So, we have recently potty-trained our son. It wasn’t hard, but then again, nothing with our son has been very difficult. We’re going on three and the “terrible two’s” are the worst he has to offer, our life is a breeze.
Anyways, potty-training was easy; we just offered Zenden a cookie every time he used the potty. Since his only treats up to that point were dates and raisins, cookies actually were a treat. We got to the point where he was using the potty so much that we scaled back on the cookies and only gave them out if he pooped. Whenever he peed he got a piece of “ginger candy” which is just dehydrated ginger coated in sugar. For the longest time we were amazed that this kid could poop EVERY time he went to the bathroom. There’s nothing wrong with that, and even I’m overly “regular”, but geez this kid could poop!
He was doing so well that we figured that was it and we could stop with the cookies. It was all dates, raisins, and ginger candy from there on out. Everything was great, but Karen and I noticed that he wasn’t pooping every time he went to the bathroom. We weren’t worried, we just noticed a difference.
We’re not generally cookie or snack people but I recently got a wild hair up my ass and purchased some more cookies. To get rid of them I started giving them to Z when he went to the bathroom by himself. That was going great but he wasn’t using the bathroom by himself enough to go through the cookies as fast as I’d wanted. I started giving him cookies whenever he pooped again.
Guess what, we’re back to pooping EVERY time he uses the potty.
First of all, that ginger candy tastes like crap and should never be considered a treat! Poor kid, if that was his "treat" then no wonder he was doing whatever he could to get cookies, which are actual real treats. Porter has definitely been giving us a bit of the terrible twos lately - it is oh so fun...
ReplyDeleteOK, I'll predict: that's NOT the worst he'll have to offer.
ReplyDeleteSo you're pooping every time he goes potty? Yeah, Pavlov's dog in reverse.