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[giveitfullheart]

I feel so pathetic. I let Joey's mom and my parents get to me. They're always making comments about how Noah should be potty trained by now and when I say he's not ready, they tell me I'm the one who isn't ready. I'm not one of those moms who's like omg muh bb can't grow up! I'm happy to see him grow and change. Also, I hate changing diapers

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[blue_stealth]

You are NOT pathetic; do you hear me?! You are NOT pathetic! No point in having a power struggle over the potty when he's not even two yet! FWIW, Jess is really smart and I didn't find her ready until she was 34 months...she was almost three and that was so wrong in all my books because all the kids my age were potty trained before they were two. Not my kid. She's bright, but she wasn't ready.

Please please please please don't let them get to you. They need not be worried about your son's toilet habits. :) You are an excellent mum, I wish you were treated as stellar as you are.

[giveitfullheart]

I'm so sick of them telling me I'm not ready when I tell them he's not ready. They always make comments like, "Looks like he's ready to potty train" and stuff. Like when he started playing with his poop. What the hell does playing with his poop have to do with readiness to potty train??? They also take being able to tell us he needs changed to mean he's ready. No, that means he knows that he has gone...not that he knows he has to go. When I point that out it's always, "You just aren't ready." Oh fuck off. I told Joey he might not want to leave me alone with his mother because the next person to make a comment about Noah being ready or me not being ready is going to get an ear full and it will not be nice. After that experience with the poop..yeah. It's so irritating how they try to act like they know shit. My parents see him every few weeks because they fucking suck and Joey's parents see him once a week. How the fuck does that make them experts on what he is and isn't ready for

[blue_stealth]

But...you're just not ready to train him....wait for it....because HE IS NOT READY. Jerks. I don't think that it's that they know your kid better than you, but maybe that they think they know parenting in general better than you do. Their lack of respect is disgusting. :( I'm sorry.

[giveitfullheart]

Well with Joey's mom, it's that she thinks she knows both Noah and parenting better. Joey's aunt asked me what Noah calls Elizabeth and when I told her, Joey's mom looked at me and said that's not what he calls her. Uhhhhhhhhh..k..I'm with them both all day every day and you're never around them both at the same time but okay, you know what he calls her. She also swore up and down Noah was going to be a firefighter for Halloween. Uhhh...what part of "terrified of all costumes" do you not understand??

[cursed_genesis]

Don't let them get to you. We keep the potty out and let Lyra sit on it when she asks but it's so rare, I did the same thing with Ace and was super lucky and she took right to it. But I don't have the same expectations for Lyra, she's still pretty unaware of what's happening in her diaper. All kids are different, and even when he does get the hang of the daytime stuff chances are you have a year of bedtime diapers too.

[giveitfullheart]

I haven't really been worried about it. We take him if he acts like he wants to and he has never used it. I think he just likes sitting on it and being naked lol We don't have a kid potty because I feel like he'd just play with it but maybe he'd take better to that. I'm not sure how I feel about it being outside of the bathroom though.

I wish my parents and Joey's mom would understand that no, not every kid can be potty trained by 18 months because not every kid is ready. Joey's mom brags about how she potty trained the neighbor boy in x amount of days. I sort of want to leave Noah with her for the weekend (because I swear she said three days but it could have been more) and tell her to potty train him. Give her some bullshit about how he picks stuff up faster from them. But then I'd feel stupid if she could do it lol and I'd feel like shit because it's yet another thing she'd have to hold over my head.

[cursed_genesis]

some kids are just ready sooner, I know I was trained in like 2 days but my Mom just had to tell me big girls use the potty because i was like OMG BIG GIRL! And Jason's Dad did it in a week.

Ace hated the little potty but Lyra is afraid of the toilet. At home our bathroom is upstairs so it's way out of the way for little baby cues I keep the little po in the living room so she can go to it herself and once she starts that I move it to the hall so she has to ask.

[giveitfullheart]

Doesn't Milo refuse to poop in his pants??

[giveitfullheart]

That's so dumb. I understand not working on it until 2 but if a kid is already trained, why not? :-/