I get a big fat F in this class. You didn't know? Potty training your child is a class; you either pass it or you don't. I don't. I suck. I'm awful. I do all the wrong things despite my positive attitude and fake smile pasted on my face. Despite my "you can do this Littlest! it's easy!" despite all my tricks, motivation, bribery, being nice, being stern, being non chalant, being direct, despite it ALL; I suck.
Get this. I told him it was time to try because I knew he had to go. He's been holding it all since this morning. Gone nothing. Not one way or the other. He quietly picked up the new big boy potty chair we just bought at Target as a last ditch effort and brought it up stairs, told my honey that I told him to do that (what does he know?) and comes quietly back down stairs. I catch on on the back end, realize what he did (remove the threat from his immediate space ahem) and go upstairs to get the potty chair. He races ahead of me and goes to take it to the bathroom and closes the door so I can't get in there.
This is all out war. He's way too smart. He tells me the potty is "scary" and just keeps saying over and over and over again, "I don't WANT to". How do you force a child to do it? Also, he's done it several times but is just not consistent with it. I have used a timer, I have done everything. Saturday he went twice poopy on the potty and I thought, 'ok we're on our way'. Notsomuch. Sunday was a bear. And this morning all ready the only time he went was in his undies and after that nothing. I have tried three times. He is now three. Officially. I know we aren't supposed to "force" them but he's heading to the "3's" soon and I'm very very worried. I know they'll take him in the new class but this is silly especially because I know he can do it.
What am I doing wrong besides confusing the heck out of him? I have conveyed these are our expectations and what else? I mean, really, I am at a loss. The Oldest got it in no time flat, it was EASY with him. Geez, I actually thought it would go down like that this time. Big surprise for me.
I am about to call the Potty Whisperer to come here. How much is she anyway? I'm almost there because OMG I so suck at this. He's got me down in a choke hold and I am about to tap out. No joke.
You cook, you clean, you go to work, you nourish, you love, you scold, you are professional and yet you hang your hat on every dust particle in your home. You are a woman. Some women are Moms and some are not. You are still a woman. We are all made similarly. We are strong.
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