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Anonymous wrote:http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/poop-primer

Oh dear god, no, I am not going to click on that link!

LOL! I tried to find text, but I couldn't. I remember the show well, and how Dr. Oz was describing healthy poop. It shouldn't float -- I do remember that much. But it should curve in a long S.

Anonymous wrote:http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/poop-primer

Oh dear god, no, I am not going to click on that link!

Anonymous wrote:Helicopter parenting would be asking your child not to flush until you have had the opportunity to check her BMs.

OK, this made me LOL.

http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/poop-primer

That's what my poops have looked like for as long as I can remember, so I think it's normal, not colon cancer or anything else. I understand how you saw this once, but after that your kid needs to be flushing and on their own on poop, it's been months since I saw my 4 year olds poop because she knows to flush.

Helicopter parenting would be asking your child not to flush until you have had the opportunity to check her BMs.

If you see it, you see it and I suppose if it looked weird it'd be natural to wonder.

I can't imagine calling my child's ped though to ask her! Advice on an anonymous forum, yes.

Anonymous wrote:I think we have reached a new low for helicopter parenting.

Actually, the range of normal is quite large, and believe it or not, a high schooler is old enough to have colon cancer or other serious troubles. So, this isn't really helicoptering, but parenting.

I would talk to your daughter about flushing, though.

I'm sorry but this kind of sounds like those weirdo pervy posts. Who really posts about their 14-yo daughter's poop? Like call the doctor if you REALLY must know.

Sounds healthy to me -- like she eats a lot of fiber. Is she vegetarian?

So you assume everyones poop should look like yours?

She's a different person, with a different colon. Of course it's different.

....personally, I would be more concerned that she is not flushing. What is up with that?!

I really, really would not give it another thought!!!!

I think we have reached a new low for helicopter parenting.

I hope to god I am not worried about my kid's stools once they are in kindergarten, let alone high school.

My daughter, 14, is active in after-school sports and showers after getting home. She uses the toilet before showering and sometimes forgets to flush. I have lifted the lid on numerous occasions to find a rather large BM. At first I thought it might be constipation-related, but have seen the same large size on consecutive days. She seems to be regular, with one BM a day. I do know that she doesn't like going #2 at school, and usually gets the urge for a BM after lunch but will hold it in until she gets home. Honestly, with her after-school sports activities I don't know how she manages to hold it. The thing I'm most puzzled about is the size of her BMs: 1-3 well-formed stools, which are long (not quite a foot, but close to it) and firm but smooth on the surfaces (sorry about any gross-factor). It is definitely adult-sized. Maybe it is just her metabolism. At this stage I don't want to be a nagging mom, but I'm just wondering if other parents have noticed an increase in BM size as their children get older.