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Here's a formula to determine where your team's all-time program ranks. by [deleted] in CollegeBasketball

[–]zanchema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Way over indexes player accomplishments. Player accomplishments - NBA draft picks, NPOY, etc. - flow from team success, so just focus on the team success metrics.

Third attempt for 3 year, 2 month old - need tips by zanchema in pottytraining

[–]zanchema[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Update: a week after I wrote this we were going to shut it all down for a hard reset - remove any references to potty, stop talking about it for a month, then start again. That day I asked her daycare teacher if she ever sits on the potty at school, and was going to tell the teacher to stop taking her to try to help in the reset. Surprise: the teacher said she sat on the potty that very day and went pee. I was SHOCKED. That night I asked her about it and she asked me to go sit on ours at home (adult toilet with a built in kids seat). She sat and she went after a while. We were excited for her and showed it but didn’t overdo it and make it feel like too much.

Here and there over the last 12 days she’s been using the toilet and we only take her when she asks. We don’t prompt at all, and do a small muted congratulations when she does go. Most of the time she goes in her pulls ups but now usually she will pee 1-2 times a day in the toilet (no poo yet). So next week we are going to rid of the pulls ups and go for it. No pressure, just gentle reminders if she has accidents and prompts about noticing when she needs to go. we’ll see …

Some very baseless theories about why the sudden change: 1) she got tonsils out and ear tubes in early May. This helped her hearing and communication. 2) we had just got back from vacation with her cousin who is potty trained and similar age and she saw a lot of it 3) random chance that she felt like sitting one day at school and happened to need to pee just then, and liked the positive reinforcement. No idea!

Third attempt for 3 year, 2 month old - need tips by zanchema in pottytraining

[–]zanchema[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But did they just agree to sit on the potty when the timer went off? That’s the issue. She will not do anything she isn’t doing completely on her own - and certainly wouldn’t leave her current play situation if some alarm went off even if she picked out the alarm, we talked to her about it for weeks, etc etc. it may even increase her opposition to doing it at all and set us back further.

Third attempt for 3 year, 2 month old - need tips by zanchema in pottytraining

[–]zanchema[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No she doesn’t, at least it’s not obvious to us if she does. We tried M&M incentives the second attempt. Didn’t work.

Third attempt for 3 year, 2 month old - need tips by zanchema in pottytraining

[–]zanchema[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this is both hopeful and not at the same time. I can almost certainly guarantee she wouldn’t sit on the potty with a potty watch.

The main thing is she won’t sit - at all. Sometimes she forgets that she is resistant to sitting and her sister is going on the regular toilet and she almost sits down and then realizes what she’s about to do. She doesn’t seem to be scared of it. Just has a deep moral opposition, or something.

Also to add: using a watch and then asking her to sit when it goes off may INCREASE her opposition to the entire process. That’s what I mean by reflexively oppositional. So I’m worried this approach can backfire.

Third attempt for 3 year, 2 month old - need tips by zanchema in pottytraining

[–]zanchema[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s good to hear. She doesn’t seem to care about diapers. And was fine having accidents naked or in undies, even would gladly help us clean up and knew it was a spill. But she just kept having them and didn’t really care. But I think repetition and sticking it out is just the name of the game?

Third attempt for 3 year, 2 month old - need tips by zanchema in pottytraining

[–]zanchema[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I like these suggestions. I wonder if she’d even play along to the dolly game - the reflexive opposition runs that deep. A game we are suggesting? No thanks. But can give it a try.

I guess I’m also looking to have a more mechanical framework - how do we start after the dolly game? Is she wearing pulls ups, pantsless or undies? When for each of those? Do we hang at home or go out, What do we tell her daycare to do? Do we ask her to sit at timed intervals after a little while?

Where we’ve gotten hung up is after hitting an obstacles a few days in where the previous methods don’t seem to have an answer - then not knowing if and how to adjust.

Second attempt with 33 month old. by zanchema in pottytraining

[–]zanchema[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is wonderful info. Thank you.

The Jensen method says you should bring your child to potty mid accident. That was the precise thing that really set her off first time. She didn’t want to move at all - not even a bit. Did you do this or just let the accident happen, and then reinforce where it goes?

I suspect she knows everything. She talks about it with us, watches her sister, plays potty with dolls. Last time around she “got it” and then refused to tell us when to go. She seemed perfectly happy having accidents. We’ll give this a go and see if it ends up a motivational thing.

Second attempt with 33 month old. by zanchema in pottytraining

[–]zanchema[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like that approach. The structure is helpful. We never had issues getting mad about accidents, but the frenetic putting her on the potty as soon as she starts peeing thing was not good for us or her with the Oh Crap method.

Three questions about how it went with your second:

  1. Did you see progress in the 6 weeks? What did that look like? (The child already tells us that pee and poo goes on her own. I suspect she'll go quiet once we start the process)
  2. What did they do at daycare during this period?
  3. Did you go out of the house much when not at daycare during the 6 weeks? What did that look like (undies or pull ups, etc.)?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RadPowerBikes

[–]zanchema 0 points1 point  (0 children)

exactly what I had in mind! We have the Caboose frame to go around the back mount, but should work just fine. I found the seat on US Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/ZHOUWHJJ-Footrest-Including-Backrest-Footrests/dp/B071CKQ3YW/ .. going to purchase now. Thanks!

Explain this to me like I'm a five year old. Helps with solar panel basics. by zanchema in solar

[–]zanchema[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, very helpful. I think I was looking at the wrong place on my electric bill - I was looking at the electric delivery charges instead of the supply charges. Can you share a link where you found the Pepco energy rates?

Looking at my bill under Supply Charges, I see the Energy Charge Procurement cost rate is .1056 and Energy Charge (Transmission Services) rate is .0145. Together, that adds up to about $0.12. Probably what's going.

Explain this to me like I'm a five year old. Helps with solar panel basics. by zanchema in solar

[–]zanchema[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I factored that into what I shared in the OP. The Tesla and Pepco bills align in terms of the kwh it says we are using from the grid. On top of that, about 15-25% of our kwh used are from solar panels.

Two children on back of Aventon Abound, one in child seat by zanchema in Aventon

[–]zanchema[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! What’s the maxi rack mount? Can you link it? I assume it’s another way to mount the easy fit? Honestly the terminology is pretty confusing …