Scatalogical Obsession? Preschoolers? Surely You Jest.
Nora: "I don't want to go to [her babysitter's]."
Mommy: "You have to go to [S's], because Mommy and Daddy have to go to work. Why do you think Mommy and Daddy have to work?"
Nora: "I'm not thinking it. I'm mad."
Mommy: "Well, you might be a little less mad if you thought about it. Mommy and Daddy have to work to get money to pay for things, like food and the house."
Nora: "And toilet paper?"
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Upon looking at a book about groundhogs, with an illustration of the different "rooms" in their burrow, including the toilet chamber.
Nora: "Yeah, they don't want to sleep in their poop.
They might get some in dere ears."
Exactly, my child, that is exactly why animals have separate toilet chambers. To avoid the rampant issue of poop in the ears.
Mommy: "You have to go to [S's], because Mommy and Daddy have to go to work. Why do you think Mommy and Daddy have to work?"
Nora: "I'm not thinking it. I'm mad."
Mommy: "Well, you might be a little less mad if you thought about it. Mommy and Daddy have to work to get money to pay for things, like food and the house."
Nora: "And toilet paper?"
* * *
Upon looking at a book about groundhogs, with an illustration of the different "rooms" in their burrow, including the toilet chamber.
Nora: "Yeah, they don't want to sleep in their poop.
They might get some in dere ears."
Exactly, my child, that is exactly why animals have separate toilet chambers. To avoid the rampant issue of poop in the ears.