Urgh I could puke

[frazzledgirl]

We made it to 20 months without a dirty protest, but just now I left DS playing in the living room while I did the washing up.

Came back in to find him with poo on both hands, up his back, down his legs and a nice round lump on the carpet.

The beige carpet (stupid pre-child decision) which I had cleaned at great expense on THURSDAY.

Aaaarrrrggghhhh eewwwwwwwww

AND he grabbed at me before I realised.

I remember now the book said on no account was I to show any disgust or displeasure.

Failed there, then. Sigh.

[giveusabreak]

A 20 month old isn't capable of a "dirty protest" He's just curious not a future recruit for some nasty terrorist organisation. He made the stuff and there's lots of it. They love gloop and they have no sense of what is yuk. It's gross but tbh the more you react the more likely you are for a repetition. Crack open the wine and/or chocolate and resolve to be cool in the face of poo next time. As for the beige carpet, errr why did you have it cleaned when you have a 20 month old..............

[JohnnyTwoHats]

giveusabreak have you had a bad day love?

[EdwardBear]

I'm waiting til my youngest is 5 before I get my (filthy) carpets cleaned

[AlistairSim]

Just wait until they start eating it.

[giveusabreak]

Yes pretty shite really but finding poo all over is crap too (puns totally intentional). Calling it a "dirty protest" is just daft though -

[frazzledgirl]

Ah. The dirty protest thing was just a figure of speech, honest!

I'm faintly disgusted but not demented...

Not yet, anyway.

[giveusabreak]

Fair enough - sorry to jump up and down about it. FWIW my older child did a phase of protest weeing (well past three I am sure it a protest). I was appalled that the house would smell of wee and that she was so pissed off with me that she would do that. I managed to keep my cool the few times she did it - (I am not normally that collected) but made her help me clean it up and she's not done it for long enough for me to think she's figured it doesn't work.

did you get some wine/choc/hot bath or other reward

[frazzledgirl]

Reward: not really, now I come to think of it. Although did do a lot of therapeutic MNing uintil DH came home.

I am, of course, now feeling guilty about not doing anything constructive with DS, reading stories or similar. Can't win.

BTW carpets cleaned because we're trying to sell the place. Hope we get rid of it quick because they're not going to look like this for long...