Enough with the poop talk

This morning Summer and I went to wake up Gavin. I opened the curtains signing "Good morning to youuuuu!!!" and then went over to his bed and put Summer on him and said "Git 'im! Git 'im Summer! Poop on his head!" and placed her with her bum on his head. Gavin rolled over with his eyes still closed and said in a sleepy voice "Tasha says enough with the poop talk. You only talk about poop when you need to poop".

Uh.....

Ok, well I guess he has a point. It's a good policy. I myself have complained about the amount we talk about poop, pee, farting (also known in our house as "tooting"), boogers, stinky bums, stinky feet and, well, general stinkiness. It's gross, right? Undignified. Not the kind of thing nice people talk about. But you know what? If I'm totally honest, most of it comes from me.

Starting when my kids were very very tiny...just home from the hospital...I would play "stinky foots". This is where I lay them on their backs with their feet in the air, grab a foot, take a big long sniff and declare loudly "PHEW!!!! What a stinky foot!".

Then there are the songs. There's the one about the marines and the beans (Inky stinky parlez-vous), and then there's the one about the little fly who flew into a store and he...well, did his "business" on the bacon, ham and the head of the little grocer man. TWICE. Come to think of it, I also change the words of songs to make them about my kids being stinky.

Why do I do this? I know it's not a good example for the kids. I do not want them going out into the world calling people poopy-heads or telling their friends they have stinky toe-jam. I'm well educated and I know a lot of words, and I'm also nearly 35 years old. I know better and I have other things I could joke about with the kids. So why do I do it? Shame on Mommy! SHAME!

So listen up, Me....ENOUGH already with the poop talk!



















......but it's really funny! POOP!