Work has been too busy for me (and a lot of others) the past 2 weeks, but it should peak sometime in the next 10 days - of course I love it in part because it's what my job is all about...it would just be nice to have it be paced out better instead of ridiculously intense periods followed by really slow ones. To add to the chaos, I'm also facilitating a course on Monday nights, picked up 2 day sections of Freshman Seminar on Tuesdays and Thursdays respectively (which start next week and I have only 2 weeks of prep done, teeheehee), AND and I'm nervous about starting research and getting my thesis done by December under the overly excited and possibly overbearing guidance of a newly crowned PhD who seems SO excited to be a PhD that she might just drive me to beat her senseless. We'll see. Regardless, the next 16 weeks are expected to be awful.
My mother recently predicted that I'm going to let Sam be in diapers until he's 5. She said exactly, "I know you - you're not gonna get that kid trained till he's 5 years old!" This was after a brief conversation about his inconsistent willingness to sit on his potty or the 'big toilet.'
It wasn't an argument really, but I pointed out that I wondered what evidence she had about my toilet-training abilities seeing as Sam is my first child, and accordingly, the first child I've ever attempted to potty train. That got a laugh.
She believes I'm being too easy on him. This from the woman that still does both my brothers' laundry. I don't see any reason to defend myself here: he's not ready, and when he is, it will happen. I have 33 more months until he's 5.
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i go to the laundromat
potty training sucks... but I agree, it's just not worth it until the kid decides he is ready. I tried to get Ryan trained last year (after he turned 2), but he just had no interest. This summer when HE was ready, it was so much easier. He was out of diapers before age 3 - I was proud!
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