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potty training continues

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.01.20

Kenny made it through the night without peeing in his diaper.

Of course, he needed to use the potty first thing in the morning. But we're pretty pleased. It doesn't happen often, but it seems that he understands that using the toilet is the long-term objective. Also, it's impressive that he's developed (some) control.

We still haven't been able to get him to use an actual routine when it comes to using the potty, and he's often unable to produce urine when we do try at the "usual times". But I guess we're making progress.

rand()m quote

Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

—Michael Crichton