Potty training

Hi ladiesss
I think my daughter may be ready to potty train. She’s been running around trying to pull her diaper off and usually lets her butt crack hangout lol

My questions are
1) when did yk your daughter was ready to be potty trained
2) how did you start potty training
3) how long did it take
4) did you still use diapers at night and for how long

Any tips and tricks are welcomed and EMBRACED 😅 Thank you!!

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So they are able to hold wees in for long periods of time so it’s a big wee instead of lots of little wees. They are able to tell you when they need to go as they understand the feeling of needing to go. Able to follow two step instructions. Interested in the potty/toilet. Able to sit still for a few minutes. Able to pull their own trousers/nappy down and up with some support.

Young Children have a hormone that is released at night which means they aren’t able to physically stop themselves going at bedtime. This usually stops around 3/4 years old.

I started with lots of books and made songs on potty training. Introducing the potty to sit on very young. Then every half an hour I would let my daughter sit on the potty and say “wee wee goes in the potty” and “poo poo goes in the potty”. And then I would have certain books and toys she can only have when on the potty so she would play with them and then big amount of praise if she went. If not that’s ok.

We started around 3-4 weeks ago, I jsut said one day that's it and kept her naked and sat her on the potty every few hours, it didn't take her long to get the hang of it after 4 days of being naked, I put her in loose trousers only she had accidents all day, next day I did the same jsut loose trousers and then she managed to tell me and I'd help her get them down to go. After about 6 days, I put knickers on, but the size up, so they didn't mimick a nappy too much, and she's been brilliant so far! Few accidents here and there, but that's expected. She still has nappies at nap time and bedtime, but most naps, she wakes up dry anyway.

One trick is to run water when she's on the potty, or I've heard get them to blow bubbles or pretend to blow anything to help them go. Also if there is an accident keep it neutral and just say soenthing like oh dear wee wee goes on the potty, and celebrate big when they do get anything in the potty even a drop😁 Hope this helps a little, good luck 😁

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Men have it "easier"

Men and women definitely have their own hardships, but I feel like majority of men will never understand how much harder it is to be a women.

Women are held to such high expectations, there's so much judgement around anything we do from men and even other women.

It's like nothing you do is ever right. Even if you ignore everyone else and their unnecessary opinions, I feel like it still gets to you eventually.

Most women are also living their lives in fear because of men who have traumatized them. Chances are if you see a women, nine times out of ten that women has probably been abused by a man emotionally, physically, sexually, or more than one.

Take childbirth into consideration.

For men it's just 30 seconds and then they go about their business, not for women. We sacrifice our body and mind to carry children, nourish them, and protect them. While some men check themselves out, cheating because "we never have sex anymore" or even just straight up leaving.

Women are almost always depicted as dramatic or hormonal. Expected to do it all and keep a smile on your face the whole time. It's ok for a man to need a break, but when a women does she's a bad mother.

Most men just don't understand what it's like, and they never will.

What do you think?

I need a third party outside perspective.

My boyfriend and I got in a fight last week, and I decided to stay at my sister’s house. My child was with a sitter over night, and I just figured I’d rather have a girls night with her than go home alone.

Now my house is currently under renovations, so I have unhung drywall resting against the walls downstairs and in the upstairs hallway.

Anyways, I got home the next morning and all the drywall in the hallway was crumpled into tiny pieces, and tossed in the bathroom entryway. Nothing else in the house was moved or touched. My door was unlocked that night.

Now I left my house the day before around 2, when the contractor was still working, and didn’t come home til next morning, so I assumed maybe they had an accident or something. I texted him. The contractor swears they didn’t do it, and said they don’t know how that would’ve happened, because nothing else was touched and if someone broke in, they had tools and stuff worth a lot of money that was untouched. My cash savings were untouched. And nothing else looks out of place.

I called my boyfriend right away, and he agreed it was weird and asked how they got in, I told him the door was unlocked, and he yelled at me because he’s always telling me to lock my door. But he swears it wasn’t him, and I believed him.

My parents think my boyfriend didn’t though. They asked who else would have motive and said it’s weird that the drywall was the only thing damaged. But if he was mad at me, I don’t know why he’d ruin the unhung drywall and not my other valuables? He knows where I keep everything. Also, he’s never just gone into my house and broken stuff before, and I was on the phone with him most of the night I was at my sisters house while he cried and begged me to come back to his place.

I don’t know what to think honestly.