WHAT IS IT WITH BOYS AND POTTY TALK? I swear to you, every time we sit down for a meal, it always ends up in conversations about bodily excrement. I'm SOOOO tired of it and it SOOO ruins my appetite.
Remember when you got your mouth washed out with soap when you were a kid? My mom reminded me of the time when I was 5 or 6 when she fed me some bar soap because my mouth was "dirty" and needed to be washed. I completely remember the incident and defiantly pretended that I liked the taste of soap. I mean, I didn't want her to win.
So I decided to implement the strategy at our house.
A few nights ago at dinner when the tides in the conversation turned where they shouldn't, I told the boys that the next kid who used bathroom words would get a mouthful of soap. Destroy stepped up to the plate to challenge me with one simple word. "Poo" he said, looking me square in the face. You can figure out where he ended up. With assistance from Daddy (strong arms, no large belly in the way), I squirted some foaming hand soap into his mouth. He immediately started freaking out, spitting, scratching and scraping at his tongue to get that icky taste out. Now, I've never tasted foaming hand soap, but by the looks of it, I'm thinking it doesn't taste very good. Must be worse than bar soap.
He continued to spit and drool and claw at his tongue until, alas.
He puked.
Saw that one coming.
Now fast forward to dinner the next night. Where did the conversation turn?
Not hard to guess.
Do they ever learn?
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10 comments:
i just read that to brett because it was so funny. i love it. what i have to look forward to because my girls haven't started talking about that yet. but, bad news whenever my family (grown-up, adults) we always get on THAT subject! i don't know if it ever ends.
They never learn and grow up! Boys will be boys! So I want to know, did you use the soap technique again the next night?
My mom did that to me once, and honestly, I have no idea what I said that was wrong. But yeah, that stuff is sick. I have done it twice with Alyssa, and sadly, it wasn't as effective as I thought it would be. (But, I was washing all of her screams and back-talking away!)
Oh man. Blaine is all about it right now, and it drives me nuts and especially drives Taylor NUTS!! He thinks it's so funny to put his crassness to song... "Old McDonald had a poop," "Twinkle Twinkle little poop," and on and on. Spare me.
I have done that once to Ty but it was with liquid soap and Ryan told me to rub it on his teeth so that it's more difficult for them to get off (he has no mercy for stuff like that). I had to do it a couple of times because like your boys, Ty wanted to see if I would stick to my word or if he could get away with it. It only took 2 or 3 times with the soap and now all I have to do is threaten him with it and he'll stop dead in his tracks almost crying at the thought. Good luck!
I'm having the same prob with Grant right now and his potty talk! At the young age of 2! He's so fascinated by the word!
But it appears as though Destroy has a little bit of you in him... he doesn't want YOU to win, either!
Oh, and thanks for your comment about pregnancy. I think you're right, people do forget but they should still think twice about voicing their opinion! I remember when you were pregnant with Destroy... so tiny and cute!!
Haha!! I am thinking how different girls and boys are. Lexi yells 'EXCUSE ME' from across the house when she toots. I remember her asking me 'Is butt a bad word?' I guess we will see what this little boy will be like.
preaching to the choir on this one! Yup we did the bar soap too, but the gag reflex gets him vomitting as soon as the bar hits the tongue. So then we did it over the toilet.
Hi, that was a funny story! (I'm being random and came from the Dixons page)
I have 3 males in my house, 1 is the adult but its sometimes hard figuring out who he is as they all act the same...and conversation gets better, soon it will be all about 'passing wind'
I laughed so hard at this story. So funny! I remember sucking on a bar of soap, foam sounds pretty bad too.
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