What makes potty training so delightful? Such a wonderful, sweet bonding time with your toddler/preschooler? It’s the dialogue.
Open, honest dialogue that takes place constantly through their waking hours, and even into their sleeping hours.
I wrote a post back in March where I mentioned starting to potty-train Parker. Ha. Well, that lasted about 2 and half days and now here it is July. He’s officially 3 so I’m feelin’ the pressure. Not just from other people who’s kids were potty-trained in 4 days by 2 years of age. No, from everyone around him who I know has to be subjected to big kid sized poop in a diaper. Lovely.
So anyway, the dialogue…
Parker: “Good morning Mommy!”
Me: “Good morning Parker, do you have to pee-pee? Did you pee in your pull-up? Let’s go try and use the potty.”
Parker: “NOOOOOOO!!!!!! (screaming and howling and buckling his knees as I try to lead him there)
After getting to the bathroom:
Parker: “I want to pee-pee like this. I want to stand up. I’m big.”
Me: “Ok, just be…” (too late) “…careful…”
Parker: “Uh-oh”
Me: “It’s ok, we’ll clean it up.”
Approximately 10 minutes after breakfast:
Me: “Parker, if you have to go poop you tell Mommy. Don’t go poop in your underwear. Poop goes in the potty.”
Parker: “OK! My poop is not coming out.”
Me: “Parker where does your poop go?”
Parker: “In the potty!”
Me: “That’s right so you tell Mommy. You don’t want to get poop on your Thomas underwear.”
As I finish the dishes and clean up Jonah I hear from the other room:
Katie: “Mommeeeeee!!!!!! Parker STINKS!!!!”
Me: “Parker come here! Did you poop in your underwear?”
Parker: “I have to go potty.”
Me: “Did you poop in your underwear?”
Parker: “Yes I did.”
Great. And so it goes, day after day. See how close we are becoming?
All the Little Grubbs 
🙂 I will admit to not having a lot of frustrations with this issue since mine all were out of diapers by about 22 mo….
If you leave him with no pants, will he go in the potty? (as opposed to the floor….)
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See! I knew you were out there! LOL I actually didn't have trouble with Foster and Katie but Theodore and Parker are proving to be more challenging. I had thought about leaving him completely without bottoms close to the time he usually goes. Thanks for the advice. I'll forgive you for bragging. (:
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That's so funny. I wish I'd written down some of the things Ethan and Luke said while potty training. I did the “no bottoms” thing too. Ethan loved to stand right in front of the toilet and poop on the floor. Just started with Moses. He'll sit on the toilet for a long time…happy as can be…as soon as he gets up he pees. Kids are all so different!
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