Potty Training Take 3

Step 1: Put on briefs and set up potty in the bathroom.

Step 2: Ask if he needs to go potty about 1,000 times an hour.

Step 3: Set him up on the potty even if he says he doesn’t have to go.

Step 4. Hand him toilet paper so he feels like a big boy.

Step 5: Sing the ‘Pee Pee Song’. [Don’t laugh, it’s a cute song]

Step 6: Give up after 20 minutes of sitting on the potty.

Step 7: Leave bathroom and hear faint whisper behind me, “Uh oh”.

Step 8: Wash, repeat.

A lot of people have told me that Dash “isn’t ready” for potty training. Maybe they’re right, but I still do it because I refuse to treat my child like he has some some of disability because he can’t communicate as well as other kids his age. Having a hearing loss does not have anything to do with whether or not he is ready to pee on the potty, and as long as he’s having fun, we keep trying. If it turns out he’s not ready, he’s not ready, so be it. I’ll make the decision, though, thankyouverymuch.

Even if it means changing underwear 80 times a day for a weekend.

If you don’t mind my asking, how severe is your son’s hearing loss? I only ask because I am studying to become a speech pathologist/audiologist.

He had a series of pretty severe ear infections between the ages of 15 and 23 months, and during that time (the time when he is learning how to talk), he couldn’t hear very much of what was going on around him. His ENT doc said he heard us like a person would hear sounds from underwater. For a while after he got his ear tubes, he didn’t talk much at all. Now we’re working on re-learning a lot of sounds.