I thought potty training our oldest daughter was a challenge… She regressed a couple times ?♀️ but she was pretty much potty trained at 3.5 years old.
Our son, however is already 3.5 and he’s had a couple great days, but it seems like he’s just not interested in being potty trained. He tries, but… Then he has an accident. ? And lately I think he’s been sneaking a new pull up to act like he’s kept his pull up clean all day. ?
I walked in on him today climbing on the toilet to get a clean pull up out of the cupboard and he assured me he was OK and that I could go out and close the door behind me.
I wanted to see if he was planning to lie to me so we could have a lesson in lying. We bought him this crane several months ago and leave it out for him to see to remind him to go to the potty, but… It still sits there. ? So I was sure he was going to tell me he was still clean.
He came out of the bathroom and this was our convo.
Bobby: Mommy I went pee pee in the potty
Me: That’s great! Is your pull up clean?
Bobby: Yes it is
Me: Did you get a new one?
Bobby: Yes I did
Me: Were you going to try to hide it from me that you got a new one?
Bobby: No
Me: OK good, we don’t lie to mommy and daddy ok?
Bobby: ok
He had a clean diaper on at like 4 pm the other day after I was sure he had changed into a clean pull up, but….the painters had taken the trash out of the bathroom so he had nowhere to toss it (I totally went into the bathroom right after he came to tell me his pull up was still dry).
I know he can do it… He’s just taking a little longer than big sis. I’m hoping his little sis will catch on soon after him so we can stop buying diapers and pull ups, that will be some cost savings!
For now, I’m just happy knowing that my baby boy knows he can be honest with me, even if it’s not what I want I hear (he has pooped in his pull up lately too, but he told me the truth, he’s been going on the potty for almost 2 years now).
It’s funny how 3 kids from the same parents can each be so different. ❤️
Update… My hubby looked under the sink to look for more wipes… And discovered used pull ups ? Bobby said they weren’t his and he doesn’t know how they got there. But he thinks they just walked there because they don’t have ?. We had a talk about lying and he apologized. ❤️ Let’s see when we have to have this conversation again. (P.S. The reason they were under the sink was because he couldn’t find the trash can ???)
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