I’m thinking about working on this design… honest
J is rapidly approaching three and a half… the upper limit (or statute of limitations) on when a boy should be potty trained (or potty LEARNED for the PC-set). At least that’s what the big scary parenting books (like What To Expect, the Toddler Years, aka the World’s Most Evil Book) say.
Mr. J has wisely decided to ignore the experts and has decided that for the time being he’s perfectly happy wearing a diaper, thank you. Not even the offer of Dragontales undies has convinced him to trade in his size six Pampers.
I don’t have to be reminded (thank you dear wife) that sooner or later he’ll just decide to make the jump. He knows the technology, he’s even done it the grown-up way. I just have to be patient (yeah, the things we breeders have to put up with) and let him do it in his own time.
I know he won’t wearing diapers in collage (hey, doesn’t Yale have a potty training program for undergraduates?) but I can’t help wondering if I’m going to be shopping in the adult diapers section of the Stop and Shop before long.
Now L on the other hand…. sit her down in her booster seat and she just poops. Like clockwork. Maybe we should start working on her.
Our five your old took a while, and still wears pull-ups at night - with the occasional accident during the day.
Our 2 1/2 year old gets the idea - he comes running to the bathroom if he knows I’m going - and he’s even done some work of his own on the potty. It’s just getting him to tell us he’s got to go poopies, instead of saying it after the fact. But he gets so excited to sit on the chair and try that we can’t turn him down…
I really expect him to just turn to us one day and say he has to do it, get up there, do it, and that’s it - he’s done, mastered that skill, what’s next?
J knows the ‘how to..’ He’s even done it himself. He spent the better part of yesterday in his underpants and didn’t miss once. But his default is the diaper.
I’m not too worried. Worse comes to worse he can sign up for potty training in college.
Isn’t it fascinating… the conversations we adults get to have?
I can’t even teach my dog how not to poop in the house and I’m expected to teach a kid how to aim for a small hole? That’s yet another reason why the idea of having kids is way too scary for me. Yikes! *grin*
I am frustrated with my 2 year old. Yes, I know she is “young”, but I am telling you she KNOWS what to do! She knows all of the words, knows how to pull her pants up and down (usually down…she is often naked!). She hates pull-ups and only wants “big girl panties”, but most often simply refuses to sit on her potty! Once in a while she will surprise me and just go running in there and go. So, she knows when she has to go! I have tried everything the experts say to try. I even bought one of the stupid expensive Corolle dolls that some have raved about! NOPE…nothing! When I ask her if she needs to pee in the potty, she politely says “no thank you mama”. UGH! When I tell her she needs to go, she expertly lays down on the floor and won’t move. She did, however, squat on my stepping stones last night and proceed to carefully and expertly pee on four of them.