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Kindergarteners don't have this bathroom skill anymore 2 · Scott & Ally on Demand

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  SPEAKER_00: Now we're not trying to be like real critical on things today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't think it's possible to be real critical on things because, well, with you know, Dolly passing and all that, everything that keeps coming to mind is how how what's a good way to be kind on on things?
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  SPEAKER_00: But then you have to stop for just a second and you go, Well, there's this kindergarten teacher that has experienced the five bathroom habits that she's now experiencing, which was never the case when we were younger.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you used to have to go into school knowing and handling yourself in in the restroom a certain way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's out the window.
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  SPEAKER_01: We did find out from a listener, though, that the teacher is not the one that can actually wipe your child's butt because these kindergartners going into school, not being potty trained, found out the nurse has to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: But then they're also missing class.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was a standard for me and for Scott, and I think many of you that you had to be potty trained before you went into school.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a certain number of things we had to know before we went in.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Scott was even asking just a second ago is you know, what was the thing that you had to basically crash course with your kid just to get them into kindergarten?
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's one of the text messages.
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  SPEAKER_01: Last year, before my oldest started kindergarten, uh, we were doing potty training.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was great, but we actually had to housebreak him.
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  SPEAKER_01: Summer was a scramble to reinforce that at home.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you can pee in the woods.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can pee outside, that's okay, but you can't do that on the playground.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hey, by the way, side note about the uh house training.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't like playing away games, and I'm far from kindergarten, if you know what I mean.
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  SPEAKER_01: So my five my almost five-year-old is still wanting to use the potty, so we're trying our best to get her ready.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you got about a week and a half.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you're almost there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then this one.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a little harsh, but I understand I understand the passion behind it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is from 2617.
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  SPEAKER_01: Too many parents are couch parenting.
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  SPEAKER_01: They sit on their phones on the couch, scrolling through social media instead of paying attention to their kids and being consistent with things like potty training.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that was what I was asking was do you think it's the consistency?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I think, well, there's two factors.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, one, every kid is different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a level of, I mean, if there was a standard and this was the playbook, I know there's books out there on potty training and different methods you can use, but if there was a playbook saying it's going to be one, two, three, four, five, and then by six you're on your way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, not ages, I'm talking steps.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we all would do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we all would do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: There isn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is there is exceptions to the rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: And even for the parents that aren't just sitting on the couch scrolling social media, not that I terribly disagree with you on that, but uh for the ones that don't, it is it is different.
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  SPEAKER_00: I I I can tell you, uh so for Gavin specific, I don't remember Megan.
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  SPEAKER_00: I really don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been 25 years, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: So So 20 years ago, you were potty, she was potty trained.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I can't remember, but I I will tell you this for Gavin, and here's the difference in kids.
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  SPEAKER_00: For Gavin, it was like he it was like a switch went off.
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  SPEAKER_00: One day it was that, the next day, everything was handled in the bathroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: For Lydia, it was a stage.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was able to get the pea part down.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was the other part that took a little bit longer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not not excessive.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let me tell you something else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Parents, hear this, okay?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because if there's one thing that Scott, cheapo scott, can tell you that is glorious.
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  SPEAKER_01: What?
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  SPEAKER_00: The day you have to stop buying diapers, oh, yeah, and the expense that is, your world has just brightened.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like Dolly Parton would walk through the door right now and brighten our day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Your day brightens when you don't have to go to the store and buy any diapers.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think there is exceptions too.
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  SPEAKER_01: When did you ever know that one kid who didn't want to stop playing, so then they had an accident?
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, again, exception to the rule.
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  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are exceptions that you can get around.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think most kindergarten teachers specifically would say we we can accept the exception.
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  SPEAKER_00: What this teacher was talking about is it's the standard, it's the normal, and that's the problem.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is great.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just had a woman at the DMV that took her son outside to pee in the parking lot.
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  SPEAKER_00: Home run, lady.
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  SPEAKER_01: Home run.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have a restroom.
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  SPEAKER_01: Why would you take him outside to pee?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh boy.