Sneaky sneak
Not unlike his sister, Christopher is super smart. It amazes me how smart these two kids are. Here he is, not even 2 1/2, and crafty as all get-out.
Prime example:
Cloosty has a pretty good bed-time routine and most of the time he's aggreable. He goes potty, puts on his jammies, brushes his teeth, we read a few books, I rock him for a little bit, and then in the bed he goes. However, over the past few weeks, he's figured out a sneaky way to delay the "rocking" and "getting into the bed" steps by telling me that "I go poo poo, Mommy."
Now understand that at first I was all about that! We've been working on potty training for a while now, but the goal now-a-days is telling us when he has to go before he messes his pull-up. So telling me that he has to go potty, especially poo poo, is FABULOUS! He actually did perform at least 5 times in the beginning and would try to for a few days after that, but then a light came on and he realized that "Hey, I won't have to go to bed just yet if I tell Mommy that I need to go."
Sneaky!
Similarly, when Sarah was this age, she, too, figured out how to, in her case, get something she wanted by telling us she needed to go potty - namely, M&Ms (or Sarah cookies as she called them). She came to the conclusion that if she just sat on the potty she would get candy. Little did she know that this was against the rules. She actually had to produce something in order to receive. But she's an opportunist and really damn cute AND she would use that to her great advantage! So she'd tell us, we'd go to the bathroom, and she wouldn't do anything, but demanded candy anyway, having a tantrum if she didn't get any.
And that's how parents learn. We have never offered Cloosty candy for going potty. And shame on us for doing that with Sarah. But I can't say, "No, you can't go potty," to him if he tells me he has to go - even if it's to get out of going to bed immediately... right? Bah, I'll let him go once, but not over and over again - and he's tried that, believe me! I definitely don't want to discourage going potty - especially number 2 - but I don't want him to think he's got the upper hand either. I'm sure, in time, he'll come up with another sneaky way - the sneaky sneak. ;)
Prime example:
Cloosty has a pretty good bed-time routine and most of the time he's aggreable. He goes potty, puts on his jammies, brushes his teeth, we read a few books, I rock him for a little bit, and then in the bed he goes. However, over the past few weeks, he's figured out a sneaky way to delay the "rocking" and "getting into the bed" steps by telling me that "I go poo poo, Mommy."
Now understand that at first I was all about that! We've been working on potty training for a while now, but the goal now-a-days is telling us when he has to go before he messes his pull-up. So telling me that he has to go potty, especially poo poo, is FABULOUS! He actually did perform at least 5 times in the beginning and would try to for a few days after that, but then a light came on and he realized that "Hey, I won't have to go to bed just yet if I tell Mommy that I need to go."
Sneaky!
Similarly, when Sarah was this age, she, too, figured out how to, in her case, get something she wanted by telling us she needed to go potty - namely, M&Ms (or Sarah cookies as she called them). She came to the conclusion that if she just sat on the potty she would get candy. Little did she know that this was against the rules. She actually had to produce something in order to receive. But she's an opportunist and really damn cute AND she would use that to her great advantage! So she'd tell us, we'd go to the bathroom, and she wouldn't do anything, but demanded candy anyway, having a tantrum if she didn't get any.
And that's how parents learn. We have never offered Cloosty candy for going potty. And shame on us for doing that with Sarah. But I can't say, "No, you can't go potty," to him if he tells me he has to go - even if it's to get out of going to bed immediately... right? Bah, I'll let him go once, but not over and over again - and he's tried that, believe me! I definitely don't want to discourage going potty - especially number 2 - but I don't want him to think he's got the upper hand either. I'm sure, in time, he'll come up with another sneaky way - the sneaky sneak. ;)
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