Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Waterboarding

How do you potty train an extremely busy, STUBBORN2-almost-3 year old boy with a shrieking teething 14 month old girl in the way?

He's not overly excited about underwear - he can take it or leave it. He gets candy all the time at church. A prize treasure box? I guess I could pool all his happy meal toys with the extra dollhouse furniture.

Really, potty training is the best birth control.  Just set up a nanny-cam in the home of any toddler. Filter it for some intense additional horror flick effects. Add a little slow-mo to enhance and capture the very essence of mischief that briefly flits across the face of the toddler as he internalizes the following:

(Once in a lifetime opportunity! Click to enlarge the image and get a glimpse into the mind of a toddler!)

It would strike terror into the hearts of even the most stoic of parents-to-be who smugly say, "I was potty-trained at 18 months without even one little tinkle accident - there's nothing to it!"

Y'all.  I even took the laptop into the bathroom and propped it up on the trash can so Zesty could pop a squat with Veggie Tales to entertain him.  The negotiation and the overreacting and the pure unadulterated bribery.

So basically, college football. With a rookie coach.

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