One House, Two Looks?

One of my favorite TV shows, is One House, Two looks hosted by Jane Lockhart and Jason Cass that’s aired on HGTV.  I find it fascinating how they’re able to create 2 completely different designs for identical homes.

Toilet training for my daughters Michelle and Joanne was bit like One House Two looks – the only difference is that instead of getting two different great looks – one of the looks was great whule the other one was – well – ehm not so good. With my first born Michelle, it was stressful, confusing and exhausting. With my second born Joanne, it was relaxed, refreshing and fun. Their personalities are similar in many ways – they’re both independent, focused and intense.

The main difference was that we did not have a clue how to get Michelle “Ready”. With Joanne, we learnt a new intuitive technique that has helped us get her “Ready”.

Confident that we had done everything right and that Joanne was ready, we requested her daycare teachers to start training her. They gave us a questionnaire with 10 questions that they asked us to fill. They indicated that if Joanne scored 8/10 from the questionnaire, she “might” be ready for Toilet Training. According to their assessment, she was “Not Ready”. We were faced with three choices . The first was to agree with them that she was not ready. The second was to pull her out of that daycare and take her to a place where the teachers agreed with our “readiness” perspective. The third option was to prepare her to be “ready”.

We chose the final option. We will get her "Ready" and share our tips on how to get a child "ready" with our friends and other new parents.