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@MamaG: Oh Kara still lies about pooping when she clearly is! Now she HAS to look at her poop in the diaper but doesn't want to go potty!

@josina: That's pretty much us too. I think she tries more at school due to peer pressure!

@Adira: Matthew's not ready yet either! A couple of times he's grabbed at his diaper after pooping. Usually if we ask if he's pooped, he just runs into his room so he can be changed. Sorry that your SMIL is acting that way.

School insists Ryan is ready to "potty learn" but he's very hit or miss at home. Definitely interested and definitely goes, but I don't think he's ready to bring it to the next level. He tells me when he is going to go poop or is pooping and asks to be changed after....but doesn't talk much about pee. He goes whenever there is an opportunity but....to me, not ready yet.

Have to deal with bed switching (he climbs out constantly despite sleep sack zipperd backwards) and get rid of the binki. Hopefully won't be too bad. He's been waking at 6 or earlier since his illness which is super annoying!

@winniebee: Sorry about the sleep!

@FaithFertility: wow that's pretty bad she can't spell her name?! She would be horrified by Ryan. So many mispronoubciations!!!

@FaithFertility: my grandmother (dad's mom) used to spell my name wrong! It was definitely annoying when it happened, but I guess that's a negative of having a longer name.

I'm just bragging about my kid for a minute because I know you ladies will forgive me, but Jack had his last early intervention yesterday and it was so great :happy:. They have to do an "annual review" which is the same test as the initial evaluation and he did SUCH a great job. The reason that he qualified a year ago was because his language scores were so low (I don't think he had a single word at 18 months) and this time language was his best section and he scored as advanced for his current age.

I'm going to miss his EI specialist, but I'm so grateful for where he is now!

@MrsF: That's awesome

@MrsF: That's awesome!

@MrsF: That's awesome!!!

@snowjewelz: I'm definitely both in love with this age and feeling challenged by this age as well. J wants to do everything ALL BY MYSELF which results in a lot of tantrums. I haven't read up on 123 magic, but I do a lot of counting to 3 and taking a way a privilege if he doesn't do what I'm asking him to do. As long as I give him a concrete consequence (not always easy to think of in the moment) we have a lot of success that way. He usually does what I'm asking of him and if not he loses something. He'll scream and cry but I figure that's just him showing his disappointment about losing the privilege and he'll calm down on his own. I just remind him that when he's ready to use his words I'm there to listen. It's a work in progress for sure!

@winniebee: Sounds like a pretty good first night! How have things been in the big boy bed since then?

@snowjewelz: for stuff like that, i've had the most success either letting her do as much as i can on her own (assuming we have time) or, if not, turning it into a game. so we'll set a timer on my phone and see if we can get dressed before it's done. or we'll sing-song narrate every step. etc etc etc. i've also just realized it's a blessing that she is waking up early so that we have more time and i can just allow her to (slowly) do everything for herself.

@KayKay: We have a decent amount of time; 1.5 hours before needing to leave. She is a sassy one! We can't really "fool" her like this lol. Once she does come over and complies, we always have fun doing it by singing, talking, etc. It's just the getting her to come part!

@KayKay: Haha yes I agree that at least we have that in our back pockets! I usually try to avoid that b/c getting her to give it back can turn into another battle!

I'll take this if this is the worst of terrible two's! DH gets more frustrated than me... I pretty much never ever yell... It's just not in me, haha. But I keep telling him that she's really not that bad for being two!

@snowjewelz: I do sort of a mix of Janet Lansbury and occasionally will count and then he knows I mean business. For stuff like coming in the house, etc after playing outside, sometimes there just has to be a tantrum because...it's time to come inside for dinner and I don't have anymore time for games!

@winniebee: Yeah I find that Janet Lansbury-ing is fine but only works up to a certain point for some things. In the morning, she can go to school in PJs if she wants, but she HAS to change her diaper. And at night she HAS to change into night time diaper and PJs. With JL usually I will acknowledge/accept her feelings but will carry on; but with changing I can't hold her down AND there is a time constraint so I've had to improvise!

@winniebee: I do that too, I guess it just gets hard if she decides to struggle It usually doesn't come to that since I will use my "I'll dress the dog" strategy first haha... That works when she can't get something she wants, has to stop doing something or leave a place, etc.

@snowjewelz: I'm reading How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen now and so far the little tips I've picked up have been working. Something so simple and silly as calling it "Mr Toothbrush" she hasn't fought to brush her teeth the past 2 nights.

Counting doesn't really work because K thinks it's fun. She'll now ask me to count as she gets into her seatbelt and counts with me half the time.