Comments on: She missed the bowl

By: Jenn

Jenn — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:23:38 +0000

LOL at the poop stories. A family friend initiated a poo-in-the-potty incentive for their little boy by taping action figures to the wall. If the poo went in the toilet, he got an action figure. One day, however, he waltzes out of the bathroom with a poo-covered toy proclaiming gleefully that the “poo in the potty!” When his mom walked in, sure enough, the mess was in the toilet. Unfortunatey, there was also poo on the floor where he had actually gone to the bathroom, scooped it up, and placed it in the potty. It was also all over the wall where he had removed the action figure with poo covered hands.

By: benmac

benmac — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 04:12:08 +0000

So does the dog help the situation or make it worse?

By: handsomebaby

handsomebaby — Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:06:19 +0000

Girls peeing on the floor, try a boy running thru the house then peeing on the furniture. And of course if the poop on the floor the dog usualy gets it befor I can grab something to clean it up.

By: hannah

hannah — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:47:28 +0000

You really did have a good record w/Trixie’s pee and as others have pointed out so explicitly (and hilariously), there are much worse accidents out there. If only you could teach her to vomit in the crapper, then you’d really have something going on that would make stomach flu nothing but a minor glitch for you, rather than an environmental disaster.
Hannah

By: Rigel

Rigel — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:57:49 +0000

We’ve just finished potty training our soon-to-be-3-year-old, and I didn’t realize how lucky we were when it came to having accidents. Of course, she wanted to be going potty from the time she was 18 months old, so we’ve been doing it for a LONG time. But she’s finally wearing “big girl panties”, and she only wet the bed twice in all that time. I was figuring on having her trained by the time she turned 2, but I found out she was definitely on her own schedule. But it WAS fun, especially being able to make rude noises to illustrate the points I was trying to make.

Keep up the good work on the site, and give Trixie a hug for just being cute.

By: patrick

patrick — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:02:00 +0000

Pitching a loaf after pitching a tent.

Lyrical.

I hope you aren’t sharing these ideas with Trixie! She seems to have enough without encouragement.

By: DavidNYC

DavidNYC — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 07:38:59 +0000

The story about the kid pooping in the tent has me laughing pretty good.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 04:19:46 +0000

Just wait until you are really serious about toilet training and your child poops on the floor. Cleaning up pee will send fun compared to that. Anyhow I applaud your efforts in letting your little one try the old potty out. We started early and our daughter was using the adult toilet just one month after turning 2. And about 4 months later was trained at night as well. We had a ton of accidents. But I tell you when I watch my friends try and change there 2 1/2 to 3 year olds I’m glad we did it. Changing a kid that big should be an Olympic sport.

By: John

John — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 02:43:46 +0000

I recently heard a band (Over the Rhine- very enjoyable if you like Cowboy Junkies/Sarah McClachlan style music) perform a song they’d written for a children’s compliation. The chorus was:

Poop in the potty
poop goes in the potty
poop in the potty
poop goes in the potty

And the verses list all the places not to put the poop – the wall, your sister’s hair, etc.

Which of course made me wonder if somethign terrible was lurking around the corner of Year Two. Then it was confirmed: some friends are potty training their child, who gets “poopy prizes” if he does his business in the toilet rather than in his diaper.
But this has begun to backfire somewhat. His grandmother gave him a tent for a poopy prize, and he tells people “That’s my tent. I got it for going poopy.” And he has pooped in it as well.
And then there was the time when he got a Really Cool Something for a prize and wanted another and so said “T. poop agian get nother poopy prize” and dropped his drawers and evacuated right there on the spot. Which spot was not, mind you, the potty.

By: benmac

benmac — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 00:59:55 +0000

DavidNYC:
I know, I know — I’m supposed to use baby litter. But cat litter is so much cheaper!

giddy:
I can only hope that it was a true accident and not her testing me.

tien:
Your advice is by far the most practical. I wish more houses were built that way.

hannah:
Potty, potty, potty, potty. If you say it enough the word loses all meaning. Seriously though, I hate the word too. Makes me feel about 6 years old. Any suggestions? Crapper? WC?

Rob:
Until you wrote that, I never realized how much worse it could have been.

lori&scott:
Actually I think going outside is right up there with tien’s drain solution. I think the problem of having to get up in the middle of the night could be addressed by installing a baby door.

FrumDad:
I’ve been struggling with how to track progress in that area. I’m torn between a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled research protocol or having a beer. It’s probably going to be the beer.