the potty training nightmare

potty training trouble

So, you have decided to have kids, they are cute as babies, but then after you blink a few times, they turn into TODDLERS who destroy the contents of your home faster than an F-5 tornado and will be headed off to school in a few short years *gulp*. However, before they go to school, they must be potty trained. Now, to some, potty training may be easy and not hard. For the rest of us, it's a pain in the ass. Yes I mean that literally as well as figuratively. You are always told "start when they are eighteen months. Well, Susan that might have worked for you with little mary, but my eighteen month old sounds like an exorcism is being performed on him, so what do I do in THAT case? Well, I'll tell you. WAIT! I don't mean wait a week or two or keep taking them hoping they will magically be ready overnight (that won't happen outside of storybooks and fairy tales). There is no "one size fits all" when it comes to potty training and having your kids NOT sound like they are being murdered every time you put them on the potty chair (I learned that the hard way). A WEEK before my son turned 3, he decided he was ready and DIDN'T scream like a banshee when we took him to sit on the potty.

I started introducing the potty at 18 months. He's 3 noe and wears pull ups and every time he gets taken to the potty, he does pee or poop or do both. He WASN'T ready at eighteen months or two years and that is perfectly FINE. Hence why I said it's a pain in the ass. It's not for the faint of heart because there will be poop painting, accidents, bed wetting, heartache, pain, mental anguish, more poop painting, more pee puddles, more mental stress, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel.....one day they will be completely out of pull ups and in underwear for almost the rest of their adult lives (until they are in their 80s and need adult diapers--which are super comfortable and I don't know why people shame adult diaper wearers cause it's easy for women when we are on our periods cause it's like a pad and underwear all in one)!

Point is, cherish the poop painting and the headaches and moments you want to scream because one day they won't happen anymore and as hard as it is to believe, YOU WILL MISS IT ALL and wish you had it all back to do all over again.

Well, now comes the super fun part of potty training.....the put the kiddo in big boy underwear and hope he stays dry all day. Well, he held it for 3 hours yesterday 8/18/19 and stayed dry all day and had major success with going to the potty and every time he went, he pooped and peed in the potty and had ZERO accidents. I do believe the boy is READY for preschool 🎈🎉🎊. So pretty much a whole month and he's completely day trained....just don't ask me how I did it or how it happened because I truly DON'T know and probably cant do it again if I tried 😂.

Boys are super and I'm glad I'm a mom to a sweet, smart, and fearless boy. We grabbed pur vibrating massager and I let him use it on mommy's back and for 3 years old, he gives a somewhat decent back massage. He is mommy's whole world and is his daddy made over in miniature form.