Disclaimer: My brain and trains of thought have become quite mushy over the last year.
At 3:00am this morning, I was feeding Thaddeus, and my mind wandered. It started at a new trend we're seeing in Aurelia that gives me hope for a diaper-free future. Recently, before her bath at night, I have been asking her if she wants to try to pee-pee on the potty. This week, as a response, she tries to lift the lid. Super excited, I hurriedly remove her diaper and she lets me hover her little butt over the toilet (when I've tried this before, she has feared the porcelain chasm and as such, squirmed to get the hell off!) Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure she pees in the diaper when I ask her if she has to go, leaving nothing left to drop into the bowl. So she just chuckles at me a little, thinking this butt-dangling game is fun, and we move on.
Anyway, that's where my mind started. Then, since I was holding Thad, I wondered if it's true that potty- training boys is easier than doing so for girls. I laughed to myself thinking about Matt teaching him how to aim. Then, the horror struck. Someone has to teach that kid how to aim! From there, I came up with a solution: buy a toilet and set it, un-plumbed, in the backyard for my kid to learn how to hit the opening and not the wall/floor/mirror of the bathroom.
Please remember that this was three a.m., and my psyche is squishy from too much Elmo.
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Or just make the potty-training boy sit and point down. It only lasts until they see daddy pee standing up, but still. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have always heard potty training boys is harder. On the other hand, train them in the summer where they can pee in the backyard...it worked WONDERFULLY for Philip. He still sits on the potty and won't stand up. Daddy hasn't taught him that, yet.
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