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[pod 10:02] @realBitcoinDog It's So Early! - Low Time Preference Potty Training🚽
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# It's so early!
I'm your host, Will Schoellkopf, author of _The Bitcoin Dog: Following the Scent to the Bitcoin C++ Source Code_, and _Bitcoin Girl Save the World_. Parents' Corner has taken over again this It's So Early episode, and it's too early that I'm already having to potty train my two-year-old daughter, Paige. My wife has recommended that I read the book, [Oh Crap! Potty Training](https://www.amazon.com/Crap-Potty-Training-Everything-Parenting/dp/1501122983), at least as one example of a method to potty train your toddler. I have to say, I'm grateful for Bitcoin because I can just call anything low-time preference, low-time preference thinking,
# low-time preference potty training
So, what the author recommends for how to potty train is, and this is the impossible part, block off at least three days where I'm completely away from stacker news. No stacker news. No phone. No going outside. This is it. My wife and I are home with our daughter, and she is buck naked. That's right. Having my toddler completely naked, running around in the house. EGAD! I am definitely afraid of accidents on the floor, but this is a skill. This is a learned skill, potty training. The author advocates that there's
# four stages
that a toddler goes through. They have to go from completely ***clueless*** that they're peeing, and what does clueless look like? Clueless is so clueless you're peeing and walking and you slip on your own pee. That's clueless. The next is, ***I'm peeing***, like realizing that they're in the act of peeing, feeling the pee trickle down their leg, like they have that realization. Then ***I peed***, the realization that they have already peed. The pee is done. And then finally, ***I need to pee***, which is the absolute hardest, something the author calls self-initiation. So what the author advocates is having a whole day, that hard day, a super difficult day. Tell my daughter this day when she's 12 years old, 10 years from now, _the day that my wife and I were home and she was naked and we played with her all day in the house_. And what were we looking for was to find out her
# pee cues
You see, that's the thing with a warm, dry, snuggly diaper pressed against you. You don't even think twice about peeing. You think nothing of it. You're in the middle of your day, your time, whatever, you're peeing. And we don't know, we're not watching our daughter constantly, so we don't have a sense of her
# pee dance
What is her pee dance? Does she all of a sudden waddle with her feet? Does she clap her hands? Does she turn her neck slightly? Does she make a face when she pees? Does she squint her eyes? Does her toes, does she cross her toes? What does she do as the pee dance that she's about to pee? And all kids have a pee dance. Now, the author advocates for some kids, even if you're watching the whole time, the whole time, you're not leaving to go to the restroom. You're not leaving to go cook in the kitchen. You're not taking your eyes off your kid at all. Even if you feel like you can't see any indicators of your child's pee dance, then there is at least learning their
# pee pattern
Are they kind of a camel? Do they hold the pee naturally for a long time? Or is it after you give them a four-ounce glass of milk, they're likely to have dribbles of pee every 15 minutes for the next hour? What is their pattern? This is what the author advocates. So as soon as you catch them in the act of about to pee, you whisk them away to the bathroom to have them pee on the potty. See, that is the thing that, I mean, how can you not laugh listening to this?
# We are not teaching our kids how to pee.
They know how to pee. They pee on their own. We're teaching them ***where to put the pee***. Where does the pee go? _Pee goes in the potty_. And the author's research says it doesn't make a difference if we use a portable potty, which I'm really curious to see what one of these containers looks like. But whether it's a portable potty so they can pee right there in the living room, or the actual potty in the bathroom, it doesn't affect the toddler's potty training development either way. What matters most, of course, is just that you are making sure that the pee goes in the potty. And later, you can pour the pee from the potty into the actual toilet. But from her research, that's not an effective technique or something. So that's day one, the absolute hardest day.
# Day two
would then be the toddler is wearing clothes, but no diaper, no underwear, going commando, as they call it. So that way, but you're studied, you're still obsessing over your toddler, you're still not looking at Stacker News, and you're watching to see what are their pee cues, and you whisk them away, and your toddler is a toddler now. So you've got the very loose, elastic waist pants, or if you have a girl wearing a dress, go commando, nothing under the dress, so that the toddler can very quickly go to the toilet, and then pee there on the toilet. You only have a five to 10 second warning at that point from your cue to when the pee comes, and you're looking for success. The name of the game is success with the clothes. So it's very interesting to me. I've learned that nighttime training,
# nap training is totally different.
For the kids, they understand they wear a diaper to sleep. They can appreciate that difference. There's no pressure on that, especially since our toddler goes to daycare. Daycare will absolutely have a diaper on her at naptime. So we don't need to stress over training her that, but she's ready. She's definitely ready. At over two years old, if she poops her diaper, she will already, if I'm not looking, see that she's pulled her pants down and pulled her diaper off. So she has an
# open poop diaper just on the bathroom floor
which I definitely don't like. So if I don't potty train her, she's going to climb on the toilet for me. But it's all about the methods. What are the methods? What are the alternative methods? How did you potty train your child? An alternative method is to take the child to the potty every 30 minutes to say,
# do you need to go pee?
Do you need to go pee? We're sitting on this potty. Do you need to go pee? I'm asking you, do you need to go? And that makes the child very nervous. They get very stage fright. Even worse is an M&M reward system. If you pee in the potty, I'll give you an M&M.
# I'll give you an M&M if you pee in the potty.
So I can agree that I think that's a terrible idea. It should already be a natural reward, natural feeling sensation to urinating. There shouldn't need to be a candy reward for doing that. I would, of course, hate the opposite, that my child refuses to pee in the potty and on purpose does accidents unless I present them with an M&M. So I'm, of course, nervous about this. I'm, of course, nervous about having to clean up pee on the floor. The book has reassured me.
# I will definitely have to clean up pee on the floor.
There definitely will be accidents, but I am setting up my child for that low time preference long-term success. Don't have an expectation that my child will be able to say when they need to go. Me watch my child. Me watch pee cues. Me prompt them gently in every natural transition before nap, after nap, before bed, upon wake up, before eating, after eating, before leaving the house, after leaving the house. But those are all just the basic general prompts that even I do myself as an adult. You know, am I gonna go somewhere? Let me make sure I relieve myself. The big thing the book emphasizes is put away the confetti.
# No poppin' bottles or champagne.
This is just a socialized behavior. That's all it is. My kid already pees. My kid already poops. I'm just introducing them. If they're gonna be a part of society, a functioning member of society, they need to pee in the potty. And there's no special award for peeing in the potty. It's just a socialized behavior. And of course, with peeing in the potty, she will naturally consolidate her pees,
# consolidate her Bitcoin UTXOs
not so much dribble, dribble, dribble, pee, not so much, dribble, 10-sat, 7-sat UTXO replies and comments. So. Oh crap! Is it time to potty train my toddler? How did you do it? Let me tell you, when I think my parenting journey is all done, absolutely not. ***It's so early!***
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[pod 12:52] @realBitcoinDog It’s So Early! - Bitcoin Parent Boundaries 👶
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It's so early! I'm your host, @realBitcoinDog Will Schoellkopf, author of _The Bitcoin Dog, Following Descent to the Bitcoin C++ Source Code_, and the novel _Bitcoin Girl Saved the World_. Today I've got burning on my mind the topic of Bitcoin parenting. In general, the advice I've gotten on parenting together with my wife, the mother of my kids, is it's much more important for us to have a united front rather than whether or not we agree or disagree. So of course, ideally, we would both agree on different topics of parenting or things, but when it comes to our two-year-old toddler and her acting out and testing her boundaries, what really matters is that her mom and I both stand firm on what are the boundaries or rules of the house, even if we're not in alignment. So to work that and to do that communication, I've tried to really be explicit and think about what are the boundaries she's testing, think of it for myself rather than just have the internet tell me, and try to think where I stand and where I think my wife stands. So definitely one of the ones is this concept of
## inside voice.
So our daughter has found her voice, you know, aren’t we thankful? And so she might shout or scream, or it's not even anger or crying, but just excitement and just excitements of glee. And it wasn't necessarily an issue until her baby brother was born, and he is only seven weeks old. He is a newborn. So when we finally get him to sleep, it's definitely our preference if we could use our inside voice. The thing is, I love my daughter. I love her. And when I go to, you know, change her, change her diaper at the changing table, it's just a moment, the two of us, no cell phone, no distractions. And then all of a sudden, she'll just yelp out, _eep_! And then I'll yelp out even louder, _eep!_ And then she'll yell even louder, **eep**! And then I'll yell even louder, ***eep***! Okay, this is the fun of having a podcast. I will, of course, transcribe this post for Stacker News. So you can leave your comments there or on Fountain. But yeah, so her mom, my wife heard this, and she was not thrilled that not only was my daughter shouting with glee, but I was egging her on and encouraging the behavior.
## So am I the third child that my wife has in the house?
So how important is it for me to enforce this boundary? You know, I don't want to just say, oh, yeah, no, makes sense. Got to be quiet for inside voice. I really want to think about, I don't want to make empty promises. I mean, this is the beginning. These are the tests, the tests of our marriage and the tests of our parenting, you know, and it's important to think about these things deliberately and not just say what I'm supposed to say. For me, another one is
## feet on the table.
I can't believe it. I wish I was this flexible. I never thought of this. Have you ever been at your dining room table, your kitchen table, eating dinner, and then after eating a whole meal, think, I would like to just rest my feet on top of the table? Not once. I have not once thought of this, but my daughter has thought of it. This one, I definitely know I can't stand for. I have a visceral physical reaction. I don't even have the patience to wait to ask my daughter and work with her to take her feet off of the table. I will take my hand and sweep away the feet off of the table. ***There is no place for feet on the table at my house.*** I was ready and I was prepared for this concept of no elbows on the table, but the feet, so that was a new one. So as far as I can tell, my wife is on the same page with me, no feet on the table, but I know it's not beyond her to put
## her feet up on the dashboard of my car
but that is a discussion for another time. Definitely there are people out there who like putting their feet on the dashboard of people's car when they're in the passenger seat. So anyway, I'm not bitter about that. ***I'm not bitter***. We're not here to talk about that. Another one I didn't think of was I feed her food or dinner and then she
## leaves the table with the food.
That's pretty interesting. For me, I'm hungry. I'll just eat at the table. I'm hungry. Food's right there. Let's go. I'll finish eating, then I'll go play with my toys, do whatever I want. But for her, eventually she's done and really the example I have is breakfast time, and I try to save giving my daughter carbs, giving her a bagel until the end of breakfast, because if I give it to her right at the start, there's a chance that's all she'll eat. I try to focus on her having her eggs, her protein, her sausage for breakfast. And we do have a dog, the Bitcoin🐕 , Sheila, Australian cattle dog. So my daughter, the other day, we finished breakfast and she runs off with a piece of bagel in her hand. But ultimately for my wife and I, how much do we want to enforce this boundary? We're trying to eat breakfast too. We're trying to eat at the table too. If she is preoccupied off to other things, she ate her eggs, she ate her sausage, let her go. Let us have a chance to eat in peace before baby brother wakes up. And what happened? My daughter goes out into the living room, the dog, very smart. Sheila, the Bitcoin dog is _very smart_. She is tracking that bagel. And I know what Sheila's thinking,
>like stealing a bagel from a baby.
And sure enough, my daughter's not looking. Sheila's not biting Paige's hand. She's not biting skin or anything, but she just takes the bagel right out of Paige's hand. And here come the waterworks, Paige crying. So what am I to do? A Bitcoin parent, **low time preference**. My daughter's crying because the dog took the bagel and she's not just crying. She wants another bagel. She wants more bagel. The dog took her bagel. Now, of course, my dog is not supposed to steal food. My dog is not supposed to take food on the table, but we definitely use the dog as a vacuum cleaner to clean up all the food at the bottom of the table when we're done eating. So that's a boundary that the dog has kind of needled her way more and more to see what she can get away with. But so, I mean, really, how many kids do I have in this house? This four legged family member. So I told my daughter, no, no more bagel. That's it. You know, this is why we eat at the table. There are consequences for her actions. If she leaves the table with her bagel, she needs to be careful of the dog. The dog will take the bagel if she's not looking. But also, she could just stay at the at the table or even
## eating dinner.
I mean, these things I just never even thought of, like she'll just stop eating. It's not even a thing of leaving the table with the food, but she'll eat just some of her meal. She'll prioritize eating the rice over the chicken at dinnertime or eating the rice over the salmon. I'm not saying she won't have any salmon. I'll make sure she has some, but she'll not finish the meal. She'll have enough to satiate and then go on playing. And this is rare. But this did happen the other night, too, where we had an earlier dinner than usual and we put Paige to sleep a little earlier than usual. And as we put her to sleep, she said she was hungry and she wanted chicken.
>I want chicken. I'm hungry. I want chicken.
And as a parent, it definitely breaks your heart. I don't necessarily just want to put my daughter to sleep hungry. I don't want her to, you know, go to sleep hungry. But I offered her a full meal. I offered her a full dinner. And from the parenting podcast and parenting books I've read, this is perfect. This is the perfect moment. I know I talked about before on Stacker News how daddy's superpower for parenting is ***infinite patience.*** The best things to take advantage of in parenting and setting the boundaries, the podcast and books say _natural consequences_. So things happening from the outside world or from nature that you don't control. Dog taking bagel out of her hand, her stomach growling. So rather than cater to her, rather than come in at 10 o'clock at night, 11 o'clock at night offering her late night snack to bed because she didn't finish all her dinner, let this be a teachable moment. It's going to be hard for us to hear her crying through the night. Hopefully eventually she falls asleep, which she did. She did eventually fall asleep. And let it be a teachable moment for her and reassure her that in the morning we can have a big breakfast. And then the next night for dinner we can eat a full meal. So that's what we did. That worked out well. So, so far I think the only boundary I've identified that I don't see eye to eye on with my wife is the inside voice. The one that maybe my wife does that I'm not the biggest fan of is, well, there's a lot of things I'm okay with. Definitely having the toys all over the room. But I can, I can appreciate how that's not good. I think what, I think what my wife does is she's very supportive of having Paige help cook with us and really getting into baking and
## baking those tasty treats.
But it does lead to a big mess. It does lead to flour all over the kitchen. My style, I am much more a clean as you go cook, clean as you go chef. And I can appreciate that when you're with a toddler, it's enough to just make sure they're safe, make sure they're not burning their finger on the stove, which she's already touched a hot skillet and that's okay. Put some neosporin on it. But I appreciate, I can see how when we're cooking together in the kitchen, it just makes a big mess. So I don't think it's a, you know, a boundary crossed with me necessarily. I love the benefits of my daughter baking with her mom. I've been eating _cranberry bliss bars_. They're absolutely delicious. But it is a consideration to say that, oh, I just see that mess. And I know I will be cleaning it up just because it bothers me if there's flour on the floor. I don't want to just walk on the flour or step on the flour and then have it lead to a bigger mess walking around. It sounds so obvious, but it just is the case that when it comes to cleaning, my wife's focus is much more on deep cleaning, like _deep cleaning_ the bathtub or _deep cleaning_ the shower or _deep cleaning_ the sink itself. These are things that I just don't see. And when I clean, I've learned to not call it cleaning, but _tidying up_ because it's not actually cleaning the floor. If I wipe all the flour spilt on the floor up, I didn't actually clean the floor. I just tidied up the floor and tidied up the flour. But I want to be loving and I want to be supportive. And I think it's great that we're involving her in the cooking. So let me know what you think. Let me know what you think, Stacker News. Tell me what you think. It's so early, listeners.
## I could use some guidance.
I could use some help when it came to your parenting or even reflecting on your own childhood if you don't have kids. What were the boundaries that were tested? And which boundaries do you think are worth enforcing? It's a wild concept because it's not just you or your partner. Now it's your two-year-old toddler. And I will leave you again with what we say, when it comes to Bitcoin, ***it's so early!***
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