A poopy solution

Remember our poopyhead problem? A friend of mine suggested that we figure out his "currency" and use that to help negate the problem. His currency could be anything that is very important to him and since he doesn't have candy in his possession, I settled on his trains.

So, now the rule in the house is that if he utters one of the forbidden words, one of his trains disappears. If he goes for a day without uttering one of the words, he gets them back. I'm not so cruel that I pick his favorites, I allow him to pick the one he wanted to give up for the cause. On the first day, he had a severe case of Poppyhead Tourettes and there were a couple of times he had to pick out five trains at once. By the end of day one there were more than 15 trains stored on the top of the kitchen cabinet.

Day two was a little better with approximately five trains.

On day three he finally got it. As he told me last night "I didn't say Poopy all day long!" I let that one go because, well, I was laughing too hard on the inside to point out that he'd just said it.

This morning, he got them all back. The original suggestion was that he would get only one back per day but frankly, I didn't want to store them that long and I figured this would provide a much more dramatic lesson.

This means:

1. He has way too many trains

2. Poopyhead is still his favorite word but he knows not to say it in front of me.

3. Trains are appropriate currency I may be able to use for other infractions.