As our potty training progresses, we’ve come to an interesting need: we need a new pad for our change table. What happened to our old one? Well, it was slowly tearing apart. But then yesterday, we had a lovely potty fail and well, it went straight in the garbage after that.
What had happened was… Yesterday morning, we went to change out of pjs and into clothes. Jamayia undressed herself, and was holding her pull-up in her hand. (She fully knows how to put it on too!). So, I thought she’d just dress herself when ready. As I’m in the hallway, gathering dirty laundry, I hear the sound of liquid splatting. I run back to the room, as she looks as me and tells me “Mommy, I have to go potty”.
I try hard not to yell or flip out. All the potty training suggestments are clear on this–do not make the child feel like a failure when there are accidents. Lucky for her, I succeeded, even though I was disturbed at now having to sanitize everything that had been touch by urine. I cleaned her up, put on the pull-up and explained, yet again, that we go pee in the green potty or toilet. Not in our clothes, not in our pants, and not on the change table.
I’m happy to report that we’ve had much better success today. 2 hits in the potty and no fails!!!
Once at home training is down, we can work on our outside of home training.
Anyone know where to get a good change pad cheap at a low price point?