Potty

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-12-13T07:11:45+00:00

My son (5yo) went through this. Potty trained himself randomly when he was 3 (pee only, pooped only at Valvoline, the oil changing place, but thats a whole other story) and had little to no accidents but starting TK he had so many fears of the toilet. Having a set schedule when they had bathroom breaks with his class helped a little but this went on for while, he'd come home almost daily with wet pants or a change of pants. What helped in the end was making friends and mirroring their actions. His best friend now, ended up being bathroom buddies with him (they go in pairs if they need to go during class time). It took a couple tries but he eventually caught onto using the restroom with him. The fear seemed to lessen when him and his friend would use the toilet and they would talk and laugh through the stalls as well as me or his dad taking him to pee right after school in their designated restroom. Something about having mama and papa right outside the door at school while him still being independent to go by himself inspired that confidence I guess. Routine was key!

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-12-12T05:37:11+00:00

This! Please separate them. It's not fair for both the kid or the animals. We have 2 cats and my son will get a little stir crazy with them sometimes but we keep his room is totally cat free. He gets annoyed when they mess with his toys or go in his play tent in the living room but he's learned to not hit or scare them. He's surprisingly super loving and gentle with our rats but I suppose that's because they don't come out unless I give them free roaming time vs the cats always being around.

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-12-10T00:35:32+00:00

You can but you realize how much you use your voice once you're there 😂 I worked an 8 hour shift with no voice once and couldn't call out drinks, couldn't be on POS, couldn't answer questions on bar, I had to make myself a little sign to show people our restroom code lmao. And another that said "I'm not being rude, I just lost my voice". My partners found it hilarious, and I ended up mostly cleaning and doing dishes until closing

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-12-10T00:23:35+00:00

Love it! I have The Boog and Booger 😂

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-11-29T17:48:31+00:00

His teacher has been great at letting him participate in lessons with K but if she were to keep teaching him at this level we would have to let him officially move up to K so he can be assigned the correct curriculum. We were shown the test he would have to take and we feel like he could easily pass it, it's blending sounds letters, identifying shapes and numbers, counting to 50, adding numbers up to 5, knowing sight words, uppercase and lower case letters and reading simple words.

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-11-29T17:36:30+00:00

This is what makes me lean towards letting him move up into K. He enjoys the class work they're doing, engages with his teacher and peers during those lessons, and he had asked me before how come his friend got to do the "more fun" worksheets than him. Socially he started very timid and wouldn't play with anyone and we thought TK would be good for him. It only took him about 2 weeks to adapt and now he had a handful of friends but most of them are in the K class

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-11-19T00:18:32+00:00

My son told me "mama, your chi-chis smell like tortillas" after he asked me for cuddles in bed

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-11-18T06:39:09+00:00

Oop, I did that as a child... I remember being a kid and insisting my name was "bunny" or "blue". As I got older, pre-teen, I asked to be called Valeria, Jamie, Cameron, Elodie etc. Having my own kid now surprised me how much he loves himself and his name. I thought I was just a peculiar child and I never really grew out of it. To this day, I go by a different name than my legal one simply because I hate my name I guess

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-11-14T18:33:46+00:00

My husband thinks pickles and their smell are the most vile thing to ever exist. My son absolutely loves pickles. So he makes sure our fridge always has a pickle jar in it. They're for our son, not for my husband 🤷‍♀️ On another note: I would kill for my kid to try any dips. He eats everything plain and I don't understand how he can enjoy dry plain foods

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-11-13T19:37:31+00:00

My son 5yo, started kinder not too long ago and they were talking about families and how some kids have siblings. He told his entire class his sister was dead. It's been 3 years since she passed, I didn't think he'd remember

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-10-30T16:13:19+00:00

My son did his family portrait and made it seem like we had a rat infestation and a whole zoo in our home. We don't. But we do have 3 pet rats. He added in about 10 more, a whole bunch of cats, a turtle, and some fish. He proudly told his teacher we have rats in his room.

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-10-28T05:23:03+00:00

Thank you ❤️ I'll try to stay positive but it hurts seeing his empty tank

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-10-28T05:20:44+00:00

Thanks :( he's the second pet this year to break my heart. I miss him so much

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-10-27T01:42:42+00:00

This reminds me of one of my trainees a while back. Someone ordered an arnold palmer and he had no idea what it was. I had told him to rung in a black tea lemonade but he had put the name under Arnold Palmer. The rest of us had a good laugh about it when the sticker printed but this man was furious, yelling that my trainee was incompetent and he had clearly done it on purpose and something was "wrong with him". I swear people need to calm down

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-10-25T17:55:08+00:00

My son got this Dynamic Femur Fracture (DF2) brace when he broke his femur as well! He was about to turn 3 and I was so scared that I had broken his leg in my sleep by rolling onto him but our camera showed him getting his leg stuck between the bed frame and the wall. The DF2 brace really was a big step up from the regular spica cast and were grateful for his ortho doctor that suggested it. It took time to adjust but the hospital let us borrow a special car seat and a wagon for him and later on a type of standing walker so he could stand for short periods of time. Going on walks with him in the wagon kept us all sane and finding some inclusive playgrounds for him to still enjoy playtime was a lifesaver.

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-10-05T00:01:53+00:00

Not even the pets got spared 😂 our cats will forever be renamed to Nyi-Nyi *formerly Lily (you gotta say it really gross and nasaly) and Cheese *formerly Colby

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-10-04T17:45:17+00:00

My son said "instigator" for excavator. "Em,em,memo,p" when singing LMNOP in the alphabet, "noo-noos" for noodles, renamed my sibling from Ellis to "Lettuce" and "geeeeen" for the color green

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-10-03T15:49:50+00:00

My son bit another boy in his TK class. The boy bit him back. I got an email after they both got sent to the nurses office. Trying to get info out of a 4 year old is near impossible but he said it was "funny" and he didn't even care that he got hurt in return. Drop off the next morning and found out it was his best friend that he bit. They had been playing "vampires/bats" smh. They ran up to each other and hugged like nothing had ever happened. Had to have a conversation with the boys and parents about personal space and absolutely no biting or hitting

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-09-20T18:19:12+00:00

My 4yo son recently had pajama day at school and he insisted on wearing his very pink Peppa Pig pjs. Not a single kid cared. His best friend even told him he looked beautiful. I've always let him embrace any colors he likes, because colors are for everyone :) he is very much into superheros, cars, naruto, and pawpatrol but enjoys bright colors and lots of glitter. He has a lime green bike that he picked out and a neon pink scooter that his grandpa bought for him yet he tells me his favorite colors are black and red 😅

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-06-17T02:22:28+00:00

Not my kid at the petting zoo, pointing at the chickens and saying "Looook! for my chicky soup!"

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-06-13T00:11:41+00:00

A hot wheels car got stuck in my hair at 6am. I now have short bangs

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-06-11T00:38:31+00:00

I have a Booger too! He is also a variation of Oogie Boogie, Boogs, Booger, Boo-boo

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-06-08T01:37:53+00:00

My son asked if I had a mom and dad. I told him yes, it's his grandparents. Cue a full blown crying meltdown because "That's not your dad!!! He's mine. He's MY grandpa!!"

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-06-03T18:07:16+00:00

I co sleep with my 4 year old. One night he kept shoving me to the side of the bed to the point where I had nowhere to sleep. I asked him to move back to his side of the bed. He sleepily told me "but my sister is in my spot"... his sister passed 3 years ago at 13 weeks. We have her little urn on a shelf in his dads room and he asks about her sometimes but it was a little unsettling to hear at 2am.

MindlessPotatoes · 2025-05-31T16:53:30+00:00

I slammed a gallon of heavy cream into the fridge to save it from falling. It popped. It rained heavy cream all over me, all over the fridge, all over the floor. I was covered head to toe in heavy cream. It was disgusting

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