Potty training is SUCH an important milestone!!! Translated…
My youngest son is three, it’s time, I’d, potty-trained him, and so, I’d, started working on a “quitting diapers” war pact with my husband for him.
My husband asked my son first, “Do you want to wear the underwear with cartoon cars on it?”, my son nodded excitedly, then, we took him shopping for his new underwear, so he can choose the pictures he’d liked to wear. After I’d, washed the underwear, and hung them out to dry, came the SECOND phase. I’d asked my child, if he’d wanted to, try on his new underwear? Looking at his favorite patterns of car and airplane, he was still, a bit hesitant. “let’s try and pee inside the toilet, and if you can manage that, you get to wear your new underwear!” at first, he had troubles, getting use to it, he was on the verge of peeing, he’d stood over the toilet, and didn’t DARE to go, and cried that he wanted his diapers back.
positively reinforcing the behaviors, photo from online
In the beginning stages, my son would from time to time, not get to the toilet quick enough, and, wetted the floors of the bathroom, or, rushed over to the toilet, stood above it a long time, and, nothing. In the end, my son had, finally, let down his guards, and bravely, peed, into the toilet, and, as the softer underwear was put on him, he’d started, comparing, he’d found, that the fabric underwear, felt way better than the diapers.
Once, he’d accidentally, peed outside the toilet, he’d, felt so ashamed, and disappointed, looked up to me and asked, “Does daddy pee outside the toilet too? How about grandpa? And Uncle?”, I’d told him, “EVERYBODY had peed outside the toilets by accident! You will be, JUST as good as they all are. Peeing is something that’s, liberating, don’t be afraid, if you, get it outside.”
In the third phases, we wanted to train our son to poop into the toilet, and, as he’d complained on how uncomfortable his diapers felt, and refused to go to the potty, I’d, worked my persuasion on him. He’d asked me, “Did daddy poop on the toilet? Grandpa? Uncle too? How about Octopus, and Elephant?” and, he’d, role called every male in the household again, and, he’d started concerning himself over the potty training of all the animals too.
I’d asked my son repeatedly, day in, day out, “Do you want to go to the potty?” Kept my patience, as I stayed inside the bathrooms with him, and, in no more than a month, my son finally, quitted his diaper. And now, he’d become, very precise in going to the potty, even as he was sleeping in the middle of the nights, he’d, gotten up, with his sleepy eyes, stumbled, to go to the potty too.
illustration from the papers online…
Seeing the last case of diapers still in storage, I’d thought, “Thank god, this is, the LAST case of it!” My youngest son is finally, evolved!
This is, a mother, noting the growth of her young son, and, potty training is SUCH an important milestone in everybody’s life, and if you weren’t trained using the positive reinforcements, it can, DAMAGE you for life!
JUST the Unwinding of Thoughts 