lolololol. My younger one didn't potty train until... I don't remember the exact date, but it was close enough to his fourth birthday that we were sweating it a little (as it would have had an impact on him changing preschool classes). He was the last one in his class, by a healthy margin.
You know what was so hard? Trying to potty train him before he was ready. When he was ready he potty trained in, yeah, basically a weekend. (In retrospect I think there was some anxiety about the toilet that resolved itself when he got a little older and realized it was not a monster out to get him, or whatever he had decided it was in his brain.) No issues after that, and he night trained all by himself. (Older child day trained at 18 months, but couldn't figure out night training until she was 5, and even then -- with her full approval, because she was as tired of it as we were -- we had to get one of those moisture sensors that goes in the underwear.)
It's almost like kids are different, or something! (This is my long-standing complaint with basically ALL parenting books, especially since my older child, as we used to say, had never read any of the parenting books and insisted on not following any of what they helpfully said all kids should do! Except, I guess, for toilet training :) )
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Date: 2022-11-30 07:48 pm (UTC)You know what was so hard? Trying to potty train him before he was ready. When he was ready he potty trained in, yeah, basically a weekend. (In retrospect I think there was some anxiety about the toilet that resolved itself when he got a little older and realized it was not a monster out to get him, or whatever he had decided it was in his brain.) No issues after that, and he night trained all by himself. (Older child day trained at 18 months, but couldn't figure out night training until she was 5, and even then -- with her full approval, because she was as tired of it as we were -- we had to get one of those moisture sensors that goes in the underwear.)
It's almost like kids are different, or something! (This is my long-standing complaint with basically ALL parenting books, especially since my older child, as we used to say, had never read any of the parenting books and insisted on not following any of what they helpfully said all kids should do! Except, I guess, for toilet training :) )