We all find it tough to teach our kids the importance of being clean. We want to know what your kids say about their clean routine, which only they can get away with! Share your thoughts with Andrex® and you could win a £250 Spa voucher and a month's...

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We are working with the team at Andrex® on all things toilet tissue!
They have a new campaign launching soon about the importance of being clean, and want to know your thoughts.

They'd love to learn from you about the hilarious things kids say about keeping clean. Take a look at this video and see what other kids have said about being clean and their toilet routine, and let us know how your kids answer the question: How clean do you feel after using the loo?

Andrex® told us, "Teaching children the right intimate clean routine is important to their development. We also know they can come out with some corkers about this period: whether it's surprise with what they can do, or the things you say to them to encourage to keep clean - we'd love MNers to share them with us."

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My friend's 2 year old, who is currently potty training...

"Mummy, I just did a poo poo out of my willy!"

I managed to convince my son to finish his vegetables the other night by pointing out that if he didn't he wouldn't find any sweetcorn in his poo...worked a treat!

One day I won't have to talk about poo with my children and maybe I'll miss it but I doubt it. They both call me to examine poo and tell me what animal shape they thing they look like.

I have to buy puppies on a roll paper; DS, three, insists. And if we are out at someone's house and they don't have it, he demands 'dog paper, dog paperrrrr'.

My son has a favourite brand of hand wash which he likes. It's only an asda one luckily so not too expensive but he really likes the smell. I'm happy to buy it because it means he will wash his hands!! When he was younger, I would always encourage him to either let me know when he was about to go to the loo or shout for me to come and to the bathroom when he was done so I could help him wipe and make sure he was clean.

I don't have any funny stories that I remember but I asked my kids the question.

My 6 year old daughter said she wipes her bottom until it is shiny clean and sparkly, then she jigged about wiggling her bottom to show me just how glittery clean it is.

My 8 year old said her bottom is so clean she would kiss it if she could reach - she then tried to do just that with a few gymnastic moves (she managed). :)

When I had our 2nd son, our 1st was a bit mislead by the colour of baby poo... He didn't want yellow poo like the baby because he was a big boy so wanted brown poo like daddy because he's a big boy!

My little boy could not pronounce the letter 'F' for ages so Firefighter was 'siresighter', fish was 'sish' etc. So it was hilarious when he'd be on the loo and we'd ask if he'd done a poo and he would reply 'no - just a sart' (as he couldn't say 'fart'.

How times have changed in recent years - We used to keep him on the loo with a book whilst he used the loo, with my daughter, she asked for an ipad when she sits on the potty!

Reward charts are a fun and effective way to teach children new activities. When my Amelia and Toby were growing up, they each had a sheet of paper divided into columns. Each time they successfully completed a task (i.e washing the dishes, learning to use the potty) they were rewarded with a sticker. Once their sticker chart was full, they were were treated, may this be a new toy or a day out. You decide! But it was utterly effective x

ds: "very clean" which was quite a surprise to me as he is borderline ocd at just 6 yrs old.

When my son was 4 (now 8) he hated having to come in the ladies toilets with me when we were out and about as he loved to wee in the 'rhinos'.

I caught my son and another four year old in the toilet and the girl was saying to him "Come and look at my new princess knickers" I am glad they are only 4 and very innocent!

My three year old daughter delightfully announced that she had done "A family of poos" How heartwarming, they all flushed together.

Ds2 is currently obsessed with hand washing and cries when I turn the tap off!

So much shit on this thread.

if anyone is ever coming to the house, if my 2 year old does a poo before they arrive she always says "Laura (or whoever) come to see my poo".

normally we flush it done and the guest will sadly miss out. .

My daughter tells everyone that "Mummy says you have to wipe from front to back" and loves talking about "front bottoms"

My son still checks every now and then that girls don't have willies.

He is highly amused by a big poo.

He knows sometimes you have to wait for more to come.

He will always clean hands and dry them at nursery. At home he tries the whole 'I don't wanna wash' thing and then we have to make him. He's nearly four and a pain in the bum, but he's beautiful.

My daughter had a little friend around to play once who was born in another country with totally different customs etc. She had gone into the loo and had been gone a long while so I asked my daughter to knock on the door and ask if she was ok. Well she had been for a number 2 and said she couldn't get off the toilet until she had something "special" but she didn't know what the word for it was in English, so we had to play 20 questions through the door to try and fathom out what she was after, she said no to the offer of toilet roll, wet wipes and my enquiries as to if Mum had a bidet, aka special toilet with running water. No came back the answer to all my suggestions and she was adamant she wasn't getting off the toilet unless we could come up with what she was after. I had visions of having to ring her Mum and explain that her daughter was stuck on the toilet and wouldn't get off and I felt mortified by my own cultural ignorance. I thought my daughter might know as she went to school with her but she was as nonplussed as I. Eventually she settled for a jug of water, toilet roll and a towel and by my bribery by making the remark that she better hurry up as I was about to get the chocolate tin out. One day I did actually get around to asking her Mum what she wanted and her Mum was as nonplussed as I was.

Ds almost pooed a complete alphabet when he was 3. We had weeks of 'come and look at my curly cuh/ssss/wuh poo,'. He never did manage an x. They've got to be rare?

well i asked my wee girl the question and sadly she said never at school because sometimes theres no paper and it smells but always in my own toilet cuz its clean and it smells nice, and i keep baby wipes she prefers those for her hands the fruity smelling ones, and then she puts them into the bin, never down the loo, happy enough

@ mummytoboyz! Don't have a comment from dd but one of the funniest things I've ever seen was when we were first toilet training and she was so interested in where things were coming from that she leaned far enough over to actually fall off the toilet!

My 4 year old has just developed issues about both weeing and pooing after starting nursery, he is a bit obsessed about watching his wee come out and after weeing on the floor at school tends to hold his wee til he gets home. I have now resorted to using cheerios down the loo to help with 'target practise' and rebuild his confidence a little and to make it into a bit of a game. He won't allow anyone but me to help him with toileting and sits on either his potty or the toilet shouting for me. he won't say why until I get to him and then whispers he needs his bum wiping but not to tell anyone. After wiping he is very good at washing his hands because he says he doesn't want germy hands, even though I have done the wiping!

Whe I was potty training DS he used to excitedly inspect the 'snakes' he made in the potty (and make me admire them too). Yuck.

These are so funny to read! My son isn't talking just yet but I look forward to any silly/cute/random things he might come out with when he's older!