No, I’m not THAT crazy. I actually believe that when children are ready, they are ready. Of course, if you want to start them early to familiarise them with the act, there is no harm though you may be wasting a lot of precious time.
For T1, I taught her the act of running around naked when she hit 2, with some accidents here and there for about less than 2 weeks before she started feeling cold down there got it. During that time, all carpets were rolled up and any soft furnishings put away, especially the Persian carpets! She never had an accident at school after that but there was once at a story telling session before she hit 3 when she was SOOOOOOOO excited that she pee’d right there!!! I was so embarrassed!!! The girl had held her pee because she didn’t want to miss out on the fun and when she suddenly told me she had to pee, it was too late! Gosh! And there were soooooo many people at the bookshop as well! I swear I wanted to pretend she wasn’t my kid!!!
She still wore night diapers till she was 3.5 years old though but when she started waking up in the morning with dry diapers, we knew she was ready. However, Mommy still wasn’t ready to clean bedsheets at 4am in the morning, so we always woke her and brought her to the toilet at midnight for a dream pee. T1 has never, ever, EVER had an accident in bed. Good girl. Or the Hubs would have been having fun changing bedsheets at 2am. Tee-hee.
Lately though, T1 has been to the potty to poo 3 times because purely coincidentally, when I changed her diaper, I saw her butt winking at me so instead of wasting yet another fresh diaper only to be poo’d in seconds later, I’d sprint her to the toilet for some gold depositing. Sometimes, I’d catch THAT LOOK and I’d strip her like a man in heat and rush her there too. So yeah, she’s poo’d in the toilet 3 times in the last week. It’s a lot more convenient for me and easier on her bum too as it’s not soooooo messy as the poo hits the toilet bowl directly on target and not get all mashed potato-ed up in said diaper.
T2’s first toilet poo before 12 months – a reason to celebrate with Che-Che, T1!
I’m sorry if you were in the middle of a meal *burp*
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I’m eating my lunch while reading this. Doesn’t gross me out at all. Very few things gross mums out, don’t you think?
Believe me, my mom started training my nephew when he was 2 months old!!!! I’m still so lazy to sit there waiting for those nuggets to drop so will do when G turns 1… hehhehe
hahahah! i like that expression ‘Butt winking at you”. How fitting!
strip her like a man on heat ! you really are funny !!
Totally understand the “save the diapers” and less hassle butt cleaning effort. Me too trying to “catch those moments”.
Please teach me the magic of making the poo come out when the butt winks at you. Whenever I catch my son’s butt ‘winking’ I quickly put him on the throne to only have him keep it back inside just because he is too scared to sit on the throne. *help* =) He rather stand and poo in his diapers than to sit and let it all out into the throne.. and hes 3!!!!!!!