Potty Training Day!? BOOM!!! Daddy
Howdy. A quick thought came over me as I was going to the bathroom ( #1 incidentally). My daughter has a tendency to follow me wherever I go, which means she has the tendency to follow me WHEREVER I go...including the bathroom Normally I don't mind. I figure that she can't get into trouble if I'm in the shower and she's playing with Q-tips or moms' make- up brush (sorry Mom), but when Dad has to do other things...For the sake of decorum lets just focus on pee -pee, and since I refer to it as "pee pee" to my daughter, I will not deviate here. I call it "pee pee" and now she calls it "pee pee", and as you can tell it is a fun word to type. So, there I am standing up, trying to make good educational use of the experience.
Typically it goes something like this, " Hi Sweetie, daddy is making a pee pee in the potty...please don't touch it. It is dirty. Say bye bye (when I flush). My daughter is two so I know that until she can understand...blah blah...hold in her pee...blah blah, training is not really going to happen. But, I believe she recognizes what I am doing, and when I change her diaper I say, "You made pee pee.", so I'm hoping something is sinking in. However, today, as I was standing there, it hit me, GIRLS SIT!! in fact the whole mechanics of it are quite different.
For girls, urinating is like blue tooth technology, men are still hands on. (With some exceptions). So now I'm thinking, "Could this become problem? Girls standing up can be awful messy." I spoke with my wife about it, and she said that recognizing the action is most important, and that I shouldn't worry. I still beg her to call our daughter into the bathroom with her whenever she has to go. I guess I could sit, but that would ruin my whole routine and seem...well strange. Why can't she be awake when I'm hung over at 4 am and need to sit down.
So on it goes. Fingers crossed! Looking upward. Stepping Stones. One foot in...you get the idea. I'll just wait and see and I'm sure all this concern will disappear in the coming year or so. I'm really just looking forward to the day I can shut the door and go in peace.