Our 3-year-old turned three and not even two days passed when she decided to wear her new panties and go to the potty. She has completely trained herself in about 8 days. (Except for at night and nap times.)
I was shocked.
I mean, I have been training her off-and-on for about a year now. We got her a little potty of her own, we even got her books about the subject. But as she grew older, she also developed the skill to speak up about what she wanted. And what she wanted was to put her diaper on and not even try using the potty. She even wanted to change her own diaper!
I exasperated to my husband that our daughter was too smart not to use the potty, that she knew how to do it if she just put her mind to it! He encouraged me to relax and wait. "She'll just start using the potty one day, you'll see," he'd say. "Just like she did with her pacifier - she gave it up suddenly one day."
Of course, I doubted him! She was pulling the wool over his eyes, I thought.
But, after all was said and done, he was right. She has quit using diapers altogether. Sometimes, she doesn't even like putting on a diaper to go to sleep in. But then I convince her that she can put on her panties just as soon as she gets up in the morning. And she does.
I tell her over and over how excited I am for her to be such a big girl now, and how proud we are of her. :-)
