"I'm pooping so bad." Best quote EVER!
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a) I really hope this kid was rockin' a diaper. Otherwise, WTF Dad, get him to a toilet!
b) This kid ain't ever living this down when he gets older. This is some serious blackmail footage.

Even if he was wearing a diaper he's pretty much old enough to be potty trained. It was a great opportunity lost to teach him to "poop so hard" in the right place.

Thank god somebody said it! The kid knows what's happening. RUN with him to the bathroom.

It's not cute, it's a parenting FAIL!

Who does number 2 work for?

and ruin YouTube gold? C'mon!!

Oh look judgmental parents on a video site...how surprising!

Parenting fail.

This kid is amazed but it's just another Tuesday for me.

I think this is ok. Parent was pretty chill. Psychologically it must be a bit nuts to have parents freak the fuck out and rush you to the toilet for emergency poops. I mean, is it any wonder we have an anally retentive culture. Chill out parents, treat your kids with calm and if you can't make it to the bathroom for instructional defecation, its not the end of the world.

Seriously though. Put the phone down and deal with your kid. He's cramping and that shit hurts, especially when you don't understand. He told dad he had to go. That means he doesn't want to shit himself in a diaper. Doesn't mean you have to freak out and race him inside but give the kid a break and take him to the bathroom.

It's hard getting your timing right as a kid. Sometimes that shit literally sneaks up on you.

I guess everything came out alright tho in the end

Christ, judgmental much people?

I'm guessing by the comments that most people here are not in the process of potty-training children or haven't done it for a while. If you have issues with the way the dad handled this, you might want to read up on potty training: http://www.babycenter.com/toddler-potty-training-advice

We finally just recently succeeded in getting our daughter to poop in the toilet. Oddly enough she's been peeing by herself there just fine for almost a year, but was terrified of the toilet (including training toilets) when pooping for the longest time. If I had just grabbed her and rushed her in there at the first first sign of a bowel movement I would have had to deal with hysterical screaming for the next two hours AND no bowel movement to boot (learned from experience, by the way--she'll ride the cramps out or twist her body to shit on the bathroom floor instead while screaming like we're sticking her with hot knives the whole time).

She simply wouldn't do it until she was ready to do it. And one day she was ready and there was much rejoicing in the household.

Everyone learns to poop in the toilet eventually, usually by age 4 at the latest. It's not a race and there shouldn't be any pressure involved.

tl;dr

You don't know this kid. You don't this dad. You don't know where they are in the potty training process or if either is even ready for it. Hence you don't get to be self-righteous and judge this guy's parenting based on the underwhelming evidence of one YouTube video.

I wouldn't put blame on any individual parents. And certainly everything I've read says not to stress kids out about elimination. Given where this kid seems to be, the dad is probably reacting fine (minus filming it).

It is pretty weird though that we westerners teach our babies to poop on themselves. It's by no means universal. If you give infants an cleaner way to poop, they'll generally use it. Anal control shows up naturally as soon as they start eating solid foods.

Easy Dad, reinforce that behavior too much and this kid has a really bad first date in his future.

Perhaps b) is why it's now *dead and pulled off YouTube!

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