Toilet Train

If you're wondering whatever happened to my attempts of toilet training, I would say it's a delayed success. Hahaaha. In other words, no success so far. We have tried 2 weeks and I don't think she's ready yet. So now we still keep her in her cloth diapers most times.

She is just starting to grasp the idea of going to potty. Like when I'm peeing in the toilet she'll say, "ibuw potty". She sees a bowl she'll start to sit on it like sitting on a potty. I think maybe last time I was rushing things. I should have introduced her to it slowly. Let the idea sipped into her mind then train her. I have a lot of helps from youtube potty training's video. Free and easy!

That's where she learned the word potty. Previously I introduced toilet, pipis, pupup and NOTHING worked. Potty seemed to pretty much described them all. Either that or maybe it's just because it's youtube who said it -___-. Maybe I'll try again in a few months time. So far I'm still trying to discipline her (and myself) to at least go potty before sleep and first thing in the morning. Sometimes this lazy ibuw is too tired and fall asleep first.

A point to note: when you are teaching your child to be disciplined, you too should be as disciplined. YOSH!

Day 1 Asha goes Diaperless

Today Asha goes commando! No diapers. I'm a bit sad actually, the maid has to do it and not me. I feel like shoving my responsibility to someone else. I couldn't take leave because everyone in my department has gone on leave, actually 1 resigned 2 took leave.

So anyway, what happened today was:

1. She peed every 20mins, so we're running out of "pop" pants very fast.
2. She's still scared to say "pee". Maybe scared we'll scold her or something. She seems a bit stressed out, but we'll see if she improves in a few days.
3. Currently the last 2 attempt to make her pee in the toilet has succeeded. Usually her signs are touching her genitals then quickly ask her if she wanted to pee.
4. After some attempts she doesn't look as scared when she had to go to the bathroom to clean herself up.

Some tips from friends:

1. Continue to praise her for whatever progress she made on the day. Constantly remind her that she is a big kid and need to pee in the toilet.
2. It will take maybe a week, past a week don't bother, maybe she's not ready.
3. Prepare lots of newspaper to spread on her pee, so when you pick her up to toilet it doesn't drip everywhere.
4. Don't look stress, pretend that it's a normal process that you have to go through.
5. If your cushion is stained, pour hot boiling water on top of it, leave for a while and then put under the sun.
6. If you have cloth diapers, try using the outer wears without insert as a pants, some say helps absorb some so the pee doesn't go all over the place.

I'm gonna go home early today to see her progress... So we'll see how it goes tomorrow....