I have already mentioned how our neighbour Drew gave Max his old spiderman suit and how it became the bain of our existance. Every waking second Max wanted to wear it. We had a really hard time getting it in to the washing machine or off him to leave the house or go to bed. For a while we would let him wear it under his clothes when we went out just to avoid the fight. The problem was that he would end up stripping off his clothes while we were out to reveal his suit. By this time his suit was laddered and worn terribly and had huge holes in it. One day Matt met us at Chick-fil-A where Max was climbing around in the play place in his spiderman. He was terribly embarrased and declared the end of wearing it out of the house. From then on he could only wear it at home. Spiderman suit was the root of many an argument and tantrum and on many occasion Matt threatened to throw it away altogether.
On another, but related, subject Max had shown signs of potty training for a long time. Since the summer he would sit on the toilet and go "wee" as we call it. The problem was he would never ask to go so if we forgot to ask him he would go in his pants. It was very frustrating so we just let him stay in nappies until he would start asking because we didn't want to make too big of a deal about it.
Over Christmas break Matt had an idea. Max knew that if he peed in his spiderman suit it would have to be washed. He hated waiting a day for his suit to be ready again. So Matt started making Max wear his big boy underwear when he wore spiderman. Magically he started asking to go wee when he needed to. He hardly ever had an accident in spiderman but at first would pee when he got changed back in to his clothes. Soon he started to ask to go even when he was in clothes. Then he was potty trained and did great when he was out and about too. We didn't even have to buy the expensive pull-up pants. Well done Max - and thank you spiderman suit.
And as a bonus, Max doesn't even wear spiderman all that much anymore.
On another, but related, subject Max had shown signs of potty training for a long time. Since the summer he would sit on the toilet and go "wee" as we call it. The problem was he would never ask to go so if we forgot to ask him he would go in his pants. It was very frustrating so we just let him stay in nappies until he would start asking because we didn't want to make too big of a deal about it.
Over Christmas break Matt had an idea. Max knew that if he peed in his spiderman suit it would have to be washed. He hated waiting a day for his suit to be ready again. So Matt started making Max wear his big boy underwear when he wore spiderman. Magically he started asking to go wee when he needed to. He hardly ever had an accident in spiderman but at first would pee when he got changed back in to his clothes. Soon he started to ask to go even when he was in clothes. Then he was potty trained and did great when he was out and about too. We didn't even have to buy the expensive pull-up pants. Well done Max - and thank you spiderman suit.
And as a bonus, Max doesn't even wear spiderman all that much anymore.
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