Creative Potty TrainingWritten by Valerie Garner
Creative Potty Training When I was potty training my two young boys, I discovered this method of potty training that made it an enjoyable, yet very effective way to potty train toddlers. First, make sure your child is ready for potty training, shows interest, wants "big kids pants" etc. If they show no signs of readiness, it may be best to let them mature a bit more. Make this a game, make it fun and you will not run into stubborn opposition (after all it is child's body). Go out and buy or find around house items you don't normally let your child play with. Some examples might be toys that can be used in water (3 or 4 things), like little plastic pitchers, balls, tiny cups, whatever, but make them SPECIAL. The only real rule to this game is these special "potty" toys can only be played with while child is sitting on potty! This is very important; no breaking this one rule, or it won't work. Once child is sitting on potty fill a large bowl or small bucket with lukewarm or tepid water, place new "potty" toys in bowl and set bowl of water in front of child. On floor if potty seat is low, or if it's a potty seat that sits on top of regular toilet, set bowl of water on a TV tray or something that provides a step, in front of child. When child places his/her hands in lukewarm water to play with toys, if child needs to physically go, they nearly instantly go potty (it's almost an instinctive type of physical reaction), then cheer, cheer, cheer! Give lots of praise, and if you wish to give some type of a treat, go ahead.
| | The Fisherman SweaterWritten by Mark Shenton
The Fisherman Sweater Fisherman sweaters used to be something that were seen as items of warm and rugged work wear, but much as changed, and fisherman sweaters have followed jeans to make that transformation from work wear to a 20th century fashionable clothing item.Fisherman Sweater History Rooted in our common heritage, commercial fishermen, weekend sailors, farmers and in fact people from all walks of life love fisherman sweater. At sea, and in town, it is a symbol of simpler times when you could look good in something that was designed just to be practical and keep you warm, not to show off a label in order to be some kind of status symbol like many garments manufactured today. The fisherman sweater has its origins in Brittany. Surprisingly it was not fishermen that started to wear them, but merchants who during 18th century travelled to England to sell onions, these merchants wore an item of knitted wool clothing that made them recognizable from a distance, garments were made with very tight stitching, using a stitch designed for warmth, water proofing, and considerable resistance to wind.
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