Potty Training Boys (A Horror Story)

Potty Training Boys (A Horror Story)
Potty training boys to go number 1, in my opinion, seems painless. I go in with him and we both sit down on our respective potties and when he is done I announce to my wife that he just went pee pee in the potty. My wife then applauds and we do a little song and dance with him. However, number 2... not so painless. 

I have to be honest, I love to have friends come over so my wife and I can divert my kid's attention away from us or we can just plop our kids right into our friend's laps and force the attention off. I like to call it creative parenting. 

Maya we just love the way you make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches... Why don't you take the kids to the kitchen and show them how you make them so delicious? 

Poppy the kids couldn't stop talking about you all day and night.  Why don't read to them in the other room?

Mahkyle you should have tried out for the NBA... why don't you go in the hall and show the kids how great of a basketball player you are? 
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So one day we had a bunch of people over and my wife and I were creatively parenting until my son said he had to use the potty. Potty training is one of those things that brings us right back to being parents no matter how creative we parent.  Here is what happened.

Me - Do you have to go pee pee in the potty or poo poo in the potty?
Him - Poo Poo.
Me - Ok hurry up let's go poo poo.
Him - Daddy are you making poo poo in the potty?
Me - I don't have to go poo poo I already went.
Him - Why?
Me - Because I already went.
Him - Oh... Daddy?
Me - Yes.
Him - I don't have to go poo poo?

Me - Why not? You said you had to go.
Him - I already went.
Me - No you didn't. Ok I will go poo poo if you go poo poo. 
Him - Ok 

1 minute later.

Him - All done.
Me - Ok. Let's take a look. You didn't go poo poo you went pee pee. Don't you have to go poo poo?
Him - No.
Me - Why not?
Him - I already went.
Me - Ok ok... go to your mom while I clean up the potty. 

Him - Are you going to go poo poo?
Me - No becauseI went poo poo. Did you?
Him - No.
Me - Ok go...  Go to your mom.
Him - Ok.

1 minute later.

Everybody - YEAH DADDY WENT POO POO IN THE POTTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DADDY WENT POO POO IN THE POTTY...

Until tomorrow.

Jai