How to protect your car from your kids?

[chubert]

Originally Posted by landrovered

Two words...invisible fence

This is a great idea but might not pass with the wife.

My 5 year old is very careful and has great respect for my and his stuff. I really don't worry about him. Even his matchbox cars are perfect.

My 2 year old however is a walking wrecking ball. He like to throw and bang on stuff. MAybe I'll clean the shed for there toys....


I did see a padded curtain that hangs from the celing. Almost like a shower curtain. I thought that was a good idea.

[landrovered]

My wife and I operate on the principle that a parents job is to make sure that the child has plenty of things to talk about with their analyst later in life. We even identify the event for easy recollection as it is happening.

My son was cutting corners on watering our horses so I told him he had to eat his dinner without anything to drink. It worked like a charm. He was not even thirsty until I told him he could not have a drink with his meal.

In your case it will be like this..."My dad made me wear a dog collar that shocked me when I got too close to the Porsche, that is why I have an irrational fear of all things German".

Who said parenting was hard?

[timothy]

What great parenting tips! I don't have kids but am taking notes for when that time comes.

[tnoice]

The best way to protect your boxster or any car for that matter against children is to follow the practice stated in this video. Yes, it is used for ADHD, however it works extrodinarily well for vehicular respect. Enjoy.

Training Video

[JFP in PA]

Get the kids in one room, and shoot one of them in the head in front of the others. Then, while the survivors are ****************ting in their pants; explain to them that the individual lying on the floor did not do an adequate job of protecting the Porsche; and that the survivor(s) are now totally responsible for protecting the car, and any damage to it, no matter hopw slight, and the same thing will happen to them. You get a defensive protection plan; and have one less mouth to feed and college education to fund………….a win/win all around.

[tnoice]

"Get the kids in one room, and shoot one of them in the head in front of the others. Then, while the survivors are ****************ting in their pants; explain to them that the individual lying on the floor did not do an adequate job of protecting the Porsche; and that the survivor(s) are now totally responsible for protecting the car, and any damage to it, no matter hopw slight, and the same thing will happen to them. You get a defensive protection plan; and have one less mouth to feed and college education to fund………….a win/win all around."


WOW, if only the government worked that way. Talk about efficiency.

[coreseller]

Originally Posted by JFP in PA

Get the kids in one room, and shoot one of them in the head in front of the others. Then, while the survivors are ****************ting in their pants; explain to them that the individual lying on the floor did not do an adequate job of protecting the Porsche; and that the survivor(s) are now totally responsible for protecting the car, and any damage to it, no matter hopw slight, and the same thing will happen to them. You get a defensive protection plan; and have one less mouth to feed and college education to fund………….a win/win all around.

You sound quite a bit like my father..........Dad?

[clickman]

See pic (not my car, btw)

[JTP]

Originally Posted by landrovered

In your case it will be like this..."My dad made me wear a dog collar that shocked me when I got too close to the Porsche, that is why I have an irrational fear of all things German".

When was a kid I climbed onto my father's stereo sytem and destroyed his turntable and reel to reel tape deck. I don't remember what happened but I stayed away from that stereo for a very long time!

[Dragonwind]

Are there no work houses left?

[ekam]

Put them on her face.

[landrovered]

When I was three I pulled all of the knobs off of the interior of my fathers Mercedes 190 SL. It took them quite a while to figure out where they went and put them back on. I mark that moment as the first wrenching of my career.

[CRCGuy]

I'd start with condoms...... always stop problems at the source.