Living With My Aunt Betty Summary: About a boy that had to start living with his aunt. His aunt did not put up with bed wetting or potty accidents like his mom. She had a new way to deal with wetting. My mother had to transfer to Germany for two year to keep her job but she did not to take me with her. She said it would be to hard an eight-year-old at school. She asked me if I would like to stay with Aunt Betty. I jumped and said "YES" I would like it. That is because she ran a day school for kids' one-years-old to twelve-years-old. She had all kinds of toys to play with along with my three cousins' seven- year-old Billy, fiver-year-old Jimmy and three-year-old Timmy. So at the end of this school year mom and I would take a bus to and town two hundred miles south of Chicago where she would drop me off at my aunt's before flying to Germany. Three weeks later we were on our way to my aunt's. Mom let me roam the bus because there were only a few passengers. I was drinking the sodas we brought with us and using to potty every half hour or so because of it. We arrived at my aunt's town at about 9:00PM. She helped load my luggage in to my aunt's car and said good-by as she had to take the bus to the airport to go to Germany. On the car ride to my aunt's school about five miles outside of town and two miles to the nearest neighbor. We unloaded my luggage found my pajamas so I could get dressed for bed. I had the top bunk of one of the two sets of bunk beds Billy had the top bunk of the other. Jimmy was below Billy and Timmy was below me. I was asleep within minutes after being covered by my aunt. I slept so good that night nothing woke me up until Timmy climbed up in my bed to wake me. He quickly discovered I had done something I have not done in two months, I wet my bed. He started to giggle as I still hadn't realized what I had done. Then my other cousins had a good look. My aunt came in and asked what's going on in here. She found me trying to climb down out of my wet bed when she helped me all the way down. Sense I was so small for a eight-year-old it was easy for her. She told me the rules about wetting the bed. I had to now wear training pants the rest of the day. She carried me to the corner of the room next to the crib was a changing table she removed my wet pajamas and cleaned me up and had me in a pair of Pull-Ups. I was so small they a perfect fit. She put me down and I asked what about my pants. She told me if you wear training-pants you are not aloud to wear pants. She did put a Big-Bird T-shirt on me but it only came to just the top of my training pants. She told me to pull my training pants down and sit on the potty in the corner of the room beside the baby crib. I tried to talk her out of it and asked if I could go sit on the big toilet in the bathroom. She said no that I need to sit on the potty for ten minutes. While I sat on the potty my cousin were getting out of their pajamas and getting dressed for the day. After they finished my aunt came in the room and told me to stand up. When I stood up she pulled up my training pants up. They had stars on the front. She pointed out if the stars disappeared I was wet and I would be diapered in baby diapers for three days and treated just like a toddler. She walked me to the kitchen where before I knew it I was lifted into one of many highchairs around the kitchen and strapped in. She put the tray in front of me and said. "It's breakfast time." I said I don't need a highchair I am big enough to eat at the table. She told me if you are wearing training pants or diapers you must sit in a highchair to eat your meals. Both of my cousins giggled and my aunt said you know the rules about teasing. They quit giggling and started to eat their breakfast. While my aunt started to feed me my oatmeal. Half way through my breakfast I needed to poop so badly. I tried to tell her but every time I opened my mouth she would fill it with oatmeal. She was finely finished and I started to tell her I need to go to the potty. She said that I had just gotten off the potty and I would have to wait until after I finished my breakfast bottle. She had my mouth filled with a baby bottle nipple before I could say another word. I tried to talk but she said drink it or I would spend the day sitting in this highchair. I sucked as fast as I could so I would be able to go sit on the potty. But the poop I was holding back started slipping out into my training pants. The poop was followed by pee as I gave up and let go. Aunt Betty said. "Smells like we have a new baby in the house that needs his diaper changed." I started to cry but she told me, I would have to finish my bottle before she would change me. After breakfast we walked to the daycare center behind the house. My aunt was holding my hand walking me in my wet and messy pair of training pants. In the daycare center there were three other ladies taking care of seven other boys' ages one and a half to ten-years-old. There were three classes for the boys, babies to three-year-olds, three to five-year-olds and six to eleven-year-olds. The two to three-year-old class was to the left side of the building this is where my aunt led me telling Miss. Wells that I need to be put back in diapers because I had wet and messed my training pants. Miss. Wells said why was he wearing training pants? My aunt told her that I had wet my bed and spent ten minutes on the potty before breakfast then at breakfast wet and mess while I ate my breakfast. Miss. Wells said. She could take care of older babies just like the little ones there is no difference. Miss. Wells led me to my class room it had four cribs, four highchairs, and two changing tables. There were baby toys in the play area that was a just large playpen ten feet by ten feet and four feet high. There were two doorways with no doors just gates that were released by a button at the top of the doorway out off reach of little hands. It was so far out of reach no boy shorter that five feet tall could ever reach it. All the rooms were so open so that someone in any one room could see what was going on in all of the other rooms. Diaper changes were done out in the open so every one could see when a baby has messed or wet his diaper. First Miss. Wells put me on the changing table and removed my wet and messy pants. She took her time cleaning me up but when she finished she put a size 6 Luvs Diaper on me and found it was a little too big so she put a size 5 on me instead. She asked me if I would be a good boy and keep my hand off my diaper. I told her no I am going to rip them off. So she put me into a playsuit that zipped up the back. It was just like the ones a one year old would wear. It had a teddy bear in a diaper on the front with a pacifier loop at the shoulder. She then put me on the ground and I realized I could not stand up because of the way the playsuit was made. I had to crawl where ever I went. I started to cry it's not fair. I am a big boy not a baby. Miss. Wells put me in with two other babies I saw they were walking and playing with their toys. I crawled over to the toy pile and started to play by myself. The oldest boy came over and asked what my name was. I said. Donny. He said. His name was Mikie and he is two and a half. He asked me how old I was. I said. I was eight-years-old. He said. He was getting potty trained and showed me his training pants. He asked me why was I still in diapers like a baby. I said. I wet my bed last night and wet my pants a breakfast. He said. He saw me get changed and it looked like I poop my pants like a baby does. I told him my aunt would not let me out of the highchair to go to the potty. He said. Babies can't hold their pee and poop like big boys can. He is a big boy not a baby. I asked him how I could get to the potty when I need to pee. He said I would have to hold it until Miss. Wells asked me if I need to go to the potty. Or use the diaper I was wearing that is the rule. I crawled around and played for a few more minutes trying not to pee the diaper I had on but without warning I started to pee I could not stop it. I continued to play fore about a half hour when Miss. Wells walk over to one and a half year old baby Billy. She checked his diaper and asked him if he needed to potty he shook his head yes. She untapped his diaper and put him on the potty chair in the corner. Five minutes later she put his diaper back on and he returned to playing. She walked over to me and checked my diaper. She then carried me over to the changing table removed my playsuit and changed my diaper. She asked me again if I would keep my hands off my diaper tapes and not take it off for any reason. I said. OK I will keep my diaper on. She let me down on the floor wearing only a Big Bird T-shirt and a diaper. I walked over and started to play with Billy. He could only say a few words but we played and had fun. Miss. Wells gave Billy a bottle of apple juice the handed me mine. I said. That I can drink from a glass. Miss. Wells said I would have to drink the bottle or get a bare bottom spanking. I took the bottle and started to drink it was good and in a few minutes I was finished. Billy and I played for another half hour when I needed to pee again. I had no choice but to wet my diaper again, after I finished wetting I kept playing. One half hour later Miss. Wells checked Billy's diaper and asked him again if he needed to go potty. He said. OK. Miss. Wells had him on the potty and he pooped and peed like a big boy. Miss. Wells was so happy that Billy was learning to go potty, only if his would ask to go potty. If he would ask to go she could put him in training pants. She checked my diaper and carried me to the changing table and changed my diaper without saying a word. I asked her if I could ask her to take me to the potty when I needed to go. She said yes but I had to hold it for a minimum of two and a half hours for a big kid like me and only one hour for a little kid like Billy. Sense I have been wet every hour it looks like it would be a long time before I get potty trained again. After my diaper change she carried me to a highchair and put me in for lunch. Billy and Mikie were already in their highchair and ready to eat. Miss. Wells put their food on their tray so they could feed themselves while she fed me my lunch of baby food three jars that tasted bad but Miss. Wells kept putting it in my mouth. I ended up eating most of it that was not on my face or bib. Then she handed me a bottle and I reluctantly took it and started to suck it because I knew I would not be allowed out of the highchair until I did. We played for about a half hour after lunch then Mikie and Billy were led to a sleeping mat for a nap. Miss. Wells put me in on of the three cribs for my nap. I complained she explained sense I wet my bed last night I would have to sleep in a crib until I can prove I can stay dry. She handed me a baby bottle with warm milk and said to take my bottle and take a nice quiet nap. The side of the crib was at my chin and as soon as she left I tried to climb out but could not pull my self up far enough to get out. So I lay down and started to take my bottle next thing I remember was Miss. Wells changing my wet diaper. Aunt Betty came in just as Miss. Wells finished changing my diaper and asked her how Donny was doing. She told her I was not ready to potty train because I was wetting so many diapers. Aunt Betty asked her how many diaper have I have used. She said more than most babies ever do. Every diaper check time he is wet. She told me I would have to learn to hold my pee better to get to play with the big boys. Aunt Betty just said keep him in this class until he can prove he can be a big boy. I cried to Aunt Betty I was a big boy and not a baby and I can prove it just give me a chance and I can do it! I was really yelling and crying and all upset. She told me to follow her. She told me she would do that but if I have just one little accident I would have to come back here with the babies until she said I was a big boy. I said. "OK." She took me to a little room removed my clothes including my diaper. She looked at my red butt and said she needed to put something on my diaper rash and take my temperature. She rubbed baby oiled on my butt then put the thermometer in my but along with a suppository. I did not feel the suppository. When she was finished she handed me some big boy clothes to put on and left the little room. I quickly got dressed and walked out of the room she told me where to go to find the big boy class. I found my cousins and they led me way out back to their fort in the back of the play yard. I was about three hundred feet away from the daycare. I was playing just a few minutes when the suppository started to work so quickly. I was on the top of the fort and two of the other boy's was coming up the ladder and I could not get down until they were all the way up. It did not make any difference I mess my pants before the first boy was all the way up. I was scared what could I do by the time the last boy got to the top. The first boy sniffed and asked me if I pooped my pants. I started to cry as they said we don't play with babies that poop in their pants. They all started chanting baby, baby, baby. Baby needs his diapers back. With them teasing me I felt my pants warm and then felt wet. They were all teasing except my cousins. Billy helped me down and Jimmy went to get Aunt Betty. Aunt Betty came out and said Remember what I told you. I was crying and did not even hear her. We walked back in to the toddler class and Aunt Betty gave my hand to Miss. Wells and said he needs his diapers back. It felt so good to be back where I was not teased for my accidents. I did not know what happened to me but I could not help it the poop just came out so fast. Then I don't even remember wetting my pants but my pants were now cold. Miss. Wells helped me out of my clothes and cleaned me up and put me back into diapers. They felt so good, I felt so safe and warm with just diapers and a T-shirt. Miss. Wells put me in the playpen and I enjoyed the rest of the day. Aunt Betty came to take me back to the house for the night. Aunt Betty held my hand as we walked to her house, my diapered butt waddling along. I was wet and did not know it and did not care either. She told Jimmy to change my diaper while she fixed dinner. Jimmy led me to the nursery as I was sucking my pacifier. He changed my diaper just like Miss. Wells did several times during the day. He asked why I can't get to the potty like a big kid. I said. I don't know. He said. Timmy never used as many diapers as I did today, not even when he was a baby. Timmy only wets once or twice a week not eight or nine times a day like you did. He said he heard I used nine diapers today that would be eleven including wetting the bed and messing and wetting a breakfast. I said I could not help it, it just happens. He said last week Timmy used three diapers and he is only a baby. We walked back to the kitchen and my aunt picked me put and had me in the highchair with the tray in place. I don't mind it now that I feel so secure being babied. Because I keep wetting and messing my diapers like a baby so I should be treated like a baby. May be I can ask Timmy for some help getting potty trained again. After my baby food dinner I spent the time before bedtime in a playpen. Aunt Betty said until I can be a big boy again I would be the baby of the house and have to follow the baby rules. She said. Jimmy, Billy and Timmy would watch me to make sure I followed them. They all know how to change diapers and get you a bottle so just ask one of them. I asked her how long I would be treated like a baby. She said. At least six weeks. Then I would go to potty training class with until then I would have to do what my cousins told me to do. At bedtime Aunt Betty changed my wet diaper and put a light wait footed sleeper on me. She put me in the crib in the room where my cousin would soon be sleeping. She handed me a bottle of warm milk and told me I better drink this now or in the morning, but in the morning it might taste bad. I lay down in the crib and started to suck my bottle. Next thing I remember was Billy in the crib with me changing my wet diaper. Billy led me down to the kitchen dressed in only a size 5 Pamper. Aunt Betty put me in my highchair and put the tray in place. The she started to feed me my oatmeal with the same result as yesterday. But this time I was wet and messy before she was half finished feeding me. As she handed me my bottle she told me my status in school is that of a fifteen-month-old. That potty-training begins at eighteen months at the school. Every fifteen minutes I would be taken to the potty where I would sit until I peed or pooped. After three months of that I would be moved to training pants. After six weeks of clean dry training pants I would be moved to under pants. Six weeks after that if I could stay clean and dry I would be a big boy again. We made the walk to the school just like yesterday me wearing my wet and messy diapers. The day went just like Aunt Betty told me it would. I was always on the potty and with all the stuff they gave me to drink I had no problem peeing in the potty within minutes of being sat on it. Matter of fact I wet my diaper two times because I could not hold it. My training went on for six weeks just like Aunt Betty told me it would. But one problem I was wetting just about as many diapers as I did the first day I was here, even the potty time did not stop my wetting. After six weeks of the training they told me that I should know when I need to pee so when I need to pee ask and I will be taken to the potty. After I went three days with out wetting or messing my diaper I could have training pants. On my first day of not being sat on the potty I peed only one time in the potty and twelve times in my diaper. I messed at lunchtime just like a baby should. I was a real baby peeing and pooping in my diaper and not even caring. I liked to play with the baby toys sense I have not seen a big boy toy sense I arrived. My cousin's thought of me as their baby brother and even Timmy could change my wet diapers. When summer was over Aunt Betty gave me a placement test to see what grade at her School I should be in. At age eight I placed between sixth and seventh grade but her school only went up to the sixth grade. So she decided to put me in the kindergarten class to have me read the boys stories and help show them how to do math. At first I had trouble because of my diaper problem. They did not want to play with a baby until I started to read them The Wizard of OZ. Then Charlottes Web they were so quiet when I read them stories Miss. White their teacher liked it. After the reading hour I would show them how to read simple words and by the middle of the school year all four could read an do math at the first grade level. I showed them how to add and subtract and even how to multiply and divide simple numbers. By the end of the year they could pass any first grade test and they were only five and six-year-olds. I still had my diaper problem but I was now only wetting in class not pooping. I could hold my poop all for a couple of hours. But pee was the problem I would wet without warning all the time. I would only be in the all day kindergarten class for about two hours then I had to return to the nursery. By that time I would be soaked and need my diaper changed. I would mess only while I was being fed a meal sitting in my highchair.