Oh Crap! Potty Training

you don’t have to be all tiger-mom about it; we’re looking for the
pendulum to stop somewhere in the middle.
I also remember teaching my son to ski. I had to do a lot of
nudging past my son’s fear that day, because I knew he was capable,
and I wasn’t packing it in to get off the mountain and go home. I
didn’t “force” him, but I nudged him. A lot. He got frustrated and
upset with me and I got frustrated and upset with him. And we both
cried but, dammit, I wasn’t going to leave the mountain. So I took
what I know about him and relaxed about my expectations, and we
did it together. And now he loves skiing.
Overcoming these doubts and fears, both yours and your child’s, is
part of parenting. I could have left the mountain, of course. But he
learned something that day, something that made him shine. Isn’t
learning something new often filled with fear and doubt?
And there’s always something amazing on the other side of that.
Always.
There’s pride in learning something new, in overcoming
something we thought we couldn’t, for both you and your child.
So, yes. Potty training will be your complete focus for the first
week or so. But it will be so worth it when you see the look of pride
on your child’s face, that he did something he didn’t know how to do
last week. Yes, there can be some resistance. That first week of
kindergarten, about ten kids kicked up so much resistance that you
would have sworn torture was on the curriculum. I mean, they were
screaming and kicking. Still, their parents, for various reasons, had to
have them in school. And you know what? As soon as it became clear
that there really wasn’t another option, the kids settled down and
now love kindergarten. Once it became the new routine, it was just