Today, according to daycare, my son is behind in his potty training curriculum because we are not "celebrating his natural bodily functions" enough. He turned 2 a week ago, and he peed on our bed last night because we're trying to meet this demand. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, 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
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
Today, my son learned how to use the toilet for the first time. He was so excited he started peeing on the floor. FML
Today, I discovered that my 8-year old is not fully toilet trained when a turd fell out of his pants, shortly after introducing him to his new babysitter. FML
Today, in an attempt to potty train my step-son, my boyfriend and I put underwear on him, hoping that when he peed himself, he would realize using the potty is the way to go. Instead, he peed while sitting on the couch, got up, took off the underwear, and then switched seats. FML
Today, my 3-year-old missed the toilet. In the time it took me to get paper towel to clean it up, my one-year-old decided it was the perfect puddle to play in. FML
Today, I woke up to my two year old crawling in bed with me and saying, "I poop". Normally this would be ok, but this morning she decided she didn't need a diaper. FML
Today, it's 3:42 a.m. and my son is crying because I won't let him play with his dirty diaper. FML
Today, while working at a daycare, I had to change a kid's diaper. This may seem normal for a daycare worker, but not when it's a 7-year-old kid who is still not potty-trained and shat their pants. FML
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AC98 19
Tell him to celebrate his bodily functions all over his teacher
sturschaedel 27
According to pediatrician Emmi Pikler 95% of all children manage to successfully use the toilet during the day by the time they turn three without forcing it onto them. The daycare needs to chill.
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AC98 19
Tell him to celebrate his bodily functions all over his teacher
MrsDruidess 23
Right!! How dare they be so unrealistic with someone so young. I know most daycares wont put kids into the 3 year old room until they are potty trained, but 2 is too young. Dont let the day care place push you around!! If you force it on the kid before they are ready you will end up with more problems like excessive accidents, bladder infections, and obstructions! Talk to your kids dr and do the research, 2 is very young if they are not the ones leading this big change.
Ewexz 17
Don't worry OP about what they say, he's your son so just do what you feel is right for him.
sturschaedel 27
According to pediatrician Emmi Pikler 95% of all children manage to successfully use the toilet during the day by the time they turn three without forcing it onto them. The daycare needs to chill.
davincidasecond 24
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Nature can be cruel sometimes.
helptheorphans 17
cool story bro.
mads_nicole 19
I'd be pretty pissed off...
Lalala579121 28
And pissed on.
allforfun 23
It's never an easy task. Do what is best for you and your child, if you try to rush them it will be upsetting and more accidents will occur
Tripartita 45
The trick is to throw surprise bodily function celebrations; if you do it right, you can scare the piss out of him and start a loop.
LilRedRobinHood 8
I'd never heard of "celebrating natural bodily functions" so I've been picturing them having little birthday-like parties when went potty. Your comment cracked me up when you added in the "surprise" part to the party lol.
chronicB 19
shitty situation
Lalala579121 28
Urine for it now, most of FML wishes for you to piss off.
nodeathtoall 19
I'm sorry but "celebrate". Celebration wouldn't achieve the proper response, that creates a bodily function reaction to moments of extreme emotion. Instead of just encouraging the use of a toilet by sitting your son on it and not letting him off until he goes. If we were to just celebrate every time he happens to pass a function, he'd respond by doing it in other places to elicit a similar response. Such as the bed
stingray112 24
That's not the ******* point of the fml
doodlecloud 27
They mean celebrate when it happens on a potty. Even if they don't do it all tbe time, which they won't at first, if they do practice sitting on a potty and happen to go when they're on it then it's something to encourage.
chinaski7628 32
I don't think the daycare is using "celebrate" to mean cheering the kid on or giving lavish rewards (though positive reinforcement does help, as 44 pointed out). I think they're using "celebrate" as a way to normalize bodily functions for children (along the lines of "everybody poops"), just teaching kids it's natural and holds no shame. One way to do this would be for the parents to talk openly about peeing and/or pee with the door open for the child to see how it's done. Education, especially preschool and elementary ed, loves to use fun, upbeat, positive buzz words as euphemisms for unpleasant things—it's one way to destigmatize bodily functions (for example, children don't **********, they "explore" their bodies). However, if OP's child just turned two, the teachers need to lay off on the potty pressure. All children progress at different levels and trying to rush the process isn't helpful. By the way, I'd like to add that I'm not weird—I'm a teacher, and though I currently teach high school, I spent several years as a certified early childhood teacher. I've also kept up that credential, so every few years I have to take child development and methodology courses :)
catherinecas 30
It's like when you train a dog you praise it for doing something right so it associates whatever it's act is and wants to keep doing it. Or you can straight up bribe the kid with candy or something.
iZinx 17
My sister is 7 and she still wears a diaper at night. :/
onlychildFTW 34
Yeah bedwetting sucks. Hopefully she outgrows it soon. I did that into my teens and it sucked balls.
OhWhoCares 42
My brother has Autism so that might have something to do with it - he's 17 and still has to wear adult diapers to bed. He has tried everything even one of those little sensors that's supposed to wake you up before it happens, didn't work. I wish it wasn't something that was so taboo (well it's a super taboo topic here) so they could actually do research or something and find a way to help people with these problems.
HappyItalian 38
Some daycares and preschools seem to forget that these are toddlers and children they're talking about.