Potty Training Backsliding
I have finally hit that preschool-starts-in-a-little-over-a-month-and-you-need-to-be-potty-trained-to-attend desperation mode of potty training with my middle son, who is a little over 3 now.
We started last week and he's actually doing really well. Gets the whole peeing in the potty thing. Not really the pooping thing, but I have hope. He does think that he needs to be naked from the waist down in order to go and he can't dress himself afterwards, so I'm not really sure that counts as potty trained, but I'm hoping that we'll be able to work those things out before preschool starts.
Despite the fact that it's my middle son who is potty training, this really isn't about him. It's about my oldest, who has been potty trained for about 15 months now. I waited until he was almost 3.5 to potty train him, so he did it very quickly: a day and a half and then no more accidents. Ever.
But, now that he sees all the attention that his younger brother is getting, he all of a sudden is claiming that he needs help going to the potty or that he can't make it.
In fact, this afternoon, while the baby was napping and the two big boys were supposed to be in a Phineas and Ferb trance, he burst into the bathroom while I was taking a shower to announce that he had pooped in his underpants.
Seriously? While I was actually getting to take a shower? Now, I have to get out and deal with a four and a half year old who has poop in his pants? Seriously?
Maybe I'll have to change the wording in the rewards I give my middle son for using the potty- tell him he gets a gummy bear for keeping his underpants clean instead of just saying for using the potty...I don't know, something.
I was just beginning to see the light at the end of the diaper tunnel...not really- there's still the baby...I was just beginning to see the light at the end of the two-kids-in-diapers tunnel and all of a sudden I have THREE boys who I have to worry about?
Please let this be a passing thing. Oh, please, please, please.
We started last week and he's actually doing really well. Gets the whole peeing in the potty thing. Not really the pooping thing, but I have hope. He does think that he needs to be naked from the waist down in order to go and he can't dress himself afterwards, so I'm not really sure that counts as potty trained, but I'm hoping that we'll be able to work those things out before preschool starts.
Despite the fact that it's my middle son who is potty training, this really isn't about him. It's about my oldest, who has been potty trained for about 15 months now. I waited until he was almost 3.5 to potty train him, so he did it very quickly: a day and a half and then no more accidents. Ever.
But, now that he sees all the attention that his younger brother is getting, he all of a sudden is claiming that he needs help going to the potty or that he can't make it.
In fact, this afternoon, while the baby was napping and the two big boys were supposed to be in a Phineas and Ferb trance, he burst into the bathroom while I was taking a shower to announce that he had pooped in his underpants.
Seriously? While I was actually getting to take a shower? Now, I have to get out and deal with a four and a half year old who has poop in his pants? Seriously?
Maybe I'll have to change the wording in the rewards I give my middle son for using the potty- tell him he gets a gummy bear for keeping his underpants clean instead of just saying for using the potty...I don't know, something.
I was just beginning to see the light at the end of the diaper tunnel...not really- there's still the baby...I was just beginning to see the light at the end of the two-kids-in-diapers tunnel and all of a sudden I have THREE boys who I have to worry about?
Please let this be a passing thing. Oh, please, please, please.
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