Some people's kids...

[Husky_mom]

wow.. kids CAN be really into everything.. but this sounds too much.. in the case they even allowed the kid to throw crayons at a "stranger".. I mean why wouldn´t they corrected the kid?.. no wonder the house was like it was...

not to embarrass my own.. lol.. but he´s also 7. he has peed on his bed (while sleeping).. but nothing a good laundry and a lil scrubbing to get rid of it.. besides it was an accident.. although ONE time.. he was too busy playing he peed on his toy box.. yeah .. good thing it´s plastic and it was empty.. but it was that time ONLY..

as for crayon art.. well.. I´ve found art here and there.. but what one consider "normal".. hey, I did it too.. lol.. my kid has made happy faces and maps in walls (pencil thank God).. he did used a marker once but this time he drew on the underside of a coffee table.. and the most recent the highlighted my mom´s mattress.. haha.. just colored a lil flower in the pattern

so it´s not like the house was covered in graffiti .. but a lil discipline and learning from them goes a long way.. by your description this people´s kid sounds like a lil brat.. and yes, i know some kids can be more "desctructive" even when parents DO teach well.. but this doesn´t seems the case

[moosmom]

Crayons can be removed with Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. They work fabulously!!!

[Catherinedana]

They let the CHILD pee on the carpet? Did the dog draw on the walls? What the heck was going on in that house?

[wombat2u2004]

They let the CHILD pee on the carpet? Did the dog draw on the walls? What the heck was going on in that house?

You'd be very surprised how some people live. I knew of a single mother who OWNED a house, and used to lock her 3 year old son in his bedroom when she went to work....like all day. He'd defecate and throw it all over the walls in anger....and urinate on the floor.