I have a little girl who is obsessed with drawing on the wall. I have fed her tons of salt candy and scolded her with the red glove multiple times. But the next thing I know, she is drawing on the wall again. I checked her dislikes to see if using the desensitizing kit might help, but she has no dislikes listed. (I thought maybe if she disliked blue, I could take that dislike away, as she might not like the blue wall and feels she needs to draw on it to cover the blue. lol)

I almost didn't open this thread thinking it would be another one about a child's head spinning around. lol

I have always been a firm believer in the nasty candy, but after many, many families, I've finally had two kids that actually repeated the behavior after candy had been given.

If their happiness level is at the elated level, don't be afraid to use the red hand. Then, place them at a task that you can immediately give them the green hand for. The best way to get them to stop something that annoys you to death is to train them in the same way you train an adult to work. (Train them to do something else using the green hand.) Make them study or swim or dance or play with toys, in the sand, etc. Choose only two of those things and praise no more than twice in a row, then switch to the other and praise for that. Soon enough, you'll find those are the only things they'll want to do.

That works well enough for most of the family members, but once in a while you do get one who seems to have OCD, and no matter how much retraining you do, they will continue the behavior that drives you nuts. Perhaps not quite as often as before the multiple red glove treatments and salty candies, but as soon as they think your back is turned...

I had a shred-aholic. Would not work on her career, sleep or do any of the activities I praised her for. And every time I got up to get a cup of coffee, sure enough I would hear the sound of the shredder When she finally made Master, I just let her shred.

knk, maybe she had an obsessive fear of identity theft!

Too bad I can't borrow her, knk :P I have *loads* of shredding to do in real life *giggles*

Too Funny!! I have a sort mail-aholic. I had actually never seen this action before. Now with her that is all I see! She must be on every junk mail list there is!

LOL! At least junk mail doesn't need to be shredded

Omg haha That reminds me of my daughter's old family! She had a hacker dad with kids named Macro and Zip, which I thought was hilarious. Then one day an ophan shows up on the doorstep named Ink at about the same time she upgraded to the third office. Suddenly the dad became obsessed with shredding documents, as if there was some evidence of his crimes! My daughter used to say he thought Ink was a spy. It was hilarious!

Hmm... There may be a connection... Mine was a lobbyist. There is a post of her here, the first time I saw her at it.

Despite her obsession, she was one of my favorites. The daughter of my first favorite adoptee, a rocket scientist named Adope. (read "a dope")

Ahh yes, it is highly possible that there is an attachment to their professions. Arthur could have programmed them to be more likely to do certain things, just as with likes and dislikes.