Listening to our body...

Quick funny for the day...








Carley has been potty trained, fully, for a few months now. I still expect an accident here or there, but overall- we're potty trained.

Today I picked her up from preschool and as soon as she got in the car she said "Oh! I need to go potty! I need to go back in school and go potty!" (she did this last time too, so a little bit of me thought this was just a pattern...) I responded with "If we hurry home, can we go potty there? Can you hold it?" She said ok.

Well, on the way home she says again, "Mommy, I need to go potty!" So instead of saying "Hold it" (because when we say you need to "hold it" she thinks she needs to actually, physically HOLD it) I said "We need to tell our body to keep the pee pee inside until we get home." We talk a lot about listening to our bodies. So...the whole way home, I was cheerleading for her body to keep the pee pee inside and Carley is yelling, "Body...keep the pee pee in until we get home!!!" or "Pee pee, stay inside until we get home!!!" I was laughing out loud, in between cheering.





It worked! We waited until we got home to potty! It was all mind over matter...at least this time. ha ha!