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To Pee or Not to Pee

I once read an old quote and it's stuck with me for a while now.  A wise person gave this sage advice: Your mother taught you how to use a spoon, the least you can do is help her learn technology.  Okay fine, it's a meme online and there's no actual author and I'm paraphrasing.  But whatever, you get my point.  We sometimes get frustrated with having to teach someone something that seems so easy to us, it's often forgotten that we had to learn ourselves at one point.  I always thought Maddy would be the kid who would figure out potty training when she was a tiny little one year old.  She's so smart and determined I was sure that one day she'd try it and love it!  She was the proud recipient of her first potty that Christmas.   A potty (that nearly resulted in an altercation when it was purchased in Toys R Us) which has sat in her bathroom since.   Calling her name, staring her down every bath time.  Much to our chagrin, she w...