When is it okay for a dads to resort to potty humor to get the kids back on track? Is this really a question that you want the DadLabs guys to answer? Ready or not, Daddy Brad and Daddy Clay weigh in on the Potty Mouth Debate -- how many poop jokes can a "good" parent make? Can these mildly dirty jokes make a good parenting technique to use on children? DadLabs The Lounge ep. 230.

Daddy Clay: Welcome back down to the lounge. This week we are talking about potty humor. Parenting tool? Or a way for daddy to get in deep do-do?
Daddy Brad: Both, I think it is both.
Daddy Clay: I can’t lay off, I’ve got a problem I can’t lay off the potty humor. With my kids 3, 6, and 9, I mean it just works. It just works. Just a pee-pee, pooh-pooh joke.
Daddy Brad: Toot. You can get them to do anything if you tell a joke with toot in it. Eat broccoli, eh they will do it. The wives don’t like it very much.
Daddy Clay: No it doesn’t work with the wives at all. And why is that? I mean it is not like I’m you know rolling up with like “So this crack whore comes into a bar…” I mean I you know.
Daddy Brad: That’s a good one I heard that.
Daddy Clay: I mean it’s like you know so the other day you know I’ve got my oldest and he has his friend in the car. And this other kid was clowning “Well you know my mom always gets mad at me that I get grass stains on my shorts when I am playing soccer. And so I told her I would just play naked.” And that is a whole different conversation. But I said “Oh hey now that would make a “greenie weenie!” It’s not funny. It’s not really that funny to an adult, “greenie weenie.” Those boys, they both had drinks, they both shot you know the soft drinks out the nose. And they laugh for 20 minutes because dad had said “greenie weenie.” And my wife is in the car and I looked over and she was giving me one of.
Daddy Brad: Stink eye.
Daddy Clay: I mean just like double vault with-
Daddy Brad: Stink eye.
Daddy Clay: With stink eye is coming like right at me man. I was just like.
Daddy Brad: But it’s, it’s so useful it worked. This morning we were going to school my son is having a snot slinging meltdown, crying. And you know that translates over to my daughter starts crying. What do I do? What do I do? So I come up with the nice little “Toot Song” you know. And you had been watching The Lion King, Akuna Matada. So I sang “Akuna daddy tooted. It’s gonna stink for the rest of the day. It’s a bean free philosophy. Akuna daddy tooted. I mean that is pretty good. My kids immediately started laughing. The whole commute, laughing, laughing, laughing. If my wife had been in the car.
Daddy Clay: So what is the argument here? That you are promoting a coarsening of society that children are going to become desensitized and suddenly they are going to be talking about poop and pee in kindergarten. And what’s the down- I mean what is the real downside?
Daddy Brad: I think that is one of it. But I think it is also that if it is just like saying “Hey if you stop beating up your sister I will give you some ice cream.” It’s a bribe. It is a kind of like a stinky, earthy bribe.
Daddy Clay: You know I suppose there is a lot of arguments but I am using it.
Daddy Brad: I am all for it dude.
Daddy Clay: Because it works.
Daddy Brad: It is part of my parenting repertoire.
Daddy Clay: So if you have got a really great poop joke, you know this is a clean pooh-pooh, pee-pee funny
Daddy Brad: Toot.
Daddy Clay: Toot joke that works with your kids why don’t you drop it to us in a comment here.
Daddy Brad: Just drop it.
Daddy Clay: And we will reward you-
Daddy Brad: Just pinch it one off man, leave it on the comment deal.
Daddy Clay: We will reward you with this dung beetle kit. These aren’t actually dung beetles. They are different kind of beetles.
Daddy Brad: Other kind but they poop.
Daddy Clay: But they come in a kit and poop and the kids really like these. So give us a funny comment. We will pick two. One will get the beetle barn and then of course the ubiquitous.
Daddy Brad: Yes.
Daddy Clay: Doo Dads DVD set. You don’t really need these if you have kids that you are entertaining with your pooh-pooh humor. But you might have a cousin or a friend or a coworker that really needs some good pregnancy, labor and delivery advice. So there are these.
Daddy Brad: Yeah.
Daddy Clay: So drop us a comment.
Daddy Brad: Dude that is funny, drop us a comment.
Daddy Clay: What should I say? Poop us a comment? Pee us a comment?
Daddy Brad: Negotiate the release of the chocolate hostages, Ha!
Daddy Clay: You can also let us know what you think about the viability or the efficacy or even the morality of using potty humor.
Daddy Brad: Efficacy?
Daddy Clay: As a parenting tool.
Daddy Brad: That sounds dirty. I don’t even know what it means but it sounds dirty. I might even use that. Efficacy sounds like a ef-fecal-cy.
Daddy Clay: You couldn’t use that.
Daddy Brad: I couldn’t, not in-
Daddy Clay: So we’ll see you next week down here in the lounge.