Yes, the title is intriguing…and broad. Did I lose the battle with allergies? We are only in March so I can’t make the call on that one yet.  The battle with my son eating new foods? I’ll address that in another post.

So what, you ask, it the battle that you lost?  The battle of “potty training.”  Feared and dreaded by all parents when your child reaches the age where they are aware of what they ‘should’ be doing and what they ‘want’ to do.

Rosebud, our 2 year old, informed me that she needed to go. We went running to the bathroom prepared to celebrate after a successful trip.  BUT something happened. We entered the bathroom, took off her diaper and she said “No.”

Now I know she needed to go, but for the next 30 minutes we engaged in a battle of wills.  My will for her to sit and go and her will that no matter what, she was not going to sit and go.  Much crying, screaming and tears developed and fearing the neighbors would come running thinking there was something wrong, I caved.

I am now facing the question: Did I do the right thing?  Will she end up talking to a psyciatrist one day saying “It’s all my mother’s fault. When I was two, she traumatized me trying to potty train me!”  Was this just a test so that later she knows she can just outlast me?

Take a look at this picture and judge for youself…