So Far Today…
- F has pointed to her hat and said, “Hat.”
- J has pooped on the carpet.
Language is coming along better than potty training.
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January 22nd, 2008 16:57
I feel for you! One of the best things about my kids getting older (aside from being able to use the bathroom myself all alone with the door closed) is knowing that I am done with potty training – never again!!! But take heart, no college freshman ever left home with training pants and language development will eventually make everything (especially potty training) easier!
January 22nd, 2008 17:42
OK, so you’re motivating me, since my boys are several months ahead and still gleefully wearing diapers…. are you using a speicifc book or what? They were happily peeing in the potty pretty well six months ago, but we just got out of the habit because after a couple of months they were still not telling me when they had to go!
January 22nd, 2008 20:22
I’d say F is winning today, accomplishment-wise.
January 22nd, 2008 20:23
Also, my twins are 2 years 7 months old, and I have not even LOOKED IN THE DIRECTION OF potty-training. Can’t face it!
January 22nd, 2008 21:36
Well, we haven’t exactly started potty training. We have acquired potties. I have Once Upon a Potty
on order, which a friend of mine swears by and since her child is younger than mine and already peeing on the potty I am inclined to trust her on this one. I blush to admit we are kind of outsourcing potty training since their day care (excuse me, Montessori Young Children’s Community) assists in this. I like the idea of J pooping on a floor I don’t have to clean up or feel bad about as he makes the connection between pooping and the potty. He really likes to please so I suspect that once he makes the connection that peeing and pooping in the potty leads to praise he’ll be all over that.
January 22nd, 2008 22:10
My cousin used a program called “six Hour Potty Training”, which her pediatrician gave her. It worked – They went through the 6 hour schedule and he had 3 or 4 accidents in the first week and now no more. I’m sure if you googled it, something would come up.
The most important thing: stick with it and do not use pull-ups. I had more trouble with daycare parents putting their kids in pull-ups all day every weekend and totally screwing up the progress I had made with naked/cloth pants! (I guess I would be the other half of that outsourcing thing . . . but I never minded as long as the parent was on the same page as I was.)
January 22nd, 2008 22:57
So… since you are the guru with dozens of kids under your potty training belt, what tips do you have for the parent end of the day care equation when the technique is naked/cloth pants?
January 23rd, 2008 00:23
Cannot stop giggling about your post. I can only imagine what I have to look forward to when I get to that stage.
January 23rd, 2008 01:00
I’m just delurking here…
My daughter is almost the same age – she’ll be 18 months this Thursday. I was wondering about the potty training thing, too. We bought the potty because she was consistently telling me when she had to “poo poo”, and she even did in the big potty once.
Now we have the chair, and she’s quit telling me (most of the time). Now she goes and hides to do her business. I can’t imagine how difficult/frustrating this will be when we start it all out!
January 23rd, 2008 18:08
You have the most important part of it: naked/cloth pants. Most kids do not like the feeling of warm & wet running down their legs. I also find that it motivates me more. I am less likely to put off having them sit on the potty while I fold one more load of laundry if I know it might mean mopping! I would have them sit on the potty and look at books or what have you every 20 minutes or so, until something happened (on the potty or not) and then I would wait about an hour before suggesting it again. But all kids are different in terms of how cooperative they are, what motivates them and how often they need to go. (I had one day care kiddo who was a camel. That kid must have had a gallon sized bladder!) The younger they are, the easier. If you wait until they are old enough to realize that you can’t “make” them go, it will be a power struggle. Take the potty chair everywhere. We have pictures of my middle child sitting on hers at her older brother’s t-ball games. The whole bleachers cheered when she went. Mostly, just don’t give up. I made that mistake with same middle child and switched to pull-ups after a month or so. It took another year to really get her trained. This is how I know pull-ups are evil. If you get tired of mopping and your child is small enough, I liked those nasty plastic-y vinyl pants they make to go over cloth diapers – they slid right up over her panties and prevented poop from hitting my white carpet.