In an attempt to convince Alex to stop the boycott on using the potty, John changed Alex's bedtime story (Alex had chosen the book Humu, the little fish who wished away his colors) into a pro-potty propaganda piece.
Rather than the story being about a shy colorful Hawaiian fish who wanted to be the color of sand so he could blend in better, it became a story of a fish who was being pressured by his friends to stop using the potty. Humu, knowing that not using the potty was making his parents very, very sad, ran away. He met a whale (in the real story, the whale is magic and changes Humu into a sand colored fish) who could only make unintelligible whale sounds, but Humu interpreted the sounds as confirmation that yes, he should always pee pee and poo poo in the potty.
There were some unusual plot twists, such as when Humu "in an unusual display of gay pride" somehow made all of his colors come off of his body and become a rainbow in the water. And there was some strange discussion of "pink underwater broccoli", "photographs of a friend's endoscope procedure" and "green anal tubes".
The story ended with Humu taking his friends back to see the whale so they too could learn the importance of using the potty. Sadly, the whale was no where to be found, but they did find a spiffy new gay pride rainbow shirt that Humu put on causing a rainbow road to appear in the water which the three friends swam along into the sunset.
It's too early to tell yet whether the story has helped persuade Alex that using the potty is the thing to do from now on, but we did have some success this morning in that he asked to use the potty for his morning poop, something he hasn't done in a week. YAY!
Note: It could also be because I've increased the reward for a poop deposit to a Thin Mint cookie rather than a single jelly bean. If nothing else, Alex will probably start gaining some weight.
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