Reinforcing habits with humor

I usually make up a little easy-to-remember song. It (almost) always works. Hm. How about this:

Everyone around the town
Always knows to flush it down!
Don't forget to wash up well
Because your mom can always tell!

Just make up a little sing-song for it.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

I made up one for my son to the tune of "Jesus Loves the Little Children" that has his address, name and phone number. He sings it all of the time. I did it when we moved 2 years ago in case we got separated in a Target or something... I wanted him to be able to tell someone trying to help him what his name was. I once found a little boy wandering by himself in a mall. He had lost his mother and the manager and I had trouble finding her because he couldn't tell us his name or anything.

I'm going to try Lynn's song for the washing and flushing. We struggle with that, as well. The tune to "This is the way we go to school" works, if you sort of modify it some.

Good luck. Let us know if you find anything that works.

Kay

That tune does work. Gee, I might start using this myself...I mean, I would if my kids weren't perfect...

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

I sing "Pop goes the weasel" or a variation thereof to ensure that my son spends enough time brushing his teeth.
Sometimes I make up sillier versions, like "All around the cretaceous period, the T-Rex chased the triceratops. The T-Rex thought it was all in fun, until RAAWWWWR goes the triceratops. A penny for a smilodont, a penny for a mammoth, that's the way evolution goes, until POP! They're all extinct."
Yes, I have a miniature paleontologist in the house, and no, I don't get out very much
Rose

If it's yellow
Let it mellow
If it's brown
Flush it down.

AnneP.
A child enters your home and makes so much noise you can hardly stand it--then departs, leaving the house so quiet you think you'll go mad. -Dr. J.A. Holmes

Please wipe
and flush
and wash
by gosh!

It has all the class's paint handprints on it.

FWIW
-Jo

DS6 flushes and washes.........DS4 could give a rat's as*!!!

I like the songs. I am gonna try that also!

And they need to wash for 12-15 seconds so DS's sing to 12!

Jana

part of "The Farmer in the Dell" for the bathroom:

Flush the toilet close the lid, Flush the toilet close the lid,
High-Ho the Dairy-Oh, Flush the toilet close the lid!

then substitute:

Now we wash our hands...
&
Turn off the light and shut the door...

until we're out of the room.

Although Lynn's is funnier.

And for eating we sing to the tune "If You're Happy And You Know It":

Wipe your mouth on the napkin, if you please,
Wipe your mouth on the napkin, if you please,
Wipe your mouth on the napkin, it will keep your sleeve so clean,
Wipe your mouth on the napkin, if you please.

ALSO:

Wipe you fingers on the napkin, not your shirt...

Wipe you nose on a kleenex, not on me...

and so on, depending on the faux pas.
______

"If you want yor children to be bright, read them fairytales-- if you want them to be brilliant, read them even more fairytales" Albert Einstein

Definitely...songs for the boys and...I hope your sign is not copyrighted, Jo. LOL! That will be perfect for the girls. Anna Kate gets sniffy when I sing a song to her because she deems it "babyish."