Who wants to play with poo?

[Sabine]

Since I had a snow day today, I was able to watch Regis and Kelly for the first time since last summer. They were doing a segment on new toys for kids, and one of them was a baby doll that goes to the potty and has her own play potty to boot. Now, I get that for some reason little kids like to play with baby dolls that seem real enough that they even go to the bathroom, but this doll was too much! You sat her on the potty and pushed down, and then when you took her off, in the potty the water had turned yellow and some little poo appeared. Then you could flush the toilet and it would disappear. Seriously?!? Do kids really want to see their doll''s fake poo?!?

 

[Independent Gal]

I remember from first year psych class in college that kids only learn that things like poo and puke are disgusting when they are 4 or 5. It''s a learned thing, apparently, not instinctual. The relevant experiment was pretty gross. But quite conclusive. Something about milk that had had...well, never mind.

Anyway, so I guess leeeettle kids might well like a toy like that. And if it helped with potty training, I guess it could be a godsend. Still, I figure that the WAY they learn that stuff is gross is because we tell them so, so if we are letting them play with it, then maybe that message will take longer to get through?

 

[CrownJewel]

Date: 2/22/2008 2:58:51 PM
Author: Independent Gal
I remember from first year psych class in college that kids only learn that things like poo and puke are disgusting when they are 4 or 5. It''s a learned thing, apparently, not instinctual. The relevant experiment was pretty gross. But quite conclusive. Something about milk that had had...well, never mind.

Anyway, so I guess leeeettle kids might well like a toy like that. And if it helped with potty training, I guess it could be a godsend. Still, I figure that the WAY they learn that stuff is gross is because we tell them so, so if we are letting them play with it, then maybe that message will take longer to get through?

Makes sense. I never thought of myself as "short" or even that it was such a bad thing until people in middle school would say "oh my god, you''re so short!"

 

[Independent Gal]

Yes, it is funny what we don't notice or know as children until someone tells us. I never noticed that people were different colours until I was, like, 10? Nobody ever pointed it out as something worth noticing, any more than, say, different eye colours were worth noticing.

I bet there are a tonne of things like that that you only re-realize are learned when you have your own kids and realize they don't know those things automatically.

 

[door knob solitaire]

Oh Sabine! I thought you were posting some adorable picture of a fluffy critter named Poo.

Hmmm...the poo you speak of has no interest to me. But I wonder if a mother trying to potty train a tot won''t think that that was the best thing eva! I can see how it can be a great learning tool. And to be so jubilant when the poo is seen and then flushed.

That potty thing is a tough one to understand when you don''t understand time, days, or even your name. But a visual...any visual I vote for! Ok...seems like I am on board as I play out my thoughts. But again...mine are potty trained...a little bark and I open the door. Viola.

 

[FrekeChild]

So I don''t think this is the one that you''re talking about but the name cracks me up: Once Upon a Potty

 

[AGBF]

I used Once Upon a Potty and Toilet learning while toilet training my daughter. Books like that were very helpful. The trick was to read them to the child (I went through this with many children besides my daughter) before trying to get the child to act on the desired toileting behavior. When he gets to the age where all-things-potty become interesting one can give him Toilet Learning with its pictures of how the animals make pee pee and poo poo (the parent is to use whatever words he uses for these functions) outside. It has pictures of the pipes that carry these commodities away in cities. It has pictures of, since everyone has to do this, even firemen and teachers and doctors and babysitters, each one of these people sitting on a toilet. Children love to read all about the subject. It is endlessly fascinating and not at all threatening since no one is, yet, trying to make them give up their pee pee and poo poo, which they value and think, at that age, is part of them. That book was dear to me!

Deborah

 

[Dreamer_D]

I don''t personally like to play with poo

, but I bet little kids who are toilet training would! Our best friends have a daughter who is a little over 2 and has been reluctant to use the potty, but at the same time she is facinated with pee and poo. She says to her dad, "can I watch you pee?" hahaah... I asked him what he says and he says okay as long as she just watches the pee stream into the toilet, if she gets too curious or wants to touch things he kicks her out! haha. She also asks her mom, "can I watch you poo?" That I don''t think I could handle, but I guess you do strange things when you are trying to get your child out of diapers!

DD

 

[Independent Gal]

Know what just occured to me? This toy is very unlikely to be aimed at the toddler / toilet training set because it has small uh, pieces, of, uhhh, you know what. I guess toys for under 3''s generally don''t have small swallowable choke-able pieces, right?

So who is this toy aimed at?!

AGBF, is what you say about kids ''valuing'' their doo doo Freudian, or from your own observations of kiddies? Curious...

 

[AGBF]

Date: 2/23/2008 11:47:36 AM
Author: Independent Gal


AGBF, is what you say about kids 'valuing' their doo doo Freudian, or from your own observations of kiddies? Curious...

Both. Since my training is psychodynamic (aimed at looking at behavior via the inner workings of the mind) when I observe people I naturally see their behavior in psychodynamic terms.

In other words, if I see a two and a half year old boy who doesn't want to flush after he does number two, I am seeing a child value his own feces. If I hadn't been educated about this, however, I might not know why he was reluctant to depart with his feces. That's the part we must attribute to Freud, because I didn't come up with the insight on my own! I had to be taught about it in school.

Deb

 

[VegasAngel]

Well, just so happens I was thinking about getting a doll like that for my daughter. I really think it will help her with toilet training at least I hope it will

 

[Sabine]

Haha, I never even THOUGHT of this as a potty training tool! (Although it does have small, swallow-able parts as Indy pointed out!

) I was imagining a little girl playing "momma" to her doll...now it''s time to feed the baby, now it''s time to get dressed for school...but before you get in the car make sure you try to "make," it just seemed a bit too realistic for me, which actually has me thinking that maybe the whole kids thing is going to be FARTHER down the road that I had been thinking!

 

[Dreamer_D]

Vegas Angel, I have never seen this doll and I am curious about it so take come pics when you get it, eh? We''ll start a new thread called Show Me The... well, never mind...

DD

 

[VegasAngel]

Date: 2/23/2008 8:14:49 PM
Author: dreamer_dachsie
Vegas Angel, I have never seen this doll and I am curious about it so take come pics when you get it, eh? We''ll start a new thread called Show Me The... well, never mind...

DD

LOL

I''m definitely going to get my daughter this doll or one like it & I bet she''ll go crazy when she sees it. I will post a review. Only thing I worry about is my girl annoying me to put a diaper on it oooooovver & oooovver again

 

[LegacyGirl]

When I was a little kid one of my aunts sent me a doll that you fed and then it peed or pooed in its diaper and you had to change it. Needless to say the doll never got played with. I thought it was gross even when I was little. I did write a very nice thank you note though

. We found the doll recently when my parents were cleaning out their garage. I still thought it was gross.