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My son will be three next month. He's developmentally on track (hitting the usual markers re: cognitive and physical development). But the kid has NO interest, apparently, in potty training, and I am not sure if this is normal. In fact, when I ask him if he wants to "be a big boy" and use the potty, he says, "No, Mom. Don't want to." ??
His lack of interest seems really weird to me: he knows what the potty is and what it is for; he sees some of the other kids in his class use the potty (granted, they are the older ones, and generally girls, but STILL...); he knows how to sit on the potty; and he thinks it is fascinating and hysterical to watch Dad pee (maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I did NOT want to witness this first-person...I just heard the riotous laughter...).
And to make matters worse, I got completely insulted by Judgmental Perfect Mom with Potty-Gifted Son at nursery school the other day. Her son--in my son's class and about my son's age--is almost completely potty-trained. She said she did it by sitting the kid on the potty every day, almost all day long, for a week, plied the kid full of water, and praised him excessively when the inevitable happened. And, bingo, he potty trained. She told me that it was just a matter of ME being committed to it and that it wasn't that hard, if I was just willing to put in the time. Potty training problems are, according to her, a result from a lack of time to invest, (She works two days a week and apparently can take a whole week off for work top potty train...I work a full-time job, 5 days a week...). THEN she frowned really hard at my son (who, granted, was picking his nose at the time) and said that it was a matter of the PARENT being disciplined about it.
(Implication: you work too much; you're a mediocre mother; you neglect your child; you don't care enough about his development...I know that LOOK. I get it from my mother-in-law.)
My son's teachers don't seem worried. They just tell me it will happen one day. But he's almost three! Is this normal? I'm begining to stress out about it. When do boys potty train?
His lack of interest seems really weird to me: he knows what the potty is and what it is for; he sees some of the other kids in his class use the potty (granted, they are the older ones, and generally girls, but STILL...); he knows how to sit on the potty; and he thinks it is fascinating and hysterical to watch Dad pee (maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I did NOT want to witness this first-person...I just heard the riotous laughter...).
And to make matters worse, I got completely insulted by Judgmental Perfect Mom with Potty-Gifted Son at nursery school the other day. Her son--in my son's class and about my son's age--is almost completely potty-trained. She said she did it by sitting the kid on the potty every day, almost all day long, for a week, plied the kid full of water, and praised him excessively when the inevitable happened. And, bingo, he potty trained. She told me that it was just a matter of ME being committed to it and that it wasn't that hard, if I was just willing to put in the time. Potty training problems are, according to her, a result from a lack of time to invest, (She works two days a week and apparently can take a whole week off for work top potty train...I work a full-time job, 5 days a week...). THEN she frowned really hard at my son (who, granted, was picking his nose at the time) and said that it was a matter of the PARENT being disciplined about it.
(Implication: you work too much; you're a mediocre mother; you neglect your child; you don't care enough about his development...I know that LOOK. I get it from my mother-in-law.)My son's teachers don't seem worried. They just tell me it will happen one day. But he's almost three! Is this normal? I'm begining to stress out about it. When do boys potty train?
Wow, definitely don't let that judgemental idiot get to you. Geez; way for her to be a poster child for the mommy wars, huh?
Don't worry about it, I've been working with this age for the past ten years and all of the boys figure it out by 4. Let him come to it in his own time.
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