Yep, I do it...
After a few months, too. I am still doing it.
What is "it," you ask?
"It" is clapping for my daughter when she pees and poops on the potty chair. "It" is giving her gummy bears to keep her coming back for more pee and poop on the potty chair. "It" is reading her books about other fictitious toddlers who learned to go pee and poop on the potty chair and surely, she can do it too. "It" is getting so excited to see excrement in something more excrement receptacle-like and less excrement absorption-like that I sing the praises of The Potty. Receptacle=good. Absorbing contraption=bad.
For a while I felt so silly. I dreaded this time because it just seemed so dorky to clap for your kid when he/she took a dump in a plastic bowl. Then you change hundreds of diapers, and realize that, not only are you clapping for your child's accomplishment, but you're clapping, too, for the fact that HELL YES, I will not have to wipe this child's butt for much longer. Butt wiping is highly overrated.
At some point when the clapping started and the dorky feeling set in, I realized something. Someone (presumably my mother, father, and immediate family members) clapped and cheered and sang the praises of The Potty for me too. Someone squealed with delight when I took a dump in a plastic bowl for the first time too. Someone probably felt completely dorky that they were clapping for excrement and urine, just like I've felt.
Long live The Potty!
What is "it," you ask?
"It" is clapping for my daughter when she pees and poops on the potty chair. "It" is giving her gummy bears to keep her coming back for more pee and poop on the potty chair. "It" is reading her books about other fictitious toddlers who learned to go pee and poop on the potty chair and surely, she can do it too. "It" is getting so excited to see excrement in something more excrement receptacle-like and less excrement absorption-like that I sing the praises of The Potty. Receptacle=good. Absorbing contraption=bad.
For a while I felt so silly. I dreaded this time because it just seemed so dorky to clap for your kid when he/she took a dump in a plastic bowl. Then you change hundreds of diapers, and realize that, not only are you clapping for your child's accomplishment, but you're clapping, too, for the fact that HELL YES, I will not have to wipe this child's butt for much longer. Butt wiping is highly overrated.
At some point when the clapping started and the dorky feeling set in, I realized something. Someone (presumably my mother, father, and immediate family members) clapped and cheered and sang the praises of The Potty for me too. Someone squealed with delight when I took a dump in a plastic bowl for the first time too. Someone probably felt completely dorky that they were clapping for excrement and urine, just like I've felt.
Long live The Potty!
Labels: Avery, random unimportant nonsense, The Potty
posted by allison at 2:41 PM
6 Comments:
At 4:57 PM,
Anna said…
I have SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many comments.
I will not make any of them. You know me well enough. You know what I would say.
We will leave it at that.
At 6:51 PM,
Kristie said…
LOL! LOL! Please tell me you will print this off and put it in Avery's scrapbook. Love it.
At 7:34 AM,
Nat said…
AM I part of the dorky squad if I dont see anything wrong with that? For months fater Vicki was gully potty trained, she'd get up the potty, and clap for herself, and scream: Well Done!! and I would do the same thing. Now that she doesnt use the potty anymore, but does everything on the big toilet (BTW, you dont know how good this is, not to have to clean the potty from the poop), I still occasionally clap and say well done.
I am only hoping that Dani will see what a good girl her sister is, and will start pooping on the big toilet when she is a year old:) Dreams, huh?
At 2:40 PM,
DeanneandColin said…
Oh boy do I feel your pain. But, we gotta do what we gotta do. If this is what it takes to be diaper free, then I'm up for a little self-degredation for a few months.
At 8:05 PM,
SarahRachel said…
LOVE IT! What a glorious day that'll be when there are no more dang diapers.
At 12:47 PM,
Highlandgal said…
I guess maybe we enthuse slightly less here. It's more like the good old stoic Presbyterian "well done." But you do get a sense of traditions being passed on with the potty tutoring.
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