I have to be honest, I love to have friends come over so my wife and I can divert my kid's attention away from us or we can just plop our kids right into our friend's laps and force the attention off. I like to call it creative parenting.
Maya we just love the way you make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches... Why don't you take the kids to the kitchen and show them how you make them so delicious? Poppy the kids couldn't stop talking about you all day and night. Why don't read to them in the other room? Mahkyle you should have tried out for the NBA... why don't you go in the hall and show the kids how great of a basketball player you are? - So one day we had a bunch of people over and my wife and I were creatively parenting until my son said he had to use the potty. Potty training is one of those things that brings us right back to being parents no matter how creative we parent. Here is what happened. Me - Do you have to go pee pee in the potty or poo poo in the potty? Him - Poo Poo. Me - Ok hurry up let's go poo poo. Him - Daddy are you making poo poo in the potty? Me - I don't have to go poo poo I already went. Him - Why? Me - Because I already went. Him - Oh... Daddy? Me - Yes. Him - I don't have to go poo poo? Me - Why not? You said you had to go. Him - I already went. Me - No you didn't. Ok I will go poo poo if you go poo poo. Him - Ok 1 minute later. Him - All done. Me - Ok. Let's take a look. You didn't go poo poo you went pee pee. Don't you have to go poo poo? Him - No. Me - Why not? Him - I already went. Me - Ok ok... go to your mom while I clean up the potty. Him - Are you going to go poo poo? Me - No becauseI went poo poo. Did you? Him - No. Me - Ok go... Go to your mom. Him - Ok. 1 minute later. Everybody - YEAH DADDY WENT POO POO IN THE POTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DADDY WENT POO POO IN THE POTTY... Until tomorrow. Jai
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1/10/2012 06:47:32 am
What a hilarious story! I've never tried the "creative parenting." Gonna have to give that one a whirl. Creative parenting probably only works when the child isn't practicing creative childhood, right?
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Maya
1/10/2012 08:21:20 am
That was soooooo funny! Thank you for sharing as usual. Well, I'm lucky enough to never change the poop diaper as I throw up every time I smell poop and my husband finally gave up and decided to do it for me....LOL
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1/10/2012 08:58:54 am
Is that how I have to get out of it? Toss up? Wow you slick woman. You know you are always welcome here... We love you guys.
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The exchange between you and your son made me laugh out loud - such a great moment in the adventure that is parenting. I have a four year old and I really need to capture more of this stuff to look back on years from now.
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1/13/2012 05:35:20 am
Thanks for commenting Anna.
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1/13/2012 11:34:15 am
Ahhh... So you can feel my pain!!! Isn't it a great feeling?
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1/18/2012 12:37:29 am
LOL that is very funny, kids really say the funniest things, my niece is six now but when she was younger she would really struggle with going to the bathroom, she was always very embarrassed to tell anyone and always whispered it to her mom or grandma
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1/18/2012 01:03:42 am
I look at it like this now... Legally at 18 I am free from having to worry.
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