Potty Rock Your Way Through the Dog Days of Summer

Background Music: Feel free to jam to Florence & The Machine's Dog Days of Summer HERE while rockin' to this post. 

The Dog Days of Summer refer to the hottest part of the summer (July 3rd through August 11th). You know those days when stepping into your hot car is likened to sitting on the sun's surface? Yep, that's a dog day. And it stinks. When you have a little kiddo teetering between diapers and drawers or potties and pull-ups, any day might feel like a Dog Day. Have no fear, The Potty Rocker is here to show you some cool ways to play your way to the potty and avoid the heat of frustration.

Here are five refreshing tips to get you cooled off during those Dog Days of getting your little stinker to ditch the diapers!

• Ice, Ice Baby! Your kiddo avoiding the potty? Try adding food coloring to some ice cubes and have an ice cube toss into the porcelain ring. Time how long it takes the ice cubes to melt. The winning ice cube is the one to last the longest. Cool, right? Ice cold!
• You're Getting Cooler! Play the good ole' "hot/cold" game and get sneaky! Make toilet paper, or a new pair of your toddler's drawers, the item to be found and hide it behind the potty. Let your little stinker get "hotter" as she weaves her way through the house into the coolest room of all! Laugh your way to that latrine!
• Heat Wave? A linoleum floor, toilet seat, or even bathtub floor are actually some of the coolest places to sit. Play a game of hide and seek and feel your temperature come down while taking a deep breath in the bathroom. And let's be honest, playing hide-and-seek as an adult brings back some hilarious memories of playing as a kid. Remember when you'd get so excited to avoid being found while playing hide-and-seek that you almost peed your pants? Now if this feeling sets in, you're holed up in the right room!
• ICEBERG!!!!! If you're in a ship, avoid the iceberg, but if you're trying to get your little guy to go in the pot, then "hit the iceberg" is his game. Drop in a few cubes (clear cubes are great...your kiddo will have to pay more attention to the ice cubes if they're transparent) and play your way through drowning those icebergs.
• The Naked Truth. There's really no point in layering on clothes when it's hot! Avoid frustrating yourself with zippers and buttons and belts (oh my!) when you can let your little one run around with easy-to-discard clothes on the way to the potty.

Shout out to the Dollar Shave Club for making bathroom's better too!

As it turns out, when you get fired up and heated over the stress of potty training, you're actually barking up the wrong tree. Your kiddo needs you to be cool as a cucumber so she can be too!