I believe we have officially given our child his first hang up. When wiping him off during diaper changes we often say "ewww." After a while, whenever his diaper was off, he started gesturing towards his penis and sayaing "ewwww, ewwwww."
Horrified that we had inadvertantly taught him that his privates were "ewww," I tried to reprogram him. Every time he did it, I wold counter with "No, not ewwwww. It's good. It's clean. Mmm, good." The very first time I succeeded in getting him to respond to that, I realized I'd made a worse mistake. There he was, pulling on his member, saying "mmm, good" over and over.
I had already been worrying about what everyone at daycare was going to think of him pointing down at his thing and saying "ewww." Well, what exactly are they going to think that we are doing with our kid when he shows up next time touching himself and saying "Mmm good" ???
