Potty Training
It's been almost a week since my last blog post and that was certainly not for lack of trying! It seems some weeks with a toddler and an infant don't leave much time to spare. Each time I sit down to write, I get interrupted.
Apparently today is no different because here I am an hour after beginning this blog post! I am sitting here nursing Gia while Sage pulls all of her coloring books out of the drawer she is not supposed to be in. Sage is very good at waiting until I'm tied up with Gia before getting into things.
We are potty training and let me tell you, it is not fun when you have a head strong child like mine! You always hear that you will go through a lot of underwear and your child will have a lot of accidents when you start potty training. I was prepared for that. What I wasn't prepared for was for my child to simply decide not to go at all after a day of almost flawless training! Seriously she was sitting in the floor on her foot squirming and crying and saying "Ow!" over and over, but still refused to go and threw and huge giant fit when I put her on the potty like she was just certain that the potty was going to eat her or something. Dex and I could not stand seeing her in pain like that, so I gave in and put a pull up on her because I was scared she was going to make herself sick.
Well, I had a change of heart this morning. The kid is "potty trained" in the sense that she knows when she has to go, she knows how to go, and she obviously knows how to hold it, so now she simply needs to make the decision to go on the potty. I put her in undies this morning, set her potty out, told her to go on the potty if she needed to go, and then left it at that. No reminders from me, no sitting her on the potty, I am giving her the reins. I cannot force my child to go to the bathroom, so there is no sense in making this a power struggle. Wish me luck, I will update with the results tomorrow!!
Apparently today is no different because here I am an hour after beginning this blog post! I am sitting here nursing Gia while Sage pulls all of her coloring books out of the drawer she is not supposed to be in. Sage is very good at waiting until I'm tied up with Gia before getting into things.
We are potty training and let me tell you, it is not fun when you have a head strong child like mine! You always hear that you will go through a lot of underwear and your child will have a lot of accidents when you start potty training. I was prepared for that. What I wasn't prepared for was for my child to simply decide not to go at all after a day of almost flawless training! Seriously she was sitting in the floor on her foot squirming and crying and saying "Ow!" over and over, but still refused to go and threw and huge giant fit when I put her on the potty like she was just certain that the potty was going to eat her or something. Dex and I could not stand seeing her in pain like that, so I gave in and put a pull up on her because I was scared she was going to make herself sick.
Well, I had a change of heart this morning. The kid is "potty trained" in the sense that she knows when she has to go, she knows how to go, and she obviously knows how to hold it, so now she simply needs to make the decision to go on the potty. I put her in undies this morning, set her potty out, told her to go on the potty if she needed to go, and then left it at that. No reminders from me, no sitting her on the potty, I am giving her the reins. I cannot force my child to go to the bathroom, so there is no sense in making this a power struggle. Wish me luck, I will update with the results tomorrow!!
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