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\"\"<\/a>For those of you confused by the title, you should know that I have an 18 month old son.*<\/p>\n

When I was pregnant with Kyle,\u00a0I\u00a0heard that I wasn’t going to get much sleep or alone time with my husband.\u00a0 But I was never told that I also wouldn’t be able to go to the bathroom without the accompaniment of my son.\u00a0 Of course when\u00a0Kyle was a little baby, if he was awake or not in his crib, I could take him into the\u00a0bathroom\u00a0with me and put him\u00a0in his bouncing chair.\u00a0 But\u00a0as he got older and more mobile, I assumed he\u00a0should be able to\u00a0continue to play wherever he is as\u00a0I’m only an ear shot away. <\/p>\n

Apparently, Kyle will not have it this way.\u00a0 He shouts and screams and cries the minute I open the bathroom door if he’s not tagging along.\u00a0 I even\u00a0try leaving the door open for g-d sake.\u00a0 But nope, it’s not enough.\u00a0 He needs to be right in there with me.\u00a0\u00a0The thing that kills me is that he has the same reaction even when my husband is home and he’s with him while I go to the bathroom.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure it’s not separation anxiety, so what could it be?<\/p>\n

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Is he worried that I’m going to fall in?\u00a0 Is Kyle actually being extremely brave and joining me in the bathroom to\u00a0protect me?\u00a0 Does he think it’s like Narnia<\/a>\u00a0where I might go through a black hole into a fantasy world with\u00a0talking lions and other animals?\u00a0 Although sometimes I wish that would be true, I have news for you Kyle – NOTHING EXCITING IS GOING ON IN THERE!!\u00a0 So it can’t be that he’s jealous.\u00a0\u00a0 Maybe he’s curious?\u00a0 I doubt it… his dad takes him in there when he pees, so he’s already seen what all the “glory” is about.\u00a0 So what is it?\u00a0 Is there any rhyme or reason to this behaviour?\u00a0 Does anyone out there know?\u00a0 If you do, PLEASE share it with me.\u00a0 I would love to figure out this parenting mystery.<\/p>\n

For now, I guess I will just have to wait until\u00a0Kyle’s asleep to finally have the opportunity to be…uhhhh\u00a0I mean…pee, alone.<\/p>\n

*For those of you who arrived at this blog through a google search, I think you might be disappointed :).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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