any tips on how to shorten the "wee wee; poo poo" phase?

[theQuibbler]

DS(4) is going on and on about poo poo this and poo poo that and my patience is wearing thin.

Sample conversation at the moment:

"what would you like for lunch, son?"
"poo poo!" cackles hysterically.

"What did you and Max do today?"
"Ha! Poo poo head!"

"Hello."
"Poooooooooooooo!"

It's driving me bonkers. I'm trying to ignore, and then I get irritated and tell him not to use silly words, thereby undoing all the previous ignoring.

It seems a bit OTT to go down a punishment route.

Anything else I could do? Any suggestions? Please?!!

Thx

join in. it is hilarious. don't you remember being like this?

Watching with interest as my 3 yo has reached this stage. Sometimes I do have to stifle a laugh as he finds it so hilarious he makes me laugh. Cereal - I have to say I don't join in though.
I remember my bro still finding it funny at age 10 so the phase may last a long time (or perhaps that was just him!)

my dd has just this although only wees at the moment ...I'm finding it hilarious. So it's

"old macdonald had a WEE" and any story I'm reading she chips in with WEE at an "appropriate" place, e.g "This is a tale of two kitties WEE" It's quite inventive really. She thinks it's highly amusing and so do I. I'll see how I feel in a few weeks time!

No advice really other than ride it out I guess.

my dd has just started this

she is 3.3 btw

all you can do is curtail the situations where and when it comes out (snurk snurk). Eventually they will realise that jumping on and off the bed screaming "i'm a poo, i'm a poo, how are you how are you" in front of their friends is okay, but calling mil a poo poo head is not.

It IS funny.

But sadly the mums of two families we are most friends with take a very po(o) faced view and always tell their children off for it.

I tell my DC that they are allowed to use silly words with each other and people that like it, but I don't want to hear it and nor do other grown ups. So they aren't banned full stop I just want them to learn where and when is appropriate.

Do enjoy it though - I love them being silly and making themselves laugh. One of my friends was telling me about 'an incident' with the others son and it was SO funny but I could see I was meant to disapprove. I am chuckling now at my desk.

I tell ds1 it's 'bogies and chips' for dinner when he's annoying me by asking 15 times what's for dinner.

My mother tells me her mother used to say 'poo and mash' to her.

Maybe it runs in families......

.... or perhaps some people never grow out of it.

(Am loving the idea of jumping up and down and the bed shouting 'I'm a poo I'm a poo how are you how are you)

I'm sensing a "you need to chill out" theme, emerging here.

I very much like the idea of teaching him that it is appropriate in some circumstances - but not all. Thanks for that.

I'm just going to have to ride it out, aren't I? And locate my funny bone while I'm at it

poo poo head!

blimey.....my 3 yr old AND 6 yr old still think wee poo bums and fart words are hilarious. I ignore it tbh, its mostly between themselves like their own private language!

Yes, I've also got an almost 7 and almost 4 year old girls who think wee and poo is hysterical. Their favourite thing in the world is to shout

"wee wee, poo poo, wee wee, poo poo, stupid head" at each other. They find that hysterical .

One day they will grow out of it, so I keep telling myself.

Sorry OP, but your post made me lol. What a cute boy!

My (nearly) 3 year old DD has just begun to understand what a joke is. Her current favourite is,

Q: Why was the sand wet?

A: Because the sea weed on it.

She cannot stop laughing when she hears/tells it and is trying out her own variations

Sorry to tell you this by I'm 34, DH is 37, and we were laughing at the word bumhole the other day.

My DD is nearly 4 and obsessed with poo, wee, bottoms etc. I have told her that grown ups find talking about poo very dull but other children like it a lot so she should stick to talking about it with her friends because they will probably think she is very funny whereas I will just get bored and probably start to think about cutting her toenails or brushing her hair.

hi Quibbler,

I sympathise, as this used to drive me completely nuts, even though my DS wasn't usually the originator of this language unless with friends. It's so normal that it's not worth bothering to try stop it, even though it might really annoy you.

Wind on a few years, and it's still normal for some of his friends, sometimes, to use toilet words that they started to use years ago. It's usually when there's a group of them together, and then he'll readily join in and take it to the next level. Poo and wee-wee are still the popular choices, and with these older children, it's definitely a way of letting off steam, acting consciously below the high behavioural expectations that they are normally used to and normally accept. It doesn't happen often, but there's definitely a curve, going down slowly over time. I'm sure that it will all peter out sometime over the next school year (year 3).