Generally the only time a diaper looks like that is when a kid has just stepped out of a pool. So either Suri Cruise has taken the most enormous dump of all time, or she’s actually a really well-endowed little boy, or that diaper is falling off.
Either way, the slide can probably wait.
I’m just saying.
Why is she still in diapers?
Now see – that’s the one area I can’t mock, since Mini-Mock REFUSES to use the potty and he’s a few months older than Suri.
I’m just glad she appears to be done with the bottle finally – remember how long she held onto that thing?
I am willing to bet she is wearing a pull up instead of a diaper. Having raised 2 of my own kids, I can say when it comes to potty training, disposables work too well. They don’t leave a toddler feeling wet enough. Wet pants feel cold and damp. A wet diaper or pull up feels dry. Kids and their parents depend on them too much.
I remember when my kids were little and I decided to end diapers. Sure, they had a few accidents, but by the time they are 2 and a half, your average kid has seen their parents using the toilet and they show some sort of interest in using it themself. Super absorbent diapers just make them lazy about potty training.
I just told my kids diapers were now for night time only and they now were big enough to wear big boy/girl pants. I stood by what I said and never put them back in diapers during the day.
See – here’s my problem. Mini-mock is so totally happy and content all the time that he doesn’t care if he’s in regular underpants and they get soiled. He can literally walk around all day in them like that, and not ever complain. He’s, dare I say, TOO HAPPY.
So, we first tried the pullups that have the cold gel pack in them – nothing. Then regular underwear – nothing. He loves to TALK about going potty, but he doesn’t actually DO it. ARRRRGH!
I once heard Dr. Dean Edell (I think that’s how you spell it) recommend the “no pants” remedy. He had a guest on the show who was some sort of baby behavioral expert, and a woman called up with pretty much the same problem as your little one, Mock. The baby behaviorist said, “Have a full day when he goes bottomless” at the same time that Edell said “Have a ‘no-pants’ day!”
The idea is that they HATE having the pee and poop run down their legs and will quickly realize that going pants-less means they HAVE to use the toilet. According to the baby behavioral expert, they know what to do, they just don’t feel like it — until they have no alternative!
I just had to think about the wicked slide-burn little Suri now has on her tushy. Personal (and a LONG time ago) experience. I wonder if her parents have a no-noise policy about that, as they did for her birth.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the toilet training. With mine (kids not toilet training) I waited until they were interested and it was much faster and easier than constantly struggling with them. We might have started a bit later, but in the end they were out of diapers at the same time as everyone else.
I agree with the no pants thing, but I live in a much warmer climate than you! Just make sure you keep an eye on him if you try that.
Excuse me. I meant “kids, not toilet training” as in “my kids” not “my toilet training.” Now the explanation’s getting worse than the typo. Aaaarg.
OK Rosie, are you Anonymous too? So about this toilet training thing, are you finished with it or are you still running around without pants? You were talking about yourself and not your kids right? Heh, Heh, just kidding!
Congratulations.
You people have just reminded me as to why I don’t want to have kids, regardless of how face-munching-ly worthy they are.
I’m going to go wash.
My son showed no interest in pooping in the potty when he was toilet training. He would pee in the potty with no problem, but no pooping. He would actually go around the corner and HIDE when doing the deed. One day, he expressed how much he wanted to go to Chuck-E-Cheese. I told him that if he went poopy in the potty, we would go THAT DAY. It took him a few days to ponder that over. Out of the blue, a few days later, he said, “I need to go poopy in the potty”, and he went! Needless to say, we had to go to Chuck-E-Cheese that day, but at least he started going on the potty regularly. I think potty training may be about bribery, or rewards, or something….:)
Oh, and he had just turned 3 at that point, so I was all worried he was “late” with the potty training. Same thing with his talking. He didn’t start until just after his second birthday, so I was all panic-stricken. I guess he’s just a late bloomer, because now, you can’t shut him up and he has never had ONE accident in his pants!
Looks like I’m “anonymous”, too!
I noticed something about Suri Cruise. For her parents to be as famously rich as they are, she only owns two pairs of shoes. I have only ever seen pictures of her in gold maryjanes, black maryjanes, or barefoot. Someone please show me a new pair…
Suri is also often in red. Why red and why gold maryjanes?
Wow, never saw the red maryjanes. I guess I stand corrected…
I imagine the nanny was fired after this picture was published! Potty training aside, the poor kid shouldn’t have a huge load in her diaper! You’d think that with all of their money, they could afford someone to change her on a regular basis, have someone who’s ONLY job is to make sure Suri’s always April fresh.
i love reading everyone potty training stories! I guess each kid is different. Mock, dont worry, he’ll come into it on his own at least he talks about it! And mlm I love the note about your son hiding when he poops. AH Love it.
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i am digging the no-pants thing. I think Mock should try it out and let us know
Turns out I was accident-ally (hee hee) Anonymous. Rest assured Bob, I only run around without pants when Mr. Rosie is around…
Thanks for all the advice, you guys! I am happy to report that Mini-Mock peed in the potty for the first time ever this morning. I am not entirely sure he REALIZED he did it until I made a huge production out of how awesome it was and did a happy clapping dance for him and essentially acted as though he had just discovered the cure for cancer.
After that, he promptly pooped in the diaper that I put on him as we were headed out the door.
Baby steps, right?
Those famous words from Randy Quaid in Christmas Vacation
“Sh#&ters Full”