Confession: I have been holding out on hope that day care staff would potty train my daughters for me.
Double confession: At almost 3, they're still no where near being potty trained.
I'm starting to feel pressure. Starting to feel incompetent. Starting to feel like I've fallen down on the job.
A few months ago, I agreed to review Once Upon A Potty for the Parent Bloggers Network. I was and still am basically willing to try anything that makes this next stage easier. I'm not exactly lazy, but I do not really have an eternal amount of patience, which is what I think I need to endure potty training these two.
We've come a long way. They no longer push the potty chair around the house as if it's a vehicle or stand it in it like it's an island unto itself.
Nope.
They pretty much ignore it. Shy away from it. Run screaming from it. Hide from it. Refuse to be near it.
Sadly, as cute and wonderful as Once Upon a Potty is, nothing is working. I'm left at square one, where I believe they will get to this on their own accord.
Still, this book and CD is very cute and my girls LOVE the story and Prudence. I do believe it is helping with their education and learning. Eventually, they may even realize it could apply to them.
I read it over and over. They listen attentively, too.
And yet ... we're just now starting to see progress in moving from diapers to pull-ups -- at school. At home, we're just not there, yet. Liana has peed on the potty a few times, but Jadyn is just not even close to being ready. It doesn't help that everything with twins is tougher because they are always at odds with each other. I don't want peeing to be yet another competition between them.
Lucky for me, I know how fast things with these two can change. We might still have two full months of this year left, but in toddlerland that can be an eternity.
It's a good thing ... we might need that long.
4 comments:
These are the roads we all must take to bide the time til our kids do it themselves. For what it's worth, Georgia was no where near until the day she did it. It is the larger world, and invisible forces, that tip the lid!
Aw...don't feel bad. It's such an unpredictable milestone. You're encouraging them without pressuring them - seems like the ideal approach.
Does the daycare have a rule about when they need to be potty trained? I hope it happens for you soon. You can't imagine the relief of not having to worry with diapers.
If you want to read about my journey through it scroll through my Nov. archives!
M&M's. Seriously. :-)
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