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JP - 2004-03-25 07:08:06
Whee! I'm the first post!
If I had a dollar for every time I was caught shitting on the neighbor's porch, I would be a rich, rich man.
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Kaire - 2004-03-25 07:27:25
As long as you don't do a side by side grunt, I think things will be ok. You know, unless Andrew is still doing this when he's 15 thinking the chicks will dig it.
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Anne - 2004-03-25 07:39:50
Okay, I know I'm dense. He had a diaper on, right?
Disturbing visuals.
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Dharma - 2004-03-25 07:47:21
I pass the torch to you - I thought I was the last person to see Donnie Darko. I however, fell in love with it and watched it obsessively for weeks.
If you give a crap about making a little sense of the movie - I suggest you watch the deleted scenes and/or the director commentary. It clears up a few details. The trivia on IMDb helps somewhat too.
Leave Andrew be, I mean really - who HASN'T shit on their neighbor's front porch at some point in their life? He's just putting a check mark in that box early in life.
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Concerned - 2004-03-25 07:58:02
Seriously....toilet train that kid already!!
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Kelly in HSV - 2004-03-25 08:35:07
I second that emotion, Concerned :-) BUT, better the neighbor's front porch than every spot of carpet in your house! hehe How long is his daycare going to let him go without being potty trained? If he is aware enough to go hide on sommeone's porch, he can certainly run into the house to the bathroom!
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Flashlightning - 2004-03-25 08:39:02
I never shit on anyone's porch. Does this make me strange? Great, something else to obsess over.
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the fucktard - 2004-03-25 09:07:16
I dan't have any kids, so maybe I have no clue, but it occurs to me that this might have been an ideal time to teach Andrew that one should go home when one's bowels need to empty.
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Cheri - 2004-03-25 09:38:43
Yep - if he's going in private to take a crap and is asking for you to "leave him alone" while he does it - he is definitely ready for toilet training. Sounds like he's being a bit lazy about it, which many kids are - they love the convenience of going whenever/wherever. But he's clearly giving you signs he's ready...cuz, you know, I just know your kid so well and all.
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amy - 2004-03-25 10:52:05
OK, Uncle Bob. As the mother of a toddler who has had some steps forward towards potty training but lots more backwards, I want to tell you I feel your pain and please don't let the comments in this area make you feel like a loser. I'm sure you already do.
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jen - 2004-03-25 11:03:04
As the stepmother of a child who, shortly before her third birthday, decided she was going to be potty-trained, and then sort of miraculously, instantly was, I have no advice for you on that front. I lucked out.
On the Donnie Darko subject, without spoiling it for the masses, I will tell you to visit donniedarko.com, which gives more detail on what the book the crazy lady wrote was about, and essentially the key to the movie. Also, if that's a pain in the ass, just realize it's about parallel universes and the choices we make and how the tiniest ripple changes everything. The Butterfly Effect covered much the same premise, much more overtly.
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jen - 2004-03-25 11:07:27
Also, and it's worth saying, the movie has some of the best uses of music in a film I've ever seen, particularly the song at the end and the Tears for Fears song during the school montage, where the secondary cast is essentially introduced and put into context. Can you tell I'm a fan?
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Jendra - 2004-03-25 11:40:50
This may sound extreme... but I know a woman who has potty trained over 7 children and not all her own. She has even trained highly mentally challenged men to use the bathroom. Family who have toddlers and are having trouble potty training come to her.
First she tells the child how happy he'll make her if he uses the potty. She tells him this all day. No diapers, no pull ups or other glorified diapers. If the child goes in his pants, she will leave him in those pants for a short while. Just enough to make him very uncomfortable and unhappy. This teaches the child how inconvenient going in his pants is. After 10-15 minutes ahve passed, she'll clean him up and start again. You have to devote solid time to this without stopping. She always makes sure he drinks a lot to speed the process. Extra praise for using the potty and stressing the importance of big kid underwear.
I hope you have better potty training days ahead.
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Jendra - 2004-03-25 11:41:31
This may sound extreme... but I know a woman who has potty trained over 7 children and not all her own. She has even trained highly mentally challenged men to use the bathroom. Family who have toddlers and are having trouble potty training come to her.
First she tells the child how happy he'll make her if he uses the potty. She tells him this all day. No diapers, no pull ups or other glorified diapers. If the child goes in his pants, she will leave him in those pants for a short while. Just enough to make him very uncomfortable and unhappy. This teaches the child how inconvenient going in his pants is. After 10-15 minutes ahve passed, she'll clean him up and start again. You have to devote solid time to this without stopping. She always makes sure he drinks a lot to speed the process. Extra praise for using the potty and stressing the importance of big kid underwear.
I hope you have better potty training days ahead.
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Jenna - 2004-03-25 12:05:37
I've seen Dawn of the Dead 2 times already. The second time I stayed for the credits. It was a good movie, so good it kept me awake last night thinking about if that really happened & creepin myself out.
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emily c - 2004-03-25 12:06:35
Donnie Darko is being performed as a play tonight and this weekend. I will be performed at zero church street, Harvard Sqare, Cambridge, MA if you happen to be in the neighborhood.
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Saara - 2004-03-25 12:07:08
I still haven't seen Zoolander. I want to see it, but I guess it's a great movie since it's never in when I go to the rental store.
My first son wanted nothing to do with potty learning until shortly after his fourth birthday. Yes, fourth. My second son had just turned two. Every kid is different.
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Saara - 2004-03-25 12:10:02
Durrrrr. My second son had just turned two when he decided he wanted to use the potty. It took them both just a couple of days from beginning of learning til they had it down.
When he's ready, it should be really easy for everyone involved.
I'm not a fan of Dr. Phil, but he had a show on training & it made a lot of sense. Lots of praise & lots of water.
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Saladwhore - 2004-03-25 13:54:02
Donnie Darko is an absolute masterpiece of a film and don't worry - almost NO ONE "gets it" the first time they watch it. I really think it's meant to be watched over and over again. And yes, the director's commentary on the DVD will offer some insights as well. But I honestly feel, regardless of the intention, it's an open-ended film that could possibly have many, many explanations. It's just cool like that. Oh and if you take the diaper off the kid, he might get around to pooping in a pot for ya. Buy him some Thomas Underoos or something. Those diapers and pull-ups make it all too easy to just cop a squat in their pants. That's why they make them big enough to fit fifth graders ya know.
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Kay R - 2004-03-25 14:58:31
That Andrew! HEH!
The worst part is that you know he can contemplate when he goes but it happens to be the neighbors porch and not the potty! Kids. Gotta love em.
My sinuses did that backlash thing on me once. One stopped up one not. When I quit taking the sinus meds it was hell for a day then it went away. Those cold medicines will cause your nose to do that crap.
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Lyzz - 2004-03-25 15:07:39
Go see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Good movie. My friends and I ended up having some wierd-ass deja-vu off it too. SO I need you to see it, and tell me if you got the deja-vu too, or if we just need to stop smoking crack.
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Gerry - 2004-03-25 16:09:12
I find it disturbing that not more people commented on "Dawn of the Dead".
I saw the original for the first time about a year and a half ago. For the next few months, my roommate and I, if we couldn't figure out anything else to watch, would watch "Dawn of the Dead". Which was at least twice a week. Sometimes more. I think what I loved so much about it was that, unlike other survival/horror movies, the characters always followed my shouted suggestions. The remake, while very good of its own accord, just isn't quite as good as the original.
Oh, and I stayed for the credits. I'm not a dumbass.
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Erica - 2004-03-25 17:27:58
Eh, I haven't seen any of these movies, but I do have kids, and potty "learning" can kiss my ass in hell. My son REFUSES to use it, regardless of my encouragement, praise, frustration, stapling him to the toilet seat... The bottom line is if they're not ready, we can't decide for them when they will be ready.
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Stacey - 2004-03-25 18:16:42
I AM a dumbass. What did I miss in the credits? I was siting by smelly guy and guy behind me who likes to give commentary so I rushed out.
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Dawine - 2004-03-27 12:38:41
Heh...says who kids are difficult to toilet train? All you need is patience, a lot of time and a lot of newspapers. Kidding. That's for dogs. But seriously, check out Infant toilet training if you don't want to wait any more. It amusing if nothing else. When the kid needs to go, hold him over the toilet bowl. Hee. Disturbing visuals.
Yesh, currently I have two blocked sinuses, two blocked AND RUNNY nostrils and some little men tickling my nostrils with feathers. One word. Sudafed. That stuff is like acid and burns like it too. But being able to breath is worth it.
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