So Much For Consistency
Feb
2007
2007
21
I stated in my post yesterday that my daughter was becoming more consistent in asking to use the potty. Yesterday after we arrived home, my husband was playing with her, bouncing her on his leg. After a minute or so, he felt a warm sensation through her pull-up on his thigh and said,
“Did you just pee on your daddy?”
She smiled at him and said,
“Yeah…”
So much for potty consistency…
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Hi KWiz,
Your daughter sounds fantastic! My son, now 7, was hopeless at potty training. When he was about two, he handed me his pull-up “big boy” pants one day, and said “I don’t need these any more”. He never did again, one day it just “clicked”. She’ll get there, and the main thing about your post was what you wrote – “she smiled and…” She’s not worried about it, she’ll “click” one of these days too! Sounds like she ‘s already a long way there.
I loved your post about your daughter saying “I like myself”. I have grown up in a predominantly white background in a small village in England. My husband grew up in Houston, Texas, and we often discuss how different our backgrounds are, and issues of racism and culture. Your daughter’s comment is wonderful. How many adults could say that they like themselves?? Not many, I’d guess! My son and I discuss racism a lot (and sexism and all the other isms!) and I truly belive he has not built up any prejudices yet. I say yet, because I know I cannot “control” his views, just guide him and hope he makes the right choices. I think strangely that growing up in such a “sheltered” way has the opposite effect of causing prejudice – it simply does not occur to him that anyone else should be treated any differently. He is fascinated by the world and different people and cultures – I guess travel helps, we’ve done a fair bit of that. I tihnk that’s a key to it all.
I’ll watch the film you talk about, and wish the world was different, and keep hoping we can all, in the way we raise our children, hope to make the next generation, and our grandchildren, more tolerant and loving of our uniqueness.
Hi Rachel, it’s good to “hear” from you!
Thanks for the encouragement! I think all we can do is try to guide our children in the right direction. Indeed, they have to make their own choices. What I find interesting is how much outside influences inform their opinions, especially at such an early age.
Your son sounds like he’ll be one who contributes to the change the world needs!
And I believe travel helps. In fact, one of my former students who grew up in an affluent environment went away to college and he now owns a pizza shop in Beijing (at 23 years old). He came and spoke to some of our students yesterday, and said that the best thing they could do is to travel, to get outside of the bubble in which they live, to experience other ways of life. He spent a year in China before his senior year, and when he came back, he talked about how the things we complain about here in America are so irrelevant. But that year just opened up his mind like nothing else could have.
Thanks Rachel!
Hey KWiz,
Just wanted to say that I loved reading the headline from
your daughter “I Like Myself” after asking to use the potty.
That’s wisdom being sent from on High by God Our Father.
“Content of Our Character”, we are learning as we value
being patient with one another. Consistency of the love You
and Your husband are sharing with Your daughter is what I
hear, that’s Content of Character, keep on being a blessing
and encouraging her because You all will be extra glad about
her very soon.
Kwiz, I also want to share something that has needed
attention from me, the fixing of tracking on our Blog.Since
we are using one WordPress Blog from our Domain. This may
help someone else also, it really had me thinking about
getting that 2.1 Download.
Okay here is what I discovered:
The default WordPress theme Kubrick, 1.5 has been bundled
with WordPress as the default style. Point is that if any
reader is using this Style with MYBlogLog Tracking, You can
Open the “Presentation” tab and use the “Theme Editor” to
Open and find the “SideBar”, then “Editing sidebar.php”
using MyBlogLog’s new Tracking Script.
Use this tags before “” the Script Java Code, and after
the code is inserted, after the close script “”. You
can insert the code just after the address for WordPress in
the SideBar. Remember to save the Changes done using the
“SideBar” php, that’s it.
Oh Yes, and You will not need the Quote Marks we used in the
above paragraph.
Maybe it will do for someone else, what it did for me and
solve a problem. Just maybe it will be spot on for someone
loooking.
Okay, that is enough… Be Blessed Everyone always!
1 Peter 2:9,10 It is written in our Bible
Hi Jim,
Thank you for your encouragement. By the way, my husband and I are already “extra glad” about our daughter!
Also, I’m a little confused as to why you’re commenting about the default WordPress theme here, since I don’t use it. It would probably be more helpful to someone else if you dedicated a post to it on your blog.
Thanks!
I think our daughters are about the same age and yeah..potty strike here.
She refuses to use the potty or the toilet.
Despite her big bro showing her how.
Despite us waving Dora big girl underpants under her nose.
Nothing works.
Oh and she does know how.
She will go commando and then come rushing up to me with a diaper in her hand doing the ‘I gotta go’ dance and then stand in her pullup with her back to me and just let go.
Sheesh.
We are not big on training here and just let things be with Adam and so hopefully things will work out when she is good and ready.
Hi Crunchy Carpets,
This potty thing…it’s for the birds. As I tell my daughter alot, “I’m over it!” Yet, last night, after I put her down, she woke up wanting to use the potty. And she didn’t fake me out this time. I’m just praying she finally gets it by the end of the summer. I just can’t get with all the book advice on how to do it. I’m just going to try to be patient.