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the next big step in potty training

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.02.10

One of Kenny's sudden recent leaps forward has been the way he uses the potty.

Somehow, he's the most advanced kid in the class at the day care, keeping his diaper dry between visits to the potty. He even prefers to stand up while he's peeing. Here at home he even tells us when he needs to go to the potty, though he tells us "unchi" even though he's only means pee. Tonight we switched from the sitting potty to its configuration as a step so that he can stand and pee into the toilet.

He loves it.

rand()m quote

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

—Roald Dahl