This week, I discovered potty words are not all bad. Like fire, they are tools, and can be used for good or evil.
Big is learning to read, and we were doing rhyming words. We had had an accidental discovery of what happens when you put 'sh' in front of 'it'. A quick switch to 'at' words lead to a similar...issue, shall we say, only in the past tense. This lead to an explanation of what the word was, and WHY IT WAS VERY BAD IDEA TO USE IT. ESPECIALLY IN SCHOOL. OR IN PUBLIC. (Pretty pretty please, not in the Starbucks, with a venti on top. )
This ensured, of course, that Big thought this was the funniest word EVER.
So I let the kid have one minute to talk to his grandpa using the word 'poop' and 'toilet' as many times as he could. Completely distracted him.
Awesome!
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