Adventures in Potty Training

[billroper]

At nearly three-and-a-half years old, Katie is easily old enough for potty training. It's not that she doesn't understand the concept. It's that she keeps telling us that she's not big enough. We've tried a potty chair (apparently makes a great step stool), a potty seat on the toilet (nope), a step stool to get onto the potty seat on the toilet (also nope), and numerous messages of encouragement including the suggestion that she could go to pre-school and play with other kids regularly if she were potty trained.

Nope.

So this morning, Katie apparently decided that she needed to, well, make poopies. She removed her pull up, ran out the back door stark naked, and proceeded to make the aforementioned poopies in the back yard.

Apparently, she's been spending too much time with Uncle Jeff and Aunt Carol's dogs this weekend.

Or something like that.

*sigh*

Important Correction: I apparently misheard earlier when I was talking to daisy_knotwise. Katie did not do this.

Julie did.

*sigh*

Again.

Comments

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

I think that if she's old enough to decide that she's not old enough, she's old enough.

[billroper]

We agree. :)

[blaurentnv.livejournal.com]

TMI

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't think so. Just another day in the life of a parent.

[sheistheweather]

Yes, this. Poop is part of parenting.

[cainle-bean.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* some days kids test your patience.

When my stepdaughter was about 9(at this time she was about 5 mentally), she was at the after school care center on post. It had been raining. The kids had disobeyed the teachers and gotten muddy playing. When they came in my daughter decided she was dirty and muddy and stripped in the entryway. Stating to the teacher, "I need a bath."

[billroper]

Well, she was right about that. :)

[qnofhrt.livejournal.com]

What you need to do is get Julie pottie trained. Then Katie would WANT to be pottie trained.

[billroper]

We have considered that. And we're working on it. :)

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that there has never been a happy post titled Adventures in Potty Training.

[billroper]

I'm pretty sure of that too. But if they could make a movie called Adventures in Babysitting, I bet someone could make a movie out of this.

It wouldn't be pretty...

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

There's a section in one of Bill Cosby's monologs, on the subject of parenting, which maintains that the proof that God has a sense of humor is: that He waits 6 weeks after a baby is born, til the parents are well and truly besotted with the baby, THEN He puts the smell in the poop.

[kestrels-nest.livejournal.com]

She just doesn't want to have to bother to stop whatever she's doing. :)

What's her favorite toy? We had an amazing collection of Matchbox cars at one point, because that was the reward for doing anything related to its intended purpose with the potty.

Of course, there's always what my cousins did. They got to the "understands and is capable but can't be bothered" stage and finally let their kidlet run around the house au natural. She didn't like not having anything to catch her byproducts. And my aunt let her daughter pick out some underpants that she thought were really cool (Lillian said they were silk), and told her she could wear them, but that if she had an accident it was back to the diapers. Susan (my cousin) never had another "accident".

Maybe if she's old enough to tell you she's not old enough, she's also old enough to tell you what reward she wants?

But overall? Good luck. I know he's not typical, but Joseph was marching quickly up on his 5th birthday before he was even mostly housebroken.

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

Until she was about three and a half, one of my goddaughters would hide behind furniture or within the angle of doors to poo. She understood the concept of potty training and she was in pullup diapers but she wasn't having anything to do with this whole dropping poo in water thing.

Then one day, it was like a switch had been thrown. She'd move the step stool and put her own seat on the toilet and be highly indignant if people (like babysitting godmothers) thought she needed supervision.

Or in other words, this too shall pass. :)