Our family has A L O T of celebrating to do this week! Well, at least mom and L do anyway!
Most of you know the struggle we've had with pottytraining our strongwilled child. I started trying with her last summer thinking she was ready. I thought we would have all summer to work on it and she would be wearing panties and using the potty before school started and I had to go back to work. Well......summer came and went with nothing, much to my disappointment. Friends told me to just wait on her and that she'd tell me when it was the right time. At school her teachers were helpful and understanding. They tried to work with her, but unfortunately we didn't have the consistancy we needed since she had three different teachers (or more...I think I lost count :/ ). I will give credit to Ms. Kylie though. We loved her and she is an awesome teacher for that age group! I'm incredibly thankful for her patience and kindness towards my daughter.
Fastforward to this summer. I decided I was going to bite the bullet no matter what! Thinking I was doing something wrong I downloaded a book to my Kindle appropriately called "Training the Strong Willed Child". I won't begin to tell you what a joke the advice in this book was. Let's just say they haven't met MY daughter. After researching online and finding that I had tried all the advice out there, that I agreed with anyway, I resorted to bribery! Suckers, chocolate, ice cream. We even bought her a little swimming pool. She still wasn't interested but she was at least beginning to show signs of trying. Then last weekend we took a trip to KC and left D for a few extra days to have some special time with Gram. We returned home with just L and the hopes that this was my opportunity to focus solely on her and pottytraining. Tuesday I stuck her in a pair of panties. She even sat on her potty chair for a while and just watched tv for a little bit. We had a little bit of luck with that. She had a couple of accidents through the day but nothing that couldn't be easily cleaned up. Then that evening we had a BREAKTHROUGH OF MAJOR PROPORTIONS! She actually told me that evening after dinner that she needed to "go peepee"! It was music to my ears. What made it even better was that she didn't want to sit on her potty chair. She took me to the bathroom, sat on her pottyseat and went in the toilet like she'd been doing it all along!!! The next few days I was worried and feared we might not have the luck we'd had the day before but she surprised me. She actually made it to the potty most everytime with only a few accidents. The impressive part was that she told me everytime she needed to go. After she stayed dry all day Friday, though she convinced that she is serious about it now and finding pride in her accomplishments. She walks around saying "I'm a big girl princess", a title bestowed on her by her daddy!
Amazingly just after less than a week she's wearing panties at the house and pullups outside---and staying dry!!! She even told me she needed to go a couple of times at church this morning and did it both times. This mommy is happy---happy for her! Most of all I am proud for her and thankful that I can clearly see the light now at the end of the tunnel called Pottytraining!
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