'Muuuuuum?'
Once again, she didn't quite make it.
Is it over-confidence? She's been potty trained for months. Is it stubbornness? She's an ace at that. Is she just distracted? Or is she actually doing this to make my life just that little bit harder?
Some days I'm guilty of thinking just that.
Once, in a fit of exasperation, when she was dancing and knuiping and looking panicky, all the while denying she needed to go, I resorted to: 'Sunday, I can see you need to wee. If you have an accident I'm actually going to be really cross and I might have to smack your bum.'
She looked me in the eye, crossed her arms (and her legs) and declared: 'Well, then you will get wee on your hand.'
Diabolical.
After I'd done mopping up the bathroom my Mum reminded me, 'Now do you understand why I resorted to telling you that if you didn't wee when you needed to your bladder would burst?'
I do. A myth which haunted me for most of my childhood, one which I'd lambasted my mother about a number of times, now makes perfect sense.
One more accident and I swear, as much as I hate to, I'm repeating the lie.
I'm that pissed on, I mean off.
When my daughter was younger she used to hold her wee in until bursting and it would really freak me out.
ReplyDeleteI told her that if she didn't go when needed and held it in too long then she would get an infection and infections really hurt and made you feel bad and you would have to go to the doctor and the doctor would have to give you medicine which doesn't taste nice and you would be sick and not be able to play.
This worked for me and it was the truth. She was also around 3 years old.
Brilliant. I'm ashamed I hadn't thought of that (I'm usually very good at finding a truthful way to get my way!). Thanks so much, I'm going to use this.
DeleteWe threaten with a bladder infection which is really effective. Especially because the oldest one actually experienced it all. So they know I'm not lying.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!