Comments on: Welcome to Parenthood: My Li’l Cookie Tosser http://kjtoo.com/2010/01/25/welcome-to-parenthood-my-lil-cookie-tosser/ Kris Johnson's Weblog Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:26:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kim http://kjtoo.com/2010/01/25/welcome-to-parenthood-my-lil-cookie-tosser/comment-page-1/#comment-232883 Kim Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:28:25 +0000 http://kjtoo.com/?p=2739#comment-232883 My husband and I have discovered an alternative use for "the pail" (or as we call it, "the bucket"). If there is one area in the room that you really don't want puke(the antique chair for instance), put the bucket there. Not that the child will actually use the bucket, mind you. No--the child will avoid the bucket entirely, and instead will proceed to puke anywhere else in the room. During a two-week bout of stomach flu last summer, we tested our idea by putting the bucket in bed with one of our children; it worked brilliantly. He puked over the edge of the bed, between the headboard and the mattress, into the LEGO container, and finally onto the carpet--just barely missing the towel that was carefully positioned to catch such a thing. The blanket around the bucket was spared. Worked like a charm! My husband and I have discovered an alternative use for “the pail” (or as we call it, “the bucket”). If there is one area in the room that you really don’t want puke(the antique chair for instance), put the bucket there. Not that the child will actually use the bucket, mind you. No–the child will avoid the bucket entirely, and instead will proceed to puke anywhere else in the room.

During a two-week bout of stomach flu last summer, we tested our idea by putting the bucket in bed with one of our children; it worked brilliantly. He puked over the edge of the bed, between the headboard and the mattress, into the LEGO container, and finally onto the carpet–just barely missing the towel that was carefully positioned to catch such a thing. The blanket around the bucket was spared. Worked like a charm!

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