I knew potty training would be a challenge but for some
reason I was excited about it. I imagined
that we would put Thomas in his pants and of course there would be the occasional
accident but he would take to it like a duck to water and tell me if he felt
that he might need a wee or poo.
This is why on day one of potty training I felt like I had
been dragged through a hedge backwards, been running around like a headless chicken
and chasing Thomas around with a potty asking gently if he needed the loo and
trying not to lose my temper when he did “have an accident” because I had just
asked him if he needed the loo and he had categorically said no.
So day 2 I decided to take another approach. From looking into this I should take him to
the loo rather than asking if he needs the loo.
So day 2 was spent taking Thomas to the loo every half an hour and
getting very excited when he did manage to have a wee on the loo. He wasn’t quite there with the number “2’s”
but I felt like we had a breakthrough as he had been weeing on the loo.
Day 3 I thought we would have cracked it after the wees the
on day 2. I kept asking if he needed the
loo to which he replied, in a please stop asking me you are driving me crazy
kind of way, No! After he had been
playing in his play house for a while I thought it was a bit quiet and found he
had had another ”accident”, although
that was disappointing I still had high hopes.
This must be just a minor setback.
But just shortly after cleaning up there was another one. Since then everything has happened on the loo
but I feel drained and quite anxious about the next few days.
The emphasis has always been on the pregnancy, birth,
feeding, weaning but I have never thought “potty training” is a big deal, but
actually it is. I feel it is a very
stressful, delicate time of a toddler and their parents which I certainly have
not thought would be such a hard time.
