Get Their Pee Away from Me

JeanneSager — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:30:00 GMT

I'm one of those parents who extols the virtues of "eau de kid." So I was all excited to read Peter Hartlaub's ode to the odors of kids in the Poop this week.

Until I got to section two. Cheerios and pee.

Really Peter, you had to lay that one out there for the child-free by choice folks to throw back at us? Maybe it's the mark of a mom who was beaten down by potty training, but where I agree with everything else on Hartlaub's list, his assertion that "the faint scent of toddler pee can actually be kind of pleasant." just made me want to retch.

Yes, I know he was kidding (sort of), but let me lay out my own list of reasons the Cheerios and pee smell has apparently been WAY overrated:

1. My daughter insists on sleeping with at least five to six books in her bed every night so she can "read" herself to sleep. As a sign of her love of literature, I couldn't be happier. As a sign of what's to be thrown out at 2 a.m. in case of that (rare, but still) bedwetting incident . . . ick. Nothing says read me like Goodnight Moon with urine dripping off of it.

2. Although perfectly able to use the "big" potty, the lure of the small potty is big in my house. Like most potties for kids, it lacks a flushing function. It makes up for it with a lid . . . which is usually left open. The only other thing you need to know? We have a dog. Nuff said.

3. Accidents happen (and if you watched Elmo's Potty Time as much as we did, you are now singing the song), but wet undies can always be whisked away to sit in the middle of a pile of laundry that needs to be done . . . right in the center of the pile, where heat and urine meet. Yum.

4. Ever been peed on by a potty training toddler? I don't think I need to say anymore!

But Hartlaub has good news for all of us. They graduate to the suntan lotion/peanut butter/Play-Doh/bananas smell . . . and it smells gooood!

Image: Green Baby Guide

GoodNights "Sleep Boxers" Help Your Kids Pee Their Beds in Style

Karen Murphy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:45:00 GMT

I admit it. I am totally raising a family of bedwetters. But shhh, not a word of this to anyone, because know that my kids would totally not be down with me telling you. So...promise not to tell? Pinkie-swear?

I mean, it's not like I said when they were born, "Hey, it'd be great if this kid spent the next ten years in diapers!" Hardly. But my two middle kids both were well over four when daytime diapers went away, and one was 9 when nighttime finally became a non-issue and one is 7.5 and it's still an issue. I know, I know, there can be anatomical issues at play that make it nigh near impossible for a kid to wake up at night in order to pee, and I think I get to blame their dad in the genetics department because I know it wasn't me, but it's times like this when I almost wish I wasn't such an agnostic paganish person and had something to pray to besides trees, because seriously, the torment a kid goes through when they're that old and still pee the bed is simply awful to behold.

And as much as I'd like to make fun of the new underwearish-looking pee pants from GoodNights, what I'm going to do instead is run out and buy some, because if a pair of pink plastic scaled-down Depends would make my daughter feel comfortable sleeping in the same room as all the other girls at her next sleepover, then they are totally worth the probably two bucks apiece.

(Although please don't click on the link, as the saccharinity of the mother-and-son duo serenely and drily gazing out the window at the stars is enough to make me hurl.)

(And thinking about diapers being called Sleep Boxers kind of makes me want some...it sure would eliminate those pesky late-night trips to the bathroom!)

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