I’m not shitting you! Let me just say that I had no plans to start potty training until Leila is 18 months or older. But apparently “keeping a one year old in diapers is a child abuse!” Granted I was still very heavily medicated when I had this conversation with my mom, but I think she was feeling pretty strongly about those diapers, no? I told her not to worry because Leila was already using the toilet and now we are just teaching her how to wipe her own butt.
I have heard and even read a few things about the Elimination Communication but for the first-time-mother there are just too many new things to learn and try as it is. Plus somebody has to keep those Huggies people employed.
I usually manage most of the confrontations with mom by making a joke and then very quickly changing the subject to…. let’s say… my brother’s girlfriend! Who I really hope will eventually marry him, because as long as she is in our family I will always have a way out of ANY conversation. Just last week my father couldn’t take it anymore and supposedly politely asked the girl if she could wash the dishes, since you know… she’s been living/eating at my parents house for months now. To which she allegedly replied “Why? Your son never washes dishes at my house.” SEE?! I LOVE THIS GIRL! This kind of stuff will make my mother fall in love with me all over again.
Unfortunately this trick only works if we are having a phone conversation. I typically run out of phone credits somewhere in the middle of the poor-boy-she-is-using-him speech and that is usually the point when I am ready for it to end anyway. However… my mother is flying in this Thursday and will be staying with us for a month. A MONTH. Have I mentioned yet that I am a stay-at-home-mom? Or the fact that I have never spent more than a couple of hours with my mom alone? Ever. She has never visited us by herself and has never stayed longer than for a few days. But no worries, I have already looked up my therapist’s home address, so she won’t have to drive all the way to the office in the middle of the night every time I call. I am that helpful.
When it comes to confrontations with my mother I use the avoid-prevent-and-ignore-until-my-nose-bleeds technique. That is why as soon as I found out my mother got a ticket I told Dennis to run to Target and get some sort of potty. The plan was to say “Look, mom, we tried it, she hates it, we will try later again… in a month…. So! Looks like things are getting pretty serious between my little bro and his new g/f, huh?”
And then… Dennis brought home the potty. A PINK PRINCESS THROWN WITH DIAMONDS kind of potty! AND… as soon as you are done depositing your digestive droppings it starts playing this short victorious music (TAM-TARA-TAAAAM!) Well obviously we had to try it out immediately, because I am sure that’s the kind of potty baby Mozart went on. Anyway, we put her on it just for fun. She fussed a little and wanted off of it pretty much immediately. The next morning I decided to put her on it again to see if she would stay a little longer. As she sat on it I started making the grunting sounds because that is what Leila does right before she goes… and just a few seconds into it she actually did it! TAM-TARA-TAAAAM! I thought surely that was just an accident. So we tried it again, and then again, and about a week into it I was convinced – she knows exactly what to do when you put her on it. Granted she doesn’t ask to be put on the potty and doesn’t know how to hold it yet, but the second I put her on it she grunts and… TAM-TARA-TAAAM! I haven’t changed a poopy diaper in weeks, people!
I don’t wake her up at night and really don’t stress if we are out and about, but if we are at home I try to put her on it right after she wakes up and immediately after she eats. So no she is not potty trained, but it is ridiculous how much joy it gives me… and if you are a first time mom you know exactly what I am talking about.
I cannot wait to show it off to my mother! Hope this will soften the blow of the fact that I am no longer breastfeeding…
HOW old is she again? That's unbelievable…
She will be 6 months on the 8th.
to say I am impressed does not even begin to sum up my thoughts on this! WOW!
So the big day is tomorrow. Good luck with your mom's visit!
I tried that once on the big kid toilet with marcus. we don't have one of those fancy things.
he usually goes every morning when he wakes. it didn't work, i just about dropped him in. So maybe i will have to invest in one of those. Do they come in Prince thrones?
Ok that is just not fair! Hudson has 2 more years on him than her and he has not grasped the toilet situation. Grrr!! Lucky!
No freakin' way! Your child is a genius.
When one old woman told me to keep Aine on the sink at age of 4 months I thought that she was crazy. Now I see that she was not
Good luck (with potty and with your mother)!
Holy crap! I am indeed, insanely jealous. I do suck at parenthood, obviously.
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
I'm glad it's working for you too. Genevieve loves her potty and I love that I haven't changed a poopy diaper since she was 4 months old!!!
Freak me! My husband has to potty train the kids,because I really can't. It always end with me buying them doughnuts or something.
Hugs and Mocha,
Stesha