In one of Parenti’s talks he refered to his son (who was still a babe at the time) as a “Red Diaper Baby”. I thought it was amusing. Just trying it out.
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It’s potty training time, and the kid is crushing it with no pants (a week in and we’ve got unprompted potty use for all purposes 🎉). Add the barest hint of fabric and all that good work is out the window. Love too be doing this much laundry.
I feel this. Our toddler does pretty good overall if she’s naked and was starting to do ok with just training underwear but started refusing to wear them. Only wants diapers or naked. Usually after taking off her clothes and running around the house yelling “naked!” while laughing.
Training was hard. I didnt want one of those little potties in the room, and insisted on going to the bathroom. This was idealism. The reality was, kiddo needed to go but wanted to stay in the room. Having the little potty in the room meant there was no friction. Less friction made the experience more positive and encouraging. Which lead to more confidence and less anxiety. Once they were confident that they knew when to go and could hold it, we would offer to go up stairs to the bathroom. We got a little seat that sits on the potty making it their size. We just recently gave that seat up and now they use the full size toilet.
Yeah, we got Oh, Crap! on the recommendation of some other leftist people in our Covid Baby cohort and it’s been stressful but mostly manageable. Got a little potty for the room, big potty adapter on the way. The hard part is really just keeping it up with half the week in daycare; they’re supportive, but it’s hard to beat dedicated home time for building the habit and we obviously can’t send the kid to school without pants.
I think the biggest surprise was how much language development exploded at the same time. Way more phrases, practically conversational. I dunno if it’s just two things that happen to line up, or if the additional self-awareness of controlling your bathroom time does something to your brain. It’s been really great aside from the occasional floor shit. 🤣
One of my boys would cry at the slightest thing last night. I could swear he was getting sick so they’re staying home from childcare. He seems good now but he had been given panadol to help cope
After discussing it probably 100 times we finally implemented a daily screen time limit. Kid is handling it very well and keeping herself entertained reading way more and drawing and shit. One of the best decisions I think we’ve made.
