but Stephen may come in second.
For months we have been struggling with a certain speech pattern I thought would not arise until the teenage years. At first it was the occasional, "Poot - hee, hee, hee!" Then in April, he told Nana we were going back to "Poop-a-nooga." This was immediately followed by telling Papa, "Goodbye, Poop!"
No amount of glares, ignoring, or punishments have worked to squelch this awful behavior, and as the elder son has also picked up on it, I feel like I'm living with middle-school boys. If it continues I can only imagine what Matthew's first word might be.
So we have enacted a new strategy to "clean" up the potty mouth.
Here comes the serpent-like bent of the human heart: Stephen has quickly come up with ways to cover up his slips-of-the-tongue. "Poo....Pooh Bear is a nice thing to say" or "Pee...'P' is a letter. Pizza. Popcorn. Potato." Poor Andrew is not quite so quick.
Please enlighten me on your new strategy, and if you think it may work on hitting and temper tantrums. We to have exhausted disciplining, ingnoring, discussing (that was a joke with a 2 year old!) and so on about why we don't hit others, or why we don't scream to get what we want. (Although sometimes I feel like screaming to get what I want :) Oh, these PRECIOUS children... how they do test us to the end! Sounds like I'm in for some more fun when Drew gets bigger :)
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