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The Pit Parenting Thread

DeaconCav06 said:
Looks like your son was just about 12 hours behind mine. This is our first and dealing with the same issues you brought up.
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Congrats!

Update: Penis is healing, albeit slowly. Belly button stinks already... Forgot how terrible that smell is when you get close, but I guess it is rotting flesh, after all. He still likes to sleep all day and then be active at night (like right now, for example). He also poops a lot.
 
TuffaloDeac10 said:
2 yo has learned this neat trick where she refuses dinner and wakes up hungry at 4am
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lol..we have the same problem

yesterday we finally did away with the pacifier (she's 2.5). rough night but she finally relented/settled around 2 am. didnt' ask for this morning at all. fingers crossed for the rest of the week...
 
Pediatrician says that in a few more days, my son's penis should look "great."

Thanks, doc!
 
what's everyone's potty training experience?
Son will be 2.5 at the end of the Month
Started potty training on August 17th by just taking the diapers off. First day was at home with Mom, naked all day. A few accidents, but we were constantly putting him on the potty. Second day was with me, pants but no underwear, a few accidents in the AM, but "got it" later on. Again, pretty constant potty trips.
Days 3 -4 were weekend days at home, again, an accident or two a day with pants and no undies. Day 5 was school with undies...4 accidents then an accident or two a day for the rest of the week. Then it was maybe 5 accidents/week, then 4. He shit himself this AM, but had gone 5 days without an accident. (and in this case, he pooped in the potty earlier in the AM, but had an unexpected encore shortly afterwords) We still ask him pretty frequently (at least every hour) if he needs to go. Sometimes he doesn't and says no, sometimes he does and says yes, sometimes he does and says no. Once or twice a day he'll tell us he needs to go, in which case we've got about 30 seconds. Is pretty typical in other's experiences?
 
Baconwfu said:
what's everyone's potty training experience?
Son will be 2.5 at the end of the Month
Started potty training on August 17th by just taking the diapers off. First day was at home with Mom, naked all day. A few accidents, but we were constantly putting him on the potty. Second day was with me, pants but no underwear, a few accidents in the AM, but "got it" later on. Again, pretty constant potty trips.
Days 3 -4 were weekend days at home, again, an accident or two a day with pants and no undies. Day 5 was school with undies...4 accidents then an accident or two a day for the rest of the week. Then it was maybe 5 accidents/week, then 4. He shit himself this AM, but had gone 5 days without an accident. (and in this case, he pooped in the potty earlier in the AM, but had an unexpected encore shortly afterwords) We still ask him pretty frequently (at least every hour) if he needs to go. Sometimes he doesn't and says no, sometimes he does and says yes, sometimes he does and says no. Once or twice a day he'll tell us he needs to go, in which case we've got about 30 seconds. Is pretty typical in other's experiences?
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my daughter (2.5) knows when she has to go but basically refuses. it's super frustrating. she'll go (pee) before bed and occasionally tell us she needs to go (pee) but otherwise she's full-on blocking it.

it's really frustrating b/c we know she knows what's up but has no motivation. we tried sticking her in underwear for a weekend b/c we read/heard that accidents out of diapers will spur them to use the potty but that didn't work.

we just kind of gave up at the moment and assumed we'll figrue it out later and decided to to focus on the transition to a big-kid bed and getting rid of pacifiers
 
Baconwfu said:
what's everyone's potty training experience?
Son will be 2.5 at the end of the Month
Started potty training on August 17th by just taking the diapers off. First day was at home with Mom, naked all day. A few accidents, but we were constantly putting him on the potty. Second day was with me, pants but no underwear, a few accidents in the AM, but "got it" later on. Again, pretty constant potty trips.
Days 3 -4 were weekend days at home, again, an accident or two a day with pants and no undies. Day 5 was school with undies...4 accidents then an accident or two a day for the rest of the week. Then it was maybe 5 accidents/week, then 4. He shit himself this AM, but had gone 5 days without an accident. (and in this case, he pooped in the potty earlier in the AM, but had an unexpected encore shortly afterwords) We still ask him pretty frequently (at least every hour) if he needs to go. Sometimes he doesn't and says no, sometimes he does and says yes, sometimes he does and says no. Once or twice a day he'll tell us he needs to go, in which case we've got about 30 seconds. Is pretty typical in other's experiences?
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My daughter was super easy, basically at 2.5 over memorial day weekend we made this big production of getting rid of the diapers and downloaded this app where she got to get "stickers" each time she went. By day 3 she was straight and it was only a few rando accidents thereafter.

My boy...he just had no motivation the first two times we tried to do it. Ended up sticking at like 3.5 but it was a struggle. It's cliche as hell but every kid is different. I just kept telling myself with my son that it's not a race.
 
I feel like potty training experiences are all so different and are pretty much dependent on the kid being ready and at least somewhat willing.

Our daughter potty trained at about 2 and almost 8 months (timing-wise we wanted to do it post-Christmas holiday so we could still drive and travel in diapers and then take a 3-day holiday weekend to train). She had not necessarily expressed much interest in advance, but other than I think two accidents the first morning, she took to it quite quickly (we did not do night training at the same time and she wore a pull-up for about another year or more). We read some manual about it that a friend lent to us and it was essentially just wearing a tshirt and underwear the first day, and instead of asking her if she has to go (or making her go), just constantly asking "remember to tell us when you need to go potty" (or something like that to make it feel more like the kid's prerogative and decision).

It was kind of shockingly easy, and I think aided by the fact that she had a few friends (including 2 others in her nannyshare) who were training at the same time.

On the flip side I know a number of friends (tends to be more boys, but definitely girls too) who have just had to wait it out until their kid finally decided to do it. No bribery or other tricks worked.

Our son just turned 2 at the end of August and has asked to sit on the potty a few times, but I am not really in a hurry to try to potty train him.
 
man, our daughter is just like "nah, i know the game and i'm gonna just do whatever I want until i decide otherwise"
 
yeah, we were on the "it's time to go to the potty" instead of "do you need to go potty?", but we've transitioned more to "do you need to go?" as he's gotten on in potty training. We can trust pretty well (this morning notwithstanding) that he'll poop in the AM, midday and around dinnertime. He wears diapers at nap and to bed (most of the time his nap diaper is dry and only once has his nighttime diaper been dry).
He rarely has accidents in our presence....he used to hide when he needed to go, but now it's like he'll be by himself and "forget", whereas when we're there, it's like our presence reminds him.
He had the act of peeing down as he always used to pee in the tub, so at about a year and a half, i just started sitting him on the potty and turning the tub on and he starting peeing. He wore diapers, but we did that most nights for a year, so he understood what it was like to pee and the feeling of peeing and almost being able to pee on command, pooping has proven more difficult. He doesn't quite get (through ignorance or obstinance) that just because he couldn't pee/poop 30 minutes ago, doesn't mean he can't now, his usual response is "i can't potty now" and we'll have to convince him that he can (if he hasn't gone in a while) or he'll pitch a fit about how he can't go, then 3 minutes later he'll say, "I have to potty" (which is always fun when we've just left the house)
 
Baconwfu said:
what's everyone's potty training experience?
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We stupidly bribed the 2 year old with a cookie to get her to poop in the potty once and now she'll just sit on the potty for like 30 minutes and scream because she wants to poop and get a cookie even when she doesn't need to go.
 
TuffaloDeac10 said:
We stupidly bribed the 2 year old with a cookie to get her to poop in the potty once and now she'll just sit on the potty for like 30 minutes and scream because she wants to poop and get a cookie even when she doesn't need to go.
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I feel like you should make her turn in her shit for the cookie. Like CFA allows kids to turn in their kids meal toys for an ice dream cone.
 
We just let it ride and daycare eventually did most of the heavy lifting to potty train our first around age 3. I was not necessarily in a hurry.
 
So my son has been tormenting my daughter. By the way, we're Asian and he has a laughing disorder.

 
Will reiterate that every kid is different and I think girls are easier to potty-train than boys.

We did it when my daughter was just over 2.5... Over a 3 day weekend at the end of the year (New Year's?). She got it right away... I like to think we were encouraging and influential, but I think she was just ready. Only really had a couple of accidents that weekend... Both pee-related. Never had an issue w/ pooping. Two years later and she's definitely had a few times where she was too focused on playing or doing something else and had minor accidents, but never full bladder release.

My younger daughter is just over 2 right now... She's nowhere close to ready.

My son that was just born Thursday peed on my wife this morning... So he clearly has some work to do, as well.
 
This is from reddit, but it's certainly evoking some strong responses:

This just happened last week. I got home from working out of town Thursday night and my wife warns me that there is a problem with my 7 year old daughter. “Beth” comes in and I can see that she has a few bug bites on her face and and one of her eyelids is a little droopy. She feels fine though.

I am off work the next day and my wife is going to the office. I wake Beth up for breakfast and her eye is now much worse. It is more than half closed and a little red. She still feels fine. As soon as the doctor opens, I call them and they tell us to come in.

We get there and I go to check in. The receptionist that I have never seen looks at my daughter and says “Oh. My goodness, what happened?” So I respond as a joke “Eh, she got out of line”.

I know! It’s horrible. I’m sorry! I have a weird sense of humor and I’m a bit socially awkward. Anyway, we all smile and giggle before we head to the waiting area. Soon we are called in. The checkup goes as expected. It’s a reaction to the bug bites and he tells me to use some over the counter Zyrtec or Benadryl. Then there is a knock on the door and the doctor steps out.

He comes back in a few minutes later and says that the police would like to talk to me. The doctor is angry. We all head to the Doctor’s office to talk.

There is a policeman and a policewoman. The policewoman starts making small talk with my daughter and asks if she wants to go in the other room and read a book. My daughter has an irrational fear of the police from when her older brother would threaten to call them whenever she went in his room. So she says no and buries her face in my side. The police then tell me that it is better that she is in another room. I saw one of Beth’s cheer coaches bring her son in soon after we got there and mention that she may still be there to watch her. The doctor, still visibly angry goes to check and she is so Beth goes to sit with her in the waiting room.

The police explain that they have a report of possible child abuse. The Doctor explains that this was a simple misunderstanding. He just examined my daughter and there is no abuse. I now realize that it is the receptionist that he is angry with. She makes an excuse and leaves the room. He says that he thinks he has to let her go. He says this is the second incident in 2 weeks. He says that her bad judgement got his practice and the entire executive park closed for 4 hours last week and his neighbors now hate him.

The police are apologetic but say they need to do a full investigation and ask if I can come to the station. A friend comes to pick up my daughter who is freaking out at this point.

We get to the station (they allow me to drive there myself) and my Uncle who is a lawyer meets me there. The police are apologetic and say they already know what happened but a full investigation and report need to be done. They say it is a minimum of 3-5 days, maybe longer. I call my wife who goes ballistic.

The county attorney says that they normally seek restraining orders in these cases, but if I sign an agreement to stay away from my daughter until the investigation is closed they would not seek one. My uncle recommends this as the restraining order would be public record. I stay at my brothers for the weekend and schedule an out of town trip that I really don’t need to make for this week. I can’t wait to get home to see my family and sleep in my own bed but I’m pretty sure my wife will have me on the couch for a little while.

tl/dr: Made a bad joke, got investigated for hitting my kid, lost the right to see her. Sitting in a hotel room on a useless business trip.
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