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From: lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: Waking behavior in under-3 year olds
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 20:15:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 20:15:19 1985
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Our little Heidi (3 1/2 now) always hated being got up to go potty.  What
was interesting was that she didn't mind being awakened (more or less) to
go back home from Grandma and Grandpa's house.  My wife had a brainstorm,
and instead of making the poor thing wake up and walk to the bathroom,
she picked her up like we do coming home, and carried her to the potty
chair.  No problem.  When she was done, she'd walk back to bed under her
own power.  She now makes it through most nights, so we aren't doing the
"potty in the middle of the night" thing, but the carrying is what did
the trick in our case.  Apparently waking up to go potty is much less of
a strain to the psyche than waking up to walk somewhere and go potty.

Larry Wall
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