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spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28035

tree_ wrote:

congrats.. my kid is still stubborn as a mule with pooping on the pot

he'll even sit there for up to 20 minutes and still nothing.. reminding him all day he will get rewarded with a new toy or ice cream and he gets real excited, but still won't do it.. then later he'll go in his pants

Do you leave him alone in there? Privacy often helps… I walked away and did some chores today, and she pooped.

tree_ · **Posted:** Thu July 21, 2022 3:36 pm

yes we tried everything

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28035

dad · **Joined:** Fri June 24, 2016 2:49 pm **Posts:** 16443

all kids are different, but...if i've learned one thing about kids when it comes to milestones, they all do them in their own time.

literally, one day they just do the thing you'd been desperately trying to get them to do for months.

tree_ · **Posted:** Thu July 21, 2022 3:41 pm

Yeah that's what I figure. Can't give up motivating him, but I know he will. He's already surprised us with walking, talking, eating neatly, picking up his toys, stuff like that.

dad · **Joined:** Fri June 24, 2016 2:49 pm **Posts:** 16443

yeah, man...it's all good. i mean, it's hard because you want them to do XYZ to make your life easier, and it's a basic human function or whatever. they just have their timeline, and it doesn't always line up with ours.

i can sympathize with the struggle.

tree_ · **Posted:** Thu July 21, 2022 3:46 pm

yeah. thanks man

tree_ · **Posted:** Mon July 25, 2022 2:27 pm

9/mo.-old having surgery to lower a testicle stuck up in his abdomen early tomorrow morning. Gonna be glad to have it over with.

dad · **Joined:** Fri June 24, 2016 2:49 pm **Posts:** 16443

poor dude.

hope it goes well, tree.

tree_ · **Posted:** Mon July 25, 2022 2:48 pm

Yeah, it's super routine and we should be in and out and on our way home within a few hours. But just the thought of him getting sliced open makes me wanna die.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Mon July 25, 2022 3:08 pm

Good luck man.

Anders · **Posted:** Mon July 25, 2022 4:59 pm

Good luck tree_

Monkey_Driven · **Posted:** Mon July 25, 2022 5:08 pm

Even when it's a routine surgery it is very difficult to see your kid get wheeled away by doctors/nurses.

dad · **Joined:** Fri June 24, 2016 2:49 pm **Posts:** 16443

agreed.

tree_ · **Posted:** Mon July 25, 2022 5:13 pm

Yeah I'm partly quite freaked out but just trying to stay in the mindset that it's completely out of my hands, and you shouldn't stress about things out of your control. In my mind, it's already over, and we're on our way home. Just waiting now.

tree_ · **Posted:** Tue July 26, 2022 3:06 pm

Surgery went well. Hooray.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Tue July 26, 2022 3:08 pm

tree_ wrote:

Surgery went well. Hooray.

Baller.

dad · **Joined:** Fri June 24, 2016 2:49 pm **Posts:** 16443

good to hear, man.

tree_ · **Posted:** Tue July 26, 2022 3:28 pm

tragabigzanda wrote:

tree_ wrote:

Surgery went well. Hooray.

Baller.

2-baller now

dad · **Joined:** Fri June 24, 2016 2:49 pm **Posts:** 16443

my kids are in Montana visiting family. last night i received a text from one of the twins that he, his mom, and step-sister had to run out of the emergency exit at a Walmart in Bozeman because some guy shot at another guy. i immediately facetime'd him to check on him. poor kid was visibly shaken, and the signal was spotty as hell. when they finally made it back to the cabin they were staying in he called me and said at first it sounded like something heavy had dropped on the floor at the store.

he said he never wants to go in a Walmart ever again. he said they were in there buying candy to watch a movie later.

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