I am having a hard time not making sarcastic comments.

AnnapolisLari

Our best man's wife has gotten kind of (even more) whacked out since she had their baby.

Now she's trying to potty train their son, who was 8 months old yesterday. She keeps posting these FB updates about his toileting habits.

J-man's Update: Woke up for pees at 9:30, 1:30 and 6:30--Diaper=dry as a bone. Wonder how long this will last. A momma can enjoy this though--while it lasts!

One of these says she may realize that SHE'S the one getting trained, and most of the 8 month olds that I know would pee, too, if you stuck their naked butts on a cold potty in the middle of the night.

 

Mrs.Tony

oh boy, that would be hard to restrain myself on making a comment too!

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Eh. While I didn't want to bother with 'elimination communication' type training, I don't care if others do it, as long as the child isn't stressed about it.

Even when potty training DS at 2.5, I was training myself as well as him!

eclaires

Where exactly is the benefit in that?  Waking up in the middle of the night to have your kid pee?  Sounds like a big f*cking hassle to me.

I'd rather sleep through and change a diaper in the morning.

*Scuzzlebutt*

SHE is waking her sleeping 8-month-old to put him on the toilet throughout the night?  You couldn't pay me to do that!

kittycarr

I dont understand the need for a full grown child at this age.  And that's the only way I can describe someone who would want their baby pt'd and reading at less than a year old.  I hadn't seen this in a while but I saw a your baby can read commercial yesterday and it just really burned me up.

AnnapolisLari

The best part? This kid has been STTN since he was about 10 weeks old. They are WAKING HIM UP. Here's this morning's update:

 We've "decided" that we want him to like the potty before the defiant/terrible 2's hit. I'm sure he won't have control for a while-- but at least we won't be putting him on it for the first time when he's in the "testing us" phase. Now he's like a dog--just wants to make us laugh and cheer. So that's what we do! Of course our sweet baby that started sleeping through the night by 2 1/2 months will be waking us up to put him on the potty all night long! Oh well.

 

*Amy*

What a whack-a-doodle.   I don't know that I could restrain myself from commenting!

eclaires

that seems ridiculous.  Jackson was sleeping ~12 hours by 10 weeks and you couldn't have paid me a million dollars per wake up to get him up to pee.

She's crazy.

Mominator

I guess that I don't really understand the reasoning for EC unless you are tight on cash and are trying to save some money on diapers. I mean, you aren't really PTing the kid as much as you are training the parent. Personally, if it were my FB friend, I would totally have to say something snarky.

joy143dh

yikes. What's the rush?  Sounds like a friend of mine who always has to be the first at something. Uber annoying.

AnnapolisLari

What's really making me laugh is that they think it's going to prevent issues when the 2s hit. Dude, even if you have him fully trained by then, he'll probably regress just to piss you off.

kittycarr

Not all kids test you and go through those terrible two's.  Ty never did.

AnnapolisLari

I couldn't resist. Beth, I borrowed your line:

You couldn't pay me a million dollars to wake a sleeping baby once, let alone 3 times a night. You're going to create a monster.

eclaires

hahaha, love it!

but yes, I'm pretty sure there isn't enough money in the world to convince me to do that.  Insanity.

KoriBrett

*chants*

Never wake a sleeping baby, never wake a sleeping baby

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you know, I didn't realize she was waking him up. that I would not do. but during the day, if it doesn't stress your kid -- sure, whatever.

buffalo_buckeye

I think I would have said "apparently sleep isn't as important to you (or your kids) as me. And twos are cake compared to threes " what a weirdo. My kid would have been seriously pissed if I woke him 3 times in the night, and mama would be just as grumpy.

wellfleet04

Dude, you could have paid me a million dollars to wake my kid up if it was guaranteed that waking an 8 month old up would mean I could avoid the gigantic hassle/battle that is pottytraining my 2.10 year old.  

But, I'm sort of with vvcake in that whatever floats other parents' boats as long as it is not abusive and the child is not stressed is fine by me.  Maybe she'll get the last laugh and have a PTed 2 year old.  I can only dream.....

KoriBrett

to add to mine -

I really, really love sleep.  Really.  Love.  Sleep.  And DD PT herself right around her 3rd birthday, no drama, no hassles, nothing.  So for me, wouldn't be worth it.

During the day if you want to, meh, whatever floats your boat.  But to me, people purposely depriving themselves of sleep seem nutsy-cuckoo.

jpowell3

Does she not realize that children *ahem babies* do not have control over their body functions at this age? And as a pp said, not all children go through terrible twos. Ds never did. I'd like to see what some of the comments to her fb postings are! I'm sure we aren't the only ones giving her an eyeroll.

AnnapolisLari

Kori, that's what is boggling my mind. I think she's an idiot, but whatever during the day... it's the WAKING HIM AT NIGHT thing that is unreal. I would have killed for a kid who STTN at 8 months. DS was waking 6-8 times a night at that age.

Angela814

AnnapolisLari:

Kori, that's what is boggling my mind. I think she's an idiot, but whatever during the day... it's the WAKING HIM AT NIGHT thing that is unreal. I would have killed for a kid who STTN at 8 months. DS was waking 6-8 times a night at that age.

Me too! EC totally isn't my thing, but I guess if parents want to do it during the day, it's not a big deal. I don't understand why you'd wake a sleeping baby to do it. It's not like night time potty training is linked to daytime at all.