“Mommy, I can’t do it. I just can’t. What if I fall in? It’s too cold and too hard!”
“Billy, Daddy and I know you can do it. We did it and we were just fine. It’s okay to be scared, when we were kids, we were scared as well.”
Billy’s parents were trying to comfort him and get him to stop crying. You see, Billy was scared of the cold, hard, and red-colored new potty his parents had bought for him. Billy knew that eventually he would have to use it and he knew that all the big boys used the potty. However, every time Billy neared the potty, he started breathing faster breaths and his eyesight became blurry as tears fell down his small, pale face. He knew that nothing would happen to him; however, the potty was so different from his comfortable and soft diapers. He wanted to use the potty, he wanted to feel like a big boy, but he didn’t know if he could do it.
To encourage him, Billy’s mom bought him Winnie the Pooh underwear since it was his favorite character. When Billy wore the underwear, he felt like he could truly do it. He would go walking to their restroom, and with confidence, he would sit down on the potty. Everything seemed like it was going well, but the coldness of the potty made him uncomfortable and he just couldn’t stay on the potty. He cried, not because he was scared, but because he was ashamed that he couldn’t do something that was so normal for the rest of his family.
Sometimes he would pee or poop in his underwear and he would feel a swirling sensation in his tummy that didn’t feel so good.  He didn’t want to get Pooh all dirty because he was very fond of the bear. He decided that he would start to wear his underwear every day and go to the restroom when he felt like peeing or pooping. At first, Billy kept peeing his underwear because right when he was about to sit on the potty, he felt too nervous to actually use it and peed all over the floor.
After many tries of using the potty but failing, Billy decided that if he peed or pooped his pants once more, that he would give up. So as he felt that urge to pee, he knew it was now or never. He marched up to his mom's room and announced proudly, “Mom, I’m going to use the restroom now, from now on I am a big boy.” When he was done doing his announcement, his little feet scurried across the long hallway to the restroom where he pulled down his underwear and sat down on the red potty. At first nothing happened, but then, he started to pee. He was peeing in the potty! Billy had done it!
“Mom, Mom! I did it, I peed in the potty! Come quick!” Billy’s mom hurried to their restroom almost falling because her socks were very slippery. When she got there, she found Billy standing there without pants, his bright pink lips stretched across his face in the biggest smile Billy had ever smiled. She looked into the potty and there it was, Billy had used the restroom for the very first time. She smiled a smile that was almost as big as Billy’s and she called Dad and Brittney. When they got there they clapped for Billy and told him they knew he could do it.
That day, Billy felt warmth spread through his body like the warmth he felt when mommy tucked him in at night and he could not stop grinning a Peter Pan grin. From that day on, he began to use the restroom every single day and the potty was no longer a monster waiting to devour him, the potty was now a friend who was going to help Billy become a stronger person.