While I was gone, my sweet husband took our children to their kajillion soccer games/T-ball practices, and enjoyed multiple episodes of incontinence from Hanes as well as our older incontinent child. I picked a good weekend to be away!
Which brings me to the comments on my last post. First, you will not want to miss this comment from Suburban Correspondent:
...And I remember once Larry and I were eating at a pizza place with an 18-month-old David (Baby #3 - the older 2 were at a friend's house). David spill water all over himself. Larry checks diaper bag for a spare outfit. He pulls out a plastic toy bowling set, a size 5 windbreaker, and a pair of socks. And that's all. "That's helpful," he comments. "You never know when you need to bowl."
There was also an unfortunate incident in Home Depot that resulted with a wet 3-year-old riding around in a shopping cart with her nether regions wrapped in a plastic bag. Oh, we looked good...
AWESOME!!! I love the diaper bag fail with the bowling set, and even better is the McGuyver move with the plastic bag.
Oh shit! I just discovered I've been spelling McGuyver wrong, and it's supposed to be "MacGyver." I really like my version much better. I'm going to grieve for my spelling for the rest of this post, and then I'll start spelling it properly. Sorry, blogworld.
Okay, also, to answer Suburban Correspondent's question, Haney is 3.5. Given that my entire life is doused in urine, I really don't mind potty accidents from a 3 year old -- I just felt like a loser that I hadn't planned for it, which forced Haney to wear a terrycloth sarong for the rest of the meeting.
Now let's cover my friend Amy's comment:
This is me... this is my fear as DAILY my year long potty trainer is having little accidents and we are months away from preschool. Also, she refuses to keep her underwear and pants on while on the toilet so it is constant stripping down and sitting on the bathroom floor while redressing. She wads the toilet paper into cotton ball size and absolutely refuses to wipe a poop.Just between you, me, and the internet, a certain one of my children was still having multiple pee accidents per day until kindergarten started. My unasked for assvice is to relax and see what she does once preschool starts -- I bet the accidents will ONLY happen at home. Which will frustrate you to no end, but at least you'll get a little break, right?
Her Costanza habit is hilarious. I have a boy who does that.
Now let's talk wiping. Has the internet reached a consensus on when a kid should start to handle his or her own paperwork? As faithful readers might recall, I declared a day in February 2009 to be National Wipe Your Own Ass Day, when my own little ass-wipe(r)s were 4.5 years old. I am strongly discouraging Hanes from handling her own paperwork, because she goes through too much paper and I have to check her anyway, so what's the point?
Blogworld, what are your thoughts?
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I don't have any advice as I'm right there with the boys. It is such an exercise in insanity at the moment...I knew it would be tough, but it's even worse than I thought it would be! Sofia was so easy to PT, so this is a whole new experience for me. I like the National Wipe Your Own Ass Day.
ReplyDeleteDirty Little Secret Time: my almost 6-year-old (in kindergarten) is a terrible wiper. Every night before we get in the bath (or put on PJs if we're skipping bath)...I make him bend over so I can check his tush and wipe him with wet wipes. I am sick to death of doing this, and washing his skid-marked underwear. But, I'm not sure how to teach proper butt-wiping!
ReplyDeleteSo glad my kid is not the only one who insists on stripping from the waist down to pee. I am slowly and somewhat unsuccessfully breaking him of this habit.
ReplyDeleteMy 4.5 yr old daughter is a terrible wiper and frequently skips wiping altogether, but then that whole area gets irritated. I do all the BM wiping but expect her to do the pee wiping, and we have those special toddler wet wipes. I really have no solutions. I asked my mom how long this is supposed to continue, and she said I was 5 or 6 before I didn't need any more help. Ugh!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I grew up in a house full of males, and I don't think their wiping skills ever really get decent. I never washed anyone else's underwear as it was always just too too gross, and after I got married, I had to quit washing my husband's also. They get to fend for themselves in the underwear washing arena, since they aren't good wipers. Maybe you can teach your little ones how to do laundry. Haha!
Depends on the child I believe. My oldest daughter was wiping her own tush before her older brother, and they are 2.5 years apart. My oldest lacked finesse with this skill until middle school. It's a crap shoot, pardon the bad pun. ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm one of those moms who had their kids potty trained early but it wasn't anything i did, they did it. To this day I really don't know how to potty train. That being said, I think you should petition Hallmark to make that wipe your own ass day a national holiday.
ReplyDeleteOk, so I would never say this to someone who I've actually met in person, but my younger brother and I used to actually wipe each others butts!! I guess you could call it a form of 'Duggurization?!' He's 13 months younger than me and I guess it was when we were 5/6? I don't think my mum instigated it though, we may have done it out of necessity. (My mum had 6 kids in 9 years, including twin boys!, yeah, we're Catholic). Hmmm, maybe I can use this method with my twins??
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