Adrianna is obsessed with talking about poop these days. We finally told her that she needed to quit talking about poop, because it isn’t polite to talk about it all the time. So now, in her “avoidance” of talking about poop, our conversations go like this:
Adrianna: Mommy, it’s not good to say ‘Poop’, right?
Me: It’s okay to say ‘poop’. We just shouldn’t talk about it all the time because it isn’t polite.
Adrianna: But Mommy, Teddy Bear says ‘Poop’.
Me: Did you ask him to stop talking about it?
Adrianna: Yes, I told him, “No, no, no, Teddy. We can’t say ‘poop'”… Mommy, Care Bear said ‘Poop’ too.
And on and on it goes with her talking about her bears talking about poop.
We are borrowing a Berenstein’s Bears book from the library on eating healthy, and a couple of the pages are pictures of x-rays of their internal organs, skeletons, muscles, etc. She is very interested in those illustrations and asks me every time to explain what each one represents and what those body parts do. As a result, we talked about how our body needs food for nourishment, to grow, and to be healthy, which is why we want to eat healthy food, and that what the body doesn’t need is turned into poop. This must have really hit home, because now another conversation that we have at least once every day is in regards to what happens to food after we eat it. “Mommy, food turns into poop, right?”