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Youngest child redefines the phrase full of sh^!
I turned 37 on April 28th and I sat thinking about all of the good advice, comments, stories I’ve been told (or that I’ve told) about parenting, motherhood, childbirth. One of my favorites came from DahMan’s (DH) maternal grandmother and she said that Children are for the Young. I know you’ve heard it, but it didn’t impact me until I realized that at 37, I probably shouldn’t be chasing around a snotty nose 3 and 1/2 year old while he’s peeing on the floor like a friggin’ pet.
Yeah, potty training. Dayum potty training. My stats have been good over the years. The boys took longer than the girls, but they weren’t going to school without having been potty trained. But there’s always one. One child to throw off your whole rep. Here I am giving folks advice, daily advice on life, parenting, balance, wholeness and I’m about to pull my hair out strand by strand trying to potty train the last child, the last child out of 5! Has God any mercy for all that I’ve done these past 10 years?
You’re laughing. You think I’m joking. Let me tell you how doggone cute this little boy is. He’s on the pot every 30 minutes and I mean we make the experience so pleasant, so easy–toys, music, praise songs. Hell, I’ve used some of the relaxation tips for him on myself! He sits there for almost an hour. I smell that he might be doing something, so I excitedly rush to the throne only to find that he has smeared stuff on the seat from his behind, but there is nothing in the pot. So where is it coming from? You guessed it! Boyfriend is holding it in and stopped it from fully making it to the toilet. I fed him raisins, Apple Juice, had him sit on the pot for another hour and…no cigar. The pain can not be shared in words and for sake of BBB’s personal privacy, I opted not to take a photo of his packed tight tail, but rest assured, the process has been straight nasty.
Can somebody help me? Give me a tip? Share with me some of your crazy potty training stories? Because if he isn’t trained soon, I’m going to have to call the horse whisperer, the dog whisperer, the hypnotist and the massage therapist (oh, that would be for me).
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Hey DahGurl,
I can’t help you ’cause my almost 3-year-old isn’t potty trained either. Her issue is she’s strong-willed, and simply refuses to wear panties or use the potty unless it’s her idea first. And if I leave her naked, she’ll ask me for a diaper when she needs to make a bowel movement.
I need YOUR advice! Bribing her doesn’t help. Letting her choose her own panties doesn’t help (she just won’t wear them, and if I make her, she urinates in them on purpose).
Good luck! Here’s hoping our babies agree to potty train by the time they’re in highschool!
Yeah I can help. Their called “Pull ups” LOL. My 4 year old still wears them. She was a little slower. She will pee in the potty NOW but it wasn’t a snap. So I just let her wear the pull ups until she felt like she wanted to use the potty ALL the time like her sister. Now she doesn’t want to pee in her pull up because she’s used to the potty. Next, my 2 year old (who’ll be 3 soon *chuckle)
Aly,
The Pull Ups are not going it. He treats it like a diaper. I don’t think he’s really interested, but I want him in preschool come September and they want him to be potty trained (or at least on the way). Calgon, take me away…
LAWD LAWD LAWD. I am going to pray for you. I only have two but the second one sounds like your fifth. They say the second one and the last ones are most likely to jack the rep so hold on sistah hold on. My almost 6 year old was like that and I just kind of stuck with it. He went to daycare part time and really didn’t get it until he was almost 4. So I will pray, chant and meditate on it for you in long distance support. Blessings. I LOVE YOUR BLOG…