We finally got down to some serious toilet training of Elaina. Our efforts have been futile though. Not only did she not improve, she has even unlearnt the skill of telling us she needs to poop. Not quite sure if our attempts at trying to get her to sit on the toilet bowl is turning her off big time that she decided to stay away from it completely. Initially, Elaina threw tantrums and refused to get on the potty. Recently, she relented and was fine with getting on but in less than a minute she will attempt to get off but disappointingly without any output. From time to time she may even want to stand and pee like her big brother.
The cute underwear are not doing its magic like how it did to Matty. Explaining to Elaina that she is now a big girl backfired on us big time, because she will turn around and tell us (in her own words) "I don't want big girl... I want be baby". In a situation like this, I started to appreciate the male ego that Matty has in him. Being recognised as a big boy was a big deal to him and it was easy carrot for us to dangle in front of him whenever we needed him to do certain things. There must be some psychological barrier within that we need to help Elaina overcome rather than the lack of control due to her age simply because there had been days when she woke up with a dry diaper. By far, being toilet-trained is the hardest milestone to hit, unlike crawling, standing, walking that will happen naturally even without us parents doing too much.
On the other hand, Matty is not giving any chances where growing up into a big man is concerned. Just yesterday morning he told Daddy that he cannot hear a thing whilst Daddy was telling him to get out of bed and get ready for school. I bet that he is starting to acquire the "non-listening" skill that all men seemed to have!
The cute underwear are not doing its magic like how it did to Matty. Explaining to Elaina that she is now a big girl backfired on us big time, because she will turn around and tell us (in her own words) "I don't want big girl... I want be baby". In a situation like this, I started to appreciate the male ego that Matty has in him. Being recognised as a big boy was a big deal to him and it was easy carrot for us to dangle in front of him whenever we needed him to do certain things. There must be some psychological barrier within that we need to help Elaina overcome rather than the lack of control due to her age simply because there had been days when she woke up with a dry diaper. By far, being toilet-trained is the hardest milestone to hit, unlike crawling, standing, walking that will happen naturally even without us parents doing too much.
On the other hand, Matty is not giving any chances where growing up into a big man is concerned. Just yesterday morning he told Daddy that he cannot hear a thing whilst Daddy was telling him to get out of bed and get ready for school. I bet that he is starting to acquire the "non-listening" skill that all men seemed to have!
