Is this disgusting, or is it me?

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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!

well mine never got up close and personal with it, more of a look over my shoulder whilst i was changing the nappy.

yes its gross, but they are wearing gloves, and presumably washing their hands etc afterwards, so not worth being bothered over.

My GP said people don't study their poo enough these days, he said that we miss vital signs of life threatening diseases because of it.

I know it sounds silly but I don't think I'd like anyone looking through my poo (unless it was for medical reasons of course!)

I wouldn't let my DCs look at the contents of the baby's nappy to be honest. I've only just really thought of it like that but I tend to assume if I wouldn't like it the children probably wouldn't as well.

I think its a brilliant idea so there

Surely that is what home edding is all about, learning from what is around you rather than desk/chair/curriculum.

Plus wee kids love poo so her son probably loves it.

Plus maybe he'll grow into a DP who is willing to deal with dirty nappies bitter

Wee kids love poo

My DD doesn't! She has her own 5 year oldversion of catsbummouth!

I once worked in health care so poo doesn't bother me and i i diagnosed my own pneumonia by how my poo changed.

My two cousins became a GP and a bio chemist and used to do this of their own accord as children.

It is quite right that some people do not think about these things in the same way as the 'general public'.

Other cultures diagnose health through poo.

It would only be wrong if the child objected and was ignored. Interests cannot be sparked if not presented at all, or frowned upon.

If they aren't grossed out by it then fair play to them IMO.

DD (5) does say "euuuuuw" at DS' nappies but it's more of a giggly squeal rather than genuinely disgusted IYSWIM. In fact as we are now potty training DS she often offers to take the potty upstairs to empty it. (I let her, with frequent reminders to watch her step so it doesn't go everywhere!) - she's not bothered by it.

Oh I need to know how to diagnose pneumonia via poo. Is there a poo site, where we can learn to self diagnose via the medium of shit.

I only know the difference because i provided 'end of life care' and you get to recognise what causes the changes after years of wiping it up.

Yanbu! That is grim!

All I know is that blood in poo, and black poo are bad.

DS ate some crayon at a MN product thingie, and that poo was definitely blue.

He used to be v interested when I showed him his nappies, so I imagine I'll do the same for DD (she:s not squeamish; she was trying to catch hers in the bath this evening ).

I'm very disappointed that you had to use a kit for your vomit, PomBear. Vomit is also a diagnostic tool and fascinating. Have I mentioned that I once threw up a dinner in courses?

I have a friend who is a hospital dietician who treats people who have serious digestive and bowel problems and she is fascinated by all aspects of poo.
She even has wall charts of all the various kinds, normal and abnormal, from 'rabbit pellets' to pebbledash!

Dd2 had to look at a poo chart and say where hers was on the consistency scale-she thought I was joking when I told her it existed then giggled hysterically when the doctor produced it.

Re the home edding,why not? It's a good visual demonstration for the DC, and I bet they'll remember the science behind it. Personally though I'd have an issue with using a non consenting DC, deliberately feeding things to the younger one to show the outcome is a bit, I don't know, manipulative? Disrespectful?

haha! that's one way to make him never forget!

I think it's a good idea. Learning about digestion could always do with a practical. I wouldn't do it at school (teacher), someone would complain, but if I was home-edding - why not?

I do a digestion demo using mashed up food, gravy browning and a pair of old tights, gets the point across much better than another diagram.

I think it's a good idea, far more likely to be remembered than sitting and looking at a diagram!

I can imagine doing it with my DC but I can't imagine how it would come up in conversation with anyone else. How did you find out about it OP? How can you casually throw poo examining into conversation?

I am slightly worried about how many threads about poo I've read tonight and I'm pretty certain my last post had a few grammar problems, implying poo was being thrown, rather than talked about. Oops.

Time for bed...

Bristol Stool Chart

I think it's a great idea! I often tell the DCs they might see the seeds off their bread or sweetcorn in their poo.

I am a nurse though so I have seen more interesting poos than the average bear

We've looked for sweetcorn before. Also ate asparagus to see if it created wee-smell, and boy was keen to eat enough beetroot to see if his wee would go pink, but he doesn't like beetroot that much so it proved difficult.

Snails are good for poo experiments. If you feed them tomatoes their poo goes red.

I have to describe DS's poo for medical reasons.

We used to joke about colour charts and textures and consistency.

Funnily enough I can't ever imagine wanting a brown coloured wall in my home.

I see why she'd think this was a good idea in theory, but practically you'd realise it wasn't necessary to do this to explain digestion.

Beetroot turns pooh purple, endoplasmic, just so you know

It's POO ffs. Not Pooh.

Pooh is a bear.

Or a bad smell.

Pmsl at squeakys post

Yanbu fucking unecessary.