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I know this thread will die immediately, but I just wanted to say...

My daughter just walked in with some baby Oragel stuff, and said it was for her "little bottom". I told her it was for her teeth when they hurt. So she took it back to the cabinet. Then she walked in with a bottle of liquid tylenol, and said "Here's medicine-juice! For your mouth to make it feel better." So I said it was for your whole body to feel better, and she said "Oooohhhh, for your whole body." And pointed at her "little bottom" again, announcing, "I have a big stinky. I need medicine-juice."

What on earth gave her the idea she needed medicine for a dirty diaper?

...and where is she now, it's too quiet...

Why is your toddler playing with medicine? Shouldn't that be kept out of the reach of children and why isn't she playing with matches like a normal kid?

Why is your toddler playing with medicine? Shouldn't that be kept out of the reach of children and why isn't she playing with matches like a normal kid?

Or running with scissors.;)

I remember having one of those two quiet moments when I wasn't paying attention to my little daughter...she downed a bottle of pain killers and spent the next 4hrs in an ER with her vomiting(induced) out the contents of stomach...could have lost her that day, now 1st yr uni student

Someone call Delaware Social Services.

maybe her butt hurts.... you should buy her a potty chair and training pants and explain that the only way to never have a poopy diaper again is to use the potty.

I used to poop in the toilet then fish it out and bring it to my mom. :)

I used to poop in the toilet then fish it out and bring it to my mom. :)

I honestly did not need to know that.

I used to poop in the toilet then fish it out and bring it to my mom. :)

You were a thoughtful and generous child. "Hey mom, look what I made for you!"

I would go check on the child instead of posting on NSG if it's too quiet.

As for me as a child, I liked showing everyone my pee pee. :D

i was born able to speak and potty trained with all the knowledge anyone would need to know.


i was the perfect child



then after the first millisecond i lost everything

If she's still adamant that the stuff is butt medicine, pack her pooper full of Tylenol suspended in Oragel. I'm sure that will drive the point home that it's not supposed to go there.

Why is your toddler playing with medicine? Shouldn't that be kept out of the reach of children and why isn't she playing with matches like a normal kid?

Most of it IS kept out of reach... just we'd had some of her medicine in the front cabinet, and she recently figured out how to get into it. Oragel and baby-tylenol (which she won't even drink, by the way, I have to get her chewables) aren't gonna hurt her, even if she does get into them. And she's played with matches before too... never gotten them lit, but she was very interested when I got out my village burning kit.

Or running with scissors.;)

Yah, she does that too. Only her saftey scissors which barely even cut paper, though - she's been conditioned to come ask me to pick up any other scissors she may find.

I remember having one of those two quiet moments when I wasn't paying attention to my little daughter...she downed a bottle of pain killers and spent the next 4hrs in an ER with her vomiting(induced) out the contents of stomach...could have lost her that day, now 1st yr uni student

Mmm yeah. The worst my daughter's ever gotten into was my Calcium chews, which basically look and taste like caramels. Poison control said she could've eaten ten, and she'd be fine... maybe have an upset stomach, or be constapated, but fine, but she only ate three before coming and telling on herself. She's never been to the ER.

maybe her butt hurts.... you should buy her a potty chair and training pants and explain that the only way to never have a poopy diaper again is to use the potty.

Yeah, we tried that. She's got a potty chair. She uses it, even. But she seems to like making poopy diapers, instead of going in the chair. We've done stickers, and M&Ms, and we've just done praise (worked better than bribes, actually) and we've made huge deals out of going. We even tried just letting her have no diaper, but gave up on that when there were too many carpet-cleanups in one day. She went entirely in the potty for a few days, but got bored of it, I guess, and just quit going. I think my next strategy is to just take her shopping for underpants (I've promised she can pick them out) and get a big-girl friend of hers to show her, and remove the diapers from sight... and see what happens.

I would go check on the child instead of posting on NSG if it's too quiet.

As for me as a child, I liked showing everyone my pee pee. :D

Yes, well I did. She was actually just standing by the front door, quietly waiting for her daddy to come home, and enjoying the feel of her poopy diaper. (Or so she said.)

My mom tells a story about her her (medical doctor) dad had a formal party for his collueges, and she came trotting downstairs and announced to the entire party "I did pee-pee and poop-poop, boys and girls!"

If she's still adamant that the stuff is butt medicine, pack her pooper full of Tylenol suspended in Oragel. I'm sure that will drive the point home that it's not supposed to go there.

First, that sounds challenging considering both the tylenol and oragel were liquids. Second, it sound ineffective, considering the oragel is a topical numbing agent, and she really wouldn't be able to feel any of it. Third... what kind of freak ARE you?

I know this thread will die immediately, but I just wanted to say...

My daughter just walked in with some baby Oragel stuff, and said it was for her "little bottom". I told her it was for her teeth when they hurt. So she took it back to the cabinet. Then she walked in with a bottle of liquid tylenol, and said "Here's medicine-juice! For your mouth to make it feel better." So I said it was for your whole body to feel better, and she said "Oooohhhh, for your whole body." And pointed at her "little bottom" again, announcing, "I have a big stinky. I need medicine-juice."

What on earth gave her the idea she needed medicine for a dirty diaper?

...and where is she now, it's too quiet...
If children weren't so scary when they're alone, that might be cute and/or funny...
Why is your toddler playing with medicine? Shouldn't that be kept out of the reach of children and why isn't she playing with matches like a normal kid?
Exactly. I remember melting crayons in the furnace.:D
Or running with scissors.;)
Always a good idea. *nods*
I remember having one of those two quiet moments when I wasn't paying attention to my little daughter...she downed a bottle of pain killers and spent the next 4hrs in an ER with her vomiting(induced) out the contents of stomach...could have lost her that day, now 1st yr uni student
Congratulations.
Someone call Delaware Social Services.
That's actually a sound plan, I must admit.
maybe her butt hurts.... you should buy her a potty chair and training pants and explain that the only way to never have a poopy diaper again is to use the potty.
I was gonna say that.
I used to poop in the toilet then fish it out and bring it to my mom. :)

Yes....well....you were a very...special child.;)

Yah, she does that too. Only her saftey scissors which barely even cut paper, though - she's been conditioned to come ask me to pick up any other scissors she may find.
Safety scissors won't ever teach children how to do anything more than find sharper metal.

Yeah, we tried that. She's got a potty chair. She uses it, even. But she seems to like making poopy diapers, instead of going in the chair. We've done stickers, and M&Ms, and we've just done praise (worked better than bribes, actually) and we've made huge deals out of going. We even tried just letting her have no diaper, but gave up on that when there were too many carpet-cleanups in one day. She went entirely in the potty for a few days, but got bored of it, I guess, and just quit going. I think my next strategy is to just take her shopping for underpants (I've promised she can pick them out) and get a big-girl friend of hers to show her, and remove the diapers from sight... and see what happens.
My little brother's like that. But he's four, so he isn't in diapers anymore.....He still has to wear pull-ups to bed, though. It's incredibly frustrating.

Safety scissors won't ever teach children how to do anything more than find sharper metal.


My little brother's like that. But he's four, so he isn't in diapers anymore.....He still has to wear pull-ups to bed, though. It's incredibly frustrating.

Yes, well she's allowed to use other scissors for certain things, but only supervised. My husband let her have another small pair of scissors a while back (he was "supervising" her), but she ended up cutting holes in her clothes, so that ended THAT quickly.

Yes, well this munchkin gets up every morning with a dry diaper. It's the only time when I really could take the diaper off with fair confidence!

I used to poop in the toilet then fish it out and bring it to my mom. :)

For the love of God man!!








That had to be pretty damn funny though :p

Yes, well she's allowed to use other scissors for certain things, but only supervised. My husband let her have another small pair of scissors a while back (he was "supervising" her), but she ended up cutting holes in her clothes, so that ended THAT quickly.

Yes, well this munchkin gets up every morning with a dry diaper. It's the only time when I really could take the diaper off with fair confidence!
Ahahahaha!:D Yeah, I used to do that for fun when I was little.:p

He's about half and half on that. He does a great job of peeing. His twin doesn't as much. She has more "accidents." But he just won't crap in the toilet usually.
For the love of God man!!

Godman?:confused::p

Yeah, we tried that. She's got a potty chair. She uses it, even. But she seems to like making poopy diapers, instead of going in the chair. We've done stickers, and M&Ms, and we've just done praise (worked better than bribes, actually) and we've made huge deals out of going. We even tried just letting her have no diaper, but gave up on that when there were too many carpet-cleanups in one day. She went entirely in the potty for a few days, but got bored of it, I guess, and just quit going. I think my next strategy is to just take her shopping for underpants (I've promised she can pick them out) and get a big-girl friend of hers to show her, and remove the diapers from sight... and see what happens.



I am going to get a lot of flack for this, but here goes... with my youngest, she would not poop in the potty to the point that I thought I was going to have to change her diapers in highschool, and then my husband comes up with this great idea... we call it the poop contest. Every time she pooped in the potty I would take a picture of it with my digital camera, and keep a copy on the computer, at the end of the week if she had pooped enough times in the potty she got a poop trophy (usually a pez despenser but whatever) after about 2 weeks she was pooping in the potty everytime and only has accidents now when she is sick.

and the diaper thing? I just started fleecing diapers from the stack with my first, until I got it down to about 10 and I told her "these are all the diapers left" and bought her some generic training panties (white, no pictures) and would let her wear them all day until she had an accident and then only put the diaper on her long enough to wash the panties, then dirty or clean I would take the diaper off and put the panties back on her, after about a week she had one diaper left, I said "if you can keep this one hanging up (I thumbtacked it to the wall) all week, I will let you pick your own panties" she did and we went to the store and bought her some Princess panties, she never had another accident.

Aw, poop!

(I just wanted to say that. Carry on!)

If she's still adamant that the stuff is butt medicine, pack her pooper full of Tylenol suspended in Oragel. I'm sure that will drive the point home that it's not supposed to go there.

GREAT post! LOLS!

I am going to get a lot of flack for this, but here goes... with my youngest, she would not poop in the potty to the point that I thought I was going to have to change her diapers in highschool, and then my husband comes up with this great idea... we call it the poop contest. Every time she pooped in the potty I would take a picture of it with my digital camera, and keep a copy on the computer, at the end of the week if she had pooped enough times in the potty she got a poop trophy (usually a pez despenser but whatever) after about 2 weeks she was pooping in the potty everytime and only has accidents now when she is sick.

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!

(sorry, that made my day.)

Ah, well you know, the end justifies the means. (potty training with Machiavelli)

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!

(sorry, that made my day.)

Ah, well you know, the end justifies the means. (potty training with Machiavelli)

at least she doesn't request me to photograph her poop anymore, she just calls me in if it's "impressive"

:p

I probably screwed up the kid for life.

at least she doesn't request me to photograph her poop anymore, she just calls me in if it's "impressive"

:p

I probably screwed up the kid for life.

Well, that's a parent's job.

She's just learning. Love how you communicate with her :P

And get a safety lock for your cabinet. Acetaminophen overdose can be unexpected, painful, and very deadly.

I am going to get a lot of flack for this, but here goes... with my youngest, she would not poop in the potty to the point that I thought I was going to have to change her diapers in highschool, and then my husband comes up with this great idea... we call it the poop contest. Every time she pooped in the potty I would take a picture of it with my digital camera, and keep a copy on the computer, at the end of the week if she had pooped enough times in the potty she got a poop trophy (usually a pez despenser but whatever) after about 2 weeks she was pooping in the potty everytime and only has accidents now when she is sick.

and the diaper thing? I just started fleecing diapers from the stack with my first, until I got it down to about 10 and I told her "these are all the diapers left" and bought her some generic training panties (white, no pictures) and would let her wear them all day until she had an accident and then only put the diaper on her long enough to wash the panties, then dirty or clean I would take the diaper off and put the panties back on her, after about a week she had one diaper left, I said "if you can keep this one hanging up (I thumbtacked it to the wall) all week, I will let you pick your own panties" she did and we went to the store and bought her some Princess panties, she never had another accident.


Oh my gosh, Smunkee, you are my hero! (Heroine, but hero sounds cooler.) That picture thing might just work with my daughter. She loves looking at her poopies, and she LOVES pictures. Plus, she always wants to look at mommy and daddy's poopies. *laugh* What else is really funny is how she pees in spurts becuase she gets so excited she's doing it, and wants to clap for herself that she stops. Plus, she thinks pooping is funny.

I'd try the second, but I already promised her she could pick them, and I'm not going to go back on that just because another idea presented itself.

This is a brilliant thread to read whilst eating dinner.

She's just learning. Love how you communicate with her :P

And get a safety lock for your cabinet. Acetaminophen overdose can be unexpected, painful, and very deadly.

Umm... huh? It sounds like a criticism, but I'm not exactly sure why...

And yes, well no, but I've taken all the medicine from that cabinet and put it in the upstairs one she won't be able to get into for some years. She knows she's not allowed to take medicine unless mommy or daddy give it to her. She's extended that to expecing us to ask each other for permission to eat medicine, too. Heh.

This is a brilliant thread to read whilst eating dinner.

So long as you're not having meatloaf or bread pudding or something, it shouldn't be so bad... one part of my family has a longstanding tradition of going out to dinner once a year, and inevitably discussing the outhouse at length during it. (Much to the chagrin of my father-in-law, whose meal is generally ruined.)

So long as you're not having meatloaf or bread pudding or something, it shouldn't be so bad... one part of my family has a longstanding tradition of going out to dinner once a year, and inevitably discussing the outhouse at length during it. (Much to the chagrin of my father-in-law, whose meal is generally ruined.)

Ahahaha! :D
My mother once discussed washing horses' genitalia so loudly in a restaurant that she put someone on another table off their food.

Yeah, we tried that. She's got a potty chair. She uses it, even. But she seems to like making poopy diapers, instead of going in the chair. We've done stickers, and M&Ms, and we've just done praise (worked better than bribes, actually) and we've made huge deals out of going. We even tried just letting her have no diaper, but gave up on that when there were too many carpet-cleanups in one day. She went entirely in the potty for a few days, but got bored of it, I guess, and just quit going. I think my next strategy is to just take her shopping for underpants (I've promised she can pick them out) and get a big-girl friend of hers to show her, and remove the diapers from sight... and see what happens.


Yeah, my parents tried that with me - the hiding the diapers and getting me grownup underpants thing. It worked for a while but they just ended up with more carpet clean ups after a few days once I figured out I could just pull them aside so last week they decided to try the no diapers thing. That hasn't worked at all. I'm leaving trails behind me at work which really bothers the janitors and it also renders any chairs I sit in at work unusable by anyone else.

Well, that's a parent's job.
I dunno. I think I did a pretty good job on myself.:p
This is a brilliant thread to read whilst eating dinner.

Didn't you ever read the What Not To Do Thread? It really should have been stickied.

i was born able to speak and potty trained with all the knowledge anyone would need to know.


i was the perfect child



then after the first millisecond i lost everythingFor a minute there, I thought you were going to say "Then that damned doctor spanked me and gave me amnesia!"

First, that sounds challenging considering both the tylenol and oragel were liquids. Second, it sound ineffective, considering the oragel is a topical numbing agent, and she really wouldn't be able to feel any of it. Third... what kind of freak ARE you?if the oragel is a numbing agent... yes, she wouldn't feel anything... now if it was sports creme instead...
and I hope he's not a freak that allows his child free access in his medicine cabinet!

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!

(sorry, that made my day.)

Ah, well you know, the end justifies the means. (potty training with Machiavelli)and with Potty Training... the END does justify the means... :D

This is a brilliant thread to read whilst eating dinner.

just besure to clean all the sprayed foodstuff from between the keys on the keyboard... it's a bitch but a keyboard full of ants is worse...

My cousin came to live with us at age five.... he was still in diapers.

Mom used to hose the poo off him in the yard....

after she started that, he potty trained VERY fast. :D

I used to poop in the toilet then fish it out and bring it to my mom. :)

That is among the funniest things I have ever heard in my life.


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You have won the Wanderjarian Seal of Approval.

*Hands over adorable squalking white baby seal*

Here you go!

That is among the funniest things I have ever heard in my life.


You have won the Wanderjarian Seal of Approval.

*Hands over adorable squalking white baby seal*

Here you go!

well... that is one way to save them seals from the clubbings...

well... that is one way to save them seals from the clubbings...

Remember, I did tell people that if I give you a seal you aren't to club the thing!

But that wasn't the point of the Seal of Approval. I meant it to be an amusing play on words....

It's threads like these that make me eagerly await the days when I get to parent my own children while at the same time feel relieved that I do not have children.

I remember having one of those two quiet moments when I wasn't paying attention to my little daughter...she downed a bottle of pain killers and spent the next 4hrs in an ER with her vomiting(induced) out the contents of stomach...could have lost her that day, now 1st yr uni student

Sounds like the incident where my little brother discovered mommies "candy". Fortunately, a large dose of birth control pills at age 3 doesn't seem to have harmed him...

just besure to clean all the sprayed foodstuff from between the keys on the keyboard... it's a bitch but a keyboard full of ants is worse...
I want to see that. That'd be so funny.:D
well... that is one way to save them seals from the clubbings...
*clubs*
It's threads like these that make me eagerly await the days when I get to parent my own children while at the same time feel relieved that I do not have children.
It only reinforces my indifference leaning toward desire not to have children.
Sounds like the incident where my little brother discovered mommies "candy". Fortunately, a large dose of birth control pills at age 3 doesn't seem to have harmed him...

I'm sure retardation is just a family trait.:p

I want to see that. That'd be so funny.:D


It's not the sight... but the crawling feeling on your hand then looking down and seeing a near army marching up your finger towards your wrist....

It's not the sight... but the crawling feeling on your hand then looking down and seeing a near army marching up your finger towards your wrist....

No, I mean I wanna see someone typing on such a keyboard.:p

...Then she walked in with a bottle of liquid tylenol...
...and where is she now, it's too quiet...


Is this what parenting has come to?

eh it all went to hell once people stopped hitting their kids.

damn dr spock


20000 years people hit their kids and everyone seemed to grow up ok.

now we stop and kids are monsters.

Is this what parenting has come to?

No, it's always been like that.

No, it's always been like that.


And yet, somehow, society hasn't noticed a pattern?!

eh it all went to hell once people stopped hitting their kids.

damn dr spock


20000 years people hit their kids and everyone seemed to grow up ok.

now we stop and kids are monsters.
They've always been monsters. Just not this sort of monster.
And yet, somehow, society hasn't noticed a pattern?!

Yes, it has. It just doesn't care.

eh it all went to hell once people stopped hitting their kids.

damn dr spock


20000 years people hit their kids and everyone seemed to grow up ok.

now we stop and kids are monsters.

Everyone needs to spank their kids. How else do they know that you mean what you say?

Everyone needs to spank their kids. How else do they know that you mean what you say?

I think Descartes said it best when he said we are "thinking thing[s]."

I know this thread will die immediately, but I just wanted to say...

My daughter just walked in with some baby Oragel stuff, and said it was for her "little bottom". I told her it was for her teeth when they hurt. So she took it back to the cabinet. Then she walked in with a bottle of liquid tylenol, and said "Here's medicine-juice! For your mouth to make it feel better." So I said it was for your whole body to feel better, and she said "Oooohhhh, for your whole body." And pointed at her "little bottom" again, announcing, "I have a big stinky. I need medicine-juice."

What on earth gave her the idea she needed medicine for a dirty diaper?

...and where is she now, it's too quiet...

You'd probably better check on her. I remember when my kids were quiet, I still shudder to think about it. On one occasion my son found a .22 bullet and ate it, fortunately everything came out ok.

You'd probably better check on her. I remember when my kids were quiet, I still shudder to think about it. On one occasion my son found a .22 bullet and ate it, fortunately everything came out ok.

Check the date. That post was some time ago.:p