Potty training, oh how I hate thee.
It’s beyond time to start potty training this boy. I’m done holding my breath for extended periods while I try and wipe up a poop explosion. So I’ve decided that this week will be a crash course in sitting on the potty for Honor. The problem is that his brace is so hard to get off. And if I put it on under his diaper/pull up, it just gets disgusting. So this week will be brace free. My hope is that I can get him to get good enough at sitting on the potty that he can start to wear his brace under a pull up or, dare I say, underware (I wish I could find little tiny boxers) and we can keep his brace clean.
And just now as I paused from writing to make him sit on the potty, I realize that I’m crazy. I should just succumb to the fact that he’s going to be wearing diapers in High School. Even though I’ve done this before, it seems like all my old tricks don’t work. If he sits on the potty and goes, he gets a piece of candy. He could care less. This boy could care less about bribery motivation. I guess that I should not be surprised that my children have very strong opinions about things, although I don’t know where they get it from?
Category: Honor 8 comments »
March 7th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Just stick with him, dedicate the WHOLE week to potty training, set the timer and don’t let him get off until he’s gone, and don’t try to do anything else that isn’t necessary. That’s what’s been working for me so far…
March 7th, 2006 at 10:57 am
Potty training is really a torture technique someone teaches our children. They use it to torture us, really. I can’t think of any other explanations…
March 7th, 2006 at 11:24 am
you can get little boxers at just about any store. Wal-Mart, Target, etc… They are a bit more expensive. Hope this helps!!
March 7th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Yeah, after initiating potty training with my first child and failing miserably at it, I resolved to just let my children decide when they’re ready. Much less work for me!
Good luck with it! Summertime seems to work well — you can just send ‘em out into the backyard and tell them to pee on a tree, lol (well, with boys that is…)
March 7th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
I buy hunter’s boxers at Gap.
March 7th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
may the force be with you
March 7th, 2006 at 7:19 pm
oh i am going thru the same thing but with bella. i thought she was going to be the easier one. mikey wasn’t fully trained until he was three and a half. bella will be three in may and its a struggle to even get her to sit on the potty and then she holds it on to spite me.
i got the book “potty train in one week”. i hope it doesn’t take too much longer to get thru it..lol.
November 1st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
My husband and I are at our wits end with this. My son, who is almost 3 1/2 was just about potty trained and now he’s completely reverted backwards. We’ve just resigned ourself to the fact that he is in charge of this particular task and we’ll just have to deal with it.