Should the Sitter Man Poop Scoop Duties?
When a mom comes home to find a big pile of poop in her kid’s potty, the first thought might be “yay, she finally used the toilet!” But can you blame the parent who thinks just as quickly: why is this still in here?
Kelcey Kintner of the Mama Bird Diaries pondered this week whether it’s the sitter’s job to dump the kid’s potty. A quick poll of my Strollerderby colleagues came up with a unanimous: um, YES!
Think of it this way - if you leave your non-potty trained kid at home with a sitter, you expect them to change the child’s diaper. So if feces and urine are part of the job for babies, they’re part of the job for toddlers too - because they’re too young to do it themselves. Which is why you HIRE a babysitter - because they are too young to do most things for themselves.
Besides - dumping a potty is significantly less disgusting than diaper duty. You don’t actually have to get your hands in there! And you can use a disinfectant wipe on the potty - you can’t use one of those on a child’s delicate behind.
Has your sitter ever challenged this one?
Image: The Wu’s Photo Land via Flickr
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Tags: babysitter, diapers, Jeanne Sager, Playdate, potty training, sitter
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[...] to the always fabulous Storked! (The Daily Single Mom Blog on Glamour) and the always entertaining Strollerderby on Babble for linking to my How I Got Dumped By My Babysitter post. There are a lot of opinions out there on [...]
New York City Mom|The Mama Bird Diaries - humor parenting commented on Oct 23 09 at 12:02 amkelcey at the mama bird diaries commented on Oct 16 09 at 2:43 pmThank you “Strollerderby colleagues” for supporting me! I may not have a sitter anymore but at least I’m not crazy.
GP commented on Oct 16 09 at 3:44 pmWhile cleaning the potty is not necessarily easier or less disgusting than diaper duty, I would agree…YES! I mean, who the heck would leave a pile of shit festering in the house?
Manjari commented on Oct 16 09 at 3:53 pmI think cleaning a potty is more daunting than changing a diaper, which is why our kids went straight from diapers to the adult toilet. I agree, though, that whoever is in charge needs to take care of it and not let it sit out - gross.
jeannesager commented on Oct 16 09 at 3:55 pmI never LIKED cleaning the little potty, but I guess I always found it easier because my daughter was a squirmer during a diaper change. I appreciated the fact that the potty didn’t move on me and smear poop up my arm!
kentrina commented on Oct 16 09 at 4:13 pmIf she’s not dumping the poop that means she’s not helping her wipe her hiney either!
DCMama commented on Oct 19 09 at 5:06 pmSitter should dump the potty. But, as the mom of a toddler and an infant, there have been a number of times when I have dashed off to do something (like chase down a toddler so I can wipe a behind) and left a poop in the potty, only to come back hours later and think ewww gross, how could a do that. So, coming home to fine poo in the potty would not necessarily make me fire the sitter. But, a sitter who said “not my job…” oh yeah, fired!
