Anyway. There has been some success with your ability to pee on the potty, but fecal matter is another story. I actually think you don’t like the feeling of hanging your bum over the toilet. In an effort to motivate you, I made the grave tactical error of promising you a new toy if you managed to perform.
(I should have known that was a mistake, as when I’d introduced the idea of a reward for potty performance originally, you spent an entire evening sitting on the loo, completely distressed at your inability to poop on command, exclaiming, “Come on, bum. Come ON!”, eventually sobbing on my shoulder because you waaaannntteed that caaaa-aah-aaah-ndy, until I proclaimed that I’d heard a little plop! I was sure of it! And let you have a tiny piece of chocolate, lest you rupture something.)
You sat on the toilet for an hour, trying to earn that toy. Eventually I distracted you with something else, and you hopped off.
You pooped in your diaper 5 minutes later.
“Okay, buddy,” I sighed. “Let’s change your bum.”
“I wanna poop on the potty, Mom!”
“Xander, you already pooped in your diaper. I don’t think any more poop is going to come out.”
“It will, Mom,” you insisted, mounting the steps to take your throne. “It’s just checkin’ its email.”
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That last sentence cracked me up!! What a cutie you have. Hopefully he will pick up on the whole potty thing soon!
Awwww so cute. We had this problem too...until he really got hte handle of what it meant to have to go we spent last summer in the bathroom. As a family with two teachers I thought it woudl be great to potty train in teh summer, I didn't realize that meant most of it would be standing around watching my son try to go on the potty!
Poop is the most frustrating thing when it ISN'T going in the toilet. I remember G pulling that same crap, going the second he got off the potty. Grrr.
Have you tried leaving him on the portable potty while he watches tv or something? Maybe if he sits there long enough with a distraction, it will slide right out. Eww.
I laughed out loud with the last sentence!! we can't deny the generation now is really tech savvy.
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