Historically, toilet training success of a two year old has been measured in:

1. # of “productive” visits to the toilet per day.
2. # of trips out of the house without an accident.
3. # of loads of laundry avoided.
4. # of naps/nights the child wakes dry.

I agree that will give you good information, but there is a simpler way…

Today is day #2 of potty training my 3rd boy and I propose the following theory:


A day’s potty training success is directly proportional to the number of hairs remaining on the mother’s head.






May God bless my potty training soul.



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52 Comments

  1. I will try my wit a second time… the last bit, which will be the same bit here, showed up on your last post and may be confusing, since what Elvis and potty training have to do with each other, I do not know…

    I think you need to start calling Rhett Elvis!

    Okay, I changed it up a bit, I really hate repeating myself. 🙂

  2. Danny, our little two-year old wonder child absolutely refuses to even try to go to the bathroom on his potty. Now we have tricked him into it and he has had productive trips, in which he is quite the proud child, but this is our sixth child, third boy, and frankly we’re tired. So when yours is done, we will send Danny down to Holly’s School of Potty (HSoP) and let you have all the fun.

    Does that sound like a deal or what? By the way, the older boys were better than all the girls when it came to potty training, I think Danny is just trying to bring the averages a little closer. 🙂

    Have Fun! I know that we are!

  3. Yeah, good luck with that. I cleverly managed to time toilet training my older two kids whenever I was pregnant and dying with morning sickness. SO SMART!

  4. ugh. ugh. ugh.

    the only advice i can offer you is that i guarantee he won’t get married in diapers.