Today on being Mommy
Potty Training
Day 1
We're at the end of day one of potty training and my overall thought is, who the hell came up with this bright idea?
Ben has been giving a fair amount of I'm ready signals. He can recognize when he has the need, he'd get a diaper and actually cooperate when you put it on. He has used the potty a couple of times before, etc. So we decided to go for it and actively try potty training him.
This morning started out on a high note, he ran to the potty (currently located in the living room) flipped open the lid and stood over it and went potty. Amazed me a little that he is standing, but hey it's in the potty. Then we started to hit a few bumps. We would ask him if he had to potty every 20-30 minutes and the answer became a consistent no or he would say yes and we would ask if he wanted to sit on the potty and it would be a no.
We had several accidents in a row and I think we've washed about every pair of underpants he has. Needless to say I was wondering "what are we doing? he's not ready". But I said why don't we just leave him naked after an accident after nap time. No more accidents. None, nada, zip, zilch, every time after that was in the potty (more or less). So it seemed that the big one for today was to back off.
A couple of other issues have popped up, such as how to keep him from dumping the little bucket type thing that catches everything, into the lid and other stuff along those lines. But there is hope. I'm just not sure how it's going to go once we have to put clothes on him again.
Potty Training
Day 1
We're at the end of day one of potty training and my overall thought is, who the hell came up with this bright idea?
Ben has been giving a fair amount of I'm ready signals. He can recognize when he has the need, he'd get a diaper and actually cooperate when you put it on. He has used the potty a couple of times before, etc. So we decided to go for it and actively try potty training him.
This morning started out on a high note, he ran to the potty (currently located in the living room) flipped open the lid and stood over it and went potty. Amazed me a little that he is standing, but hey it's in the potty. Then we started to hit a few bumps. We would ask him if he had to potty every 20-30 minutes and the answer became a consistent no or he would say yes and we would ask if he wanted to sit on the potty and it would be a no.
We had several accidents in a row and I think we've washed about every pair of underpants he has. Needless to say I was wondering "what are we doing? he's not ready". But I said why don't we just leave him naked after an accident after nap time. No more accidents. None, nada, zip, zilch, every time after that was in the potty (more or less). So it seemed that the big one for today was to back off.
A couple of other issues have popped up, such as how to keep him from dumping the little bucket type thing that catches everything, into the lid and other stuff along those lines. But there is hope. I'm just not sure how it's going to go once we have to put clothes on him again.
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