the potty training blues
Kenny has regressed in the potty department. While he was previously self-sufficient at daycare, and not too shabby at home, he's recently had a spate of accidents of the #1 variety. Even though Kenny has never taken the initiative at home to just get up and go to the bathroom by himself (although he totally knows how and does so at daycare), he was fairly good about staying clean and dry. Lately, however, he has a complete disregard for the whole thing.
"Do you need to go pee-pee?"
"No."
"Are you sure you don't need to go potty?"
"No potty!"
"Is it strange to you to be denying all of this while standing in urine soaked underwear?"
"Um, no?"
The whole thing is extremely frustrating. We had high hopes that Mr. K would be completely potty trained by now (by a long time ago, actually), and to have taken several steps backwards is disheartening to say the least.
I know that a lot of kids regress at some point before rallying back, but as I mentioned before, Kenny has never really taken the initiative at home. And that's what scares/bothers me. I long for the day when I won't have to pester him and he'll just get up and go when he needs to. Hell, at this point I'd settle for him simply saying he needs to go.
Sigh.
We've got six months before Goldblatt arrives. The goal is to have Kenny where he needs to be by then. Pray for us. Or send your best tips. Whatever works.
"Do you need to go pee-pee?"
"No."
"Are you sure you don't need to go potty?"
"No potty!"
"Is it strange to you to be denying all of this while standing in urine soaked underwear?"
"Um, no?"
The whole thing is extremely frustrating. We had high hopes that Mr. K would be completely potty trained by now (by a long time ago, actually), and to have taken several steps backwards is disheartening to say the least.
I know that a lot of kids regress at some point before rallying back, but as I mentioned before, Kenny has never really taken the initiative at home. And that's what scares/bothers me. I long for the day when I won't have to pester him and he'll just get up and go when he needs to. Hell, at this point I'd settle for him simply saying he needs to go.
Sigh.
We've got six months before Goldblatt arrives. The goal is to have Kenny where he needs to be by then. Pray for us. Or send your best tips. Whatever works.
posted by Dr. Overboard and Prof. Evenkeel at 8:15 AM
2 Comments:
Seriously, count your blessings he's this far along. Adam didn't START potty training until he was 3 1/2, which was smack in the middle of my maternity leave. Talk about insanity... He'll get there, but there will be a lot of back and forth between now and then. Even Adam still has accidents from time to time - and he's 5!
Heck, I still have accidents from time to time -- and I'm 35!!!
But seriously, I read this article a while back and am keeping it handy for Salamander some day: Potty-Training in ONE day...apparently it's for real:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25057503/
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