potty mouths - driving me nuts

[Anonymous]

Burping is next. Once he learns to burp the alphabet, he'll probably move on to boobs.

[Anonymous]

I am :04 and I am hoping that farting never ends. It is hilarious. She is a girl so if she winds up moving on to boobs I will have even more to talk about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burping is next. Once he learns to burp the alphabet, he'll probably move on to boobs.

Oh NO, he JUST did burp the alphabet last week! Sigh.

Sorry to be sexist, PP. I just had no idea girls also were into farting!

[Anonymous]

I don't know why but when my 4 yo DS laughs about poops and farts it doesn't bother me, athough I haven't noticed it in public yet... I'm sure I'll feel differently when it leaves the house. And he's not doing it all that often right now. But I've never told him not to, I just ignore it. What can I say... I grew up with 2 older brothers and am immune to it.

[Anonymous]

DD is four and obsessed with farts - she tells me when she farts, and loudly tells me when her daddy farts or if her brother farts. We've been working on the potty words (allowed in the bathroom) and so she knows better than to say them loudly in public. She'll tell me that a lady farted in public by whispering it in my ear. The whole thing is so incredibly funny to her, and funny to me, too.

I LOVE the M&M's idea, and am going to use it for our other trouble behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why but when my 4 yo DS laughs about poops and farts it doesn't bother me, athough I haven't noticed it in public yet... I'm sure I'll feel differently when it leaves the house. And he's not doing it all that often right now. But I've never told him not to, I just ignore it. What can I say... I grew up with 2 older brothers and am immune to it.

I'm an only child (and a woman), and I distinctly remember going through a serious potty-talk phase at 3 or 4. If I remember correctly, "doody bomb" figured prominently in my vocabulary. I don't remember my parents reacting strongly, and the phase passed. This seems like something that is likely to worsen the more attention it gets. My older son is 3 and getting into it now. We discourage it/redirect, but we don't make a big deal about it.

[Anonymous]

I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who doesn't mind in the least when DS5 potty talks? He and DH actually fart back and forth sometimes and laugh their heads off.

If saying poo poo head is the most infraction underway at your house, you know you are blessed, right? For the rest of us, there are so many more long-term and sometime serious issues lecture on (kindness, good decision-making, empathy, self-reliance and on and on).

[Anonymous]

I didn't mind either when DS was 4... but what can I say -- over time IT REALLY GETS ANNOYING.

[Anonymous]

is the potty mouth talk better than when your kid learns the words "penis" or "vagina" and insists on telling perfect strangers that he/she has one part or the other?

as a non-parent, i found that particular stage hilarious. Now as a parent, I cringe a little at the idea of my daughter walking around telling people "I have a vagina." Someday. Cringe.