Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kids. Show all posts

Friday, May 23, 2008

The worth of a sticker


We have struggled and struggled to get Logan to actually sit on a toilet, let alone use it. My mom suggested we give him stickers. Honestly I thought to myself, "Wow, bribery...like I haven't thought of that!"
Now, he's not actually peeing on the toilet, but he is sitting on the toilet and at least humoring me. It was actually quite frustrating because I told him he can't pee in his underwear, so he went 12 hours without going potty. All I can say is...If you can hold it for 12 hours...you should be potty trained!!!
Each time as he said "I sit on potty now!" I thought to myself "Wow, all for a stupid sticker!" When he fills the chart, he gets a pizza party. He knows he's not allowed to touch the sticker book until he earns one, then he gets to pick one out. Over the day today, he has earned 6 stickers.
I was working until just a second ago, when I heard these little feet creeping down the steps and I knew that obviously Layton fell asleep before Logan. I looked up and said "What honey?" He ran to me and jumped into my arms and put a sticker at the end of my nose. I said "Did you get into mommy's sticker book?" He said "No momma, it's mine!" I looked down to see this little sticker that had been pulled off by those little fingers, it was bent and not quite sticky...but it was his prize, he earned it. I said "Honey, you earned that, it's for your pizza party." He said simply, "I'll get more tomorrow. I am so proud of you momma! It's for that, cause I'm proud." What a precious little man. I guess he gave me a taste of how special a sticker can make you feel.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Dude!

So I was teasing Logan and I said "Dude, come here!" He looked at me very sternly and said "I'm not dude, I'm sweetie!" How cute is that? On a very exciting note, I just walked in to get Jonah out of bed and he said "Hi, Mamma" (his first combination of words!)

Saturday, May 3, 2008

@!$%^&*

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to get a child to quit saying a "naughty" word? Our next neighbors are "classy" and use the f-bomb all the time. The problem is that they scream all of the time. Logan has learned this word and now uses it A LOT! I have tried ignoring him, I have explained that we don't use words like this, I have done time out, nothing seems to work. Every time these idiots start screaming, Logan starts to say this word! (I just feel like the worst mother ever. I was 12 before I even knew that word!)

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Potty on the Brain

Logan loves to play peek-a-boo with Jonah. It is the cutest thing to watch. We have been talking a lot about using the bathroom. (He is still struggling) So today he was playing with Jonah...and he started playing peek-a-boo...but he has changed the words to "pee-an-poo." So very tragic.



AUTHORS NOTE: I took my first test...and got 100% yay me!