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This is a trick I learned living off the grid. Ironically, wearing high-vis gear makes you invisible; people assume you’re part of a landscaping crew or something, which means they don’t catalog your face since you’re not considered a real
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“A brilliant mom on our forum found that talking about using the potty as something “helpful” worked wonders. Her daughter loves being helpful so she would phrase it as, “Put your fork on the table. Put your cup on the table. Go sit and pee. Thank you. You are such a big help.”
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
“many parents want a cookie-cutter version of potty training. There’s no such thing. It doesn’t exist. Also, it infuriates me that your neighbor with two children thinks she knows everything about this potty training gig.”
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
“Here are the major blocks or phases, in order: 1. Peeing and pooping while naked, either with prompting or without. 2. Peeing and pooping with clothes on, commando, with prompting or without. 3. Peeing and pooping in different situations, with prompting or without. 4. Peeing and pooping with underpants, with prompting or without. 5. Consistent self-initiation. 6. Night and nap (unless you are choosing to do it all together; more on that later). 7. College. Probably still needing to prompt occasionally.”
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
“The need to pee and poop is a primal one; learning to put it somewhere specific is social, and social behavior must be taught.”
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
“just one generation ago, kids were potty trained at seventeen to twenty-two months. I truly believe it’s because our moms, for the most part, were stay-at-home moms. I mean stay at home. They didn’t work at home, they had no computer for email and Facebook, no cell phones, no identities to preserve, no mommy groups, no playdates, no baby gymnastics, no music classes, and no swimming lessons. Now, I’m forty-three, so maybe I’m talking to a younger audience here, and I’m certainly not saying our moms exhibited the best parenting. But I do believe it was that stay-at-home factor that made potty training so easy.”
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
― Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right
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