Spoon # 1, Retired from duty…
Spanking Spoon #1, Retired...
The sad thing? It was broken on my own rear-end!!! LOL. Well, sorta. It was in my back pocket when I came out of Taven’s room last night. Then I sat down on the couch… Crack.
I just thought that was funny enough to share.
On a side note, we’ve decided to jump into this whole potty training gig full-time, seriously. We’re going for a complete lack of pull-ups & trying to make it a big deal for Taven so he’ll want to do this. It’s been almost 6 months since we first put him in pull-ups & got him to go pee-pee on the potty. He’s just not been that interested. We’ve been doing a mix of underwear & pull-ups for a while now & that hasn’t been doing much for us. He has started to hold his pee a little longer, so there were some signs that he’s starting to catch on, but not very quickly.
Anyhow, the new method is all about getting them excited about going on the potty, lots of rewards (stickers on a reward chart, fun little grab bag items for ever 4-5 stickers, surprises if he’ll actually do #2 on the potty [I'm thinking $1 matchbox cars here, since he's SO into cars right now], etc…)
We decided to toss out the pull-ups & we’re trying to keep him conscious of his bodily functions & when he needs to head to the bathroom.
One side-effect of doing this, is more change than we realized. Because Taven is a night-owl (regularly stays up an hour after we put him down @ 8PM), we’ve kept a gate up in his doorway to keep him from wandering around the house at night. He’s usually pretty good after he falls asleep, but until then, it’s a mini war trying to keep him in his bed if the gate is not up.
Well, in order for him to not wear pull-ups at night, we’ve got to give him the availability to go to the potty at night. No more gate. That’s what eventually lead to the retirement of the spanking spoon as mentioned above (although not quite in the expected way).
Now we’re looking for an all plastic mattress protector/sheet to put under his bed sheet. We’ve got one of those “terry-mattress protectors”, but it’s got material over the plastic (for comfort & absorption), but that means it has to be washed every time it gets wet too & it’s starting to fall apart. So now I’m hoping they still make plain plastic sheets like I remember having (sadly needing it until I was like 6 or 8? oy…) I’m hoping Taven figures out this whole night-time bladder control thing faster than I did. (EDIT: Found the mattress protectors @ Wal-Mart, we’re good to go!)
I’ll keep you posted on the progress & I’ll try to remember to post a couple of pics of how we decorated the potty for this latest adventure.
Got any tips?
We’re still open to new ideas…
Date posted: Friday, June 26th, 2009 8:29 AM | Under category: House, Uncategorized
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THOMAS! haha thats flipping hilarious how you broke that spoon. im pretty sure they sell those plastic sheets at walmart. my grandparents put one on their guest bed “just in case” cuz of the new baby cousins. so you should be able to find it. TTYL
-Chris
Boog, you caught onto the potty thing really great by age 3 – 31/2. The problems at night weren’t because you didn’t catch on it was because you were and still are a heavy sleeper. You never felt the urges – you were sound asleep. I would go into your room a couple times at night before I went to bed and would literally walk you to the bathroom, encourage to to go potty while I held onto you, them walk you back to bed all the while you were asleep.
You never remembered me doing this, even at age 6 or so. Now, there are gizmo’s out there that either give off sounds or something that alerts the wearer to the fact that they are starting to pee. So, then the wearer becomes aware of whats happening and soon is trained – maybe????