Is this disgusting, or is it me?

[melonandpapayaandmango]

Nasty content!

My friend educates her 6 year old DS at home and is teaching him about the digestive system by feeding the 1 year old various foods and sharing the contents of her nappies with him to stufy and examine (they do wear gloves!)

I can sort of see how it works but - yuck!

Grim.

No need for that whatsoever. You can explain the digestive system without a practical.

is she called Gillian?

No - why? :)

Yuck. And using your one year old as a live science experiment to educate your child? Strange message...

And at 6, he'll be well aware of what a shite is.

Hmmm wonder what she feed him, I'm betting kiwi, sweetcorn...

Oh I just got that squeaky! MY first name is Jill so I jumped out of my skin then - I thought I'd been outed

Valium, yes, peas, kidney beans ... ugh!

Sounds like a shit teacher to me

Lol! For real? She's nuts! What do 6 year olds have to know anyway? I done higher biology and failed but never once had to poke about with real shit.

ROAR at shit teacher

oh i don't know, i think is fairly entertaining myself (although i guess i'm only reading about it, not actually doing it!) - the six year old must find it interesting enough or he'd refuse surely?

Sounds like a shit teacher to me

roar

YANBU

I can imagine the convo, hello this is DS who I home teach and this is the science experiment we had in order to aid DS in his education.

It's madness, if a school can teach these things without the kids examining their classmate's turds then so can one individual person at home.

I homeschooled no2 son for a few years and we made our own vomit during learning about digestion etc, but we got a lovely kit from Horrible Science Much more fun than rootling about in poo!

That's just crap.

Eww gross, there is really no need in doing that. If this is how she teaches him, maybe he would be better of at school, atleast he would miss the shitty pratical

Does your friend know about that artist who paints in poo OP? I've forgotten his name, but he eats different foods so he has a choice of colours to use.

If she does know about him, is she using the results of science class to provide the materials for art?

well i guess they are wearing gloves,i wouldnt want mine poking about in poo but i have too say all mine at that kind of age and a bit younger found poo very funny and intersting and would look when i was changing a younger ones nappy and were always highly delighted when you could see bits of sweetcorn, tomato etc in it, they thought it was fabulous.

yes they woudl moan about the smell but they still found it funny to look at and comment on the texture/consistency of it.

meh its not something i would do deliberately but having a look at a pooey nappy and then talking about how some things get digestedmore easily than others is something that i have done, purely because my boys were watching and then commented on nappy contents.

Mine went through a stage of wanting to look at it but I discouraged it... maybe I should have in the name of science!

It IS gross but each to their own....she's home educating and part of that is using what is around the child in their own home and community.

If that includes shitty nappies so be it.

Nice to know she's sticking to the national curriculum there.

I remember when DD ate some plasticine at nursery. She did multicoloured poo for about a week. It was beautiful.

That's not normal. And not nice.