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You smell like ... poo!

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 07:30

When does the scatological phase end? Please let it be soon.

I can enjoy fart jokes as much as the next mum (ok, probably more), but the continual shouts of poo! wee! willy! are getting on my nerves.

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BernieBear · 08/04/2008 07:57

Am interested when this stage ends too! God I am bored with it.

AbbeyA · 08/04/2008 08:04

It seems to last for ever at the time but looking back-not long!!

peanutbear · 08/04/2008 08:08

NO not long but it gets resurrected every time your other children reach that age my eldest encourages the middle one now luckily DD has yet to make coherent sentences

we had an episode of willy in tescos before christmas I think the shame is just bout to subside

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 08:53

Oh, yes, DS1 encourages DS2.

I'm not that ashamed of it, really. I mean, it's not like he knows any real rude words (thank god!). But I feel a bit personally wounded when my toddler cuddles up to me, all lovely, and then tells me I smell of poo.

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YouCantTeuchThis · 08/04/2008 09:09

hmm, my DS changes the words of songs to include bum, boab (willy), poo, etc, etc...

Quite creative, I thought, for about a day...now it drives me to distraction.

We also get quite colourful renditions of 'Old MacDonald' in Tesco...

Must go and look up 'scatalogical'...

SirDigbyChickenCaesar · 08/04/2008 09:23

"hmm, my DS changes the words of songs to include bum, boab (willy), poo, etc, etc..."
ha, forget the kids. My DH does that!

MrsMattie · 08/04/2008 09:25

My 3 yr old 's favourite response to all and any question is 'Bum Bum!'. Oh, the joys of toddler boys.

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 10:12

I'm afraid I sometimes do the rude words in songs things ... well, I join in, anyway.

I'm not helping, am I.

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meemar · 08/04/2008 10:16

How old is you lo NQC? DS1 is 4 and it reached it's peak at age three. Just as even he was getting bored of it, DS2 turned 2 and it's all started up again

My favourites are the theme tunes to Cbeebies programmes with 'poo' inserted into the lyrics

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 10:18

He's 3.5. Let's hope it passes soon.

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Enid · 08/04/2008 10:30

I would be cross if my children told me I smelled of poo

[stern mother of girls face]

francagoestohollywood · 08/04/2008 10:30

ds is 5 and a half and still has scatological moments...........

Enid · 08/04/2008 10:33

seriously mine do poo poo and wee wee talk/songs between themselves (8 and 5)

but I would draw the line at insults to me [purses lips]

YouCantTeuchThis · 08/04/2008 10:45

Yeah, well I can't imagine where he got it from

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 11:00

I'm not sure he absolutely meant it as an insult, iyswim. We were cuddling, I said, 'you smell like apples' (he'd just eaten two), and then he said 'you smell like poo', followed by being told I smell like wee, eyeballs, head, etc etc.

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winestein · 08/04/2008 11:06

For the last, what, 3 weeks I have been poo-poo mummy.

I have resigned myself to it as anything else will draw his attention to the fact that he can rile me, and am patiently awaiting the end of the phase...

marina · 08/04/2008 11:09

Dd told dh she was drawing his portrait the other day. He was very chuffed and did his best Mount Rushmore pose.
His rose-tinted specs were ground into the dust when he saw she had put him in a maxi dress. Patterned. When he asked what the patterns were, she said, "bottoms". And...they are. A whole dress of cheeks.
She has also devised a singspiel routine with dancing about bottoms and wee-wees apparently. Can I swap girls with you please enid?
That said, it's all very much comedy knockabout stuff rather than trading insults with their parents, and ds is now very much the egger-on. And she knows where it is not acceptable, thank goodness.
Like you NQC, I find it hard not to snigger, or even join in... Dh on the other hand is appalled...which means he of course is dd's no 1 target.

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 11:19

Oh, yes, I'm 'poo-poo mummy', too.

I don't think it's meant to be insulting, exactly, I mean, he says 'poo poo yes' too.

I like the maxi dress with a bottom pattern. Pretty sure I've seen it on asos.

I'm afraid I do sometimes start the fart joking - I told DS1 to blow, when I was doing his nose the other day, and he blew from the wrong end. We keep giggling about it.

I am a Bad Influence, aren't I.

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marina · 08/04/2008 11:23

Me too NQC
The dress was great. She may be a hoyden but she can really draw! (Dd shapes up to be the Tracey Emin of the 21st century)

137wallis · 08/04/2008 11:23

ahhhhh this is my four older boys favorite game! theyre 9,7,6 and 3 and theres very few conversations that dont contain, poo wee, willy, bum etc and they all egg each other on! and I frequently get a very loving pooey mummy or mummy smells like poo!

madamez · 08/04/2008 11:25

Everything is 'pooOOOO' in our house as well. I have been warned that it will be willy-obsession next (DS is 3.6 and just potty-trained). I am currently working on getting DS to accept that he can talk about poo as much as he wants at home but that other people don't want to hear about it.

(He's also going through a friendly stage so we will be sitting on a tram and he will start up a conversation with a sweet old lady, and after two or three sentences will suddenly say 'and I eat smelly POO' or something similar. CUe sudden stiffineing in horror of sweet old lady..)

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NotQuiteCockney · 08/04/2008 11:25

You say 'hoyden' like it's a bad thing.

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TooTicky · 08/04/2008 11:28

I love the dress of bottoms

Dd2 (2) has just finished a phase of pointing at boys in school assembly and shouting, "You've got a winky!!!"

This morning, on the bus, my three plder dcs were holding a conversation about the taste merits of snot, earwax and blood. Thank goodness nobody else heard them!!

marina · 08/04/2008 11:54

Ah, fantastic, love these stories the rude vitality of the young child and all that.
Dd is extremely funny NQC but sometimes a bit exhausting in her forceful exuberance . The rest of the family are more curl-up-with-a-book sorts.

BettySpaghetti · 08/04/2008 12:03

DS is 3.9 and really in the depths of the scatological phase at the moment.

There was one occasion where I found it difficult to keep a straight face -he was annoyed by something and stood there, hands on hips looking stern saying " Its not fair! If you don't let me do that I'm going to...(at this point you could almost hear/see his brain working overtime for a suitable threat).....poo on your head next time I need a poo"

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