Submitted by Jessica G. in Utah (you can read more by visiting Jessica’s site here)
Yesterday, I had the Boy sit on the potty. Nothing new, he does that all the time (with no results). This time, I knew he needed to go to the bathroom so I told him to stay on the potty until he peed. Surely that would happen within moments, right? Nope. He went nearly two hours! (Insert visions of that woman who stayed on the toilet for two years…)
Just before the two hour mark, he starts screaming for his sister to come help him. I’m thinking maybe his foot fell asleep so I wasn’t concerned. She runs to the rescue and reports back to me: he peed on the floor. Lovely. He must have gotten off the potty.
I grab the cleaning supplies and head into the bathroom. But the Boy is still on the potty, looking slightly freaked out. Apparently, he was still seated when he peed, he just wasn’t…aiming.
But, the Boy just used the potty for the first time! (Dancing for joy!)
Nothing actually made it into the toilet bowl, so he did pee on the floor. But the irony of this situation was that sitting on the floor, directly in his, uh, target zone, was the basket of prizes that he could win every time he used the potty. Those were now soaking in a warm pee bath.
Really, I couldn’t reward him because he hadn’t made the shot correctly, so to speak. I did give him a tootsie roll for actually peeing.
Hee hee funny stuff! As im still big and fat and pregnant i have got all of this to look forward to! I found a great article on potty training here http://my.bounty.com/forums/Subject/191/1/1/Potty-training.htm - hope its a big help to people! xxx