Comments on: Feeding Children Lies (for their own good)

By: Ginger

Ginger — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 23:13:00 +0000

dang, I wish this worked with my fifteen year olds.

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:00:00 +0000

Reverse psychology. Nice.

By: deleise

deleise — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:55:00 +0000

Nice method!

You might also try, “No honey, these are for mommy and daddy, if there are any leftovers I MIGHT let you taste it.” It actually works over here.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:19:00 +0000

It did take me a minute to catch on. “Potty mouth” usually references someone who uses foul language.
So when I saw “Potty Mummy”, I naturally assumed your were a foul mouth Egyptian artifact.
I wouldn’t change it. Potty on.

By: Potty Mummy

Potty Mummy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:48:00 +0000

Why, thank you Amy. I am constantly considering changing it as outside the UK no-one gets the joke and assumes (or at least, I think they assume) that mine is some fetish blog about unmentionable stuff. However, it’s too late to change, without losing track of all the people I’ve ‘met’ online. And also – what would I change it to? Potty (in the sense I mean), so perfectly sums up my life…

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:10:00 +0000

Well then you probably noticed, Potty, that I only posted about the day that the trick worked spot on. It doesn’t always work, cause it turns out that kids are smaaaart. Makes my head spin.

(I just jogged over to your blog and I must say that I found the whole story behind your name to be quite amusing.)

By: Potty Mummy

Potty Mummy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:45:00 +0000

I use that one all the time. But only because my oldest has become a super-sleuth (at 4) and picks through his pasta etc, sorting ‘good’ from ‘bad’ before eating. Which is of course when I roll out that old ‘you tried that before, and liked it’ line.

Sometimes, it even works…

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:35:00 +0000

If only that would work with Jacob. He just isn’t that trusting.

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:25:00 +0000

It should probably shame me that I am as good at it as I am.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:28:00 +0000

I like that picture of the veggies.

Too bad I’m such a horrible liar, or I could do your method as well.