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T day
By hissychick | March 8, 2008
This hissychick is doing a happy dance today because A has finally, finally used the toilet.
It’s been over two months since we got our girl onto the potty. Two whole months in which she has steadfastly refused to graduate to the far more civilised WC option, despite my various means of begging, bribing, pleading and threatening as previously summarised in this post.
You see, in a rather unfortunate turn of events (you! karma! i hate you!) my daughter inherited my stubborn streak (ahem) and there was no way known she was going to avail herself of the wonders of modern plumbing until she felt that she was ready. Even her carers at daycare were surprised at how determined she was to use her beloved pot.
Until now.
Earlier this week, in one of those world’s worst mother moments I realised that my three year old was suffering from a case of thrush. I won’t fill you in on any of the gory details but suffice to say once treatment was underway most of what I foolishly thought were signs of regression simply disappeared. And when miss A calmly announced to me yesterday that she had used the little toilet at daycare I knew we had to get in quick.
So today mr hissychick and I armed ourselves to the teeth with all sorts of chocolatey bribes and set to work.
Attempt #1 was met with a huge tantrum and no action. I attempted my boring old begging/bribing/ pleading speech, to no avail.
Attempt #2, five minutes later was met with a huge tantrum and no action. I had a brainwave, and told A that if she stopped crying she might find that she wasn’t sad and that using the toilet wasn’t actually scary.
Attempt #3, five minutes later again, began with a tantrum. I asked what reward A would like if she did indeed use the toilet and she said Smarties.
Attempt #4: A took herself to the toilet and did a wee. And yea verily we lavished her with praise and treats.
And ever since then…all wees and poos in the toilet today without fuss or accidents. Sometimes with treats, sometimes not. To say that I am gobsmacked is an understatement.
Is it too early to set fire to the potty?
In other T related news….E is teething, with her upper middle incisors currently cutting through her tender gums. Of course it is a complete coincidence that she also has a streaming head cold, boob fussing and sooky lala tendencies whenever she is put in her cot at the moment. Yes, funny that.
I’m off to finish reading a novel and the newspaper spend some quality time with my husband.
I bid you all a find adieu.
Topics: The joys of toilet training |
Hooray for A!!
And a toast for Mom and Dad (prefer with butter or bubbles? *wink*).
Max is also doing quite well now, with understanding his biological signals. In fact he refuses the diapers, unless we explain that we are on a relatively long journey and might not get him to the toilet on time.
Hmm… maybe we should attempt removing the diapers when not in the car… big BIG risk!!
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Posted by: Moomykin on March 8th, 2008 at 10:56 amI’d go the bubbles for sure if I could get my hands on some.
Good luck with Max and car journeys. We’d mastered that one, A could do hour long car journeys no probs…but we still had to have the grotty potty with us just in case. No more!
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