All 3 of our girls have different personalities, and Paris happens to be the firecracker of the bunch! And that's putting it mildly! She is the sweetest little thing, very dramatic, very funny, and very stubborn. When Savannah was potty trained about a year and a half ago, she did it within a matter of days and it was so easy-she just decided one day to do it and that was it. I thought Paris would be even easier to potty train since she now had the example of her big sister to follow. I kept bringing it up with her and she flat out refused to have anything to do with panties or toilets...no way. I didn't want to push it because I figured she would do it when she was ready, but then her 3rd birthday came and went and I knew she was capable of it. I still put it off though because Madison was born and then we moved to VA, but as soon as we got settled here, I decided that we had to do this no matter what.
The first month was awful...I didn't want to push too hard, but she just wouldn't even try and every time she had to put panties on, we had a huge meltdown. Then I would finally get her to try to sit on the toilet and she'd sit there for a while with no results and then two minutes later she would have an accident. I was ready to run away but I stuck with it and took away the diapers and pull-ups (except for when we left the house - I'm not that big of a glutton for punishment!) and stopped fighting with her otherwise, and somehow she has just figured it out over the last couple of months. She doesn't have any more accidents and does all of it all by herself...I'm still not sure how we got to that point, but now that the whole experience is over, her and I are both super proud of her and she is officially a big girl!
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