Thursday, January 22, 2009

Favorite Potty Training Tool

Can you sing "If you're happy and you know it" or "Hokey Pokey"? YES!
Would you like to change those songs forever? Then I have the solution for you!

Try this:
Sing Hokey Pokey in your head, then this outloud:

You take your undies down
You take your potty out
You sit your bottom down
And you push the poopy out
You do the tushy pushy
Till the poop is in the pot....
That's what it's all about!

(This is Madison's favorite! Tawny's too! HAHAHA)

Here is another easy one:
Sing "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands" in your head.
Now outloud sing:

If you pee peed in the potty, shout Hooray,
If you pee peed in the potty, shout Hooray,
If you gave it your best shot
Then your pee is in the pot,
If you pee peed in the potty shout Hooray!

There is a second verse that is the same for "poo pood"

One thing about this potty training is that you have to keep your sense of humor about you at all times!

Ever wonder why we as adults often will read ANYTHING in the bathroom? (Shampoo bottles even if you forgot your magazine) Well I bet it was because our parents distracted us on the potty during training with "Let's read one more book"...

I always wondered why every time I went to Barnes and Nobles, I had the urge...okay TMI I know, but for those of you old enough, please tell me you remember the Seinfeld "Bookstore" episode. If not, well you have to forgive me, I am almost 40!

3 comments:

Aly sun said...

Wow, I can't believe you are already potty training. It takes a lot of work from mom at this age, but I hear it can be done. Good for you! I tried with my older daughter at 18 months and it didn't work AT ALL. The whole thing was a miserable failure and so I decided to wait until Mandy is 2 before starting. But just today, Mandy went poop and said poop while pointing at her diaper. It got me thinking it might not be too soon to start with her since she has an older sister to model. I'll be eagerly checking your blog for updates!

Tawny said...

You know that this cracked me up because I got to hear these crazy songs. Plus-- I thought I was the only one who read shampoo bottles!!!

Shawna said...

I was hoping that this would entice a comment out of Tawny since I knew she heard the songs in person and I requested she karaoke them for all her friends with kids, but alas, no such luck!

I am so laughing out loud that someone admitted reading shampoo bottles! I knew I wasn't the only one!