Doing the "Gotta Go" Shuffle
August 6th 2009 18:43
There is an ad on the television that depicts adults in various stages of discomfort, frantically searching for the "necessary room". Obviously none of these people are parents of small children. Because every parent worth their salt knows the location of every bathroom within a 50 mile radius of their home. If they regularly venture further from home than 50 miles, they are aware of every possible place to make a quick pit stop.
I didn't realize the importance of knowing where the bathroom was in every location I visited until I had a child and that child began to be potty trained. Then and only then do you really begin to understand about the urgent nature of nature.
Take the grocery store. Of course I realize that there had to be a facility there for employees to use but I never thought to ask about the location of a bathroom in the grocery store until I had a two year old tugging at my sleeve begging to "go now". I've climbed wooden stairs at the back of stock rooms and seen the "behind the scenes" places in the grocery store in the name of helping a little person stay dry.
A mother knows where the rest room is in the grocery store, the bank, dry cleaners and every eatery in town. Mothers who are training their children can easily be spotted because they are the ones who have a child grasping their bottom and hopping along at their side.
I've known mothers to keep a little chair in the trunk for long distance car trips. Because when the time comes, if there is no fast food place or gas station available, it is better to let it all hang out on the side of the highway than to risk wet pants or worse...the big dirty.
Sometimes, children, especially boys seem to take an extra long time to get completely trained. Some boys don't seem to care if they are wet, dry or stink to high heaven. I've seen three year olds still happily wearing disposable training pants. I always want to remind their mothers that sooner or later everyone gets potty trained. I've never known anyone to go to the Prom in trainers. And if they do get to go to the Prom unpotty trained, you probably don't have to worry about them staying out pass curfew.
I didn't realize the importance of knowing where the bathroom was in every location I visited until I had a child and that child began to be potty trained. Then and only then do you really begin to understand about the urgent nature of nature.
Take the grocery store. Of course I realize that there had to be a facility there for employees to use but I never thought to ask about the location of a bathroom in the grocery store until I had a two year old tugging at my sleeve begging to "go now". I've climbed wooden stairs at the back of stock rooms and seen the "behind the scenes" places in the grocery store in the name of helping a little person stay dry.
A mother knows where the rest room is in the grocery store, the bank, dry cleaners and every eatery in town. Mothers who are training their children can easily be spotted because they are the ones who have a child grasping their bottom and hopping along at their side.
I've known mothers to keep a little chair in the trunk for long distance car trips. Because when the time comes, if there is no fast food place or gas station available, it is better to let it all hang out on the side of the highway than to risk wet pants or worse...the big dirty.
Sometimes, children, especially boys seem to take an extra long time to get completely trained. Some boys don't seem to care if they are wet, dry or stink to high heaven. I've seen three year olds still happily wearing disposable training pants. I always want to remind their mothers that sooner or later everyone gets potty trained. I've never known anyone to go to the Prom in trainers. And if they do get to go to the Prom unpotty trained, you probably don't have to worry about them staying out pass curfew.
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