Wed 12 Mar 2008
Toddlers: Adorable or Torture Devices?
Posted by Liza under The Real Live Boy
This floor-peeing thing is going to make me crazy.
And my instinct about how to handle it was completely wrong. I grabbed some flannel wipes and said, “Noah! That was very naughty. Please clean up your pee-pee!” He gleefully took the wipe and declared, “Noah clean up!” He did, then peed again, 2 feet away. “Noah clean up!”
I swept him up onto the changing table, much to his upset, and got him in diapers and pjs as fast as I could manage.
Can you believe that just 20 minutes earlier, he’d adorably been doing this?
And this.
And even this.
March 12th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
This sounds a lot like some battles Natalie and I get into. I’m gonna guess that he’s doing it because he LIKES the attention and the rise he gets out of you. Hope you don’t mind the assvice - here are two things you could try.
1) Don’t let him have any diaper free time. I assume this is happening after a bath. Diaper and pajama him in the bathroom as soon as he is dry/lotioned/whatever.
2) Stick with the have him clean it up strategy but be utterly dispassionate about it. “Oh. There’s pee on the floor. It needs to be cleaned up. Here’s a wipe. Thank you.”
Hang in there. Floor peeing sucks entirely and our entire house is wood flooring. With carpet I’d probably be in an asylum!
March 13th, 2008 at 7:09 am
I guess this post calls out to people to give you advice, I don’t know.
Anyway, my friend potty-trained her little boy VERY quickly. She gave him coffee can to pee in first thing in the morning when she knew he had to go. The sound of the pee hitting the can fascinated him, and he couldn’t wait to do it again. It sounded liek it might work, but I coulnd’t try it, because I only have girls.
March 13th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Start the potty training! He clearly knows what he is doing. Give him a potty and encourage him. Maybe he’ll train himself. With our son, once he learned how to relax and pee, it was much easier. Sounds like Noah has already figured that part out.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am
OH NO … is this what I have to look forward to with Lil Man?
I’m totally open to reading any and all potty training advise with little boys. I raised girls and know absolutely nothing about training boys! We have the potty and we encourage him to use it but right now he’d prefer to use it as a step stool!
March 13th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I guess I failed to mention the fact that Noah’s potty was sitting BETWEEN the two places where he peed on the floor.
He goes in the potty, at least sometimes, at school. But at home? He’ll sit on it for 3 seconds and then jump up and declare that he’s all done. And only if it was his idea, if I say, “Noah, let’s sit on the potty,” he responds, “No! No way!”
March 13th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
We’re really potty people in the house, yo.
March 14th, 2008 at 7:11 am
I can’t get over how he looks JUST LIKE YOU!