POTTY TRAINING

I realize that when my children were little, we did everything wrong. Breast feeding was considered barbaric and we had an age schedule to use for weening and potty training. Weening was done at eight months (how stupid is that!) so you had to listen to your infant cry all night for three of four nights. Potty training started at 18 months. If your child wasn't potty trained by two, you were considered a bad mom and your child was considered slightly backwards.

Parents today do a much better job at these two things. They actually pay attention to the child's development without any stupid schedules!

This does bring up a really funny story, though.

We had friends and all our children over for a cookout. My oldest grandson was about a year and a half and had not started potty training yet. His older cousin had a little broom and mop to use in her playhouse. Z was running around in the nude (all babies' favorite attire). He had his cousin's mop and would tinkle just a tiny bit and then mop it up off the cement. He did this all afternoon. We would have put a diaper on him but it was hysterical! Now, I could be wrong, but it seems a little boy with the control to shut it off, could probably have been potty trained pretty easily at that point.

Anyway, my friend mentions this story quite frequently, so I hope everyone enjoys it.