Comments on: Something to do with your homemade yogurt http://www.thefrugalgirl.com/2008/08/something-to-do-with-your-homemade-yogurt/ cheerfully living on less Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:32:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The Frugal Girl » Breakfast, lunch, and my grocery budget http://www.thefrugalgirl.com/2008/08/something-to-do-with-your-homemade-yogurt/#comment-5769 The Frugal Girl » Breakfast, lunch, and my grocery budget Mon, 04 May 2009 16:51:55 +0000 http://thefrugalgirl.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-5769 [...] kids will sometimes eat leftovers at lunch as well.  A normal lunch for them, though, consists of fruit and yogurt smoothies(made from homemade yogurt, frozen fruit, bananas, and sometimes spinach), and bread(usually [...] [...] kids will sometimes eat leftovers at lunch as well.  A normal lunch for them, though, consists of fruit and yogurt smoothies(made from homemade yogurt, frozen fruit, bananas, and sometimes spinach), and bread(usually [...]

]]> By: Kristen http://www.thefrugalgirl.com/2008/08/something-to-do-with-your-homemade-yogurt/#comment-83 Kristen Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:09:14 +0000 http://thefrugalgirl.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-83 LOL Thanks for the encouragement, Lou! I do a method that's pretty similar to the one you're describing. Although, I've never managed to get it done in one day. :p LOL Thanks for the encouragement, Lou! I do a method that’s pretty similar to the one you’re describing. Although, I’ve never managed to get it done in one day. :p

]]> By: Lou http://www.thefrugalgirl.com/2008/08/something-to-do-with-your-homemade-yogurt/#comment-82 Lou Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:01:23 +0000 http://thefrugalgirl.wordpress.com/?p=211#comment-82 I'd love to have the book for my granddaughter. 33 years ago I trained my son(aged 18mo) over a weekend. He was due Monday to start daycare that only accepted potty-trained tots. A gallon of apple juice, a slug of Oreos and my complete attention. "Today is a BIG DAY. Honey, you are big enough to do big boy bathroom like (name of older friend)" I told him. There was a book in that era called "potty training in a day," or somesuch. He was already dry through the night & I had begun taking him straight to the potty when he woke up. In my experience, once a child can consistently stay dry through the night, there's a good chance that the physiology for learning to stay dry during the day is in place. No point trying before that milestone - gotta have the synapses in place. (And if they aren't in place by 24-30 mo, talk to the pediatrician- don't blame the child for physiology). As I recall it, we stayed in the bathroom all day with a book & his favorite toys (& Mommy) and i gave him apple juice every 1/2 hour or so and put him in the potty chair about 15 min after each drink of juice. When sitting on chair coincided with tinkles, he got an Oreo. When he wet his pants, we said Ooops, then worked together to wash him, & change the pants and he put the wet pants in the hamper & used a tiny mop to "clean up" the wet on the floor. I think he "got it" in about 4 hours, but we took a lunch break & went back in. He had a couple of "accidents" at daycare, but they also had the mop & tidy format there. At home, he was pretty much done. i will mention that I was raised in a home where the attitude was "If you haven't figured it out by the first day of school, by the second day you'll get it" meaning I guess peer pressure & shaming will come then, but here we do what we can & don't worry about it. To all the moms out there just embarking, I say look around you at the dumbest, least co-ordinated people you know. If they could learn this, surely your sweet baby can, too. Peace, Lou I’d love to have the book for my granddaughter.

33 years ago I trained my son(aged 18mo) over a weekend. He was due Monday to start daycare that only accepted potty-trained tots. A gallon of apple juice, a slug of Oreos and my complete attention. “Today is a BIG DAY. Honey, you are big enough to do big boy bathroom like (name of older friend)” I told him. There was a book in that era called “potty training in a day,” or somesuch. He was already dry through the night & I had begun taking him straight to the potty when he woke up. In my experience, once a child can consistently stay dry through the night, there’s a good chance that the physiology for learning to stay dry during the day is in place. No point trying before that milestone – gotta have the synapses in place. (And if they aren’t in place by 24-30 mo, talk to the pediatrician- don’t blame the child for physiology).

As I recall it, we stayed in the bathroom all day with a book & his favorite toys (& Mommy) and i gave him apple juice every 1/2 hour or so and put him in the potty chair about 15 min after each drink of juice. When sitting on chair coincided with tinkles, he got an Oreo. When he wet his pants, we said Ooops, then worked together to wash him, & change the pants and he put the wet pants in the hamper & used a tiny mop to “clean up” the wet on the floor. I think he “got it” in about 4 hours, but we took a lunch break & went back in.

He had a couple of “accidents” at daycare, but they also had the mop & tidy format there. At home, he was pretty much done.

i will mention that I was raised in a home where the attitude was “If you haven’t figured it out by the first day of school, by the second day you’ll get it” meaning I guess peer pressure & shaming will come then, but here we do what we can & don’t worry about it.

To all the moms out there just embarking, I say look around you at the dumbest, least co-ordinated people you know. If they could learn this, surely your sweet baby can, too.

Peace,
Lou

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