Or not.
I hate potty training. Well the concept anyway. Mainly because I am not the type of person who can actually focus on any sort of plan with the right sort of dedication this type of training seems to take.
Lazy? Probably. Sue me if like my kids being in pull ups while out and about. I like not having to rush to hideous garage or store washrooms with a dancing toddler/preschooler.
We were lucky with Adam. Bribery, blackmail and guilt finally worked for him. Well, probably in reality it was just when he was ready…that was it.  He ‘got it’ just after age 3.
Horrifying to those ardent trainers out there I am sure.
Caity has been a tougher nut to crack. She feels no guilt.  Laughs at our feeble attempts at bribery and blackmail. She will pee and poop where ever and in whatever SHE feels like. WHEN she feels like it.
Now routine obviously works for her as she is doing great peeing with the other masses in the communal miniature washroom at her new preschool. Â So I SUPPOSE if I was more focused on her bodily functions at home, then she would indeed ‘get it.’
We saw the peer pressure thing in action the other evening when we took the family to Wally’s – an east Van institution- for burgers and shakes. It is not a pretty place. It is a bit seedy and grimy. But heck…it is our history!
We were also a bit steamed at big boy who after claiming to NOT have to pee before we left the house, suddenly, at the comic store, reeeeeeeelly had to go. There WAS no place to go. He had to use our car tire.
Mr. Tiny bladder had to go again at Wally’s, so Crunchy Dad took him to the little washroom and us ladies carried on with our fattening foods. Then she thought about it. SHE had to go pee. SHE had to pee at the same washroom as her big bro.
Great.
I get that this is good. But really.
At Wally’s? Ick. Even I don’t pee there.
So I guess I better go buy more cute little Dora and My Little Pony underpants.
Oy, potty training my son was a nightmare! My 2nd child is a girl and I have been desperately clinging to the hope that training girls is easier. But apparently, that is a generalization designed to prey on the desperations of moms like me…oh well….I’ve got at least 18 months to gear up!
LOL I have to admit that I feel exactly the same way about potty training. We lucked out in that Anika trained herself at 18 months…..I just assumed Matty would do the same. HA! I’ll just be happy if he is trained by the time he goes to Kindergarten! 😉
I always held fast to the beliefe that when they are ready, it will just happen, and it wouldn’t be a stressful battle. And thats happened for my 3 kiddos. Granted, they probably trained later that they would have if I had fought them on it, but allowing them to do it in their time was actually very pleasant. None of us cried, or yelled, or got frustrated. And they were trained in a matter of a couple days.
So now, after 6.5 years of constant diapers, there are NO MORE! WHOOT!