This potty-training thing is making me crazy. I'm somewhat convinced that I'm going to be sending the kid off to college still wearing pull-ups. (Or, as noted in the post title, Depends because I doubt that they make pull-ups THAT big.)
But seriously. I tried being low-key about it (which, as anyone who knows me can attest, was quite the battle) and now think that was part of the problem. I didn't emphasize that yes, this is something that she has to be able to do, not just a random whim kind of thing.
And what really drives me crazy is that she has the capacity to both pee and poo (and honestly, the things I find myself saying and typing these days) on the potty, and she knows when she has to go, she's just too busy with other things to do it. And she'll even say, if I ask if she needs to go potty, "I'm busy." Really. And I know, her mother's daughter and all, but even I will get up from a riveting game of "let's hide the portable phone" to go to the bathroom.
My mother is no help whatsoever. (Must... refrain... from... adding... joke.) According to her, I potty-trained myself at age 2 1/2. Of course, I also turned straw into gold and was writing tomes by age five, so we're working with a bit of revisionist history here. But it seems like, with the exception of a few, every other parent--and, more importantly, child--is handling this process (of elimination, hee hee) just fine. So, that's also helpful.
At any rate, I'm feeling even more pressure because she just moved into the three-year-olds room at daycare and I learned from the teachers that there's one poor little boy still in there at 4 1/2 who can't move into the next room with the other fours until he's potty-trained. Can you imagine the counseling that kid's going to need later in life? Not to mention, of course, that that's precisely the scenario I'm envisioning for A in a year. Or six. AIIIEEEEE...
But, no pressure, or so sayeth Drs. Phil and Spock and all the other experts out there. I'll get right on that...
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As a good friend of Mom To Be Named Later I can definitely attest to the whole patience thing..so way to go you, but potty training is just not fun. It's like you become this possessed individual that you have no control over when they have what we lovingly refer to as "accidents", though I have recently moved from accidents, which sound so innocent, to "on purposes." I tell my child accidents happen, but on purposes are not okay. Then I feel the need to specify what I mean by "on purposes" as he sits there looking at me like I lost my mind. Which, when I started that particular converstaion, I just may have. See, we had just gotten done with our own special little Hide and Seek game, with a twist, you know the one, where he HIDES his wet, smelly underwear somewhere in his room so he won't get in trouble, and you SEEK it out so your house doesn't take on the charming aroma of dirty bathrooms everywhere.
We just started potty-training with Charlie. (Two years, two months old.) We're off to a slow start. We place him on the Sesame Street potty chair in the bathroom after every bath. All he does is pull it out and start masturbating!
Like father, like son, I guess.
Okay, I think "oh, gross" can be used to sum up both comments. :P
My pediatrician said to make it inconvenient for her NOT to go potty. Let her make a mess in her panties (I know, hassle for you) and make sure she helps you clean it all up. She'll realize that 15 minutes of clean-up isn't worth the couple minutes it'll take to stop and go on the potty. Easier said than done but this is a tactic worth trying if you feel it's right for A. I didn't do this w/ Boo b/c she started going before I had to try this - I was ready to do it. Then again, A just may not be ready. Boo wasn't until the past couple weeks and now we haven't turned back.
Ha, actually, K, it's funny you mention that because I'm eyeing that tactic myself. We're going away for a long weekend in mid August but after that, I'm ready for guerilla warfare. If only because I'm sure she's ready--she'll go if you put her on and she knows when she has to go it's just that she's "too busy." I hadn't considered the "make sure she has to help clean up," though--good point, and perhaps the 15 minutes versus the few will actually get through to a "busy" toddler.
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