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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Potty Training -FAIL


Potty Training

I’ve been trying to potty train my 2 year old. If I pay attention to what I’ve read online and wait until he is ready to potty train – then I’m failing miserably. I’ve tried sitting him on the potty with his potty seat and he gets super distracted by everything. But sure enough as soon as I put a diaper back on him, we have to change it. So I made him a pair of training pants and put them on him. I asked him would he rather wear the SpongeBob training pants or the diaper. He replied the diaper. So I tried telling him that big boys go in the big boy potty, and big boys wear training pants, and basically big boys get to do all sorts of things that babies don’t. He is now referring to himself as a baby. And what’s worst yesterday when he had the training pants on I checked him and he was dry so I asked if he needed to go potty and he told me no. ten seconds later and he was wet. I’ve tried the Huggies pull ups that have the cool technology in them so when they get wet it gets cold. The first time he peed in them it surprised him but after the initial shock he thought it was awesome.

Maybe he just really isn’t ready to potty train yet. Maybe I just need to give it a little bit longer and he’ll be ready to. Or maybe I need to read more, and just keep practicing with him.

I can house break a dog but I can’t potty train my kid… how upsetting.

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