Singing toilets.
"I can't believe you bought a singing toilet for our son".
That was the War Department on my recent purchase in support of potty training our oldest.
Hey, how the heck am I supposed to know these things? For that matter, every single "potty" in WalMart had some sort of bells, lights and whistles going on. Not like I intentionally looked for this fine piece of nuclear engineering.
Yep, it sings. And congratulates him when he flushes. Quite the affair. Didn't have those things when I got trained. For me it was, "You're gonna use the toilet like a big boy now, don't fall in". But that was a very long time ago. Isn't progress wonderful! Phooey.
This fatherhood at 54 deal isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Someone needs to write a book for older fathers. Warn us of how things have changed and what to look out for.
And the real kicker in this? He's too big for the stupid thing. So now he gets to hear, "You're gonna use the toilet like a big boy now......"
Could have saved myself some time and aggravation.
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For now I'm letting the WD run the show on potty training. She's a pediatric nurse and former nanny. So I figure this is more her area of expertise. Mine will come into play when the toilet plugs up.
Thanks for the suggestion, now that you mention it the WD does an awful lot of praise and positive reinforcement in many areas with our boys. Till now I've just gone along with it but maybe there's something to it.
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