Reality TV

After several weeks of staying in caravan parks and busy campgrounds I was beginning to feel like I was a star in a bad reality TV show ‘Toilet Training Tantruming Toddlers’. The toilet training of Jackson was taking a lot longer than I’d expected as we didn’t always have the facilities available and often had to put him back in nappies. The accidents also seemed so much worse when you had an audience of other campers. I found it quite mortifying to walk past a whole group of other campers holding a potty full of poo with Jackson running behind me screaming as he wanted to carry his own poo! 

However the worst one was when Jackson was playing and he yelled ‘POO’ so I ran to get him whilst Daniel got the potty. I started pulling his shorts off but it was too late and I ended up with poo all over my hand. We were in a campground with no running hot water so it was horrendous to try to get off. Several groups of campers witnessed my ordeal and if they didn’t see, they certainly heard as Jackson screamed that he had more and wanted to sit on the potty even though he had it all over him. After washing myself and Jackson in a cold shower I hid in the caravan! Thankfully we left that day and found a secluded bush camp, I couldn’t face those other campers again.

Several days in the bush and toilet training was complete. Jackson decided it was rather exciting to use the shovel and dig a hole to go the toilet in so the accidents ceased. Jackson was also very proud of himself and encouraged an audience, Emilia was happy to oblige and found a rock to sit on to watch the show!!