When you can wear these....
O.m.g. Honest to goodness gracious.
Riley, ah, my Riley...such an easy child. Potty-trained at 2 1/2 years old...practically on her own. When she decided she was over the diapers, she was over it. And for 5 years, I never thought twice about it...except when we would be out and had to use public restrooms. Let's just say, we used enough toilet paper that you never even saw the toilet seat. (Those automatic flusher toilets, though...man, those were such a challenge to cover...anyway.)
Fast forward to my precious Ronan and it's like nothing we say or do or bribe him with will work. Go ahead and make your judgments. I'm sure I am doing nothing right. But can I just say that I am so.tired.of.poop.
[If you have no interest in reading about poop, I'd stop here.]
My friend gave me hinters on what to do with him...get him in unnerwears (as he says). I did. He loved them. But, didn't mind pooping in them, either. I freaked. I'll admit it. I lost my mind the first time I saw that turd in his brand new Diego underwear. And I was pissed. I'm sorry, but a three-pack of tiny underwear doesn't come cheap. And the companies know that parents will spend the money to appease their toddlers with cartoon-themed underwear to get through this horrific experience. So there we were, down to 2 pairs.
He didn't care. I offered him M&Ms. High-5s. A new monster truck. Two new monster trucks. A trip to see the monster truck show. Tokens for Chuck E. Cheese. A trip to Chuck E. Cheese. A million dollars. Nothing.
But yesterday, oh yesterday...that was the kicker.
I have a bad gag reflex. (Need I say more?!) The boy pooped and I thought I could taste it, I was dry-heaving while changing him. I don't know what to do. And now, I'm down to one pair. One.
Let him go naked? Sure. But then we run the high risk of pee all over my floor and furniture.
Putting him back into diapers is not an option and unless underwear comes in bulk, I am not sure I want to spend the money on clothing I'm going to have to throw away...(for those of you that used cloth diapers, how did you do it?!)
I guess I could face reality and say that the child might not be ready for this step in life. But momma is exhausted. Momma is tired of human sized poo that isn't in toilet. Momma is begging on hands and knees for the lightbulb in little man's head to go off and think that it is cool to poop on the potty. Please. Pretty please.
Although you might be grossed out at this point, I do have to share a funny something he said the other day, when I pleaded with him to use the potty:
"Momma, I can't. It's gonna hurt me. I skerred (scared), it's gonna be a big poops."
Help me.
4 comments:
I know it's not funny. Our kids at school have the same issues at home with their parents. They will not sit on the potty or just wont do their business on the potty at all. But they come to school and we have NO problem getting them to sit on the potty and actually use it. We just tell them, go to the bathroom. And they go. Sometimes we do have to make them sit for awhile. There are a couple that won't but we still make them sit. One day they will get it. But that is only a couple out of the 8 of them. He will eventually get it. The only thing I can suggest is to MAKE him sit and DO NOT give in to him. Can you tell when he has to poop? If you can, take him right away and make him sit. Keep some books/mag's/toys for him and some for you with a chair/stool and just sit it out. Sometimes a book or mag will take his mind off of pooping in the toilet and he will go without realizing it. Put a stool under his feet while he is sitting there. That will help to get the poop out easier. Good luck.
I wish I had some genuine words of wisdom but I don't. Chris just did it...one accident. Of course, it was his Begindergarten [you know the schooling before Kindergarten] graduation when he had to wear khaki pants and a polo. I was mortified. Then Lauren, not so sweet Lauren, she was a chore. Only happened when we went on vacation and she was in a bathing suit for, oh, 14 days straight. I didn't care if she peed in the ocean...we came home diaper free! Good luck and I feel your pain!!!
We just started officially potty training this weekend. No poop yet...she refuses to go on the potty, but it seems she understands the pee thing. We let her run around naked for two days and she wore a diaper for naps and bed time. We're only two days in, but it's way harder than I want it to be. Good luck.
All I can say is I feel your pain!!! My son was done by 2 and a half. Pee'd on himself once and FREAKED OUT!!! That was it..potty trained! My daughter however...she can and does pee/poo ANYWHERE and keeep going if we don't keep a pull up on her! ACK!!! I've resorted back to pull ups all the time cause I can't stand the mess! Hope it gets better for both of us soon!
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