Bloody toilet training
Jul. 11th, 2011 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emma_in_dreamI remember the first few times I tried tying a reef knot. I went 'left over right and under, then right over left and under' and then I had two strands of loosely interwoven string that fell apart. It was only when I realised that part of what I needed to do was missing from the instructions that I managed to tie the knot - 'left over right and under THEN TIE A KNOT, right over left and under AND TIE A KNOT'.
This is how I feel about toilet training. Surely the books of instruction are missing some vital piece of information.
How do you get a child to go to the potty when they refuse to accept the bribe, run away from the potty, poo in their pants and won't tell you, try to hide rather than go?
In fact, the only way out of this impasse that I see is to stop (again) and to try again in another month (for the fourth time).
Also, all this codswallop that that parenting books are full of - it can take as little as 24 hours, you and your child can work together to master a new skill - bollocks all, I say. This is clearly like the lies about solid food (your child will like it if you persevere - no, as it turned out, not until your child has a mature swallowing reflex), the lies about breast feeding (a natural reflex - nonsense, she went blue with choking the first time she was fed), the lies about walking (at their own pace - or else there is actually something wrong with her), the lies about sleeping through the night (still not there), the lies about eating food (it takes an average of 14 times for a child to eat new foods, unless, in actuality, the average for your individual child is say 100 times).
This is how I feel about toilet training. Surely the books of instruction are missing some vital piece of information.
How do you get a child to go to the potty when they refuse to accept the bribe, run away from the potty, poo in their pants and won't tell you, try to hide rather than go?
In fact, the only way out of this impasse that I see is to stop (again) and to try again in another month (for the fourth time).
Also, all this codswallop that that parenting books are full of - it can take as little as 24 hours, you and your child can work together to master a new skill - bollocks all, I say. This is clearly like the lies about solid food (your child will like it if you persevere - no, as it turned out, not until your child has a mature swallowing reflex), the lies about breast feeding (a natural reflex - nonsense, she went blue with choking the first time she was fed), the lies about walking (at their own pace - or else there is actually something wrong with her), the lies about sleeping through the night (still not there), the lies about eating food (it takes an average of 14 times for a child to eat new foods, unless, in actuality, the average for your individual child is say 100 times).
