No Training Potty Training 

I am in awe of my son. He continues to navigate through this world with limited expressive vocabulary. However, he is creative and comes up with innovative ways of communicating his wants and needs (and complaints as well). He signs, points, and has some words to help let us know what he is trying to say. He is persistent and comes up with new ways when his old ways aren’t working.

Jackson reminds me a lot of myself. Not necessarily the person with the most book smarts in the room and maybe not even the one who takes the most common path to the finish line, but what i have noticed is that no matter what route he takes he gets where he needs to be in the end. What I want him to be able to to on his own is figure out the ways around hurdles (no pun intended), I want him to be able to figure out how to look at a problem from someone else’s perspective along with his own. This is what 21st Century thinking is all about. It is not about who has the “best answer” or who comes up with the answer the quickest… It is about taking all the possible answers on the table and putting them together to come up with an ever better answer.  

That brings me to today’s BLOG topic… How impressed I am with my son… how his problem solving skills are so advanced for his age. My son… a few months past two years old… and he’s literally smarter than most adults… not because he ranks high on some early childhood developmental rating scale… but because his problem solving skills are off the chart!

Case in point… The kid is barely two years old and decided it was time to potty train himself. I literally mean potty train “HIMSELF.” Yesterday he rips his diaper off and leans over his potty…today he decides after finding that his little potty is missing, he’s no longer in need of a training potty and goes full-out on the regular toilet… 

You have got to love this kid’s effort and determination…