Warning :18. SX photo ahead. Please do not enter unless you are married with kids or have intention to be parents one day.
I am very proud of my ‘Lesson in Shitting’ which I wrote more than two months ago. However, now I am not too sure if I should be proud of it. What do you think? My toddler is toilet (over)trained!
Scenario happens today:
5xmom : David, watch Matthew ok, mommy going to take a bath.
5xmom take quick shower.
Someone banging on the door.
5xtoddler : Mama, Ohpennn (open)
5xmom opened the door and toddler holding a pot of shit in piss, smiling proudly.
5xmom : Come, give mommy.
5xtod : Mai, mai, Tew pour (don’t want, Matthew pour)
5xmom : Never mind, mommy help ok?
5xtod is at an age where he cannot take No and only says No. He got agitated and withdrew the potty so fast, trying to avoid my hands from taking the potty away from him.
The rest – no need to elaborate.
Then, the pissing part. Earlier, someone asked if she should teach her son to stand and piss. This is a tough parenting question, no? Tougher than toilet training. If you Google toilet training, you can get lessons from every websites. Trusted sites like the American Academy of Pediatrics teaches you the A-Z on toilet training.
But no one tell us mothers whether we must teach our little male toddlers to stand or sit when pissing! Horrors! What am I going to do? What if toddler thought pissing must stand and while shitting, he sit and when he felt pee coming, he stand and then sit and then stand and finally shit all over? I asked 5xdad and he gave me an ugly look like I am telling him the son is not fathered by him.
However, young mothers, trust me. Male instinct jumped in when they are ready. My little toddler of 26 months old swaggers like a cowboy to the potty on his own, zap out the little kkc, spray everywhere except the potty and then……hear this, he even gives the kkc a shake-shake before pulling up his pants. Then, he run off and carry on doing whatever he was doing.
Few days ago, my #3 (8 yrs old) caught the action, with the pee shiny-shiny like pearls on camera. Taddaaaa, an 18. SX photo! (My kids play with the old Canon A10 camera all the time.)
**A message to the community : Do not attempt to toilet your child unless he/she shows signs of readiness. Read what the American Academy of Pediatrics said about toilet training. I never train mine, he just got a hang of shitting and peeing by observing.
hahaha..ur entry remind me of my cousin asking me how to explain to his son that guys should stand n piss, not to sit on the “tam tung”…lol
wanna ask u a question on toilet training. Alvin noe how to say “shss shss” when he feel like pissing at the age of around 12 months, but then for the past few months, he reluctant to say “shss shss” anymore. what happen ar?
MMG – Actually hor, before 18 mths, their brain is not configure to control their bladder muscles. They will pee at regular interval of around 30 mins to 1 hour. So, probably your nephew was sort of doing the guessing game? Could it be a coincidence? Can he control like, say you haven’t got the potty yet and he can hold back? As for now, try not to keep asking because the more we do, the more he felt pressured and then, he will relapse to not telling at all. And at times, when they are too busy playing, they also can forget and terkangkang in the puddle of wee-wee and scream, “MAMA, floor wet, kho-kho (pants) wet” Accidents like that can happen for several months.
ehehe, i don’t even know whether my mum taught me to piss or not…have to ask her one day, so i can teach my son next time =)
i tried to teach my boiboi (he’s 2 yrs 9 mths now) when he was 2. very frust man… then i read one article dats just have this sentence “When they’re ready, they’re ready”. From then, I never forced him to do anything. So gradually he go thru his own pace. up till now, still not 100% ready
Let it be natural….at least they don lift one leg up and piss because of watching Discovery Channel’s Animal planet too much…heheeh!!!!
Nice wee wee 🙂
I never train mine, he just got a hang of shitting and peeing by observing.
Lucky you don’t have elder daughther. Imagine all your boy learn how to pee from their sister…….
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“What am I going to do? What if toddler thought pissing must stand and while shitting, he sit and when he felt pee coming, he stand and then sit and then stand and finally shit all over? I asked 5xdad and he gave me an ugly look like I am telling him the son is not fathered by him.”
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I laughed so HARD visualising the entire thing in my head!!
*Blabs makes mental note to ask hubs how HE learnt*
One thing that get me discipline enough to stand & aim nicely in the toilet when I was a little kiddo. Mummy said “if u not gonna wee wee at toilet & do it nicely, i’m gonna cut it off!!”