I asked my friends for their potty training secrets…
- June 07, 2018
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- Catherine Dietrich
Oh, potty training, my old foe… So we meet again.
As with all things parenting, I thought that with my second baby I’d have a handle on how to approach potty training. After all – I’ve done it before. Pretty well actually! Or is that just in my memory, which has done what memories do in the years since, and smoothed over all the rough bits, leaving just a shiny, two-dimensional, shall we say preferential picture of the way things were? Because this is how I remember our potty training journey the last time round:
When...
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