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Tuesday – (Toilet) Water For Chocholate
Jul. 22nd, 2008 03:10 pm.
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Today on my drive into work, I was thinking about how sometimes if you wait long enough, you get what you want. Once it occurred to me that I have no talent for parenting, and certainly not for the finer points of parenting involved in potty training, I found myself hoping that one day my son would wake up and just be potty trained with no real effort of my part.
It worked. Seriously. No one was more surprised than I. After months of resistance, and as only one of two kids still in pull-ups in his nursery school class, he woke up one day and announced, "Mommy, I need to go potty," just as calmly as if he'd been doing this sort of thing for years. The only reason he needed me, it turns out, was because he couldn't reach the light switch on his own.
( If Praise and positive reinforcement fail, try bribery )
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.
Today on my drive into work, I was thinking about how sometimes if you wait long enough, you get what you want. Once it occurred to me that I have no talent for parenting, and certainly not for the finer points of parenting involved in potty training, I found myself hoping that one day my son would wake up and just be potty trained with no real effort of my part.
It worked. Seriously. No one was more surprised than I. After months of resistance, and as only one of two kids still in pull-ups in his nursery school class, he woke up one day and announced, "Mommy, I need to go potty," just as calmly as if he'd been doing this sort of thing for years. The only reason he needed me, it turns out, was because he couldn't reach the light switch on his own.
( If Praise and positive reinforcement fail, try bribery )
