POO-POO on YOU, POTTY!

In the spirit of waking up on Monday morning and consciously making the decision to oppose everything we ask her to do this week, she has thrown the potty into the mix. For the last month, even when we were on travel or in strange places, she'd declare that she needed to go sit on the potty, and 4 times out of 6, she'd be successful in "going #1". This week she hasn't offered to go (unless ofcourse it's part of her bedtime stall tactic routine), and when we ask her if she needs to go, instead of the fun "yes!" we get NO! I went into this whole potty thing with the intent not to push and not to get frustrated. But suddenly last night I found myself pissed off at this regression. Then I questioned why I was pissed off when I said I wouldn't let this whole thing get to me in the first place.

Must be part of the whole potty training frustration thing I hear about. I guess it goes both ways.

This morning her teacher said, oh by the way she's flat out refusing to use the potty. She will say NO and even throw herself onto the floor upset! Her friend Karma tries to get her to go but Anna refuses. We agreed to just back off and not even offer. No, Anna's not behind her peers on this issue...no one in her class is potty trained and some won't even sit on the potty. BUT the thing is we all know she CAN do it. This week she won't. Rather than play her game, no one's going to push. If it's control she wants, better to give it to her now. It's her butt and it's her pee.

But the joke's on her: I'm not playing control freak over this. She can wear her diapers to her wedding.

This week she has resisted:
-The potty
-Clipping her nails
-Blowdrying her hair (which we'd just started and she thought was fun)
-Getting dressed
-Staying in the same outfit after getting dressed
-The car seat
-Dinner (in favor of requests for gum, candy, cake, and popsicles)
-Bedtime
-Even changing a poopy diaper a few times
-In general anything we ask her to do for the first 3 times.

She's also enjoyed hitting me when she's mad, with the look on her face as obvious as: "Are you going to do anything about this?" The result has been an increase in the average number of Time Outs this week. August was a low month for Time Outs and so I think she's making up for it in one week.