My mother-in-law produces an Annual Christmas Pageant and this year we took it to a nursing home to spread some joy.

Zack joined in the Angel Dance and it was so stinking CUTE!

I hope everyone is having a very Merry Christmas.

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Annual Christmas Pageant

Brain washing, outside polygamist cults, is an underrated and legitimate method with some great applications.

Potty training would be one of them.

Call me crazy – I’m sure half of you will, but that would be no different than any other day – I’m trying to potty train my 2-year-old son.

For his second birthday we gave him the Potty Training (Baby Signs) and some big boy underwear. The kit has a “choo choo train” theme. Get it? “potty train.” I was more excited than he was.

I realize common parenting advice says not to push it and to “wait till they’re ready,” but I reject such advice.

The Potty Training (Baby Signs) authors and child psychologists note that the studies that support “wait till they are ready” advice comes primarily from diaper companies like Pampers and Huggies.

The kit comes with a video and a book about going to the potty, teaching the sign language for the words: potty, more, wash. I was a little disappointed there were no fun signs like poo poo, pee pee and wipe. Isn’t wipe important? Why no sign for wipe?

I’m making him watching the video and read the book over and over and over. Also adding other videos like Elmo Goes To The Potty.

One of my major motivators is that diapers are expensive.

Another is that he’s indignant about me getting in his personal business.

Zacky, even Elmo Goes To The Potty.

You don’t want me to change your diapers?

No.

I wouldn’t want anyone changing my diapers either. If you go to the potty I won’t have to change you anymore.

No.

Does your bum hurt from that rash?

Yeah.

If you went on the potty you wouldn’t get rashes anymore.

Potty?

Yeah. You want to go potty?

No.

Do you want a sticker and candy?

Yeah!

OK. If you sit on the potty you can have a sticker and candy!

No.

Want to blow the potty train whistle?

Yeah.

Okay, sit on the potty. All Aboard the Potty Train! All Aboard! Tooot Tooot!

Potty!

Yeah, go on it.

No.

Okay.
No pressure. That’s the thing. I’m giving it a year. The year between 2 and 3 we’re potty training. If it happens quickly all the better. If it takes all year, OK.

But, I stop buying diapers on the 3rd birthday Zack.

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Brain Washing & Potty Training