I had a friend ask me last night how the potty training with John was going. She probably expected to me tell her that it’s GREAT. He willingly and voluntarily uses the potty and we are a happy family. I mean, it has been about 3 months since we’ve been working on this.<\/p>\n
Well, it is going great.<\/p>\n
That is, if your idea of great is a kicking and screaming battle 3 or 4 times a day to get him to actually use the potty. We have rewards, threats, time outs, sweet understanding mommy, tired grumpy mommy, and reasoning mommy working on this here. And then there’s the changing of the poopy pants at least once a day, since there’s no way<\/strong> he’s actually going to poop in the potty of all places. Frankly, I’m worn down and worn out. Why must I put myself (and him) through this? So he’ll have more emotional scarring to fuel his therapy later in life? So that I can beat myself up daily because I must be a terrible mother because I can’t figure out a way to make this work? Why? Why? Why? (banging head against the desk)<\/p>\n And if you tell me how your child was potty trained in 3 days, so help me, I will hunt you down and attack you in your sleep. I’m just saying.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had a friend ask me last night how the potty training with John was going. She probably expected to me tell her that it’s GREAT. He willingly and voluntarily uses the potty and we are a happy family. I mean, it has been about 3 months since we’ve been working on this. Well, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}