Archive for the ‘Potty Training’ Category
Potty Training FAIL
Sunday, April 18th, 2010
I swore I would have Madelyn potty trained by now. Swore it to myself. It took me a year and a half to get Katelyn potty trained and I told myself it would not take that long for Madelyn.Well, it’s been about 6 months now. She’s not potty trained yet. On days when I have her in underwear she pees constantly all over the floor. Sometimes she says she has to go potty, but usually it’s after she’s already peed in her pants. When I consistently remind her to go (like, every half hour) she”ll peepee in her little potty and stay dry for the most part. But I can’t do that on the days Katelyn is in school!
In my defense our schedule changed a lot right after potty training commenced. Katelyn started her school schedule that has me out of the house from 11-2:30 three days a week. I’m pretty much hanging out in my car or running errands during that time, waiting for her to be done. Much of the time Maddy ends up napping in the car too. It’s not very conducive to potty training! I hate taking Madelyn to the bathroom in public places very often. And if she’s wet and needs to be changed frequently… forget it!!! Call me lazy, but I’d rather not do it.
We also started attending a new church right after we started the potty training thing and I didn’t feel comfortable asking her new Sunday School and Worship Care teachers to take her potty every half hour. And if I were to have done it myself she would have spent a lot of the time crying after I brought her back to her classroom.
So, to be honest, I don’t know what to do. Do I wait to hit it full fledged once Katelyn’s school is done in June? Do I keep up what we’re doing now and hope/pray she eventually just “gets it”? I really do want to get her potty trained but then I wonder if I”m seriously committed to it? I guess this being the second time around it just doesn’t seem that urgent to me.
I’ll leave you with a picture I took a couple of weeks ago. The girls are standing in the tree house my father in law built Mike and his brother when they were little. It matches their “big” house and even has their initial on it. It’s really cute!
Potty Words
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Since I’m on my second round of potty training and have spoken with many moms who are potty training or have potty trained I noticed we all have different “potty” words. You know you’re in potty training mode when you find yourself asking adults if they need to use the potty or announcing that you, yourself, need to use the potty.Each family also has certain words to they use for “poop” and “pee”. Or, excuse me, if you’re more proper “bowel movements” and “urine”.
We’re not very proper in this house. We just plain pee and poop.
Having been in the childcare field before I was a mom, I’ve heard a plethora of different potty language.
Do you poo? poop? poo poo? Make a stinky? Or just plain have a BM?
Does your child tinkle? Pee? Pee Pee? Urinate? Or, a favorite of my mother in law’s, go pishkies?
Let’s not forget the other thing we do (not always in the bathroom!) that tends to be a favorite topic of young children. And grown men.
Passing gas.
Or as Madelyn says, giggling, “Pass the gas”. I hate the topic of breaking wind. Although I’m writing about it, I find it disgusting. I don’t think it’s funny. Or cute. Each household has different terminology for that gross, but necessary, bodily function.
Pass gas, fart, foat, toot, poot OR, the new one I’ve had the un-pleasure of learning recently- float an air biscuit. And if you’re in New England, which I am, you don’t fart you “faht”. Which sounds even more hideous, in my opinion. In our house we generally try to just pass gas. If I had to pick another one I’d go with “toot”. It has a less offensive ring to it than the word “fart” which hurts my ears anytime anyone says it.
And when you’re changing those cute little posteriors? Do you call them Behinds? Butts? Bottoms? Rear ends? Fanny’s? Tushies? Or, yet another favorite term my mother in law has introduced me to, little biscuits?
Don’t get me started on what to call anatomy parts that differentiate boys and girls. That’s a whole ‘nuther can of worms. Do you call their parts by their actual names or do you make up cutesy terms? I’m for calling them by their actual names although I’ve yet to actually do that. I can’t seem to get the words to roll out of my mouth quite naturally just yet. But I”m sure when the time comes that I absolutely have to, I will.
What potty words to you use in your house? Do share!!
But, keep in clean.
Please.
Potty Training Has Commenced!
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Here we go. Round 2 of potty training. (Didn’t I just finish doing this with Katelyn?) I just bought a big box of diapers and a big box of pull-ups. I’m determined that Madelyn will be [daytime at least] potty trained by the end of those boxes. I’m using training, padded underwear during the day, diapers at night and pull-ups for long outings and emergencies.
What I do is put underwear on her and then put a pull up on the outside of her underwear so if she has an accident she’ll feel the wetness but her clothing will still stay dry. It also motivates me to take her to the potty while we’re out too and not just think ” Oh, she has a pull-up on. She’ll be fine. We’ll just go potty when we get home”
Sticker chart- check
Princess stickers-check
Timer set on every 30 minutes-check
Extra clothing at the ready- check
Lots of patience-…………check
Round two. Here we go.
