La la la la, it’s poopy time
A couple of weeks ago, my two year old son used the toilet for the first time. He peed, while standing on a stool in front of the toilet.
We’re not particularly worried about potty training him yet, though we would LOVE to stop buying diapers. I am fairly certain that we spent more money on diapers last year than we did on food. And since I drew the pictures in the Potty Training Power e-book, I’ll get to test the material out first hand in the coming months. (See, it pays to do art for e-books, I get free copies!) So, I’m thinking this will go easily.
Knock on wood.
At any rate, E has an Elmo toilet seat, which until now he has sat on a few times, but doesn’t seem to be in a rush to use. Like I said, we’re not pressing him. But we know he’s ready to begin the transition away from diapers.
For one, he now tells us when he’s gone poop, rather than running and hiding in a corner to roll around in it for a while.
We also got him an Elmo potty training video – which is very entertaining, for all the wrong reasons. But my son likes it and that’s all that matters. So he now understands that you’re supposed to put your poop in the potty.
He walked up to me the other night and said, “Poop, Elmo.”
I got excited. Because once he’s learned how to use the potty, we can STOP watching the Elmo potty training DVD!
“You want to go poop in the Elmo potty?” I asked.
“Yes,” he said. Well, actually, he said, “yesh” and nodded.
So I brought him to the bathroom, got the Elmo seat out and put it on the toilet. We were both excited for the momentous occasion. Then I checked his diaper.
He’d already pooped.
He seems to think you’re supposed to poop in your pants and THEN bring it to the toilet to dispose of.
So he was disappointed when I brought him to his room to change his diaper. He kept asking for Elmo. I explained to him that he has to let me know BEFORE he goes poop and then we can try again.
Later that night…
I was in bed with my wife and said, “Well, all the experts say you should let your kid see you go to the bathroom, so they know what to do.”
“He’s seen us on the toilet,” she reminded me.
“Maybe we need to lift our butts up a bit and let him see the poop coming out?”
“Eeeeew, I AM NOT DOING THAT!”
Fine, I said. We’ll raise a kid that carries his poop to the toilet.
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Love your blog, Dave. Wish I’d found you sooner! Your posts over here read like comic strips in my head and make me laugh and snort out loud – not pretty but always a good thing.
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I wouldn’t do it either. You’re crazy!
Well at least he’s doing better than the cats
‘Ewww’ was my reaction too! Oh the trauma!!!
But since it’s your idea, you should try it. Then come out and tell us how it went.
Samars last blog post..Keeping my ‘zen seat’ warm
“He peed, while standing on a stool in front of the toilet.”
Your selection of words cracked me up.
Your (gross) story (especially the last bit) reminds me of Scrubs when Turk is telling the kid to imagine little people inside him trying to push the dukie (sp?) out.
Dave Fowlers last blog post..Hate Mail
I hate to be the bearer of bad news… Ah, hell. I don’t mind.
If your son is anything like my now five-year-old, you are in for a rude awakening. Just because he is capable of using the bathroom, it doesn’t mean that he will or that you will be able to escape the wee-wee’s and woo-woo’s of Elmo’s Potty Time.
My son finally understands that we will not watch that video again until his younger brother (almost one) is ready for potty training. He looks forward to that day.
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I agree, eeeewwwwwwww.
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Be Still my beating heart! I’ve now seen Fowler a few times, sniffing around the comments section. But there’s no Avatar… how do we know it’s really him.
And Dave W, you have to look for the turtle.
Writer Dads last blog post..How to Give Your Child a Limitless Life
lol Yeah, a little too far. Could scare the poor kid for life.
But a question that came to me was, “Why didn’t you flip the poop from the diaper into the toilet?” I’m guessing it wasn’t solid enough to make that kind of deposit as a good example of where things go.
The great news about toilet training, is no matter how well it goes, regression happens! I’ve had it with both my kids. They both took really well to toilet training and were perfect, right up until they started Kindergarten. My 5 year old is STILL unreliable. He’ll go if we remind him every few hours but we can’t trust him to stay dry during the day.
If you’re really hurting in this economy with the cost of diapers you could always go cloth.
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Hehe, I’m going to have to get that video for my son. I have to say though, I’m with your wife on this one, that’s too much.
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Talk about a stoop too far.
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This cracks me up! I have had similar experiences with mine. The other night my youngest started yelling his poop had fallen off the tissue onto the floor. But, he was laughing so hard he could hardly tell us what happened.
I’m sure you can imagine the rest of the scene.
Thanks for sharing!
Chriss last blog post..If Today Were My Last
Okay, total laugh out loud moment at the end there followed up within nano seconds with a resounding EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW! Ya, he’ll figure it out without graphic demonstrations.
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Sorry but the whole watching the parents on the toilet thing did not work in this house.
My daughter went through a stage of trying to pee like her brother. “But you don’t have a willy Mia” he would shout at her as she stood on a stool in front of the toilet trying to ‘aim’ into the bowl . . .
…I’m still laughing.
Dan Mirandas last blog post..Why You Don’t Need To Read Self-Improvement Blogs To Succeed In Life
I finally got my oldest son trained when somehow by accident he pooped in his potty and it (don’t ask for details) looked like a mickey mouse ears hat. From then on, he was highly motivated to poop in the potty, provided afterwards we could talk about what it looked like as if it were a freaking cloud or something.
But I’m sure that won’t happen to you.
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Speechless….not for any other reason than I’m laughing my fool backside off!
Chriss last blog post..If Today Were My Last
Good luck on this journey of life…your post was very funny thank you …it brought back so many memories – good and bad!
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A couple of my girls wanted to see the poop coming out. They’ll grow up to be engineers, I guess.
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I just found this Youtube video. It’s almost as funny as your post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbc6iITsxIw
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