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post #21 of 29
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Originally Posted by the_lissa View Post
My family loves potty jokes.
Mine too. I'd miss it if they all suddenly stopped. Some of our best stories, and some hardest laughs have come from poop or fart stories.

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Originally Posted by lanamommyphd07 View Post
I can't help giggle every single stinking time someone says "turd". Go figure.
I giggled just reading it.
post #22 of 29
I can't imagine making a kid clean a toilet because he giggled and said "poop" or something.
post #23 of 29
We have lots of poop talk around here too. I have no problem with it, and even make up some poop songs too. Mama has to have some fun too! But the poop talk slowed down a lot when we spent the weekend with some cousins and that was ALL they talked about for 2 days. Guess dd got it out of her system for awhile. My only rule is no poop talk at the table.

Oh, funny story, my friend was over and dd was saying poopy, and friend said she shouldn't say that word, dd got a sad look on her face and said "but that's my favorite word"
post #24 of 29
My baby hasn't arrived yet, so I have only had experience with others' children that I have looked after. My feeling is that if they find it funny, then it kind of enhances the embarassment of it because they may expect people to laugh at them if they, say, accidentally let one slip I don't think it's a huge deal but I tend to try and discourage it. I have always found that if I don't act like I think that it is funny then they will just sort of forget about it and move on to something else. I like the "if you want to talk bathroom, head to the bathroom" rule.
post #25 of 29
I laugh with them. Potty humor is big in our house.

My older one kind of gets that it's not appropriate everywhere, but really? We don't go many places (any really) where it's not okay for a kid to joke about a fart.
post #26 of 29
We have two rules about this.

1. That's okay in our family, but many people don't like it. So we do it in the privacy of our own house, and not at church, school, or at friend's houses unless they ask the mom and she says it's okay.

2. It doesn't happen at the table.

Sometimes I laugh, sometimes I don't. Because sometimes I think the joke's funny and sometimes I don't. The kids don't get all my humor either, and no one's required to NOT laugh or to laugh at everyone's jokes in the house. Occasionally, now that the kids are old enough to understand nuances, I will tell them that the potty talk is starting to annoy me and that I'd like them to take it downstairs or someplace where I don't have to hear it. (People are allowed to be and express annoyance at our house too.) It works well for us.

It's also worked well for friends' kids who were obsessed with potty talk. They always did it a lot less at our place. I think primaily because they were doing it for shock value (which means a lot of times the jokes/songs or whatever weren't that funny, so they didn't get reinforcement either way), and because it was ho-hum. They always respected the table rule too. One of my boys' buddies was so cute, when he was going through his potty talk phase it would just need to come out, so he'd ask politely to be excused to run around the living room and shout out his "poopy" stuff and then would come back to eat, and rinse wash repeat as the feeling came over him. It was quite adorable!

I personally am not offended by it. But I want my kids to be aware that different people and different families have different feelings about that sort of thing, and that they should respect that (especially in shared space or in the other family's home).

I dunno when the phase ends. It seems to be cyclical in our house. I assume it might also be genetic, since both of the parents of my kids love Monty Python and I especially love farts. So I guess this is just my life until it's just me and DH again, and then I get to be the cleverest potty humorist in the house and don't have to compete with cuter folks.
post #27 of 29
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Originally Posted by lanamommyphd07 View Post
I can play the poopy potty farty games all day. It would actually break my heart if my dd ended up being shy or embarassed about those things, or if she didn't share my sense of humor about things that are so easy to find funny...
Most preschool aged kids in my experience will die laughing if you say something like "ohhhh, poopy farty underwear". It's like those are the three most hysterical words. It makes total sense to me to find humor in something one has so recently mastered.
I may be approaching old-fartedness myself, and I can't help giggle every single stinking time someone says "turd". Go figure.
OK.....I've just fainted. But
I'm glad that there are adults out there who can access their inner pre-schooler. Really. It takes all kinds of us to produce the art and entertainment we have in this world, right?

Otherwise, my 3 year old was discussing the color brown as it relates to poop in the library the other day. Thanks to MDC mom's I didn't pass out-- I stayed strong. I tried to ignore it, but the comments weren't going away, so I mildly joined in. I can't talk about poop without tension in my voice....but I decided to try and not make my DD feel like she was a criminal for it.

xoe
post #28 of 29
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Originally Posted by Xoe View Post
Otherwise, my 3 year old was discussing the color brown as it relates to poop in the library the other day. Thanks to MDC mom's I didn't pass out-- I stayed strong. I tried to ignore it, but the comments weren't going away, so I mildly joined in. I can't talk about poop without tension in my voice....but I decided to try and not make my DD feel like she was a criminal for it.

xoe
Ha ha.. that's awesome! Welcome to the dark, er.. I mean, brown side. :
post #29 of 29
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Originally Posted by CommonSenseMother View Post
Potty talk is not acceptable in our home....Something else that has worked since we detest the potty talk is having them clean the bathroom when they start with it. Nothing deters the potty mouth like having to clean the real potty!
Really?

I hate to be the mom that picks out another for their parenting style but...really? This seems pretty harsh for something so universally done by preschoolers/humans.



If the subject was good enough for Chaucer and Shakespeare than I do not feel like I am being to liberal by "tolerating" it from my 4 year old.

Like others have mentioned there is a time and place for it and my DD is usually good about it. Sometimes when she is having a particular scatological day she will get a gentle reminder that Opa and Nanna do not think this stuff is funny.

My Mom made the mistake of enthusiastically playing the "Guess what? Chicken butt!" game with her a few months back (DD started it) and now the game WILL NOT DIE! I guess it's better than the "I'm gonna poop/poot on ___." game.
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