When I Made My Baby Cry
The particular incident I’m going to talk about is related to toilet training my then-20-months-old. I was given advices to begin his toilet training from when he was 9 months old. I had been told of numerous examples of how if you don’t begin it soon, the child would be dependent on the diaper for a long time. So, I bought a baby pot, and tried to begin my ordeal named- toilet training. It is pertinent here to admit that I’m a little bit of a cleanliness freak, so the thought of the ‘accidents’, which are a natural part of this training, was a major deterring force for me. Still, I powered through. It didn’t last, though, because my son refused and resisted going for it on the pot. I read numerous articles, and decided that perhaps I should wait until he is ‘ready’. He was in a phase of not-sitting-in-one-place-for-more-than-one-minute, and no amount of cajoling and entertaining could keep him in the pot. Good sense prevailed and I let it go for some more time, till I felt he was ‘rea