potty training

Well, it that time of life again and the potty is back. Well, when I say back, I don't actually mean back as its a completely different potty. The little man had a red Disney cars one, we still have the little stool thing but the potty is gone, possibly to Grandma's?  The young lady had a white winnie the pooh one, featuring eeyore, which is cool, cos hes my favourite. Unfortunately this potty, beloved as it was by the young lady, was left in a child's play park over night and went missing. Even more unfortunate, we were south at the time and leaving a friends house to head to the hotel when we discovered the fact that we had lost the potty! Being south gave us the option of a 24 hour supermarket, a rare and special treat. As you would expect, we couldn't get a replacement, so a similar one was acquired, plain white with blue rubber feet, needless to say it didn't go down well.

The original

So, it was a bit of a rocky start to the potty training, but we've pretty much got it cracked. The young lady has got use to the new potty and even had a little dalliance with a Peppa Pig potty and the little mans only Disney cars potty (yes, it had gone to Grandma's).

Now, the little man got off to a slow start with the potty. At first he was quite happy to just stand and watch, usually as he wee'd up the side of the sofa, but once he got it sorted, he went from nothing to everything literally within a week. It was about two or three days in to the potty training, he decided he didn't want a nappy on over night and went dry the first night. It didn't last, but he was dry more often than not. The young lady on the other hand, took to the day time potty training like a duck to water, there were a few accidents, as there always is, but she was pretty good. The night times however are not quite so good. We've tried a few nights without a nappy and they haven't gone to well, and she still likes to have her nappy one (her "night night nappies"). She'll get there, of that I have no worries, she's dry during the day and she's still some way off nursery.

One thing that has struck me again, going through the process again with the little lady, is that some of the ideas that people have about potty training. Ideas that vary from it being a lot of trouble, to it being very dirty. There are also some funky potties out there.

Now, I really don't get this. Why do you need to have a potty like this? The young lady is already progressing on to the toilet and so the potty is starting to become redundant after just a few weeks. And would you want to the toilet to start playing classic Disney tunes when your trying to pee? Also, why does it need to flush? Lets just sort one thing at once shall we.

Also, I'm not surprised that people think that carrying around a potty is a pain, if we had a potty that was anything like those above, I'd find it a pain as well! Plus, neither the mother in-law, nor my mum would be able to carry it around in a plastic carrier bag, which they both insist on doing for some reason, not entirely sure why though.

Potty training is just one of those phases in life that you just have to get on with, it takes some courage to start things off, but things always work out, after all how many of us are walking around wearing nappies?