"Can do" children toilet wet wipes. . .

missk_ensington

All valid points and I respect your views - I just don't agree with them. I don't mind poo - when it's like, tiny baby poo, but actual childs poo after they've been sat in it for 5 minutes and it's all squished around their, scrotum?!?! (is this an ok word??? What word should I use?????) It's a bit grim.

Suekjw - That is the 'nannying' perspective I find amusing. Out of interest how often does your child have chocolate? How often do you define a treat? My son has chocolate every day (not in large quanities, maybe a little Fudge after dinner or 3-4 milky buttons) and he's a star, never ill, intelligent... I really don't think our children are going to be scarred and clinically obese for life because they were given ONE milky button for doing a wee in their potty when they were 1! Purleeease, keep this in perspective!

suekjw

My child may have some chocolate every day as a treat - but not to train him! He is 4 and a half. I personally think giving it to a 12 month old to train them is the wrong way to go. If a child can't potty train at that age they are not doing anything wrong. I've studies A-level Biology and psychology at Uni, I don't think chocolate consumption has a bearing on intelligence although I know excessive consumption has had a bearing on my hips!

My daughter is nearly 23 months and she has started to potty train herself. She will use the potty but forgets all about it if she has any clothes on on her bottom half. My little boy was the same - although he would poo before he would wee in a potty. I'll be pleased when I don't have to change nappies but I'm not going to get hung up about it. If I was so 'anal' (excuse the pun) about poo I wouldn't have had children in the first place.

I respect your right to not like poo though!

missk_ensington

We shall agree to disagree! We are using classical/operant conditioning with children all the time and I don't think positive reinforcement is detrimental (I don't agree with negative reinforcement). You might want to call it bribery, don't care though if it works!

I believe parents should be in control, children ARE lower in the hierarchy to us and should do as parents say. We're too liberal now, children know their own human rights before we do!

missk_ensington

PS. Having children wasn't a conscious and active decision, he was unplanned! Still, I ain't going to like poo at any point in my life, but not going to forsake having children because of it!!

suekjw

missk_ensington wrote:

I believe parents should be in control, children ARE lower in the hierarchy to us and should do as parents say. We're too liberal now, children know their own human rights before we do!

Er, I actually agree with you on this BUT talking about something completely different, we're talking about 12 month old babies, who in the large majority can't control their bowel movements until 18 months. Weeing on a potty can be a very different concept to pooing on one, I know los of 'dry'children who have still had accidents poo wise. I don't think my children are going to become anarchists because they weren't completely potty trained until 2, but only time will tell I suppose.....

chivers1977

miss k_ensington, I find the comments that you make throughout these forums bizzare and verging on the offensive. Babies wear nappies, poo in them and then mum sorts it out. When they are ready, they will use the toilet. Of course it is like an adult turd but most of us just get on with it as it is life. My son has just turned one and no way does he have the maturity to understand the urge to poo. He doesn't even pay any attenton to the fact that he has done one so there would be no sense in attempting to bribe him with snacks. I am sorry if you think that there is something abnormal about the fact that I will get him into big boy pants when I feel he is ready, even if that means that he will be 3 and I will have 2 years of scraping kack off his balls as you so elegantly put it. I call it caring for my child in the way that he personally needs it.

Rachie_B

chivers1977 wrote:

miss k_ensington, I find the comments that you make throughout these forums bizzare and verging on the offensive. Babies wear nappies, poo in them and then mum sorts it out. When they are ready, they will use the toilet. Of course it is like an adult turd but most of us just get on with it as it is life. My son has just turned one and no way does he have the maturity to understand the urge to poo. He doesn't even pay any attenton to the fact that he has done one so there would be no sense in attempting to bribe him with snacks. I am sorry if you think that there is something abnormal about the fact that I will get him into big boy pants when I feel he is ready, even if that means that he will be 3 and I will have 2 years of scraping kack off his balls as you so elegantly put it. I call it caring for my child in the way that he personally needs it.

:T
i agree,seems wherever she goes on here she causes upset of some kind !

essexhoney

chivers1977 wrote:

miss k_ensington, I find the comments that you make throughout these forums bizzare and verging on the offensive. Babies wear nappies, poo in them and then mum sorts it out. When they are ready, they will use the toilet. Of course it is like an adult turd but most of us just get on with it as it is life. My son has just turned one and no way does he have the maturity to understand the urge to poo. He doesn't even pay any attenton to the fact that he has done one so there would be no sense in attempting to bribe him with snacks. I am sorry if you think that there is something abnormal about the fact that I will get him into big boy pants when I feel he is ready, even if that means that he will be 3 and I will have 2 years of scraping kack off his balls as you so elegantly put it. I call it caring for my child in the way that he personally needs it.

:T :T :T :T Well Said!:T

across

essexhoney are you still here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no ambulance,midwives hot towels?:rotfl:

Becles

missk_ensington wrote:

and it's all squished around their, scrotum?!?!

You could count your blessings. It's much easier to wipe poo off a scrotum, than wipe it out of all the crevices and folds that make up girlie bits!

Or even worse - I had to extract a sock caked in poo that was hanging out my dogs rectum the other day :eek: