misc/poopWhen a couple sits down and decides that children are a good idea, generally speaking, they discuss how children are going to affect their lives. Usually, these issues have to do with expenses, loss of time, and perhaps, loss of sleep.

The one thing I had never heard mentioned is how poop would become a new and facinating part of our lives. Oh, yes. Poop.

Of course, we all have our relationships with our poop. Those relationships are discrete, and it’s rare that the poop lives of others ever touch our own lives. However, once children come along, all this changes. You will develop an intimate relationship with your children’s bowels, and how they work. You will discover that the human digestive system can digest the toughest steak, yet will pass corn kernels though whole. You will find that a 40 lb. child can somehow dispose of 60 lbs. of waste in a 24-hour period, and you will be amazed to learn that one bowel movement can cover the walls of an entire bedroom, if the child is determined.

Granted, my relationship with my children’s poop is much more limited than my wife’s. This is because she is a saint, and must believe that one adult in a household should have to get used to poop.