I'm not sure how many days it has been but it's getting easier now to stay at home. I have to admit, it was hard at first. Especially for me. Before MCO, whenever I feel tired and lazy to cook, I will just bring them to the mall to get their dinner fixed. It's expensive but I take it as buying time and energy.
The kids have been taking it really well, though. They just play the whole day. I would stop Charlotte and get her to do some work or reading but then I will need to get back to work with minimal distraction, so I resorted to TV nanny. I think they've way exceeded their screen time quota I set for them throughout their childhood. Oh well.
Emmett, on the other hand, is highly neglected. He just plays the whole day. Playing is good, right? Children need to play all the time. That's what the experts say.
Anyway, I started on potty training Emmett since day 2 of MCO. I mean, it's the right time to start since we are supposed to be home all the time.
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| Charlotte accompanying Emmett 🤷 |
I'm proud to say that he's 90% potty trained. 90% because this fella, just like his sister, DOESN'T WANT TO POO POO IN THE POTTY!
Why? How come!? どうして!? Dim gaiii!?!?
It was still considered easy for Charlotte because she wouldn't poop in her pantie. But she wouldn't sit on the toilet bowl to poop as well. She would wail and cry and tahan until I give in and put on a diaper for her. The point is, she can tahan until the diaper was on. So one day I decided to go hard on her and lock myself in the room. She gave in and pooped in the toilet. And since then she was diaper free. I blogged about it Here.
But Emmett. Oh my Emmett. He can now tell when he wants to shh shh and all but he just wouldn't let me know when he wants to poop! He successfully pooped in the toilet only because (1) he just finished showering and he hasn't put on his underwear and (2) he was only on the potty and the poop just came out with the pee.
Sorry tmi.
But other wise, he would just poop in his underwear and only inform after!
I've been drilling him all day everyday and he knows all the answers to it. The following is what's on the loop every 10 minutes.
"Emmett, do you want to poo poo?" (Usually it's a "No")
"Emmett, if you wan to poo poo, what must you do?" (Tell mummy)
"Can you poo poo in your underwear or not?" (No)
Sometimes when I'm too carried away with work, Charlotte will do the drilling.
"Emmett, if you want to poo poo you tell mummy ok? Tell jie jie also can."
And this morning, while changing him out of his pajamas, the sei sui zai went,
"Can poo poo in the underwear or not? Nooooooo~"
"Poo poo in the toilet ok? Emmett tell mummy, ok?"
"Emmett sing song and poo poo in the toilet, ok? Yaaaayyy!"
Yay your head la, yay.
But on the bright side, we're only using 1 diaper a day now, when he goes to sleep at night. Most of the time he wakes up with a dry diaper. I can always tell when he peed in the diaper cause he would refuse me to change him out of his pajamas.
Also, I'm glad I didn't give this training potty away. It was given to me by Suet Yin.
Charlotte preferred the big one. But for Emmett, I think he started to feel stressful after 4 days of potty training, on the 5th day, he started to refuse going to the toilet. So I took this out and he happily accepted it. I guess this goes to proof (again) that all children are different. It's an age old theory. What works for one might not work for another.
I look forward to the day I can happily announce that Emmett is 100% diaper free.
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