You know you’re a parent of a toddler…
26 April 2010
When the highlight of your weekend is your 2-year-old looking up at you from the bathtub and saying, “Mommy, I need to go pee.” Then actually sitting on the potty and peeing. She received lots of applause and a piece of Pez from her Santa Claus Pez dispenser.
Alternately, the low point of the weekend came around 9:30—well past bedtime—when she asked to sit on the potty, then did nothing for five minutes but chat with me about her Santa Claus Pez dispenser. Until I took her off the potty, and then she began to scream, “I need to go potty!”
“No, honey,” I said in my calmest Mommy voice. “You just tried and didn’t need to go. Now it’s time to go to sleep.”
“No! I need to go potty!”
“Then you can go in your diaper.”
“No! I need candy!”
So while it’s possible we’ll get this child potty trained, it’s also possible that we’ve created a monster.
Comments
Yes, but she’s a very cute little monster who occasionally yells things like “I need daddy!” That makes it all worth it.
Posted by Ben on 26 April 2010
With us it was M&M’s.
:)
Posted by Erica Vetsch on 27 April 2010
Didn’t you know that “monster” and “potty-training-child” are synonymous? LOL.
Posted by Roseanna White on 26 April 2010