When it comes to positive discipline, advice on potty training, or toilet training, is painfully simple. Wait for your child to exhibit the signs, don’t push, don’t reward, and don’t praise. In fact, when it comes to potty training, we parents and caregivers can be our own biggest obstacle, trying to push, reward, praise and […]
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We continued on in our quest to potty train yesterday. For the full back story, be sure to check out Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3. And if you’re looking forward to returning to my regularly scheduled programming, this here report from the bloody war front of Butt Camp is the last of this […]
Welcome to Day 3 of my little experiment to see if I can finally save $100 a month in diapers. After two years and 10 months of diapers I decided to try a little experiment to see if my little Sweetness, who was showing all the signs of readiness for potty training, would take the […]
It’s Day 2 of my Potty Training in Three Days or Less challenge. To catch up on the background of why on Earth I’d do this and read all about the first day, please click here. Go ahead, I”ll wait… Back? Ok. Just to prepare you, I have to say, after an encouraging end to […]
Sweetness is two months shy of her third birthday and the potty training issue has been driving us insane. For the past eight months she’s shown complete interest in sitting on the potty that lead to her using it once, then none, then interest again including the “big girl potty,” then complete lack of interest […]
So we have not seen Sweetness show any more interest in the big girl potty since her little experiment that lead to a wet tushy a while back so we thought we’d try out a little something different. While purchasing the now vital door handle locks for the inside of Sweetness’s bedroom door, Hubby found […]
Mr. Man, in all his 10-month chunky glory, blew us away these past couple of days. At first I thought it was a fluke, so I didn’t jinx it by talking about it here. But now, after five days of pulling the same stunt with increased level of proficiency, I’m feeling rather safe in announcing […]
