I knew I have failed as a mom more than once but as I was reading Mama G's post I couldn't think of anything. Crazy right? I guess I just let it go when it happens. Well as I neared the end my most recent failure hit me.
We have started potty training. Rex was super excited. He did all his business in the potty and we made a huge deal about it. Then we headed later that day to the store to get him so underwear. He was so excited. We let him wear his new underwear and kept asking "Do you have to go potty?" like every 15 minutes and we would remind him "Don't go pee in you new underwear. Hold it in so you can go on the potty."
Things seemed to be going good. No peeing on the floor but also no going in the potty. He was just holding it. Then of course he starts heading up the stairs. We don't have carpet on our main floor but we do on the stairs and in our bedrooms. He makes it up 2 steps and starts peeing. Normally he knows to stop and hold it if he doesn't have a diaper on. Well I guess his underwear felt similar enough because he wasn't stopping and holding it in until he was on the potty. Both my hubby and I started speaking loudly (not yelling) saying "Rex, stop." "Hold it in." "Let's go sit on the potty." Well from our over reaction he started crying because he didn't understand what was going on and why we were freaking out.
Now if you ask if he wants underwear he says no he wants a diaper. So here I had a 2 1/2 year old that was so excited about potty training and a future of no more diapers in our house and we have to go and freak our kid out. Major fail on our part!
I plan to give him a few weeks and then start again with just asking if he wants to go, letting him have naked time during the day and then start transitioning him into underwear once he starts doing really good when he naked. Hopefully I just prolonged the process a few weeks and not another year.
Thanks Mama G for letting us have a place to share our failures without feeling judgement!
We have started potty training. Rex was super excited. He did all his business in the potty and we made a huge deal about it. Then we headed later that day to the store to get him so underwear. He was so excited. We let him wear his new underwear and kept asking "Do you have to go potty?" like every 15 minutes and we would remind him "Don't go pee in you new underwear. Hold it in so you can go on the potty."
Things seemed to be going good. No peeing on the floor but also no going in the potty. He was just holding it. Then of course he starts heading up the stairs. We don't have carpet on our main floor but we do on the stairs and in our bedrooms. He makes it up 2 steps and starts peeing. Normally he knows to stop and hold it if he doesn't have a diaper on. Well I guess his underwear felt similar enough because he wasn't stopping and holding it in until he was on the potty. Both my hubby and I started speaking loudly (not yelling) saying "Rex, stop." "Hold it in." "Let's go sit on the potty." Well from our over reaction he started crying because he didn't understand what was going on and why we were freaking out.
Now if you ask if he wants underwear he says no he wants a diaper. So here I had a 2 1/2 year old that was so excited about potty training and a future of no more diapers in our house and we have to go and freak our kid out. Major fail on our part!
I plan to give him a few weeks and then start again with just asking if he wants to go, letting him have naked time during the day and then start transitioning him into underwear once he starts doing really good when he naked. Hopefully I just prolonged the process a few weeks and not another year.
Thanks Mama G for letting us have a place to share our failures without feeling judgement!
Oh no! I hope it's going better now :)
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