I have a 2 1/2 year old son, my baby, who was potty trained fairly well in the summer. Well we moved and that all went out the window! I gave him some time, but during this time he fell in love with the cartoon Rugrats, which is super cute, except the eating bugs and baby talk, but I love it. However, I think he thought he could continue to wear diapers like Tommy. Let the battle begin.
I admit I have been soft on him since we moved so far away from our whole family, I felt guilty. We have been here in Tennessee for almost 3 months and its time to potty train. Last week I was down to about 6-7 seven diapers and I told myself your creating a budget, diapers are not going to be in it. So on Monday I fought him and fought he would not put the underwear on, grrrr. He would not tell me he had to pee either so I was mopping up puddles, one reason why I am thankful for the laminate flooring and hardwood floors, not carpet! Well I diapered him in the evening for bed, until the next day.
Day 2 was worse, he would put the underwear on, better I thought! I was wrong, that just meant when he peed it was more laundry because the underwear were soaked! I was annoying myself because I felt like every five minutes I was asking do you need to go potty and he just gave me the look. So at my wits end I took away Rugrats, total devastation. This was about 11 a.m., I was making lunch and put on a boring show and he laid on the couch and cried to sleep, I felt so bad. When he woke up I asked if he had to pee, he said no! I said ok, well we finished the day with 2 more accidents and no Rugrats.
Day 3 I was still up for the battle he wasn't breaking me I was potty breaking him. So he had an accident on my big comfy chair, I took away Rugrats again and the look he gave me was precious it was like he said fine you win! After that he went, huh I knew he could! We have been accident free since then, except a #2 today but I can live with that:) Anyway you might wonder how did you clean it up, my secret is vinegar.
I am not a fan of vinegar scent, I totally opposed it for years when my husband told me to use it. I started making fabric softener a few years ago with vinegar I was surprised my clothes smelled fine. My husband began using it around our farm to disinfect, a nice alternative to bleach! So one day I tried it, I just took mixed a half a cup of vinegar with a gallon of water and put it on my dry mop, it smelled like vinegar, but only for a couple minutes and it was shiny clean. I could live with that. Vinegar is great at disinfecting and totally getting rid of smells. When the task of potty training happened this week I was glad I had my gallon of white vinegar(I really like Braggs Organic Apple Cider but have not found any since we moved) under the sink and ready for action. I mixed some of this up a couple times a day and mopped the floor and cleaned my chair and you would never know what I used. The smell was totally gone! I have been converted to vinegar, I have many other things I use vinegar for but that will be another post!
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