Potty Training - Teaching Adults Patience

Toddler Potty Training

I have come to the conclusion, as a parent, that potty training is a test of wills, a battle of wits, a war between ages, and kind of a silly concept when broken down to its barest, most simplest form.

Which is... teaching a small person that they need to be more comfortable taking their business into another, much smaller, room where it is taken care of in a specific location: the toilet, or the potty.

Possible Potty Training Starter Kit

Procrastination at its finest

Why do today what can be done tomorrow?

Am I right?  If you have bills to pay and they are due towards the middle to end of the month and you've still got a few weeks to go, why not just wait until it gets a little bit closer to the due date?  If you're in school and you've got a test in a month, why bother studying now?

If you have guests coming over for the holidays and plan on baking sweets and treats, you shouldn't need more then a week (or less) to grocery shop and prepare.  

Doing things way before they need to be done is just silly, because... think of everything else you could be doing!  

WRONG!

Time Management... or Not

The Importance of Time Management

Why I suck at Time Management

There were so many things that I wanted to write about at the end of my day today: awkward small talk, road rage, toddler interactions and why they are more advanced then adult interactions, but time management just happens to stick out above all else.  The reason being that I am terrible at it.

To go along with my previous post about organization, time management sort of falls into the same category.  If you're not able to properly manage the amount of time you need to do the things you need to do, then you won't ever finish doing anything that you need to get done.

The Importance of Organization

Organization:

Organization is something that I think most people take for granted. For example, when you walk in the front door after a long day at work, are the keys left in a jacket pocket? A purse? Hung on a hook?  Or, who knows what was done with them? When you go to get your mail, do you bring it inside and then add it to the growing pile on the kitchen table or the coffee table?  Do you open it all and then stack the open envelopes and letters in a pile after barely glancing at the contents?  Is your refrigerator full of old and new food alike, mixed with take-out containers, tupperware and ziplock bags?  How about the closet, that space between your bed and the floor, or that shelf you can barely see in the top of your cabinets, are they full of miscellaneous junk you didn't know what to do with? And the car, is it pristine like the day you bought it? Or is that another clutter story?