Hubby and I have a problem.
We can’t say penis.
We have a son and we can’t say penis.
He’s almost 18 months and soon he’ll need to learn how to pee urinate on his own in the toilet.
My question is: How can we effectively teach our son how to pee urinate in the toilet if we can’t tell him what part of his body the pee urine comes out of?
It’s sad, people.
Hubby calls it: “His wee-dandy doblin.”
I call it: “His wee-wee.”
The poor kid is going to be so confused when we are both calling it different things while trying to potty train him.
“We.” Ha. Isn’t that cute? I actually said we would be potty training.
I will be potty training.
Hubby won’t even allow Jonathan in the bathroom with him when he is peeing urinating.
“Hey, I don’t need him in there staring at me while I’m peeing!” Hubby shouted at me one day.
“He has to learn somehow!” I shouted back.
“You can teach him!” Hubby declared.
“I can’t teach him to stand up while he pees!”
“Well, what if he looks and says ‘Whoa! Daddy’s really small’?”
OK. Is he serious? Our kid isn’t even 2 yet. He is not worried about the size of anyone’s wee-wee.
I’ve been working toward the potty training phase, showing the little one where we pee urinate. I use moments like when I take his diaper off to put him in the bath and he shoots pee urine across the bathroom floor to tell him about where we should be peeing — I mean urinating. (Darn my mother for always correcting me, saying ‘pee’ was an impolite word! Now I feel dirty and full of shame for saying pee!).
We have the “Potty Time” book and just picked up the “Potty Time” Elmo DVD. My brother and I got more of a kick out of the Potty Time book than the toddler did — especially the parts about “I feel something funny” and “Oh! Somethings happening!”
Jonathan isn’t yet interested in potty training, but I’m getting ready for when he is. I’m working up to saying the word “penis” when he pokes at his wee-wee and when urine shoots from it his penis.
I can do this. I can be mature. When I need to be. But I don’t have to be yet. So it’s just “wee-wee” and “wee dandy doblin” for now.
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They’ll also make you laugh so hard that’ll you’ll pee urinate your pants.
Yup, I can’t quite say it yet either. My word of preference these days………wanker! ha!
“wee dandy doblin” is probably the funniest thing i’ve heard in a long time. can’t wait to pull that one out when/if we have a little boy! wouldn’t you rather have that than a p#@%$?
OK, we say penis (sometimes just for fun! Just kidding!) but I just love “wee dandy doblin” so I think we might change to that!
I totally back you up - your son should watch his dad do it to get the right idea. Also, you gotta bite the bullet and say it - PENIS! It’s so much better than resorting to “your privates” or “your little friend.”
Don’t ask me. I have 3 va-jay-jay’s running around my house and he only wee-wee belongs to hubby. Thankfully he already knows what to do with it.
I was in a public restroom once where I heard this exchange:
The Mother: “Here, pull down your pants and I’ll sit you on the seat.” (The commodes were high, probably too high for this kid to git er done the way he was used to.)
The Son: ” ” (Probably getting into launch position, then the little feet turned toward the door, he was hoisted up, and disappeared.)
The Mother: “Here, push your PENIS down so your URINE goes in the water”
The Son: (giggles)
I don’t know, it just seemed sort of clinical and weird to use the big grown up words for such a little guy. I don’t think the nicknames are a problem, as long as he isn’t still using them by the time he gets to the gym class phase.
Repeat after me: You aren’t scarring your child for life. You aren’t scarring your child for life. Not yet. After all…..
You’ve got the accidentally stumbling upon mommy and daddy ‘doing it’ age to hit yet.
Wait a minute. “wee dandy doblin?” I couldn’t even get past that sentence!
We are definitely penis and vagina-ers over here. But I let the boys call it their “package” during everyday talk (which, you will soon learn, consists of nothing but poop, pee and packages).
It’s a weener!!!!
You found me and I’m glad you did. This is hysterical! We have the Elmo DVD as well since my own toddle tot is your son’s age. She’s Nov 13. I cannot stop laughing at Elmo’s dad since some of the things he says sounds creepy if you’re not looking at the screen!
We call it a pee-pee right now since she knows that’s where she urinates from, but I’m tempted to say va-jay-jay just to piss my hubby off a bit. Maybe the male version should be pe-nay-nay?