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When will they do it? When they are ready.

May 1, 2016 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I went to a(nother) birthday party today. This time it was a party for one of Number 7’s friends at one of those gymnastic-y places. It had a trampoline and a zip line and a foam block pit and a bounce house and all that kind of stuff. The last time I had been to […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: blankie, potty training, ready, when is your child too old for a blankie

The Six Stages of Potty Training

February 5, 2015 by not your average mom 11 Comments

When my husband and I got married, Number 1 was seven and Number 2 was 4. I missed the whole potty training thing with them. When Number 3 was about two years old, I started the potty training with him. We got one of those pottys that made music every time pee hit the bowl. […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: potty training, stages of potty training, when is my kid ready for potty training?

End of an Era

August 4, 2014 by not your average mom 4 Comments

I have been changing diapers now for nine straight years. I bought my last box of diapers about five months ago. And now I am nearing the end of the Pull-Up stage. Number 6 only needs one at night, and Number 7 is in the pee-in-the-potty-but-hide-behind-the-couch-when-no-one-is-watching-and-take-a-stealth-dump-in-the-Pull-Up phase. I have been looking forward to the end of […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: diapers, potty training, pull-ups

Shit happens. Just not where I want it to.

September 21, 2013 by not your average mom 27 Comments

Potty training. I fucking hate it. Number 7 isn’t 2 yet, so it’s still acceptable for her to be in diapers. But Number 6 turned three years old in June. He’s in preschool. He’s supposed to be potty trained. He’s got the peeing down. The pooping, not so much. He still thinks the poop will […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: potty training

Order in the court.

April 24, 2013 by not your average mom 28 Comments

Nothing brings out the black robe and gavel in people like a picture of a sagging, filled-to-capacity diaper. I first realized that last summer when I wrote this in response to a pretty judgmental comment left by someone who didn’t like this: Then yesterday I posted this picture on the not your average mom facebook page: Come on. […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: diapers, judge judy, judging, potty training

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