Potty Training — Not As Hard As Everyone Said It Would Be

Jessica Delfino
4 min readJan 6, 2020
Not my child. Photo credit: Henley Design Studio / Unsplash

My son is in the throes of potty training. He seems to be enjoying it a lot for someone who is basically just hanging out in a bathroom.

I was told and I read and, thus, I assumed that potty training would be frustrating, horrible, painful, sad, upsetting, difficult, a lesson in stretching your last shred of patience, maybe itchy, and all kinds of other miserable…

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Jessica Delfino

I write about life with 1 husband, 2 kids, 1 cat, sometimes funny. Instagram.com/JessicaDelfino Bylines: TheNew Yorker, The NY Times, The Atlantic, McSweeney’s.