Oh lordy lordy, what do we do about his willy???

[MrsMerryHenry]

DS is potty trained. Huzzah!!!

Now that he's in pants he's discovered the joys of fooling around with his willy. Which is fine. But having turned a blind eye to his fooling and feeling for the past 2 months or so we now feel it's time to set some boundaries, such as:

• pulling your willy up out of your jeans and leaving it poking above your waistband is simply not socially acceptable, darling

• keeping your hand down your pants 50% of the time is welllllll a bit too often

Heeeeelp! Do they grow out of this level of initial fascination of their own accord? Have any of you had success stories with setting 'guidelines for the handling of a toddler's todger'?

DS is a fiddler.

One long car journey he was havign a fiddle and then started to cry as his willy was "sore". I think he was about 3.5yo

Thankfully I had already read on MN about young boys getting erections so was not too shocked, DH did not believe me - he thought that that did not happen till much later.

Glad to read this thread- my 3 1/2 year old is rather proud of his too! He usually has a hand on it when watching telly, in bed, in the changing rooms in the pool (eeek).

No advice to add other than what has already been said. I usually discreetly ask DH to intervene 'man to man' if he is around and DS is indulging in a particularly heavy session!

There was a boy at DD's nursery who was like this...always whipping it out. He particularly liked flicking his nappy off with one hand while performing graphic manipulations with the other, as each mum turned up to collect their little darlings.

A lot of the mums had little girls only and were a bit shocked so the head of the toddler room took us to one side and said "well, you must understand that Pierre is FRENCH," in a very refined whisper.

He WAS french, but it's not confined to them!

Rofl at "he's French"! Wonder what that nursery teacher encountered on her hols...

With little boys and even receptionn age I have found a simple 'hands up' much better than 'stop that'.
I look after a friend's little boy who's 3 and he'll sit there wth a hand up each leg of his shorts, glazed expression too - I just say hands up and then distract him.

hehe. laughing a lot at this. dd (2 1/4) loves nothing more than to strip, have a fiddle then rush up to you, climb onto sofa so she's at your eye level, bend down and reverse into your face shouting "LOOK AT MY FAT BUM". i have no idea where she got it from. its kind of amusing, but not all our guests handle it well...

on the neurotic front i then stress quietly about a) telling her its a bit rude and having to explain why and b) worrying that she thinks her bum is fat.

but i try just to find it amusing. probably won't be so funny if she's still doing it at age 12 though.

mmelindt, dp was under the same allusion... he was really shocked the first time i mentioned ds1 having an erection, funny how they forget isn't it?

rofl trikken at aeroplane. Funny though, i am much more laid back about ds fiddling than i am about dd, i think cos the boy bits are on the outside, it's when fingers start exploring holes that it all gets a bit 'put some pants on dear!'

My ds went through a stage of sitting naked with his legs apart and letting his motorised Thomas the Tank chug in between them while giggling 'thats tickles mummy!'

Another one here, aged about 3 and unable to pronounce the letter l properly, whilst absent mindedly fiddling in front of the telly "look my wirry is big!"

Now aged 5 only does it intermittently although apparently did once whip it out in the classroom last year. We have just told him other people don't want to see it when for example he's climbing on the living room windowsill naked. I still let him change outside the cubicle at the swimming pool though (he likes to be by a locker so he can put all his things in as he takes them off), so a bit two faced there I suppose, he hasn't twigged.

This is one of the funniest threads I have seen in ages.

My ds almost 3 is a fiddler he comes into bed with myself and DH most mornings for cuddles before we get up. He envariably pulls his willy out of pj's and tells us both very proudly -look at my big willy . He also went through the pullng his willy out of trousers and leaving it sticking up and thought it was hilarious.

Our Ds1 (5.10) still fiddles too - but he has stopped doing it so much outside ever since he tripped over and wasn't able to stop himself falling over, as he had BOTH hands down his pants! . He had grazes all over his face and knees where he hit the ground, poor thing!

He also spent most of a nursery christmas play with his thumb in his mouth and his other hand down his pants. In the front row, where all the other parents could clearly see. sigh.

I found when he went to school he stopped doing it so much, but a quick 'hand out!' did the trick most of the time. Although I don't know why I bother - the other night he was on the settee next to DH, and both of them had their hands down the front of their trousers!! Was quite satisfying for me though as I called 'hands out' and both of them jumped and looked guilty....

Now DS2 (10mo) has just found his, so off we go again......

We took DS age 5 on a rollercoaster and when the rollercoaster went down a slope (a pretty scarey one like the Grand National at Blackpool type) he shouted loudly "my willy's gone all tickly" !!!

I seem to spend half my life shouting 'Leave your willy alone!' to DS at the moment. Am trying to get into the habit of the slightly less head-turning 'Hand out of your pants DS' but don't always manage it.

My friend's 3yo DD once announced to a man on a bus that she liked to play with her vagina but sometimes had to stop because it got 'too sting-y'.

The joys....

DS (8) has just given his willy a name. He says 'I'm just in the bath playing with James' (a bit confusing as he also calls his invisible brother James)!

Luckily he confines his fiddling to the bath or when he's getting dressed and I just tell him to 'stop messing' as I do when he picks all the skin the side of his fingers.

LOL at putting hula hoops on it!!

LOL at the hula hoops!

DS (14 months) seems to have chronic priapism. Every sodding nappy change his is up like a flagpole and he has actually bashed it quite badly because he's only just walking and let's just say, his brakes don't work well yet. So he goes barrelling into furniture and bashes his willy and then cries.

"chocolate starfish", phlossie? I didn't think it possible, but you've just put me off chocolate for life.

SGB Sorry for the hijack, but your input would be appreciated here

Thank you.

LOL @ "Ta da!"

SGB, I think we'll have similar rules to you!

Today (just before visitors arrived) he got it out and I asked him to put it back in. I've obviously trained him exceedingly well because he said in his politest voice: "No, thank you mummy!"

Apparently Chris Evans once got his willy out in a board meeting and laid it on the table. Until I heard that story I always thought the term 'dickhead' was metaphorical.

This reminds me of my friend with ds aged 2 or 3 who was constantly fiddling, getting his willy out in the buggy, rubbing it up and down then leaving it out etc. Eventually she took him to GP just in case he had an infection which was causing irritation etc. So the female GP asks him to get up on the couch and examines him to full running commentary from very articulate 6 year old sister saying "Yes, then he does this, then he does that" etc. So GP says all looks ok and asks him to get down off the bench, he hops down, pulls up his pants, gives a big grin and says "Oooh that was fun!"

Ds 4 loves a fiddle and to show off his 'chookie' at any opportunity.
Only on Monday did he go out to my mums front step to water the plants and done a big pee on them.
Im sure I leaked a little myself with laughter whilst my mum gave us both into trouble (me for laughing instead of telling him off, I honestly couldn't help it and chastised him later).

And I won't mention the time he went through a phase when he discovered his bum. I thought it was a malteser lying on the floor!