Potty training: Mom vs. The Three-Year-Old
After changing diapers for roughly 7 years, we are ready to be done. My 3-year-old boy has master the #1, but #2's are just not happening unless he's wearing a diaper. So I thought I'd try what my friends have had success with: Explain that mommy and daddy are tired of changing stinky, dirty diapers. Now it is the toddler's turn. Place toddler in tub and allow them to change their own diaper. This is supposed to be offensive enough to them that they quickly change their mind and do their business on the potty from here on out. OK... So we are on day six of my darling son's adventure in changing his own diaper. It's not going well. He takes it off, starts whining and complaining and holding his nose. So far so good. "Okay - here are the wipes. Clean yourself up," I say. And then he refuses. "I can't do it." "I'm tired of changing dirty diapers!" He tells me. Sigh. A three-year-old shouldn...