Friday, April 18, 2008
YAY for potty training
I am not even doing it!! Ben has started taking his diapers off in the morning and throwing them in the trash (I think it's because Samuel does this and he's just copying Samuel) BUT, a lot of it is HIM, because he also takes off diapers (if he can) when he pees in them ONCE, and throws them in the trash and claps and says "yay!" I think it's a great thing, considering I haven't really even started potty training him yet, he's figuring it out on his own!! Brad doesn't seem to like the idea...spanked him several times on the butt for taking his diaper off, says it's "a waste of a diaper" and while that may almost be true I will never spank him for doing that because I KNOW that it's because he's learning. When I told Brad what he was doing, he told me to "shut the freak up." I wish sometimes he'd look at the big picture, see the things the kids do that's positive for a change...and not be so hard on them...I'm sure he wishes I'd be harder on them, but I believe that he's just a little too hard on them and needs to lighten up... He slept on the couch on his own last night...and while this is really no one's business and I probably shouldn't even post this...I'm really getting tired of it and kinda wish I had a friend to talk to..
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I am sorry that you feel that way. Being a parent is hard because you have your way and he may have his way. I don't have to deal with that right now but soon enough I will and I am hoping that we can discuss all the parenting issues together before we decide on punishment and rewards. I too think it's a waste of diaper but I also think that spanking him is going to make it tougher on him to understand why brother does it and he doesn't get a spanking. I really don't know what to say because we aren't at that stage yet although Brandon has a pottychair and sits on it when I am using the potty. I have one of those that talks to you with the little flusher and the "toliet paper". It sings songs and says" wow you did it!" I think it'll be a matter of time before we are in the potty training phase but there I think will be easier if we wait until he's at that stage in school to use the potty chairs there...they help the kids with potty training at the school Brandon goes to and they start that around I think 18 months to 2 years.
Good luck with the potty training though!
Well I guess he learned because he hasn't done it since..
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