How Can I Flush My Kid's Potty Humor?

"Stinky Butt Pee-Pee Pants" I almost spit my coffee out on my computer. She should instead record her kids and post them on You Tube!

Oh get over yourself! Potty humor is normal and healthy for younger boys especially!

Want it gone? Ignore it! The more you react to it, the more you promote it! Just shrug it off and refuse to even respond to it.

Sooner or later, lil' johnny will outgrow it and move on to something else.

hay just let the kids talk about there peeps and poops and you can go back to talking about anatomy you learned at 3:00am drinking your vodka. adults have an advanced potty mouth

Enjoy the potty humor, sooner or later they become teenagers and you dont even want me to tell you the variety of words that come out of their darling little mouths.....

He's 4 -- Give me a break.

I'm a 27 year old female and I find potty humour hilarious.

Ignore it. They aren't doing any harm in speaking that way and it isn't swearing at least. It is humor that is on their level. They aren't going to get adult humor or think "clean" jokes as humorous. Leave them alone and eventually they grow out of it. It may be a 10, but they will. Kids in the past have thought farts were funny, kids now do, and the ones of the future will. It is just the way kids think! It they persist thinking it is funny into school years, let them know that they shouldn't speak that way at school because it could get them in trouble. That is what we have done with my nephew. He knows he can say certain stuff at home and around us, but that he shouldn't use certain words at school. He listened and it worked.

He's a male, we never grow out of it. We just learn to save it for more appropriate situations.

Oh, NO! Not POTTY HUMOR!

*rolleyes*

Bodily functions are hilarious. Even George Carlin told fart jokes!

The idea of encouraging a kid to learn new words, like, 'egregious,' 'propensity,' or 'ephemeral' for attention value, rewarding the speaker with coin or privilege, can have long-lasting effects of recognizing the fun of learning new words and using them properly. My Daddy threw Latin into our conversations and then would toss in a word that had a Latin derivation, like "pulchritude" (which means beauty) that I immediately took to school with me to use when the opportunity arose. Teachers loved it! 8)

Okay, dear, you really need to calm down about this! He's 4, and your daughter is younger. Trying out new words, especially bathroom humor (especially!!!), is a common part of their linguistic and social development at this age. They're fascinated by the effect their words have on other people (including you!) and are enjoying their experiments with them. While it might be uncomfortable and embarrassing for you right now, it's normal, and it will pass. My advice:

1.) Don't let your kids see you react to it. If you're super vigilante about it and get frustrated with them, they'll learn very quickly how to use it to push your buttons and get a good reaction out of you. If they don't get the reaction they're looking for from you, they will lose interest. As far as the laughing goes-that will fade on its own time. They're just being kids.

2.) Teach them the proper names for their parts and functions ("urine" is a lot less fun to say than "pee pee" for some reason), which they should be learning anyway, and it will open the door to the whole good touch/bad touch conversation if you haven't had it with them yet.

I think it's funny I actually joined in with my son . In moments of frustraion when he pooped in his pants instead of the potty I'd say you big do do head he crack up and say no you are mommy but it was always a well needed laugh he gave me with the potty jokes now he is 7 and those words he never even uses anymore

I'm not a father yet but I remember my potty humor phase, probably 3 or 4 years of age. Right before bedtime, in pajamas, just mom and I on the couch watching TV, my mother would smile and laugh at my potty humor. Anywhere else inappropriate my mother would command me to stop but most importantly-her facial and body language conveyed disapproval, inappropriateness, disgust, but also a major sense of urgency to abandon the humor immediately and return to seriousness. I remember the shocking difference in her reaction freezing me instantly. It was very clear, I understood.

I think my mother laughing in private strengthened our bond. I felt a sense of assurance from my mother that I was smart, funny, creative, and I felt a sense that we shared the same humor. That my mother laughed gave me a sense of a deeper genetic bond, a closeness, and that my mother and I were both intelligent. In an inappropriate situation, when her reaction was severely different, I felt it deep inside. A huge loss, but somehow very clear to me why. It made me understand that there is an outside world separate from our private bond, and that they had expectations that my mother and I follow in public, but that in private she got the jokes, the humor, the intelligence, etc.

I think the way my mom did it was brilliant. I went through the phase quickly and immediately chose to be best behaved, responsible, and act like an adult as a very young child in public. I knew that would keep/ensure/preserve my mom very proud and she always let me know clearly that it did. Our bond was saved because I clearly saw that the limitation was from society, placed both on my mom and I that we couldn't have potty humor in public. From then on I remember always being told I was so very well behaved and responsible for my age and acted like an adult in adult restaurants, movies, etc. at a very young age.

Interesting fact, among friends/peers in private, since kindergarten, I have always had the MOST foul, filthy language. Still to this day. I have a instant switch that flips off around anyone else including my mom, work, etc. where I switch to my other non-swearing language. I've always felt its uncontrollable and subconscious, but I suspect its because the swearing with friends in private brings back that childhood feeling of bond, deeper understanding, that the outside rules don't allow. ?

The idea of encouraging a kid to learn new words, like, 'egregious,' 'propensity,' or 'ephemeral' for attention value, rewarding the speaker with coin or privilege, can have long-lasting effects of recognizing the fun of learning new words and using them properly. My Daddy threw Latin into our conversations and then would toss in a word that had a Latin derivation, like "pulchritude" (which means beauty) that I immediately took to school with me to use when the opportunity arose. Teachers loved it! 8)

It's an uncomfortable stage, but the good news is your son will eventually grow out of it. I like the suggestion a previous poster said about making it clear that he can use the words in a certain context but not in others; it gives him more freedom than an outright "no," which is a surefire recipe for child rebellion.

The best thing you can do to quell the behavior where you don't want him to say such words is to minimize your reaction as much as possible. Yes, he'll escalate and you'll be mortified, but eventually he'll run out of options. When he no longer gets a reaction, he'll no longer find it entertaining. Another possibility is to try to teach him some words like "serendipitous" for him to have fun with. Even get a word-of-the-day calendar and go through them with him each day. My mother did this with me, and if I managed to say the word in normal conversation three times in the day, I'd get a penny (which, to a kid, is quite a bit). If he's got an interest in words, you may be able to redirect it to a positive direction.

I have no problem with him using his potty language. He can say it till the cows come home. Doesn't mean I need to hear it.

Yep, we call them "bathroom words" and they are only allowed in the bathroom. Works for me, and I have two creative (translation=naughty) preschoolers. Good luck!!

What's the problem? By the time he reaches grade school he's going to know every hyphenated four letter f-word, anyways

My 4yr old is going through this big time. He's been told he's been allowed to use this humor in the bathroom or bathroom. No one else needs to hear his "poopy and pee pee" song.

I don't really see the harm in it... He's 4... give him a break! He'll grow out of it.