You get it now, eh?
You realize how it feels —
It’s no fun, is it?
My 8yo was upset because his two younger brothers drew on blank pages in his personal notebook. He was ranting and raving and stomping through the house, hollering at them for “ruining” his notepad. I understood that he was upset, and it wasn’t right for them to draw on his paper, but it was also a teachable moment.
I calmed him down and directed him to his room, where I pointed at his dresser. I told him that I realized he was angry, and it was wrong for his brothers to mark on his stuff, but now he knew how I felt when he put stickers all over his dresser. I reminded him that I bought the dresser with my money; therefore, it belongs to me, even though it’s in his room. He didn’t ask my permission to put stickers all over it; he just did it. The dresser is, essentially, ruined. I suppose I could scrape off the stickers, strip off the varnish and repaint it, but he ruined it.
He was still upset, but the raging stopped. Maybe, just maybe, he’ll think twice the next time he wants to “decorate” his room without asking me first.
faith, sweat & tears 
LOVE those teachable moments! One of my favorite parenting moments was when Courtney was about 2, and she came out of her room with the biggest smile on her face asking me to “come see.” When I walked into her room, she had colored a MURAL with red crayon on her freshly painted soft yellow wall. I mean from end to end as high, as she could reach to the floor. God was SO good to me because instead of blowing up, He helped me focus on that beautiful, proud smile. My response was “Baby, that is so beautiful. But it would be so much prettier on paper!” Haha! I never could bring myself to paint over it. It stayed there until we moved out five years later. And she’s still the family artist! (I must also be brutally honest and add that, unfortunately, my responses to her “escapades” weren’t always so Godly.)