hair = Her hair

I just had eye surgery and have a bit of a problem seeing this afternoon. Sorry about that.


67 posted on 07/09/2015 4:55:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

I knew what you meant.

Her hair looks like she leaned forward. It is shaped around her face. Kids are all different. Some don’t like to touch their face. Her hair is in her eyes so clearly she was not touching her face even to move her hair.

The footprints do get lighter. There are more paint drips where she is standing, but that could be explained by just spending more time in that spot and allowing time for it to run off.

The back is an assumption. It doesn’t really matter to the truthfulness of the story. No one saw her do it.

Anyway it is a cute story. If it is staged there is no real harm done. But I think the bare shoulders and the paint shaped around the front edges of her hair really looks like she leaned forward into the bucket.


68 posted on 07/09/2015 5:28:33 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Kaslin

I am calling hooey on this story. Isn’t the paint a little too even?


69 posted on 07/09/2015 5:38:48 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: Dogbert41

LOL!


70 posted on 07/09/2015 6:56:11 PM PDT by Rebelbase ( NASCAR 2015: "Bootlegger to boot licker"--FReeper Crim)
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To: Kaslin

Today’s young mothers might think of them as prisons.


71 posted on 07/10/2015 4:48:27 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: R. Scott

Probably and the same with those garters you put on the toddler when you are walking with him. People give you a dirty look. They don’t realize that this for the safety of the child.


72 posted on 07/10/2015 4:58:26 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: 21twelve

I remember my sister and I used to cut each other hair too onetime when we were small


73 posted on 07/10/2015 5:01:38 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

When I was a toddler I had a harness and leash. They were common.


74 posted on 07/10/2015 5:02:45 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Swordmaker
She got paint in her hair and if you notice her hair is all over her face.

This was staged and she's posing.

Set Up!

Yeah right *rme*

75 posted on 07/10/2015 5:08:02 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: R. Scott

I used it on my daughter. My sons were 7 and 10 years old when she was born and when they were small leashes and harnesses were unknown


76 posted on 07/10/2015 5:13:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

77 posted on 07/10/2015 5:14:57 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Falcon 105)
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To: Fresh Wind

OMG, LOL. Are those your kids? I sure am glad that you posted this, because some idiots in here think that can not happen


78 posted on 07/10/2015 5:42:33 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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