Despite my misgivings about it, I've decided to go ahead and give potty training a real try before Baby 2.0 is born. I don't think I can express how much I don't want to do it. I don't wanna do it!! I think some part of me just hoped that if I waited long enough Alex would just potty train himself. Like, say, the day before he starts pre-school, he'd suddenly want to wear big-boy under pants and my part in the whole thing would involve nothing more than going out and buying some Underoos. My biggest concern is that I have absolutely no clue how to go about potty training a 2.5 year old. I've read about six books on the subject and countless websites, and every single one says something different along with a list of neuroses your child will acquire should you do it wrong.
So, we started yesterday afternoon after Alex woke up from his nap and guess what? It's actually going pretty well. Did you know that Alex can pee on demand? I'm taking him in to potty every 30 minutes and he produces a nice little stream of urine each and every time. It helps that he thinks peeing is the coolest thing ever. He has yet to attempt a poop, and I doubt we'll be successful with that today as we'll be out and about most of the morning (which is prime pooping time) and I'll probably just diaper him until we get back home.
We'll have to see how all this turns out. I'm actually hopeful that since Alex seems pretty agreeable to the whole thing, we might have some success. But, he's still really young and I'm not going to push him. So far though, it's not nearly as traumatic (for me) as I thought it would be.
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