Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Let's not talk about the boys. *sigh*
Aaarrrgggh. I've heard they're harder to train but I'm not going to panic. My brother potty trained his ex-girlfriend's 2 year old little boy in a matter of two weeks (but it was diligence and using regular underwear).
My only first-hand knowledge of potty training was the epiphany when I realised my childhood was over (slightly melodramatic child, I was). Then I realised that I was so far the only one that knew I was potty trained -- so I peed on the carpet one last time for auld lang syne.
You remember stuff from when you were that young, ita?? I sit amazed. (I was going to say "stand," but really, I'm sitting.)
FTR, my brother was easier to PT than me. I just couldn't be bothered to care if I had a dirty or wet diaper, plus there was the whole not wanting to communicate with the parentals, so letting them know I needing changing was right out. I was passed 3 before I was trained I think.
You remember stuff from when you were that young, ita??
I was seventeen.
Kidding.
I think I was two or so, because it was the NY apartment -- I remember all our houses except for the first one (the one before NY) at least as background to a memory. By three we were already in Canada, and this definitely wasn't Canada.
I've got dim recollections of when I was three and four. But they seem almost dream like. I think that's really the time your long-term memory starts working. The memories I do have tend to be especially strong emotionally.
so I told her if there was no pull up, all her pee and poop had to be in the potty. She said okay, and that was that.
These stories always make me slightly suicidal.
I think my earliest memory was from about age 2 1/2. We moved then and I remember pulling away from our house for the last time. But my memories from age 2-5 or 6 are very spotty.
Still working on Leif, he's gone through some phases where it seems like it was going to catch on, but then he's back. I think he's just too busy creating chaos to take time for potty breaks.
Congrats, Burrell, Franny sounds like a take charge gal who's going places.