Ok, listen to this. Yesterday, Fa wanted to be nekkid ALL FRIGGIN DAY!
Yes.
Nude.
Bare ass.
Naked as a jaybird.
Nudie, like the day she was born.
All. Day. Long.
This started in the middle of the week. I found her naked in the living room on more than one occasion.
I approached this new milestone in many different ways.
I congratulated her on being able to FINALLY undress herself.
I ignored it.
I laughed.
I warned that we only do this at HOME.
I gently reminded her NOT to pee on my COUCH!
Then, I finally asked what she was thinking. After all, we can't be nekkid all day long. We do leave the house once in a while and she does need to be clothed in order to go to school.
Her answer plain and simple. "Practicing to go on the potty Mom!"
Like, "You stooooopid jerk, what the hell do you think I'm doing...?"
So Friday, we went to go buy a little potty made especially for her. A Princess Potty. Complete with Snow White, Ariel, Cinderella and all the other women she really could care less about.
She was ecstatic! Excited to have it and raring to go...in it.
Saturday, she woke up and refused to put her clothes on. I didn't argue, I figured 'you go girl', make it easy and just be naked...no panties to pull on and off and you can just plop a squat and be ready.
We trekked downstairs and she sat on that thing every chance she got. She watched TV on it, read and even ate her snack sitting on it. Did she put her goods in it?
Nope. Not once. All day.
She held it in. Again. All day.
After a while (hours upon hours), I could tell she needed to go. She sat and squeezed but only a dribble came out. We cheered and yelled and danced and sang nonetheless, and I gave her a sticker to put on the potty..that's where she wants to put her reward stickers...On the pot.
BD came home from work to find her naked still and eating her dinner on the couch. I knew it was only a matter of time. She had been eating and drinking all day long. It had to come out some time.
She finally broke down. And peed. On my couch.
With that, she became embarrassed and threw the fit of all fits. Screaming and crying and yelling at her dad to leave the house. She threw her toys and was enraged at it all.
With her begging for a Pamper, I dressed her and she peed.
She relaxed within seconds and that was that.
What the?
Don't get it?
She refuses to sit on the pot. The big pot. The princess pot. Any pot out there...she just won't do it.
The next size up from her Pampers size 6 is Depends.
12 comments:
Wow she does sounds really tense ... The first time Becca was introduced to potty training it was the summer naked, savage kid. She was much more relaxed about peeing though ... She had to go she went .. everywhere! Now we still have accidents on occasion (especially when playing arg that kid has the concentration), but we use panties only ... I found pull ups and the like way too confusing.
SF has such an amazing and intense personality, it may be best to let her decide when she is ready and let her decide how to go about it (although this time it sure seemed like she was ready eh?) We also have the plainest of plain potties (easiest to clean as well) the ones that sing freak Becca out totally.
HUGS! It is such a frustrating experience (although we should *try* not to be frustrated, but come on that was your COUCH!)
Hang in there!
It will come, don't worry :)
Sounds like you have tried many things. She'll do it when she's ready, don't you worry!!!
Don't you hate it when they pee on something? A month ago, we sat the bunny on the potty before her bath (our night ritual). She said she didn't have to. She hopped off and ran into her bedroom while I ran her bath. I came in to get her and found her squatting....pee all over her carpet...ah, hello! I just offered you a potty 2 minutes ago....
Hee hee hee....you said "nekkid" hee hee. I know for a fact a size 6 Pampers will hold a 42 pound kid. I will be buying Depends before you are!
HA! I feel your pain. Why can't they make a size 7 already?
Why the hell is potty training so hard.
Grrr.
Bless her heart!!!! She wants to do it, and she's figuring it all out. She'll get the hang of it. I found with Love Bug, she would undress from the waist down EVERYTIME she had to pee. I thought she'd do that forever. Turns out, she stays dressed now. Who'd of thunk it. Anyhoo, sounds like you're being supportive and that will help more than anything.
OOOhhhh poor thing. The little princess.
I can't even imagine how hard this is...
When Will and I finally adopt, I'm going to be hitting you up BIG TIME for advice. Unless we just adopt them when they're around...25.
"After all we can't be nekkid ALL day long" :)
I'll have to inform the men of the house of this rule. They may not be aware.
I plan to buy the potty soon for Miles. Just so that he can used to seeing it. I kinda have an idea of when he poo's but he pee's all the time that will be harder. I am getting one for upsatairs and downstairs. We asctually have a powder room in the livingroom. Wish me luck and I'll keep crossing my fingers for dry couches and full pots!
Time, Time and More Time! Remember nobody wears diapers on their wedding day! Well unless you're 85! Then diapers are the least of your worries on your wedding day!
It'll happen! But on her terms for sure!
My son had the same problem ... he'd hold it and hold it and hold it. I honestly think he felt too much pressure.
The trick that finally worked? Warm water. While my son was sitting on his big-boy-potty, the husband brought over a glass of warm water and -without warning - stuck my son's hand in it. SUCCESS! We celebrated, we danced, we sang, we called grandmas, etc!
Are we raising the same child? lol! I was just thinking the other day - what the heck am I meant to do if she doesn't 'get this' when she's too big for the size 6 diapers she's already wearing.
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