Remembering to use the potty while fully naked is an entirely different skill than remembering to use the potty while wearing pants and underwear. If your child’s favorite pooping corner is also where she keeps a disassembled 50-piece jigsaw puzzle, you might want to clean it up, put it back in the box and line that spot like Dexter’s kill room.Ĩ. If you are in the middle of potty training and your child decides to randomly sit inside their carseat, be suspicious. If you think your child has mastered potty training within half-a-day, that is the exact moment they will forget everything they’ve learned and pee inside a carseat sitting on the floor in your hallway.Ħ. You will triumphantly walk that bowl of crap over to the toilet all together like it’s THE SHIT PARADE and this is the world’s greatest family bonding moment.ĥ. Every instinct you have ever had about piss and shit will disappear. Making fun of parents who would dare to use something as ridiculous as the iPotty prior to actually training a child yourself, will suddenly seem very silly once your child has convinced you to let them use the iPad on the potty.Ĥ. ![]() I gave up on the whole front to back thing once it became clear my daughter didn’t even know the difference between her “tushie” and her “pagina”.ģ. Just because you have a seemingly intelligent child, doesn’t mean they can follow simple instructions like- how to wipe from front to back. If you’ve read, memorized and are prepared to stick to a trusted potty training method, chances are you will abandon that method and make it up as you go along within the first fifteen minutes.Ģ. Here’s your opportunity to learn from my mistakes…ġ2 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Potty Training:ġ. I parent with bribes and stuffed rodents. We would be training Minnie Mouse too.įor the record, she was not on board with any of this until Minnie Mouse entered the picture. Lastly, I told her that she would not be training alone. ![]() I let her chose a “grand prize” for when she had successfully peed in the potty 12 times. I put up a chart. I bought a bag of M&M’s. So, this past weekend, with the fear that my daughter would INDEED be the kid who goes to college still in diapers, I forgot everything I ever said about waiting for her to tell me she was ready and forced the issue. In my mind, if you know how to emphasize the word “FOREVER” in a sentence like a pimple-faced pre-teen, than you are most definitely ready to shit on the pot. Sometime in the last month, I decided the potty was not a reading station or a bath time procrastination device, but a place in which my daughter should actually pee and poop. I think it was the day she crossed her arms, stomped her foot and said…
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