To most of us; pooping is a daily occurence we rarely think twice about.....like breathing...breathing hard...or sometimes holding our breath to just. get. that. one. enchilada out from last night....gross ....right?
My daughter is in the midst (or light yellow mist) of attempting to potty train. She likes her potty chair, she likes wiping with toilet paper and she likes washing her hands. It's all the inbetween stuff that we're still trying to work on. In fact, we're at the point now where - when it's time to peepee, she'll get in there and sit down and go on the potty chair. Granted, halfway through the stream she's so excited she's up cheering for herself as the rest of the tinkle runs down her leg and onto my bath mats (into the wash again for the 4th time this week).
But I really don't mind the mild little yellow peepees all over my bathroom floor.
It's the poop we can't get under control.
We've talked and talked and taken several formal tours of the bathroom, potty chair and big girl panties. Yet it seems to never fail. I should probably quit loading the dishwasher or taking phone calls...because once I complete my task, there are golden nuggets trailing around the toy box through the hallway and over the dining room chairs...oddly enough it takes about 5-10 seconds to hit all 3 of these locations with your own fecal matter.....let me just throw in a side note: you may be asking yourself how this happens when she's wearing Big Girl Panties? No, we've had to delay the Big Girl Panties because when we are wearing them, that seems to be one of the steps we miss...we will get the urge, run to the potty chair sit down and go....and forget to pull down our panties...so for now they have been eliminated from the entire equation...
Thank GOD we have hard wood floors...I couldn't imagine scraping poop out of carpet, and I pretty much have the routine down of picking up all solid mass with paper towels, dumping into toilet and then bleach wiping entire dookied area. Then comes "stage 2" - Quinn Clean up. You see.. through this entire Poop dance she has ran around willy nilly pooping freely so at this point there is poop down her legs, on her hands and sometimes up her shirt on her back....this, my friends, is talent but from what I've heard from other parents....kids can get poop anywhere...I believe our little scenario today landed some here.
In conclusion; I never realized my saavy pooping skills would be used to educate others...keep that in mind the next time you waste toilet paper or wipe front to back....
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My dear, potty training is an intricate dance, similar to the mating dance of the rare Bluecrested Bob-O-Link. It is all based on precise timing and the ability of each party to know their exact place in the "dance".(This is WHY the Bluecrested BOL is RARE...) Too much pressure from the "trainer" and the "trainee" becomes shy and tends to "do their business" behind the couch, in the toy box or not at all! Too little pressure and the "trainee" forgets that it is not a "Pampers kind of day" (worst case scenario is Pull-Ups in the cubby in 1st grade). So my darling, enjoy the dance, keep up the cheering, have the potty chair accessable at ALL times and if necessary allow yourself to be an visual example... better still the entire family could run around the house without drawers, announce EACH and EVERY time they have to "potty" allowing the everyone to share in the potty experience all the while doing the "Peepee/poopoo Dance". This will do one of two things... make potty training smooth, easy and quick OR scar her (and probably her father's) psyche to the point where therapy will be necessary to cure an acute case of Anal Retention..... Enjoy
about the no panty thing. I have done it with ashtyn and now with parker. It is just so much easier just to let them run around the house with no underwear on then always pulling them on and pulling them off. But if you put them on then you will know if there is a puddle of pee pee in the house somewhere!! It took ashtyn an extra two to three months before she went poop in the toliet but parker went poop first. Ashtyn would go and grab a pullup when she had to poop. Pull ups suck, i dont recommended them. Every kid is different, but it does get easier. Stay with it, it is so much fun when they are done, and cheaper!!! I am trying to figure out what i want to spend my extra 32.99 a month on.
By the way where is your MEME???
I know...meme coming tonight hopefully!!!
Good luck!! Riley didn't train till he was 2 1/2 and he trained in less than 2 weeks because he wanted to pee at Wal Mart!! Kyla already takes her diapers off and loves the potty but is no where near ready!!
I hope Quinn trains quickly and doesn't leave many more "presents" for you!!!
Oh thank goodness you have hardwood floors, else you'll be like me, brushing the rug for a whole day, getting rid of the poop smears and the stench of my dog or my baby cousin (or both!). But thanks to my friend that has told me about the carpet cleaning (Salem, Oregon) guys, and I called them to clean my carpets.
After the cleaning has been done, the carpet cleaning (Salem, Oregon located cleaners) guys did their job well and fast. From then on, I regularly call them whenever an accident has occurred.
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