Today, my 2-year-old daughter started showing signs of understanding the potty training concept. She announced to my mother-in-law that she needed to go potty, only to be flatly told, "No, you don't." So she crapped herself. Now it's going to take forever to train her. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
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Potty drama
Today, my two year-old is being potty trained. He got the gist of it and actually did #1 and #2 in the potty and after our little celebratory dance, I went to get him a cookie (which took me two seconds). I come back to see him covered in shit and pee because he tried to go empty the potty himself. FML
Today, in an attempt to potty train my 2-year-old, I sat her on the toilet and waited for several minutes. I finally gave up and lifted her off the toilet just in time for her to pee on my new shoes. FML
Show, don't tell
Today, I was desperate to teach my 2-year old to use her potty. I had to pee, and thought maybe she would learn by watching me use it. Everything was going well, until I realized that I had a long pee. So long that it overfilled her potty all over. FML
Well done sweetie
Today, my daughter watched a potty training video on Sesame Street. In the middle of the video, she got up and ran to her potty to practice. She then announced, "All done!", and proudly closed the lid to her potty. She then immediately stood on top of it and peed. FML
Toilet training
Today, I came down with food poisoning of some sort. After hours of scrambling to the toilet to vomit and empty my bowels, my three-year-old daughter got fed up and is now trying to potty-train me. FML
A little treat
Today, the 4 year-old I was babysitting came up to me all happy, saying she went to the bathroom like a "big girl." Knowing she was just potty trained, I asked if she'd remembered to flush. Looking at me confused, she said, "But it's in my room." FML
Today, while driving home, my 3-year-old daughter told me she had to poop. I told her that she would have to wait until we got home. When we got home, she pulled down her pants and shat on the floor, because, "I'm home now." FML
Today, I woke up to my 2-year-old daughter hitting me in the face. She had just pooped her nappy and put her hands down her pants to "feel it squish around." FML
Today, was the first day of potty training for my toddler. While watching a "How to Potty Train" video, I noticed my toddler was making a weird face on the side of the couch. I walked over to her, picked her up and a big pile of poop dropped. FML
Today, my 2-year-old son figured out that if he takes his pull-up off and DOESN'T go on the potty, he can pee all over things. FML
Top comments
jbivens1992 17
That was incredibly rude of your mother-in-law. She should be supporting and helping you in your potty training adventures! Kids need constant reenforcement in order to understand. Best of luck OP.
igg125 30
This might help, kids at that age don't want to have dirty papers/underwear. Especially if she knows what the potty is.
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brennarhian 5
If a child needs to go to the bathroom, and it's obvious, why would you say that they don't? That's just really messed up.
lfras18 14
That's just wrong. You don't have fears because you were raised that way. Just because an adult wouldn't assist the toddler, doesn't mean the toddler is at fault. You'd sure be pissed if you were young or old and no one listened.
Tomryan279 10
Mother in laws = Satan
lmbachman 23
I truly feel for you, OP. FYL indeed.
shinikageWolf 15
"I need to go potty" "No you don't" "Bitch, how the Hell do you know what I feel? Do you feel my colon contraction, the rumble-y in my tummy?"
__Kaia__ 12
I would be livid if any adult did this to my daughter. The fact that it was her grandma somehow makes it seem worse. I think it's important to talk to your daughter about it. She needs to know this wasn't her fault abd that she did exactly what she is supposed to do. Otherwise, she may think did something wrong and that you're disappointed in her, even though you're not. A child having negative feelings towards potty training can cause a minor setback to become a major one. Tell her that you're proud of her for recognizing--all on her own, rather than needing to be asked-- that she needed to go potty and for telling an adult right away
CandyApple88 13
1. take the crap from your daughter's pants and shove it into MIL's face. 2. just an observation, why do americans seem to only potty train their kids when they are 2 or older? I'm used to people starting potty training as soon as the kid can walk.
fyreangel 6
she may have been trying to potty train her for a while. with a bitch of a MIL like that who knows what other setbacks have happened.
cjbetz 10
ahhh gotta love the in-laws..lol I had some trouble training my daughter, what we had to do was go to the dollors store an buy enough age appropriate small toys and put them in a shoe box that we decorated together wen she would use the bathroom like a "big girl" she got to pick a toy worked really well an it only costed about $15 dollors to potty train her and this method can be used for awile for many different things and it's not spoiling them cuz they half to earn it. good luck!
dragoongirl90 34
Your mother in law is a psycho bitch.
cfrerichs08 12
I'd put my mother-in-law in her place! That is absolutely wrong of her