Can I just have a moan?

Metranil_Vavin

Notanewuser - The problem with the potty training is my DS doesn't tell me he needs a wee. I need to keep asking him and putting him on the potty/toilet, in which case more often than not he will go.

I'm trying to treat the pull ups the same as pants, so before he went down for his nap I made him sit on the loo and he did a wee, then pulled his pull ups up again.

I realise that I'm probably confusing things, but I just couldn't face him wetting himself at the museum/gardens I just went to, and having to queue up for the toilet with my 7 month old in tow in the pram.

We possibly should wait and try when he is a bit older, but I feel as we have been podding on with this since last weekend, we should keep going now...

Gillyx

MV I can send you an electronic copy of the book 'potty training for boys' if you'd like? Just PM me your email addy and il wing it across if you'd like x

notanewuser

3 days totally bare bummed at home worked for DD.

Worth a try now the warmer, drier weather is here.

Gillyx

Sent MV. Your inbox is full so couldn't reply xx

dizziblonde

You've got a very similar age gap to me - and I found the phase where one was 6 months and the other 17/18 months blooming awful! Little one was just a ball of whinge and the eldest had kicked the terrible twos far too early and it was just sobbing on the floor by the time my husband walked in the door awful pretty much every day.

Now the youngest is 1 next week and the eldest is 2 next month it's just suddenly got a LOAD easier - they both seem to have shifted forward into much more contented and "easier" ages all of a sudden (although one's currently trying to reprogramme the internet router...)

Metranil_Vavin

Thanks Gilly..got it! xx

fabforty

DS starts nursery next week, 3 hours a day and I can't wait. I love him to bits but I am so looking forward to a few hours of me time and more importantly, a few hours of piece and quiet. He had a speech delay, and I spent the past year frantically waiting for the day when his speech was 'normal' and not a sign of something more serious. His speech is still behind his peers, but only slightly and while I am grateful for this, I am sitting here listening to a very loud virtually non-stop running commentary of his game, complete with shouting, singing, animal noises (his owl is ear piercing) and the odd scream, and fighting the urge to ask him to please shut up... and feeling like a right cow because of it. Leaving the room doesn't work, because he follows me. Never mind, only an hour to bedtime!!

Air_Cooled_75

Haha, they certainly can push the right/wrong buttons my nearly-ish 4 yr old wakes up and his mouth engages straight away...it's lovely but he wakes up early, before I've had a chance to come around (5.30 is his preferred time). Some mornings it's hard to keep up and it's all day until he goes to bed!

MV, any progress? We were lucky with no accidents but LO still likes his potty for a number 2 although he has started saying he's going to put it in the bin on his 4th birthday, he'll also wipe his own bum from then on and start listening properly!! We didn't press the potty training at all but he was very good at night especially, since Christmas Day he decided he wasn't using nappies anymore, again, he only wanted a nappy on to do a poo. It's always been a poo thing with him

meritaten

Can I just say (as my kids are all grown up and have kids of their own) - all these things do pass! I sympathise I really do. I did think that at age nearly 60 I would be able to go have a pee on my own - but, guess what? the CAT comes with me! and quite happily pees in HIS litter tray while I am going on mine!
for me, Bath time became my time. OH would make sure the little bu99ers were safely in bed and I would have a lovely hour in the Bathroom, just me, my book, my music, my candles (sometimes OH too if I was in the mood). Bliss. would recharge me ready for the next go round.
You DO have to have some ME time. even if its only twenty minutes reading a magazine and having a nice cup of coffee. but, it has to be planned like a covert military operation. you don't let the kids know!

moments_of_sanity

Oh god, how I remember those days! My girls are now 18 & 17 (17 months between them), they have always been completely opposite, absolutely hated each other, constantly moaned that the other one was favourite, etc etc, fortunately they don't hate each other quite as much as they did but they can and still do drive me absolutely MAD!

Today is the first day back after school holidays and as they are both in 6th form now, they have 'frees' at different times and there only seems to be an hour or so when one of them isn't here under my feet, asking for lifts, money, a particular food that we don't have.....I have had 3 hours to myself this morning and as much as I love my girls, boy am I glad they aren't here!

They will soon both be home and then it will be taking 18 yr old to the dentist, then questions over dinner time and what we are having, filling my whole dining room table with study folders and then asking for hugs and to sit on my lap (yep, they still ask for cuddles and lap sits) when they are fed up or stressed.........they don't get better with age, their requirements just change! :rotfl:

You know what though, I wouldn't change a thing!