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I Do Not Give Potty Training Advice

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My son yelled from outside the bathroom, “Whose poop is this?” Whose poop? Why was this an issue needing clarification? We even have a dog! Shouldn’t she get the blame by default?


We have potty issues in this house.

A little humor and a lot of grace as I stumble through potty training my children. It is not my best parenting skill!

Potty training has been difficult. I sometimes think that my husband and I are not qualified to teach our children how to use the potty. (I promise we know how to use it, just not how to teach it very well!)
I figured that potty training was going to be my parenting Achilles heel when I spent some time working in a two year old room at a daycare center before I was a mom. 
We have tried everything I assumed when I began my parenting journey that I had three years until I had to concern myself with teaching a child how to use the potty. Then I hung out with a few moms who started talking about potty training their children when the kids were two years old. That was when I got competitive. Yep, if their sons were trying to use the toilet then it must be my fault that my child did not know how to, well, go in the potty.
Doesn’t this sound like a path to disaster? As soon as I set up a goal for my child that is based on another child, a tragedy is about to occur.

Read the rest of my guest post over at
Jenny Lee Sulpizio’s blog.

This post is featured in A Complete Guide for Stay-at-Home Moms: Parenting Tips. To view all of the great articles included, click HERE.



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