Fortunately our daycare helped us with this so it wasn't just something we did at night. At home we bought my son his own small little potty. My wife would put a Cheerio in it so my son had something to aim at. I think I have a picture of my son sitting on his little potty in the middle of the living room, watching TV. Overall though it only took about 2 weeks.
I don't know if this is a commiseration thread, but I feel your pain. Here's some advice. Get yourself a cooking timer. Set it to 20 minutes. Have her go to the potty every 20 minutes, regardless of need or not. Make a big deal out of the successes, don't emphasize the failures.
I'm not sure it's possible to summarize something like that. It's a whole new person's entire life. If I started listing little individual reasons, I don't think I could stop. Thanks for the suggestions guys.
In the process of this myself. My son's only 2 years, 3 months old, so we aren't expecting anything major, but he has done really well so far. Radman, does your daughter like to read books? My son loves for us to read books to him, so we got a little basket and filled it with some of his books and keep it in the bathroom. So now he equates potty time with reading time, and he enjoys his jaunts on the potty. The downside is he can end up sitting up there for 20-30 minutes while we read to him before he decides to go, but he is not afraid and does tell us when he needs to poop (usually)...hasn't quite figured out the pee pee part yet. He took to it pretty well, though, so maybe the reading thing won't work with your daughter. Is there something else you could do with her while she sits on the potty? Coloring, maybe?
We read all the time with her on the potty too, lol. Not sure it helps much though. She holds it - but won't release it all at once. So you're left with mini-pees that string out for an hour or more before she finally lets it all go. We've had successes, but yesterday afternoon/evening was an exhausting step back.
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Don't stress about it, they will get there eventually, my oldest son was nearly 3 and a half, my youngest boy was 3.... They will get there in their own time. DD
Yeah, but he is in the middle of potty training his kid, not deciding if he is going to keep her. DaDa is right, it'll happen when it happens. I'd say, ease up and come back hardcore focus in a few months. We tried w/ my son too early and had to come back. The key (as weird as it seems) for my son was privacy. One day he realized : " Oh, you'll shut the door and I can **** in peace? Let's do that!" But yeah...it ain't easy brother.
Thats because the benefits are mostly intangible. Its just the joy you have watching someone learn and grow. I love just hearing my son talk. That first time he said daddy or I love you were amazing. Every little success means everything to you. Things you to as a non-parent make you when you are a parent.
I have 2 boys, and our life is centered around them....Karate for the eldest and every other sport for the youngest. My wife and I LOVE it..... Raising children is the greatest thing we have ever done. DD
We used Potty Training in a Day with our older daughter when she was about 2 1/2. It worked alright although it took more than a day. A day is about right when you wait until they are three or so. But what the method did accomplish was that she was happy to go on the potty. Essentially it means throwing an all day party for just her (on a Saturday if you're both working) and watching her constantly. And lots of juice, stickers and princess gear. Our younger daughter is just over two and ready to be potty trained but as I'm on bed rest and JV isn't ready to give up the convenience of her using diapers it hasn't happened yet. Best of luck. And my vote is: kids are quite worth it. When I look back at my life before kids it seems relatively empty. Sure, parenting is a challenge. But life without any challenges seems a bit lame to me. Besides, these are fun challenges with a lot of humorous incidents.
With us, it was a long and arduous journey for the boy. As someone posted earlier, progressions and setbacks... for a LONG time. The girl seems to be taking to it better, but it's early yet. We shall see. I can't give advice how to do it right, but I can tell you what everyone else told me didn't necessarily work, and all we had to fall back on through all the strife was patience and consistency. Again as someone stated earlier, big fanfare at the successes, and little acknowledgement or focus on the failures. We dropped the ball a few times, and let it stress us (and the boy) out too much, but it went on too long as well, so hard to say what's best. What I do know is... like most things, the less you stress on it, the more likely you'll find success.
We (my GF & I) just found out that we are expecting and she was explaining to me how she got potty trained. I know this is probably easier said than done but it may help. She said that her Mom simply put her on the pooper and made her sit until she had to go, not until then could she get up and do her thing. It may sound bad cause they can't do anything while they're doin their business but I'm sure after the 1st month or so of that they'll understand what happens and why they should go sit on the potty to use the restroom. Just what I heard, hope it helps, and good luck sir!
seriously??? i can understand not wanting to be a parent...but you're asking parents if knowing their children is worth teething, school "strife", and being around the house??? my oldest is 9 and i've already come to the painful realization that his time living in my home is halfway through. i dropped my youngest off to pre-k today for the first time....not easy.
I can't remember exactly how old my oldest daughter was when she potty-trained...but it was pretty young. Her little sister though would go to her little toilet, climb up and do her business at 15 months old. It was great to see, but the wiping part took a little more time to learn. Sometimes, even at 5 or 6 they don't do a great job at that, but half of you guys probably don't either.
