The Creped Crusaders - new thread!

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New thread for chatting. Oh and swapping S&B tips.

Having a manic day here - INSET day at school and I have 7 kids (inc my 3) over for lunch. While also trying to "work from home" and talk to removal people.

Sainsburys was a bit low on pants, but I did get him some with peppa pig, or George, or someone, on, about which he's quite excited.

Ds got it really quickly (within days) although he did like al fresco peeing . it was the night time that took the time here....
I didn't know I was supposed to do stickers and all that, I was very hungover, stuck the potty in the middle of the floor and we went from there :)

He's had the potty for ages - it's been a feature of the living room for a while. He was throwing it around the room, and wearing it on his head today. Neither wise when full, I told him.

Ds used to take the potty into the garden and pee out there.....
Don't think he ever did a poo in - went straight for the loo. Looking back I had it easy!

Me too BD - DD went straight into the knickers Father Christmas bought with no accidents, and at night too, and DS took a couple of weeks (though that was mainly down to his key worker at nursery, even though he was only there 3 days a week!) He never did a poo on a potty either!

Dd was defiantly resistant for months. She was often to be found standing next to the potty with her knickers round her ankles, arms folded, with a pile of poo on the floor. When (ahem) questioned, she would glare at you and say "I NEVER poo on potty". It was a long, ghastly and very smelly and embarrassing summer, as I remember, especially as she was rather old in potty-training terms. Winning her round took a vast amount of bribery, although when she eventually decided to cooperate it was then all done and dusted in a week. By the end of it I had a huge collection of different potties and toddler loo seats.
Ds, in contrast, got the idea in days (at a much younger age) and was dry at night immediately. However, despite the aforementioned vast collection of potties, I still had to buy a new one because he was so heavy that he crushed all the normal ones eventually (true).

I am roaring at your potty crusher, Stropps!!

DD2 didn't walk till she was 20 months old. She could, however, talk very fluently at around 15 months, and we used to have lengthy conversations about why she wouldn't walk. Apparently she didn't feel the need, as if she needed anything, her sister would bring it. Once she finally heaved herself to her feet, she decided she was going to wear knickers and use a potty as well (why do things by halves?), and did so. She was dry at night from the start as well, and never had an accident.

DD1 was fairly easy, but a lot little when she was potty trained. She was DD2's polar opposite - walked at 10 months, didn't really speak until she was three.

Both had great fondness for al fresco weeing.

"little older" FFS!

I have been moaning to MI today. My request for an extension to my contract was turned down today with no good reason.

So I am job hunting again in a very half hearted way.

I fear he's tending more towards stropps's dd than any of these irritating angelic 'taught themselves in aweek' toddlers, judging by the seven pairs of trousers he got through, between two and seven this afternoon. And I didn't even have a pooh to contend with.

At one point he was begging me to put his nappy on... He really seems to hate it. I shall persevere for a week, then maybe leave it for another month..

How old is he, Herbs? At least on this thread you are unlikely to get anyone coming along and sucking their teeth at you for him being "that old". If he's not ready, wait. Much less stressful. DD1 was three-ish, so no miracle child!

He's three next month. So getting on a bit, excretion-wise. The nursery are beginning to suck their teeth, and nearly all his NCT buddies have been TT for months. I have told him about all his friends wearing pants, using the toilet, etc, but he is unmoved. 'I'm a baby, not a big boy. I want to wear nappies, not pants...'

Think ds was around 3 so hardly an early starter in all this. Dry within the week, but nighttime was a whole other story.......

I have a spot I haven't had spots since I was about 18! Is this another 'getting old' side affect?

If it is on your chin, it is almost certainly hormonal, Blackduck. I get the odd enormous, hurty pus filled bastard on mine hiding in the beard.

Forehead, between eyebrows, like a third eye...

Ingrowing hair?

Do you have a fringe?

MrsS this is definitely proof that your boss is mad. Good luck with the job-hunting.

BD, I had loads of horrendous periods and the reappearance of spots, but that was nothing compared to the black moods. I am now on HRT and it is much better - periods are 10% of what they were a few months ago and about 1/4 of what I have had most of my life - it's a revelation. Might get the very odd small spot just before a period, but PMT / black moods are also greatly reduced.
Get along to the GP!

BTM - he sent me an email in the wee small hours trying to justify his decision, but actually just making himself look more of a twonk.

On the plus side, if we do come back to London, I will be within staggering distance of the BFI, if that is where we are going to continue hosting the Crepey Conventions!

MrsS (Yay for Crepey conventions!) - he is clearly feeling threatened by your superiority and sees getting rid of you as the perfect answer.

Oh yes, Mrs S. I hate your boss. He's all that is evil about men and bosses.

Fringe not long enough!
MrsS I agree with BTM - he is clearly threatened by you so stupidly instead of getting you on side he is getting rid....twonk....

Black moods - humm - - anyone get the urge to just up sticks and leave?

Yes, frequently. It generally passes pretty quickly, but I can feel like jumping under a bus is better than a moment longer in DH's presence at times

Phew, not just me then (that gets the urge to run away).

MrsS, your boss is clearly v. well qualified in being a complete arse.

Herbs, dd was about 3.4 by the time she eventually gave up crapping in her pants. I am still traumatised by the time that happened on a bouncy castle. And then there was the phase where she refused to poo at all, so the doctor told me to give her Syrup of Figs. She still didn't poo - until I left the house on Sunday morning to go swimming for the 1 whole hour I had off a week in those (bad old) days. Her bottom then exploded all over the sitting-room. Up the wall, over the gas fire, the sofa, everything. So her father had to spend the hour cleaning up. This happened 3 weeks in a row. The dog almost had a nervous breakdown because he always thought that any poo in the house was going to be blamed on him.

I never, ever offer anyone advice about potty training

Crikey. Extreme Potty Training, by strops there.

He has yet to do a pooh. I hope this isn't the beginning of a complex, or a situation requiring your kind of remedy.