There I stood today monitoring 17 2nd grade students as they took turns using the school restroom. It was at this time that I had a revelation: Regardless of how long it might take AJ to potty train, he will not still be in diapers in 2nd grade. This thought alone brought me peace.
You see, I made the mistake of announcing to everyone on Facebook that I would spend three days potty training AJ. I tried to make myself accountable for my actions by putting it out there and I'm embarassed to report that I only lasted three hours.
But I have good reason.
It is VERY difficult to potty train a little boy when you have a 2 month old baby to tend to. That was my first excuse.
My second excuse was that AJ is a stubborn little boy. In a matter of 3 hours I repeated the phrase "Make sure you let mommy know when you need to go potty" at LEAST 100 times. And no matter how many times I said it, AJ refused to comply.
Here was our morning:
AJ: Potty Mommy!
Me: Let's go! ::grab AJ and dash to bathroom, seat him on toilet::
AJ: Done Mommy! (Meanwhile, nothing had been done)
Me: Are you sure? Go pee pee AJ!
AJ: Done Mommy.
So I spent 20 minutes sitting there with him on the potty. And for 20 minutes he flipped through 2 books and played with a toy car.
And still no pee pee. So I let him down.
As soon as he gets off and walks away.... PEE PEE! ON THE CARPET!
Aagh! So back to the potty we go. And of course by this point, he's already gotten it all out onto my newly shampooed carpet.
Wash, rinse, and repeat this entire cycle for 3 hours. My stubborn child REFUSED to do his business on the toilet.
And throw in a screaming, hungry 2 month old and you'll see why this was so difficult for me.
I'm not giving up complete hope. I know the Three-Day potty training method works for lots of people and I'm sure it will work for us, but I have to attempt to attack it again when AB1 is home with me to help man the bathroom stations... and scrub the pee stains out of the carpet.
So to all my faithful Facebook friends that haven't let me forget about my potty training mission and keep asking me about the status of potty training, I leave you all with this response:
Mission Potty Train AJ: To be Continued.....
Until Next Time,
Mama Brown(ie)
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I am so not looking forward to this with my son.
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ReplyDeleteI think we put so much stress on ourselves to hurry up and do this but really diapers are not a big deal, like you said he won't be in 2nd grade in diapers ;) Take your time, it will get done!
ReplyDeleteOh and we will start but it will be a couple more months off until work slows and we get back from our vacations that we have planned but if it doesn't work I look forward to the day when at least we only have 2 in diapers.