Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Toilet woes !

So today was our bad day..!

It was raining hard outside - and inside as well!!! Children kept peeing in their clothes sometimes even twice as if they had just drunk a whole river. Mrn who is also on potty training pooped in her pants without letting us know and emulated Fr not only in producing pebbly stony poo like him but in also dropping several poo pebbles all the way from the classroom to the toilet. I wonder what do these kids eat that forms such  poo pebbles?
Changed and cleaned, she still couldn't stop crying and after shedding some hundred of liters of tears she still wanted to pee. She went and at the last minute couldn't undo the buttons of her clothes and peed a whole Nile river into her clothes, shoes and socks and still more and more and more until you could see a huge delta just minus the drainage into the ocean.

Then another girl, Sf who is a new girl, has a weird peeing habit. She just delights in peeing all the time even if she had been to toilet just five minutes ago. The parents agree she pees a lot but don't see anything unusual in it. So everyday she pees in the toilet at least 20 times and in her clothes at least once and still wets the bed whilst sleeping; today she wet her dress twice despite being to toilet a number of times. as if that was not enough she dropped a whole glass of water on to her clothes and had to be changed. Just 4 minutes before going to bed I made sure she had peed properly. As soon as she lay down she again wanted to go. I thought she was just being fussy and didn't let her go. Then 20 minutes later changed all the wet bed clothes, covers, her dress and all. I am going to give her a diaper from tomorrow during the sleeping time.

In addition to Fr, now Ksh has also started his potty training brigade from today. So before the first half of the day had passed by I had made so many trips to toilet that I was totally toilet sick. Not to mention at all that a new child Jr joined today who wailed so much that other five children decided to give him a stiff competition just to let him know that they could cry louder than he. And then I happened to tell Cl that Mrn was given a wrong slip by Mgt which is why she peed on herself - Mgt possibly heard me and became upset. I apologized to her many times and she assured me she wasn't upset because of this but I still suspect I had offended her.

While I was changing a child's wet clothes My was passing me by. I just casually commented,
"Oh, we have so many pee pee children today...I am tired."
"Ya," She smiled, "I hate children. Why don't you give them a diaper? I always give them a diaper."

Yes, I thought, that's why your children never learn anything. That's why H couldn't achieve a successful potty training and had developed such a great fear of peeing and pooping anywhere but in his diapers that for some time I was actually considering going to a doctor for advice.

Whatever, today I am bone weary, really really bone weary. Its a mercy that I love children and my students so much and have enough dedication , love and duty towards my work that even the disdainful tasks such as cleaning wet poopy children don't put me off much less repel or repulse me...

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