THERE GOES HARVARD
Three-year-old suspended from Arlington preschool for too many potty accidents
(Thanks to Horace LaBadie)
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January 30, 2011
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Future math professor?
Posted by: SW | January 30, 2011 at 12:47 PM
Do you suppose nursing homes are going to try the same strategy?
Posted by: Wingnut | January 30, 2011 at 01:02 PM
Hey Wingnut! It was a long shift and I had been busy! Things do happen. Oh wait. You were talking about the patients in nursing homes. Never mind.
Posted by: nursecindy | January 30, 2011 at 01:08 PM
Did anyone check the link about potty-training infants?
Posted by: Elon | January 30, 2011 at 01:17 PM
Actually, Elon ... NO! I went thru the process of watchin' MB(FH?) potty-train our kids, and I'm simply NOT interested ...
HOWever, I'm thinkin' about our society, where "powers-that-be" are only interested in makin' toddlers (and old folks) conduct their micturition and evacuationalnessism on a "demand" basis ...
Sorry ... I don't think of this as "progress" ... merely sayin' ...
Posted by: O the U(manity) | January 30, 2011 at 02:57 PM
"After frantic calls, the parents found a spot for Zoe in a program that works with children who are being potty-trained."
I'll bet that's a load off their minds.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 30, 2011 at 03:12 PM
Schools would be better all around if they eliminated some of the grunt work.
Posted by: Clankazoid | January 30, 2011 at 04:15 PM
Send her to Washington.
Never mind, she's already there.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2011 at 04:48 PM
Edgar?
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 30, 2011 at 04:48 PM
Potty Manifesto sounds like a lotta crap to me.
Posted by: funny man | January 30, 2011 at 04:49 PM
"We told Zoe that we want her to go to a school where people aren't going to get mad at her for having accidents," Rosso said.
translation: it's okay to "have accidents" thus increasing the likelihood of such.
Posted by: funny man | January 30, 2011 at 04:51 PM
Methinks her parents are the ones who need to learn when to do the pushing and when to relax.
Posted by: NotSherly | January 30, 2011 at 04:54 PM
"Zoe, you need to make peepee in the potty, so Mommy can go back to work to pay the mortgage. No pressure or anything."
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2011 at 05:14 PM
How about, "Zoe, you need to make peepee in the potty or Santa is going to repossess all your toys because we can't pay him. No pressure or anything." Annie, I think both those statements together would make Zoe think twice about wetting her pants. Of course it could also ruin Christmas for her.
Posted by: nursecindy | January 30, 2011 at 05:44 PM
There goes Harvard? Well, there's always Brown.....
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 30, 2011 at 05:52 PM
Never irritate a pig. -- Homer Simpson.
Phew, just made it to the bathroom.
Posted by: Horace LaBadie | January 30, 2011 at 06:14 PM
Public Service Announcement: Roger McGuinn is on PBS right this very minute.
Posted by: Guin | January 30, 2011 at 06:42 PM
Is he making pee pee, Guin?
Posted by: Punkin Poo | January 30, 2011 at 07:02 PM
Rarely is the question asked: Is our toddlers learning? Or, as the case may be, toilet trained?
Posted by: W | January 30, 2011 at 07:09 PM
Hello? I must be going...
Posted by: Baby Zoe | January 30, 2011 at 07:17 PM
*snork* at Meanie's "Brown" line
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 30, 2011 at 07:17 PM
Potty Manifesto WBAGNFA David Spade-Rob Schneider movie.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | January 30, 2011 at 07:20 PM
Someone needs to do the potty dance.
Posted by: Loudmouth | January 30, 2011 at 07:24 PM
One can hope that the Principal's future nursing home has the same policy.
Agreed that potty training is very individual. We had trouble with our oldest but I think our youngest was born potty trained.
Our four year-old grandson still has the rare accident.
I have vivid memories of my last "accident", asleep in bed. I was seven. We had spend a busy evening eating mucho watermelon. That night, about 3 a.m., a shark came out of a wave and got me....
Posted by: Steve | January 30, 2011 at 08:08 PM
Snork @ Punkin.
Posted by: nursecindy | January 30, 2011 at 08:11 PM
Some parents use that 'don't pressure' idea as an excuse not to deal with it. Zoe's mom was 'shocked'? That's b.s. Preschools have rules about this stuff - every incident is reported and logged (har). After 'x' number of incidents, the kid has to 'go.'
Zoe's gonna go thru school known as the kid whose mom sued so she could 'go' at school. Sure hope they have a savings account for therapy.
Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | January 30, 2011 at 09:25 PM
Pee-culiar story IMHO.
Posted by: Wolfsong | January 30, 2011 at 11:10 PM
Pee's out!
Posted by: PirateBoy | January 30, 2011 at 11:39 PM
There goes Harvard?
oh well...
Posted by: Fickstuten | February 28, 2011 at 05:29 PM