The Story Of One Cheek
For this week’s blog blast the Parent Bloggers Network asked us to share how we feel about potty training.
My experience with diapers and potty training actually began before I had children. I helped my Mom take care of my younger brothers. LB2 is the child responsible for teaching me to always keep boy’s privates covered. I’ll never forget the shock of urine spouting upwards into my cheek or the amazement that anyone so small could have so much pee.
I’ve been changing my own children’s diapers and dealing with potty training for more than thirteen years now. My son TJ potty trained in rather short time. Not a lot of fuss, muss or mess. My son CJ is an entirely different story. CJ is nine and we’re still potty training. He does well in underwear during the day and can usually make it to the potty to pee. Pooping is another story entirely. It’s the story of One Cheek.
CJ is a tiny boy. At almost ten years old he’s still in sizes 6 and 7. He’s in a size 4-5 Pull-Up. Even though I’m still mad at Pull-Ups, they are the only brand we use at night, during long rides or when he’s under the weather because they fit better than Easy Ups and they don’t leak. Back to One Cheek. CJ has no butt to speak of. For some reason CJ’s right butt cheek is frequently found to be sticking out of his Pull-Up. We used to find this amusing until the incident.
The incident. It was a dark day. Literally. CJ was a little under the weather. He was playing, traveling back and forth between his room and the living room where RB and I were watching television. RB got up to get something from the kitchen and asked me why there was pudding all over the floor. I hadn’t made pudding so I got up to look. It didn’t look or smell like any pudding I’ve ever had. I followed the trail. As it turned out, CJ had developed a bit of diarrhea and it had escaped courtesy of One Cheek.
For those of you just starting your Potty Training journey, I’m sure you’ll have your fair share of funny stories. Pull-Ups has created a series of webisodes called The Potty Project. Check out how six families handle potty training, as well as the helpful tools and resources.
So. What’s your funniest or worst potty training story?
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Hi Kim.
Thanks for visiting and commenting.
It is funny every time he’s walking in the opposite direction to see one entire cheek hanging out. He’s wearing underwear now and he can make it most of the day without an accident of the peeing kind, sometimes all day, so One Cheek doesn’t appear as much anymore except at night, on a long drive or if he’s not feeling great. Now if we could only master pooping in the potty.
We hear the word “potty” whenever he realizes he has to go. And sometimes when he thinks he might have to go. But he also knows we pay a lot of attention to that word so if he’d doing something else he doesn’t want to or getting scolded he’ll tell us “potty” also.
TTFN!
Val
One cheek..that’s funny (sitting here on my end not having to clean it up anyway…)
My daughter is 18 months and I am not looking forward to potty training again. I remember with my son one time I took him grocery shopping and it took us 5 hours to get through the store because he kept saying he had to go and I didn’t bring any pull-ups. The good news is, that he didn’t have any accidents, but we’d put 2 things in the cart and then “I have to go potty”….
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