Okay, I so totally used to roll my eyes at moms who blogged this, but....

...after a year of talking about it, reading books about it, watching annoying Elmo DVDs about it, and even watching anatomically correct dolls perform it...

...and, after months of being scared of said anatomically correct doll, sitting on the potty chair, and flushing...

NAIM PEED IN THE POTTY CHAIR!!!!!

Okay, I know it is just one time and we have a ways to go (and a whole 'nother kid to go who couldn't give a flying fart about it and is perfectly content to sit in his own shit lest I break him away from his Tonka Fire Engine). But this is what I have learned:

1. Don't fight the kid. My dad has been pressuring me to pressure the kids about the whole PT business since they were, oh, neonates? And I have held fast to my rule that they will do what they are going to do when they are ready to do it. I refused to force Naim to sit on the toilet when he would have screamed his hair-raising high-pitched scree of death while sprawled out stiff like a cat being dunked in the sink. I let it go. I waited. And waited. And just merely suggested that he perhaps might someday want to entertain the possibility of the additional option of maybe finding an alternative (and not so messy! Naim hates messy!)  way in which he might try eliminating and evacuating that didn't require sitting in it afterwords. And he told me in no uncertain terms that he didn't think that was any kind of rational logical idea for him to even consider. And then just one day, he changed his mind. And after two weeks of him voluntarily trying, we finally have our first success. I'm all about child-centered, unschooly learning and I love it when I am proven right. I wait anxiously for Aaron to prove me right. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
2. Never judge other mothers for what they blog about. In fact, never judge other mothers about anything. Its all good. We need to be unite-rs not dividers, and pink, fuzzy teddybears and world's best mom coffee mugs and mommy and me classes and gymboree bonus bucks and cum ba ya.
3. That said, If you all let me do this one more time when Aaron gets around to impressing me with his peeing prowess, I promise not to blog about every time either of my kids takes a piss.

Comments

[cherylc]

Yay! And you crack me up.

[Angela]

Great! My son was interested in the potty for two weeks and then lost interest. I am not worried. Eventually they will stop wearing diapers and if not stores make adult diapers. Just kidding.

[Shannon]

We are at the voluntary sitting, but no pee yet stage. Here's hoping.

[Kathryn]

CONGRATULATIONS NIAM!! That is so huge. Great post as well - made me laugh - whilst rolling my eyes and not judging! Hey- who am I to fault anyone for being on the road to not having to change poopy diapers! I am toasting to ya sister! Can you send Niam over to teach Ellie this? Like - yesterday!

;-)

[Shannon]

I have a disability-related question for your blogging calendar:

I shop at this evil, big-box store ("Meijer" if anyone else knows it) and they seem to employ a large number of visibly disabled people. I'd say of the employees I see there on any given shopping trip, maybe half will be disabled--from cognitive disabilities to wheel-chair users, the partially paralyzed people or amputees.

Now, on the one hand, I'm all, "hey, it's nice to see so many queers in one place" (which is how I've come to think of disabled people--as my fellow queers). On the other hand, it's an evil big-box store.

Are they getting slave labor from some evil government program or what?

I don't expect you to actually know a 100% accurate answer to my question, but I figured you could speculate with authority.

[Casdok]

Well done Niam!!!!