who's been telling my 22 month old ds to not touch his own willy?

[greenlegs]

DS aka PFB is at nursery 3 days a week and is really happy there.

Apart from his time there he's always with me or DH.

Recently he's been said 'don't touch willy' a few times while i'm changing him, he'll shake his head and wave his hand and say 'no, don't touch'. It seems like his telling himself not to, rather than asking telling me not to (i don't anyway), so I can only assume that someone at nursery has told him not to touch his willy while they're changing him and he's copying what they said

It seems odd to me

I'd have thought that it's more important not to give the little lad a complex about his touching his willy than to be avoiding washing hands afterwards. TBH i don't always insist on washing hands at home, although I do stop him from touching if he's covered in poo. I'd never say 'don't touch your willy' though

We're wondering if we should be asking at the nursery if this is their actual policy

I tell DS 2.6 to take his hands out of his pants about 25 times a day. He doesn't listen. I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask them not to touch unless you are going to wash their hands every 5 minutes. They will ignore you anyway :)

I do struggle slightly with the thought of him wiping his bottomy hands all over my sofa/face/DS2, but it seems unavoidable and we're still here and mostly healthy.

Yyyy to the stretchy thing. I can't look when they do this, it makes me wince.

Flyingspaghetti Thank you for the laugh! I too am amazed at how little it seems to hurt them when they tug it, my ds is now 5 and isn't too bad, but I have seen him wrap it round his finger before!

I too laughed at the fettucine! I won't be able to eat it again in a hurry.

YABU, the nursery will have multiple children to change at once they don't have all day to wait until every little boy decides that he is finished playing with his willy, easier to tell them not to touch it when getting changed, I wouldn't have a problem with this.

I would imagine that about 99% of children have been told not to touch their bums/willies while having their nappies changed and 99% of them will not develop a complex.

It doesn't seem odd to me at all for them to say that. They have lots of children to change and I'm sure they don't want poetry handed children running around the nursery touching everything.

Pooey handed, not poetry handed.