No talk about poop, pee, toilets and other bathroom-related subjects!
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| New York : Blue Sky Press |
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It’s been said that adults spend the first two years of their children’s lives trying to make them walk and talk and the next sixteen years trying to get them to sit down and shut up.
It’s the same way with potty training: Most adults spend the first few years of a child’s life cheerfully discussing pee and poopies, and how important it is to learn to put your pee-pee and poo-poo in the potty like big people do.
But once children have mastered the art of toilet training, they are immediately forbidden to ever talk about poop, pee, toilets, and other bathroom-related subjects again. Such things are suddenly considered rude and vulgar, and are no longer rewarded with praise and cookies and juice boxes.
One day you’re a superstar because you pooped in the toilet like a big boy, and the next day you’re sitting in the principal’s office because you said the word “poopy” in American History class (which, if you ask me, is the perfect place to say that word).
You’re probably wondering, “Why would adults do that? Why would they encourage something one day and discourage it the next?”
The only answer I can think of is that adults are totally bonkers and should probably be avoided at all times. Perhaps you’ll be lucky and find a small handful of grown-ups whom you can trust, but I’m sure we can all agree that you really have to keep an eye on most adults, most of the time.
Which is just what George and Harold did.
Extract from the book Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People
by Dav Pilkey .
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New York : Blue Sky Press, 2006.
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Extract contributed by Krist Chan
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Have your parents ever encouraged you to do something one day and discouraged it the next?
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July 23rd, 2010 at 6:19 pm
My parents have encouraged me to do something one day but have not discouraged me the next
July 23rd, 2010 at 7:06 pm
We have to talk about those thing because we normally do it. As a normal person.
August 25th, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Parents will encourage and discourage according to the child’s age. What is unacceptable at a young age might be acceptable at an older age.
It goes with the maturity of the person.
August 29th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
No.They are always encouraging me.