I’ve never consciously tried to potty train my boys. I took it at their pace and only ever addressed the need to get out of diapers until they have expressed an interest in doing it. Yes I’ve seen the cashiers at Dischem roll their eyes at me when they see me buying 2 packs of nappies in different sizes. This is our 6th year of buying nappies! (The thought just hit me now!) The cashiers always ask how old are the kids and when I say that he’s 3 and a half or 4 I can see the look of horror in their eyes! Both boys never showed an interest in underpants and I wasn’t the least bit phased. Anees only also a started wearing underpants after he was 3 but only came off the night after after he was 4 or even maybe closer to 5. I knew that he would not be wearing nappies to primary school so I never pressurized him or actively tried to get him off the nappy. I had learnt my lesson with his dummy and I knew that eventually physiology would take over and he would just not want to wear it any more.
Rameez’s potty training story has been an absolute breeze. When he started school at the end of last year he asked about it and so we put on Anees’ old underpants for him. He would have an accident and then be put off it for a week or 2 and say that he’s NEVER gonna wear underpants. LOL! He would ask to wear it on the odd occasion but I could tell that somehow it felt like he was doing it out of pressure and the desire to be like the other kids at school, he wasn’t ready.
For the last week or 2 he’s been bothered by his nappy. You could see it was uncomfortable and I had a feeling that the end of his nappy days were close. On Wednesday he went to school in his nappy and came home to say that he’s going to wear underpants to school on Thursday. He awoke early and took the nappy off himself and put his underpants on to go to school. He wore it the entire morning. He came home beaming. He then had a few accidents at home but for the first time it didn’t bother him as much. When he used to have accidents before he would start to ‘HATE’ underpants. Yes this is his nature! Lol! Since Friday he’s been in underpants and accident free. He even ventured into the public toilets today while we were out at a birthday party today.He was so pleased to go into woolies and choose his own underpants instead of having to wear his brother’s hand me downs! Lol! He’s been trying them on since he bathed and modeling in them. Telling us that now he can run faster because he’s not wearing a nappy anymore! lol! Rameez you are such a crazy character. Mwah!
From Nasima, with love 