[Parents] Potty Training

I don't envy you. This is not fun.

Those are basically the steps we took, but it took more than a few days. You also have to deal with mad dashes through stores for the next few weeks/months because when they say it is time to go; they mean it and you better find a bathroom fast. I got to the point that the first thing I did when I went any place with my kids was scout out the location of the bathroom.

Girls are supposed to be easier to potty train and my daughter was easier than my son.

 

I'm in the exact same stage you are right now. We've got our son pooping on the toilet now, but he hasn't figured out the whole peeing thing yet.

 

what if you're kid goes to a daycare?

 

rub their nose in the poop, then throw'em out back. they are like sponges.

 

My nephew's been potty training for a while now too. He's a weird little kid; he just holds it in and doesn't tell us that he needs to go. We have to take him to the toilet whenever we think it's time for him to go.

 

Honestly --- I think the best thing is to make it as unstressful and pressure filled as possible. Don't stress over anyone else's schedules or time frames. With a little encouragement they allways get it.

Use pull-ups -- ignore accidents, praise success's and let it happen as it may.
Don't stress over it.

I work with lots of little kids and most potty train by 3 but a few stragglers take a little into their 3's.

 

TeamUSA, you FAIL at using contractions. It's "your", because you weren't saying "You Are".

We have 2 girls. My wife did the training.

When you give her something to drink, monitor how much she drinks. CONSTANTLY ask "would you like to go potty?" and invent ways to ask the question or the child will be irritated. ("Hey... we're near a potty... feel like... you know... going in there?", "I just went potty... would you like to, also?" etc.)

Do NOT use a kids' potty. This will only teach them they are not part of the "same" family that goes to the same place to potty.

You need from FRIDAY MORNING, to MONDAY EVENING for all this. Get E to help you out. DO NOT GO TO PUBLIC PLACES where there are no potty places. DO NOT. This will throw a monkey wrench in your scheme.

Good luck. It's a blessing when it happens, and the entire family should celebrate it.

 

Better yet - pull a "Red Dragon" on your spawn and tell it that if they wet themselves again, you'll slice/cut them and permanently disfigure them so they grow up to be insane.

 

My youngest would not do number 2. She would hold it and hold it and sometimes poop in her pants. One day she did it in her pants, took them off in her bedroom and spread poo all over the walls. Mrs. rimrocker was in a state of schock. I had to come home from work early and deal with the mess. It was gross. I made her sit in timeout while I cleaned the walls... and worked on the carpet. Our reaction did make an impression, because after that, she was good.

Oldest was not as dramatic, but took longer. It was more like a siege than a battle.

There's a couple of "Potty" books you can get and read to them. I think it does help.

Good luck.

 

The thing to remember -- is every kid is potty trained well before kindergarten. They just are. Even the ones with hopeless parents.

So try whatever tricks you think might work. Listen to the advise. But don't stress it too much.

 

potty training in a day without tears is outstanding

 

i might have had to try meggo's technique had mine done likewise. bwahahaha.

 

When we were potty training our daughter, we told her that when she peed or pooped in the potty, she'd get to call mickey mouse and tell him.

I can do a pretty decent mickey mouse voice, so we had her call my cell phone. Worked very well.

But as someone else here said, it's supposedly easier to potty train girls.

 

My 15 month poops and pees as he pleases. Thank god for our wood floor. That turned out to be a real good decision.


How about those musical potties? Dont they play Beethoven's #5 when the job is done? I thought I just need one of those.

 

My son was later than most. Not all kids are ready at the same age.

We started him out by telling him to let us know when he wet his diaper. IOW, we wanted to him to recognize when he was going. After we got that down, he was pee trailed in 2 days and poo trained within a few weeks after that.

He still wears a pullup to bed. We've worked on that with no success. My son is the deepest sleeper I've ever seen. Its impossible to snap him out of sleep before his normal wake up time.

 

Mine wouldnt wake up even if he is pinched. He started to sleep through the night like when he was 3 month old.

 

The best advice I can give is to wait until they are ready. If you try too early, it will not work and will frustrate everyone involved. Both my boys trained without accidents, but we waited until the oldest was 2 1/2 and the youngest was almost 3.

My mother-in-law kept harping on me about training them from the time they were 18 months on. She drove me nuts. Don't worry about the numbers, unless she gets past 3, then it is time to start pushing. It is best to do it all at once, although pull ups at night are ok.

We went to an Aggie football game in the midst of training my oldest, Kyle. It was hot and our seats had the sun beating down on us and we were in the middle of a long row of people. He quickly figured out that if he said he had to go potty, he didn't have to sit in the hot sun. My husband had to take him back and forth to the bathroom, across all those poor people, all game long. Ironically, he has just decided to go to A&M and will be a freshman there in the fall. I'm glad I remembered this story, I need to find a time to embarrass him with it.