mastering the pee-pee skills!

Jayden's mummy :- "As a mum, I truly enjoy every moment with my son. Even though there are times when u get angry and frustrated; or sad and down with your child; eventually the pro will still even out the con!

Before this, i rem putting in my Windows Messenger that it was 'So hard training a child' and friends were like asking wat sort of training am i trying on my child!

I tried to toilet-train ahDen somewhere in the 3rd week of December. I really felt so suffocated that time. I was merely trying to teach him to pee into the potty, so he need not wear any diapers during daytime. I was totally pissed off and on the verge of giving up during the 3rd day of the training. I didn't scold him or beat him when he wetted his pants. What made me felt guilty was that he would rather juz stay inside the toilet when he realised he doesn't have his diaper on! He'd go naked from the waist down and juz wait inside the toilet, and i really felt i'm being so cruel to him. I kept on pondering "Is it time yet to toilet train him???" But this is a question that no one else will know the answer better than myself!

I really shed tears of anger and frustration during that few days, and thankfully hubby was ever so supportive and reasoning with me. The funny statement tat hubby made was (I really wan to share this here) 'Try to understand tat he has his diapers on since the day he was born until now, which was 2+years, and suddenly he doesn't have it on now... how will he feel! Imagine you not wearing your underpants!!!'

This really made me laughed and laughed so hard! It's very reasonable, so i juz keep repeating hubby's statement whenever i saw ahDen's fear of not having his diaper on! Actually i know tat my son is a very strong-willed person, tat is the better way of phrasing it; or better known to everyone else is the word STUBBORN! If he doesn't like sth, you really can't force him to do it your way! That is why a lot of ppl will comment tat Jayden has very bad discipline!

Thankfully in less than a week's time, he kind of accept the fact that he need not wear his diaper all the time. During tat first few weeks of training, we let him wear his diaper during his nap and bed time, or when we go out shopping or to places where we need to be for at least more than an hour. Now (in Feb), he definitely has improve his 'peeing' skills and he'll tell us if he wanna go 'pee-pee'! That's wat he'll say -- pee-pee!

Now he only wears his diapers during nap & bed time still, but when we go out shopping we can forget about his diaper! Some pretty funny things to jot down here during this period of trying to help him to get rid of his diaper habit :-

(1) There was once when we were at sunday school, and ahDen insisted of going back home because he wanted to pee. Without the potty, he juz cant pee. He's afraid of wetting the floor. He had his diaper on then, but he didn't wan to wet his diaper either. So in the end, thankfully there were buckets around! and so he pee-ed into one of the plastic hand scoop!

(2) Another time was when he pee-ed into the potty in our bathroom, then he point to his stream of urine while peeing, saying "Wao.... fountain!" =)) It really made me chuckled and laughed... while telling him, "no... tat's not a fountain!"

(3) ...seeing him trying to aim at the potty which was on the bathroom floor. He was half squatting down and making sure his 'little birdie' gets as close to the potty as possible! His facial reaction was really cute!

Of cuz there are still more stories to share, but at this point i can't really think of anything else cause ahDen had finished wid his afternoon nap. Time to pen off! "