She tells me when she pee's, but she calls it poopoo sometimes... "Mommy, I poopoo I poopoo" and then I say "you pee'd?" and she says "ya" and I ask if she wants me to change her diaper and she says "ya" and lays down. When she really poops she tells me she didn't and runs and hides. She's sassy, so this is going to be so much fun.
I've got a 10 month old daughter and I am dreading this part of parenting. I know once its done though, we are going to have a big party and enjoy it probably just long enough before the next one comes and slaps us back into reality.
We seriously started potty training our son a little before he turned 3. He liked Gatorade so I let him drink as much as he wanted. I dressed him without a diaper and we played _outside_. He peed in his pants and was very upset. I cleaned him up and we went back to the Gatorade. We went back outside and this time he told me when he had to pee. I brought him to the toilet under protest and made him pee in the toilet. The rest is history. Pooping was another story. After he learned to pee in the toilet, he didn't wear diapers anymore. When he needed to poop he would ask for a diaper. We couldn't make him poop because he would just hold it in so it took a few more months before he was fully potty trained.
This is good advice. I have a 22 year old and a 7 year old. Potty training "tips" did not change in the 15 year gap. I'm no Freudian apologist, but do not give your child a complex, due to your desire to get them trained.
We did the same for awhile, but told our son, when you turn 3 you can't wear your diaper to bed anymore. He agreed. When that day finally happened it worked and hasn't worn a diaper since.
2 years is too young for most kids. I waited until my daughter was ready. She started tell me when she went because it wasn't very comfortable.
"I talked to Mickey Mouse when I was little." "What? You're joking." "No, for real... ask my parents... I used to get to talk to him when I successfully peed! Bet 10 bucks I did...?" "LIAR. Call them right now. You're making sch*t up. Ten bucks says you didn't." "Ok... I'll call them right now... watch... no way my parents ever lied to me EVER." Boy, is he going to find out his parents are a bunch of liars the HARD way and be embarrassed at the same time... There's no RIGHT AGE for anything. It depends on how mature and ready they are to handle such a change.
Great thread. We just started our 2 1/2 little boy out on potty training. It's funny- some days he is gung-ho and will make it to the toilet every time he has to crap. Some days he is satisfied to go in his diaper. So should we go for the pee training first? What really started this all is that he was sick a few weeks ago and apparently had diarrhea and slept in it all night. The next morning he had the worst rash I'd ever seen, even on his junk, which was swolen shut, so we rushed him to the doc. The pediatrician had never seen a rash that bad and called a different doc in for a second opinion. After that, my son was all about crapping on the toilet for a few days, because he understood that sitting in poop=pain in the winky.
