How do you deal with "potty words?"

BubblyToes

Will's teacher sent home a note today that he and his friends were sent to time-out for using potty words.  This has gotten to be a problem at home too. 

 How do you deal with this in your house?

gracendantho26

This is quite an issue in my house and I totally blame Sponge Bob but I don't want to take the show away.

oops I should have added that I have not really dealt with it as much as I should yet and part of it is because I am not sure where to draw the line...do I send him to timeout for calling his sister " a tarter face head" or only when he calls her  something like a "poppy butt brain face." So confusing!

emilykristene2006

The only thing that works is time-out. Someone else said they tell their kids they can use those words only in their room. We'll use that too when it gets worse than , "poop".

DandelionMom

Tabasco sauce. 

Gracie enjoys talking about underwear lately so we've been talking about privacy a lot.  It seems to be working. 

 

kittycarr

E&B went through this and nothing I did helped.  It wore out for several months and the last week has been very bad again.  Everything is poopoo, peepee, diaper, butt, what's for dinner mommy poopoo, sister i'm gonna eat your butt poopoo, where's your butt diaper eee-tin, and so on.

Right now, it seems that correcting it only seems to be drawing attention to it.  So far, it seems to work that I'm ignoring it.

becoming_untied

It depends on the circumstances.  If DS drops "pee pee or poopy" once I might ignore it.  If it continues I say he if he wants to use potty words to go do it behind the privacy of the closed bathroom door.  He usually stops at that point because he wants a rise out of me or an audience from his sister.

goodheartedmommy

I find that banning them doesn't work--being 3 year olds, they want to say them just to push the boundaries. We have the rule that they may say anything they want--behind the closed door of their bedroom. No one wants to hear them, but if they want to say them, they're free to say whatever word they want to say at home, in their room. It works--and I find that since they have that freedom, they don't take advantage of it often, but Ethan really does understand it, and Bella hasn't used naughty words yet!

ilovemygirls

We haven't dealt w/that yet, but I recall my sister telling my nephews (who are now in their 20s) that if they wanted to say a potty word, they had to say it into the toilet.  They did it a few times (you could hear it echo LOL).  The naughtiness of it didn't last long though, since the toilet is really not the greatest place to stick your face.  I thought that was great.