To think a toddler telling me this in public wasn't rude!

[LittleMe03]

Just got off the bus with DC 22months. On the bus, sat in his pushchair he said to me 'I done a poo' I reply 'ok sweetie, we will be getting off the bus and home in a few mins'

Sat quietly again I hear a lady in the seat behind me tut and say to the lady next to her 'why do parents not teach their children to not say such rude disgusting things' I ignored it thinking, surely not talking about us? He's 22 months and it's not rude or disgusting, is it??

She then says 'my nappy needs changing would have done' so this time I know she is obviously talking about us so I turn to her and say 'he's just a little boy, he's not rude, that's ridiculous. Please keep your opinions to yourself'

She stays quiet for the next few minutes but just before we are about to get off the bus I hear her tut. I look at her to give her opportunity to tell me what the problem now was but she doesn't say anything, just stares! The women next to her looked embarrassed.

Wow, your kid is talking well for 22 months!

I agree with you. She was rude. He was being a toddler. A helpful, articulate one, at that.

She sounds like a cow.

My MIL has a thing about certain words. Poo and Bum being a couple and used to comment about them being rude they if we don’t used them around her.

Really not worth getting het up about

i still say "I neeeeeeed a weeee" when im out in public and im in my mid 20s. What a helpful dc. Lady is batshit crazy.

22 months = nearly two, time to stop counting in months.

Shes rude, hes a child god what does she want, "one has used the facilities and requires freshening up if you wouldn't mind Mother"

some people!

She's an idiot. Ignore.

Your child is doing brilliantly to be communicating that well at under 2.

Well didn't you know that all 22 months old should have learnt every rule of etiquette by now op? Ignore her, shes obvioulsy got a few loose somewhere. Nothing at all wrong with a little tot saying they have done a poo. Its not like he could sort it out himself is it!

You get some completely idiotic people about - I don't know why they do it, probably because their lives are totally dull so they need to create something to be affronted about. Just ignore the stupid person.

Ridiculous. She’s probably lost sight of how old various children actually are. Some people just like to complain too...

@AlonsoTigerHeart

Didn't realise this was offensive to anybody

My 3 year old dd said at the top of her voice in a cafe having a drink "I need a poo". She's 3. Yes it would be nicer if she said toilet etc but toddlers are not known for their sense of decorum.

AlonsoTigerHeart no because hes not 2 so she would have said "my one year old" which would have misrepresented. I think up to 4 months it's weeks, up to 2 it's months and then it's years.

@BlueSapp 🤣🤣

Yang. He should have politely excused himself to go powder his nose.

Kids these days, the tut tut.

I can't believe he had to tell you. Was his pooing not accompanied by much gurning and grunting and a purple face followed by a humdinger of a smell? That would have made her tut.

His speech is very good. He has a few little sentences on the go it was more a 'a dond a poo' but... still!

@UrsulaPandress I have had a cold for the last couple of weeks so couldn't personally smell it and have a few times said to him 'come here, let me check your nappy, have you done a poo?'

Maybe that's why he's started telling me. Oops

Babes, going on public transport is hard. She had to sit next to a kid with a smelly nappy. Recently a mother thought it was ok to bring a portable pottie and drop it in waitrose mid aisle for id to crap in. I also was disgusted. This is the reality. You've chosen to have a kid. Poor woman needs to get on bus. Has to sit near crapped kid. It stinks, BUT the mother feel she is entitled to stink out the bus, because it's kids isn't it?

I was also more impressed by his verbal skills than worried about whether he was rude or not! The lady was the rude person here.

My older dd took toddler dd to the loos out shopping once, and after asking her big dsis if she was having a poo she reminded her to leave some tissue for other people!

I actively trained mine to say if they did a poo or wee! At that age I'd be delighted and would ignore lady/smile at her.

I feel I can make you feel better.

My nearly 3 year old son recently said in his very loud voice "we need a toilet quick mummy, the wee has reached my long vagina". Nice for the other patrons of Wagammas. I don't know why he calls his willy his long vagina I'm afraid.

My mum used to call faeces 'caca', with a suitably disgusted face to go with it. I got the message and I don't think I have ever said this word out loud in the whole of my life.

'Poo' is fine and your toddler sounds beautifully brought up and very articulate.

YANBU

I once made the grave (only on mumsnet) error of saying an age in months and was picked up on it too OP!

I try to avoid the word poo and bum but for some bizarre reason I find poo poo and bum bum less offensive?! You crack on and let him him say it how it is!