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Pooping, on the other hand... he doesn’t even want to try to go on the potty. Whether it’s on his little potty, or if we put the potty seat on the big toilet (both of which he’s comfortable peeing on) he doesn’t want to try. He just doesn’t go... and my original tactic was to let him hold it and he’d go when he had to go bad enough, but after 3 days of no poops my wife overrode me and put a diaper on him before his nap, and just let him play until he went.
And ever since then now we have a routine where before his nap he gets put in a diaper for long enough to poop, we clean him up and then he naps.
So, how do you convince a kid that it’s ok to poop on the potty?
Fuck if I know. Sapling doesn't even want to try sitting on the little kid potty. We tried getting her some pull up, and sort of moving it towards "see, you can put them on by yourself, like underwear", and even bought her some Frozen underwear for when she learns to use the potty, and shes just like "why would I bother with that when you do all the work for me?"
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With my daughter, we basically get a video to watch during #2. It became a bit of a treat, as we had tried to limit screen time for her. Just sat her down and told her to take her time. It backfired a little, because now she'll hold it in sometimes if she doesn't get a show and get a bit constipated... Working in that, too.
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-And the full-powered, crazed psycho form
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Give other seatng options a go, if that's possible. We had a seat that sits over the toilet like this, rather than the potty itself.
https://m.catch.com.au/product/kids-toddler-toilet-ladder-potty-step-training-seat-413891/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_NX7BRA1EiwA2dpg0jYPc3VFLbyui9zhKqTAlTrt6AzVaYxOICCmvyykpoaeTGscYKZ5sRoCWkoQAvD_BwE&offer_id=135156
The youngest just sits on the toilet seat with a footstool under his feet.
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Me: ...and this letter is?
MG: O! The letter O!
Me: And it makes the sound?
MG: Uh, uh, uh!
Me: Nice! Alright, ready? (begins recording) Middle Guy, what letter is this?
MG: (is upside down on the couch and giggling; I frantically, silently get his attention) Ahhhhh-he-he-he! Oh, uhhh...ummm...
Me: (mouthing)O! Letter O!
MG:...I guess,...O?
Me: And the sound it makes?
MG: (distracted again by something already) Tuh! Tuh! Tuh!
Repeat for every class and assignment, all day long
7k people have to evacuate this time. I think last year or the one before there was one where 40k had to evacuate in my hometown
Ah, sorry for that. Was a bit unclear in the first post
This seems normal to me? She's three, I wasn't expecting much. Is that accurate ish?
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It gets better as you start working with her to recognize the difference between yesterday and last month.
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Are you fucking kidding me? They are asking you to do that?
Yup! Partner and I are basically taking Kindergarten all over again, if we dont want our kids to get sick. Middle Guy needs constant 1-on-1 to stay on task. According to the teacher, we're supposed to be leaving him to do it himself, letting him "learn to learn" but...I mean, you guys are all roughly aware of Middle Guy as an individual. *As it stands*, he'll get distracted and go off task while I'm directly watching him. So our options are either "let him fail" or "hand holding". Hand holding means sitting there making sure he actually pays attention to his meetings, and then dragging the horse to water to get him to do his assignments. He's very capable to do the assignments, mind you, he'd just...prefer not to, and will spend fifty minutes attempting to not complete a two minute job.
I don't hold it against the school, they're doing the absolute best they can. But Middle Guy needs a little extra help, and the only extra services they're offering is speech once a week. I'm pretty lucky that I get to be home and 1-on-1 with him. I am also desperately longing for the day I don't have to be
They have about a dozen different programs they are using for the school with their own passwords to set up. It's way too much. And most of the parents are not getting it, and now instruction time is actually now tech support. One program uses a web browser, but you need to disable pop ups.... Oof. I actually did it, but so many people see a " oops that didn't work", and then just completely ignore the text underneath detailing exactly how to fix it
This year the school district was actually prepared and streamlined everything to an immense degree. I've only had to help my daughter with a login once and that was the first time she had to log in to a new math program. I haven't had to help my son with anything at all except for one day when Zoom randomly wouldn't allow him to unmute, and that ended up being fixed by rebooting his chromebook. Their use of Zoom has been way better, especially with the breakout rooms, even just through it working consistently - unlike last year when teachers chose programs at random and they frequently had tech issues.
So of course they're starting a return to school by bringing kids back in part-time via a new hybrid model, next week. And this model will completely change the way the online learning is being handled. Ugh. Our kids are staying online only, so we'll see how this goes.
(I leave Middle Guy in his Breakout Room while I use the bathroom for *twenty-friggin-seconds*. As I come back out:)
Middle Guy: (unmuted) PEOPLE! My family is being attacked, and under control...by a-l-i-e-n-s! (slams his desk like Lex Luthor)This. *IS* .HAPPENING!.
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So I told her that many years ago Mommy had lost s very close friend named Chris. Mommy loved him very much, but he had gotten very sick and his heart stopped working. I told her that mommy missed Chris very much, even though it was a long time ago that he had died.
Ellie sat with this in silence for a little while and then... And then she said, "Well Mommy. When I have a baby, I'm going to call it Chris. And then you and Chris can be friends again and you won't have to miss him anymore because he'll be there with you all the time."
I did very well to not start crying while I was driving, but it was a close call.
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