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skyler_m
12-10-2003, 09:40 AM
Well, I definitely know I'm the parent of a toddler. I'm a senior manager at a pretty large company. Depending on the project I can have between 4 and 12 people working for me. In a group of about 8 people yesterday, I excused myself from a working session using the following phrase:

"I'll be right back. I have to run and go potty."

It will be years before I live this down.

Please include your own experiences here!
IAKaraokeGirl
12-10-2003, 09:41 AM
<---uses "potty" all of the time. At least you didn't specify further. ;)
Lilith
12-10-2003, 12:25 PM
at least you can go with out "the potty song" playing in your head. I had a preschool student with special needs who was afraid of the potty soooooooooooooooooooooo I developed "the potty song" and now I hear it everytime I go....torture:p
Steph
12-10-2003, 12:39 PM
Pixies . . . birth control for the childless :jester:
skyler_m
12-10-2003, 12:57 PM
Lilith - I had the Potty Song from the video "Once Upon a Potty" going through my head for months straight.

Steph - It definitely has its up sides, though. :D
lakritze
12-10-2003, 01:08 PM
It's my potty and I'll cry if I want to,cry if I want to........Thank you Howie Mandel
Sharni
12-10-2003, 01:28 PM
LMAO
Bardog
12-10-2003, 04:15 PM
Remember the movie "Look Who's Talking"

You gotta fight...
For your right...
to potty
zipededoo
12-11-2003, 04:21 AM
... when you are meeting with some high powered executives, you talk in your best child-friendly sing song voice...
zipededoo
12-11-2003, 04:35 AM
... when someone asks for a tissue, you offer it to them, hold it to their nose and say "blow"...

Zipper xxx
zipededoo
12-11-2003, 04:36 AM
... when you try to wipe smudges off of colleague's and friend's faces with a tissue moistened with spit...
zipededoo
12-11-2003, 04:37 AM
... when getting through a meal without getting splattered by food is seen as a major accomplishment...

Zipper xxx
skyler_m
12-11-2003, 09:12 AM
Well, I tend to splatter myself with food when I eat sometimes. Maybe one day I'll get to experience that... :)
sillyme
12-11-2003, 10:27 AM
when you rock everything...grocery carts, etc. while standing in line. I still do this and my kids are teenagers! ;)
nikki1979
12-11-2003, 10:42 AM
LMAO yall make me feel so good about doing this stuff!!!!!

~nikki~
jseal
12-12-2003, 10:40 PM
nikki1979,

That's what parents do...
Steph
12-14-2003, 03:32 AM
And us childless people are in shock that people with teenagers still rock the grocery cart! :D
dicksbro
12-14-2003, 07:06 AM
Originally posted by lakritze
It's my potty and I'll cry if I want to,cry if I want to........Thank you Howie Mandel

You had to post that, didn't you? I'm going to be going through the day singing that to myself all day now. :(

LMAO

It's my potty and I'll go if I want to ... la de dah :D
Kissy
12-15-2003, 12:17 PM
The songs that get stuck in your head are the worst. I don't go many places so it's not so bad for me, but my husband says he finds himself singing them in school and at work.

Do potty songs work? We aren't that close...yet. My kid did just take her diaper off yesterday and potty in the dining room so I may just need a new song soon....

too funny!
Sugarsprinkles
12-15-2003, 12:25 PM
Well, I was sitting holding one of my cats that hasn't been feeling well the other day. Suddenly I realized I was rocking her. And my "baby" is 24!!! Guess old habits die hard.
Teddy Bear
12-15-2003, 02:28 PM
You know you're the parent of a toddler when...

You're in the grocery store and hear someone yell: "Mommy"..... and you look..... even though you know your kids are at home.

(Mine are 21 and 17 1/2, but I still look)
zipededoo
12-15-2003, 04:24 PM
Lol... but that's a good thing Teddy!

I asked our little one for a cuddle the other day and he came over, slipped his arms around me, and gave me a big hug, even murmuring and patting my back softly! So funny - he'd never done that before and it was such an imitation of me!!