Love Times Three – Our True Story Of A Polygamous Marriage!

She won, I didn’t even know it was a battle, or a game, but she did.  I know she knows exactly what to do, she just wants to exercise her independence, and she did it in the most upfront and sweet way.  She is back in diapers.  In all my years that is the first time I have ever done that.  I felt like a bit of a failure doing that but then, it was good for me because I must have judged other people in the same way I was now judging  myself.   Always good to have insight to your weaknesses and acknowledge them, right?

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This ain’t my first rodeo…then why is it I keep getting bucked off?  I have potty trained 7 kids, and helped with a whole bunch more.  I thought I had this down!  I have been at it for 4 days with very little success.  This is exhausting!  it wouldn’t be so bad if I saw some little success but it seems to be getting worse not better.  I reviewed the book “Toilet Training in Less Than a Day.”  I have always used that model and it has worked.  I loved how the author encourages focusing on the positive.  Which is what I have been doing, for the most part.  It’s hard to be positive about poop everywhere on the carpet.   After a couple days I thought “it’s going to click in anytime, and once she goes on the potty my work will be done, this is worth the effort right now, it really is.”  But so far, I have been fooling myself.  The baby is 23 months old, definitely old enough, I have had some train at 18 months so I thought it was reasonable.  I don’t think it’s a power struggle, and I know she comprehends the process so that rules out 2 arguments.

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Listening to the ’Oldies’ station last night on the radio I heard the song “Life’s Been Good” by The Eagles.  The lyrics stuck in my head as they played:

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