The joys of parenthood....

We've been deep in the throws of potty training with my 2 and a half year old daughter for the past two days...Nothing like spending all your free time sitting next to a very weirded out toddler sitting on a plastic potty...Ahh, this is the life :insane:

Good luck! I'm planning on mine coming out potty trained.

Mine was 3 when he was daytime potty trained. He just decided one day and that was that... However... He still wears pull-ups at night 2.5 years later. He wets his bed every night, doesn't wake up.

I've tried everything. No liquids after dinner, waking him at midnight, taking away the pull-ups (do not recommend). Nothing works. He sleeps too soundly.

Pull-ups are expensive. :-(

Enjoy every minute of it. I guarantee you that forty years from now you would give a small fortune to go back and have just one of those days to live over again.

This didn't give us all the answers, but it sure helped. (This was well over a decade ago... don't know if it is even still around)

Ha nice! I'll be there soon, currently working on taking the bottle form our 1 year old. We have bought a number of types of sippy cups, tried cold turkey for a few days and now we are on to only a bottle at night. She will take a few sips of it out of a sippy now, but in the beginning it was......interesting. Waking up, when she sees me/wife she says Dada, baba! and I have to tell her it all gone and hand her the sippy, thing goes flying across the room and she screams. Parenting is challenging, but amazing.

I know EXACTLY how you feel!

Let us know how that works out for you!! (congrats on the girl btw!)

Yeah, but with boys you have the cheerio game...with girls there's not much else to motivate them.

Awesome replies. My daughter knows all about where "pee-pee and poo-poo" go, but get's all wiggly butt when she has to go...We think the full bladder / sensation is what's wigging her out...we're doing the m&m for every success, but she's caught on to that and will give us like 6 drips, then expect some candy. We've since moved to "full" successes to get the m&m. On top of that, we've moved her potty into the living room and will let her watch TV while on it...that's helped a lot!

I taught my son to go outdoors, made it fun. When he was comfortable (no aiming, etc) I just transitioned indoors. Daughter was pretty easy except for #2 but one day she just started going.

Because I'm sure you're all dying to know...we're having great successes with peeing on the potty, it's just getting her to get everything out...and she's even doing #2 like a champ!

The things you brag about as a parent.

#neverthoughtthatwouldhappen

lol, nice man.... I will soon begin that myself... Right now I am trying to get my daughter to talk. She understands most things, if I tell her to do something or go get something she does it. She talks a lot, just the only real words are mommy, and daddy on occasion. ANy tips?

Just wait soon you'll be wishing they would stop talking. The things my 3 year old says. Daddy be quiet I'm talking to mommy. The other day he washed his blanket in the washing machine by himself. I was in the living room and I hear beep beep from the laundry room. Asked him What he was doing, "I'm washing my blanky daddy". I looked and he had the soap were it went and the fabric softener where it went. Don't underestimate them they know a lot more than they let on.

I feel your pain as well. My youngest has been diagnosed with a mix developmental disorder, thankfully it should be correctable with extra work and therapy by first grade. She's almost 4 and still in diapers. We keep trying off and on and her pace. The docs said not to force it as you'll just make it take longer. It doesn't help that she must have got a double dose of German as she can be oober stubborn.

Hang in there. My oldest was the same way. Daytime was easy and night time was much harder. She just slept too deep. She would go and not even wake up. We found that no liquids after 6 helped and waking her up 2 times a night to go works most of the time but there were still accidents. The doc said their is nothing to worry about until they are about 8, witht he night time bed wetting. The part of the brain that controls it develops at different rates for everyong. She is now 6 1/2 and wakes herself up to go. However, she has to wake us up to to annouce she is going. I'm sure I'll miss it 20 years from now but her walking into our room, throwing the lights on the is the master bath and going with the door open can be a bit frustrating when we are dog tired. Don't know why she can't use the guest bath 15 feet from her bedroom. lol

I already miss holding them as infants and how they used to sleep or snuggle on my chest. Now it is special when they just want to sit with the old man and watch cartoons. Thank goodness they still have Bugs, Daffy, Taz, etc still on. The girls and I love them. I just don't get the new cartoons and think they suck. Our youngest comes down every morning around 630 or 7 and climbs into bed with us but needs more room than anyone I know. She gets in and start pushing on my back going "scoot ova" until she has about 3/4 of the bed to herself.

THAT IS AWESOME!!!!! We still have this on VHS from when my daughter was going through this stuff years ago. Now we watch it with my son, but he is being much more of a pain than my daughter. Good luck!

You know, it's amazing...before my wife and I moved back to Chicago, it was just the 3 of us in our house in Phoenix, and my daughter was a quiet one...but we signed with her A LOT. We started at maybe 3 months, and never got anything back for a while until about 6 months old, then she was throwing signs at us left and right (My wife is a special ed teacher, so knows a lot of ASL). And so that was how we communicated for the longest time. She didn't have a lot of words, but we were able to have very informative discussions with her, so the late speech didn't bother us. Once we moved to Chicago, we crashed with the inlaws for a while, and we think being around 5 or 6 adults full time allowed her to absorb so much actual conversation, not just kid specific dialog, forced her to blossom. Within maybe a month she was running full sentences and is a little chatter box after 5 months.

My advice? Talk with your child in the same way you'd talk to another adult, they'll pick up more then you realize! Good luck!

I just ordered from Amazon for $6. Just search for it, they have a bunch available in DVD and VHS

My girl, just did it on her own.

My 4 month old son, he's just not coming along. He still does it in his diaper I hope he doens't end up slow.

4 months?! Really? (Hoping there was a missing sarcasm tag there)