Potty Training Time Again
September 12th, 2007Dylan has finally moved to the critical potty training stage. He's no longer in the "I'll sit naked in this cool-looking chair and have fun" and has moved to the "Oh, now I see what I'm supposed to be doing here and why I have no diaper on!" stage.
Potty training sure beats the alternative, though. Dylan recently wet Sebastian's bed and told his mother, "I broke it!"
Despite the fact that it has only been three or four years since potty training Sebastian, I have forgotten about the details of potty training:
- It doesn't matter how many times you say, show, or help boys to understand that they need to point themselves into the potty, it rarely happens.
- The frequent ritual of watching the kid pee, praising him, wiping him, putting a diaper on, waiting three minutes, and having to do it all over again. Where does that second round of pee come from???
- Dylan loves being naked, so we will often get a potty call just to watch him get naked, sit on the potty for two seconds, and then get up to run around the house. This is even more unsettling when we can't be sure if he has to poop or not.
- Our potty plays music when you poop in it. I often find myself pondering what life would be like if our adult toilets were built in this way. (And when I say it plays music when you poop in it, I mean it plays music when a child poops in it.)
My wife discovered an interesting, fun, and disturbing Japanese cartoon about potty training:
Go ahead, watch it again. I know that, despite your reaction, you really really want to.