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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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
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
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
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
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
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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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Comments (76)
LyricaSilvan 30
She probably just didn't want to take time out of whatever she was doing to take your child to the bathroom. Tell her to stop being a lazy bitch and help next time.
Laphog 17
I did this during a final once. Where will you be when diarrhea strikes ?
LyricaSilvan 30
Yes, because punishing a child for the fact that an adult wouldn't help her is totally rational... 9, please never have children. The poor things will never make it with an idiot like you for a parent.
iiTzNeeNerz 26
The little one wanted to go to the toilet. She understands where she has to go, it's the adult in the picture who needs to be set straight.
ulissey_fml 22
As a consolation you can tell yourself that fully training your toddler will go waaaay faster than trying to educate your mother-in-law into any sort of nice manners.
InfiniteSunshine 32
That is terrible and I would be furious if someone did that to my child, whether they were family or not. A kid needs to be helped when learning these basic skills, with constant reinforcement and assistance. On top of that, this is also a basic need. When a kid says they have to go to the bathroom, they usually have to go, it's unhealthy to make them hold it. Also, it's incredibly confusing for young kids when someone invalidates their clearly real alert system and urgency for their bodily functions, it's basically saying that how their body is feeling is wrong and that they shouldn't listen to it.
Plastinate 17
Keep your mother in law away from your kid. If she even can't help her own granddaughter with the potty why should she even see her granddaughter at all.
Nabexis 9
I remember when my sister was little, my grandma also said something to the effect of "no you don't" to my sisters request to go potty and my sister replied with "Trust me, I need to go." My mom was furious that her mother didn't take my sisters word for it.
teribaby89 9
Your mother in law in a ****
DataWog 30
Well, that creates in interesting mental image...
DoomedGemini 38
I've always heard take the child if they say they have to go, whether they actually go or not. It's best to go each time and reward them when they go than doubt and 1. End up with accidents 2. Screw up training like this.