Update from the Frontlines

Making progress...one sticker at a time

For all concerned parties,

Potty-training is progressing I guess.  I don’t know that anyone is winning the war at this point but the parental units are at least holding their ground.  K is wearing big girl undies to school most all days, and she has been doing pretty well except for one horrible day with *three* wet accidents.  At home, our strategy has been to keep her naked on the bottom half as much as humanly possible, because we discovered along the way that she is actually extremely reliable about using the toilet when naked.  The rationale is that the more she uses the toilet, the more of a habit it will become.

Sounds reasonable, right?

In practice, she has been pretty willing to go along with it, except while she doesn’t mind peeing in the potty, she does try her best to save up all her poo for a pullup.  Occasionally she’ll poo in the potty, but she tries reaaaallllly hard to avoid it. 

She even asks for a pullup when she is feeling the urge to poo, which I guess is kind of good because it shows she is thinking ahead about her biological needs, yet counter-productive to the ultimate goal.  She even tried scamming FF into a pullup “because her buns were too cold” yesterday.  Yeah, right, in our 80 degree house.