by Kelly Wilbanks posted in Parenting

Last Tuesday when I picked up a movie at our local library our librarian pulled me aside to let me know Evie, my 2-year-old, didn't have any underwear on. She was dressed in a lovely gold gown from "Beauty and the Beast," sans panties. "We're aware," I told her with an awkward smile, "It's our latest attempt at this potty training thing."

I have been working on potty training with this daughter for several months now. Since we're still working on it you can probably gather how well it's gone. I did not have to try this hard with my first, which gave me the impression that I was some kind of expert. Well, here's a bit of our journey with our second kid that blows that theory right out of the water. I've been listening to the audio book "Oh Crap! Potty Training" by Jamie Glowacki. Basically everything I've done with my second kid has been wrong. From timing to my word choice to believing I'd just know when she was "ready."
For brevity sake here are just a couple things I have done wrong according Jamie:

Missing the best age to start (24-30 months). Mind you, we had a brand new baby when my daughter was 21 months old and my husband broke his elbow when she was 23 months old. But, apparently that's the best window to start and we kept putting it off until things were less stressful. Now, that she's almost 3 her will is something to be reckoned with and we might have avoided it had we pus...