talking toddlers.....i think

sometimes i think snippets of conversations - ok, sometimes WHOLE conversations - with my toddlers could be the same words i spoke with my psych patients at the psych ward when i worked there....

here are snippets from one of my toddlers or to one of my toddlers.... ahh, brings me back to the 3rd floor, white padded walls, locked unit.

- "wave bye bye to the rainbow."

- "if you're going to poop, you should put your knees together."

- "because we don't poop on picture frames!"

- "oh - you are so cool with your new freckle!"

- "watch out for the con-scratching worker!"

- "is that your turd on the floor?"

- "everyone toots out of their butt."

- "please stop licking my face."

- "do you have two ears so you can hear twice?"

- "no!!! DON'T excuse my butt!! that's my job."

- "the bathroom smells so clean i could just eat the whole thing."

- (staring at a candycorn) "oh my god....it's so colorful!"

- "did you just lick off your own saliva?"

- "you wipe in front first."

- "if i am this much and then that more, i'll be SO much!"

- "alright! stop putting carrots on me!"

- "when a fridge ate a lizard, it didn't really have a mouth."

- "ok, it can be your toosh." (trying to give her toosh away)

- "did you take your hair off your head?"

- "hold on, i need to get my piano out of the bathroom."

- "you can have a kiss, but stop trying to lick the chapstick off of my lips."

- "putting on my shoes is going to take me months!"

- "how come our butt's not in front? is it because it looks better in back?"


"Psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist." ~Karen Horney