{"id":6964,"date":"2013-04-11T10:45:25","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T09:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2013-06-24T12:50:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T12:50:13","slug":"competitive-potty-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidstart.co.uk\/blog\/competitive-potty-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitive Potty Training!"},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Sometimes there are whole areas you forget about parenthood until you have a second child. I am not sure if it&#8217;s amnesia or simple forced forgetting but it happens. We are currently potty training child number 2, who is a boy and nearly 3! Until we started I had completely forgotten just how many &#8216;helpful&#8217; comments parents give you when you&#8217;re potty training a child.<\/strong>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/competitive-potty-training\/potty-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6965\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6965\" title=\"potty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.livingwithkids.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/potty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>\n\nMy favourites are the ones that try to make you feel like a rubbish mother &#8211; &#8216;<em>What? You&#8217;ve waited this long.&#8217; &#8216;Do you think he has a problem?&#8217; \u00a0<\/em>To the competitive ones, &#8216;<em>I potty trained X at six months<\/em>&#8216;, &#8216;<em>He just told me at 12 months he was going on the toilet<\/em>.&#8217; To the downright silly, &#8216;<em>Take a toy away every time he wets himself.&#8217;<\/em>\n\nYes you can potty train a child early but on the whole most people start around 2 and a half, what&#8217;s more it doesn&#8217;t matter, because since when did using the toilet become a competition? What I&#8217;ve learnt as a parent is basically what other parents often say isn&#8217;t true and some parents will make anything into a competition.\n\nThe answer is to not to allow yourself to be pulled into anything because believe me the competitive parenting doesn&#8217;t stop. It starts with baby size and birth and moves on to sleeping\/feeding\/potty training and once they&#8217;re at school reading and intelligence. It&#8217;s exhausting so take a tip from me &#8211; stay out of it!\n\nAre you a competitive parent or does all the competition around parenting get on your nerves? Let us know. For tips and advice about Potty Training see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/Conditions\/pregnancy-and-baby\/Pages\/potty-training-tips.aspx\">NHS Choices<\/a>.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes there are whole areas you forget about parenthood until you have a second child. I am not sure if it&#8217;s amnesia or simple forced forgetting but it happens. We are currently potty training child number 2, who is a boy and nearly 3! 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