Potty training woes
Feb. 27th, 2007 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
averygoodun42Um, is it possible to miss the potty training window? Babe was completely into the whole potty training experience. He was fascinated with the bathroom (it was his favorite room); he competed with us to flush the toilet; he was bursting in on us unless we locked and barred the bathroom doors because he was eager to see what we were doing and putting words to it; he was taking off his pants at inconvenient times, or quietly slipping away to take off that pesky diaper without letting us know until it was too late... the lot. He even took off that pesky diaper, used the potty, and put his pants back on once or thrice.
Now? "Do you need to use the potty?" we ask when he does the dance. "No." If I try to take him into the bathroom anyway, he screams. "Are you pooping?" we say when we get a whiff of something unsavory. "No," he says matter-of-factly then pauses in concentration. "Do you need a new diaper?" we ask while trying not to hold our noses. "No!" he declares, and often screams and kicks when we wrestle him down for a change anyway.
What happened? Did we do something wrong? Did we 'not pressure' him too much? Or is he just continuing with his pesky pattern of "Oh, I've accomplished this thing, so now I can move on to the next thing and not bother continuing this pointless practice until further notice," i.e. "been there, done that." That's how it was with his talking (he said "banana" ridiculously early, and yes, it was a deliberate word; he used it twice and then didn't say it again for a year!), and a couple other things that I can't quite think of right now.
I don't wanna wait another year!!!
Help?
Now? "Do you need to use the potty?" we ask when he does the dance. "No." If I try to take him into the bathroom anyway, he screams. "Are you pooping?" we say when we get a whiff of something unsavory. "No," he says matter-of-factly then pauses in concentration. "Do you need a new diaper?" we ask while trying not to hold our noses. "No!" he declares, and often screams and kicks when we wrestle him down for a change anyway.
What happened? Did we do something wrong? Did we 'not pressure' him too much? Or is he just continuing with his pesky pattern of "Oh, I've accomplished this thing, so now I can move on to the next thing and not bother continuing this pointless practice until further notice," i.e. "been there, done that." That's how it was with his talking (he said "banana" ridiculously early, and yes, it was a deliberate word; he used it twice and then didn't say it again for a year!), and a couple other things that I can't quite think of right now.
I don't wanna wait another year!!!
Help?
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