Well, today was the start (like, for real, this time) of our potty training journey. We threw Evan a Teddy Bear's Picnic themed Potty Party
after reading a book called How to Potty Train your Child in Just one Day. Hmmm...The idea of the party is to make the transition from diapers into underwear as fun and fight/stress free as possible. You spend the morning putting a doll into underpants, teaching it how to go on the potty, showing the doll that accidents happen and how to deal with them etc. We took the doll's one diaper over to a neighbor's house that has a baby and gave it to them. After saying goodbye to his diaper the doll gets to have a party and get gifts. Then in the afternoon it's the kid's turn. Evan wore underpants (many, many pairs of underpants) from Noon until bedtime with no tantrums or fights...but plenty of accidents and lots of time spent reading books and singing songs on the potty and we did have TWO real successes!! We said goodbye to 2 grocery bags full of diapers around 4:30 and left them on the neighbors porch.
We're not sure really if we should feel defeated or triumphant. We'll see how tomorrow goes, I guess.
1 comment:
That's great! But did the neighbor know they were getting some diapers! And I hope they were the clean ones:)
Can't wait to hear how the week goes for evan.
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