My Child the Dog

I've debated whether or not to post this story, as it may make you question my parenting skills. Yet you probably already do, and I kinda do myself.....

First you need to know that we have been trying to "potty train" William. We all know he is completely capable of it, but he's so stubborn that he hasn't decided to completely give into the idea of being a big boy.

A few days ago I was trying to get Will to let me change his diaper. We had taken off his wet one but he was running around refusing to lay down for me to put the new diaper on. He said "Decko diaper." I replied, "No, Decko doesn't wear a diaper because he pees outside. If you want to pee outside then you dont have to wear a diaper either." (Yikes, this is where I went wrong, I didn't think he'd actually go for that.) But of course he jumped on my screw up and said, "I go pee outside." So I decided, maybe it wasn't such a bad idea for him to get used to the sensation of peeing by going outside. (I had read online that this is actually one of the ways you can potty train boys but I hadn't really thought it was a good idea.)

I took him into the back yard so that no neighbors would be watching. It was raining outside so we stood on the edge of the bottom patio and I told him to pee on the dirt. He concentrated really hard and started to pee. When he stopped I said "ok lets go inside." He said, "No. I pee more!" He stood out there for a few minutes, concentrating and peeing a little bit at a time. When he was done I said, "Ok, now come in side." He of course responded "No, I need poopoo." I said, "NO!" Blake, who was sitting at the computer desk and laughing at the whole situation said, "You can poop outside if you go out on to the grass." We didn't think he'd go out there because of the rain, but before we new it he was out on the grass and didn't even flinch as the rain came down on him. I figured, no big deal, he wouldn't actually do it, because it didn't seem like it'd be easy to poop while standing. Well sure enough, he did it. Blake and I laughed so hard we were almost crying. He was out there for a good few minutes. When he finally came inside he was so excited. As I took him upstairs to get cleaned up and diapered up, he made sure to announce to everyone "I poopoo outside!!!"

We are now running into the problem that he is even more determined to NOT go potty in the toilet, because he figures if he doesn't want to go in his diaper then he'd rather just go outside. Grandma hasn't let that happen again though. lol.