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August 28, 2007
potty stalker
Today marked the official start to potty training Julia, we have been calling it "panty day". Lizzie spent the morning playing at a friends so we could go hard core on the training, the little stinker wouldn't drink much this morning though. I even filled one of our water bottles that squirts to share with her and I got a "maybe later". So not may opportunities this morning. I totally feel like I am following her around, "do you need to use the potty?" "where are we going to put our peepee?" "are these your m&ms for when you go potty?" "mommy is going potty, do you want to come?"!!! I mean who is getting trained here. I'm not sure she is even had the chance to initiate I am right on top of her. But I guess its good for them to get some success before backing off a little bit. She was super ready- I was not. Even taking herself and taking her diaper off and I didn't want to do it. We've only gone through two pair of panties, one while she was eating breakfast and watching sesame street and the other was her morning business, which she finished on the potty. So not so bad I guess. She is currently down for a nap, in panties- brave I know!! I thought, I might as well try. Can't be any different than when we went through the stage of her stripping her diaper off at night and us finding her later, naked in a ring of pee. LOL
So if you see me this week and I look more haggard than usual, you will know why. I've taken on a new role- that of the potty stalker.
| By JennR | 2:35 PM
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You can do it! You can do it!
Posted by: sara at August 28, 2007 3:04 PM
The #1 easiest way to potty train your kids: Send them to preschool! Seriously, I have no children of my own and have helped minimally to potty-train some of my nieces and nephews, but I have potty-trained lots of other kids. I suppose there are some transference issues from preschool to home, but at preschool, there is a schedule when everyone goes potty or gets a diaper change, and when a parent decides to potty-train, we put that kid on the potty schedule. Of course, there have been hard kids, where we run out of changes of clothes and eventually send him/her home in a T-shirt and someone else's pull-up, but for the most part, it works quite well.
I hope that you're having success on your own, though.
Posted by: martha at September 4, 2007 8:09 AM