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Potty Training...where do we start?

post #1 of 6
10/24/10 at 10:53am
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Our oldest is 2 now. He HATES being wet or poopy and will immediately want changed. We've been using a mix of cloth diapers and disposables due to the fact that he's growing out of the cloth ones now...and I can't find bigger sizes (nor do I want to buy them ). We've got the little training potties...but I can only get him to sit on it for a minute tops. I think he gets what a potty is... he knows to wipe and to flush and wash hands. I just can't figure out how to get him to use it. Do you think he's ready?
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post #2 of 6
10/24/10 at 10:56am
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Oh I should also add... he's almost completely dry after sleeping through the night. (maybe pees once?) I read somewhere that, that was a sign that he could be ready soon too.
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post #3 of 6
10/24/10 at 11:08am
We are in the same boat. DD just turned 2, and is exhibiting all of the same behaviors as your little one.

We have been talking about using the potty, practicing using the potty, etc. We have the little training potty that she LOVES to sit on, but not actually use. The entire "potty process" is so much fun to her, that she thinks it's a game. She has even pee-peed on it twice, but it was just a fluke. She has no desire to use the potty on a regular basis.

We even let her pick out her big-girl panties and everything. She just wants to play with them, not wear them. Well, I should correct that...she loves to wear them on her head, just not her bottom.

All that to say, we have done all of the introduction, and she is exhibiting the behaviors, but I don't think she is really ready. I am going to back off for a month or two, and readdress it later.
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post #4 of 6
10/24/10 at 12:59pm
What Addimom mentioned is how we start. We always put a potty out several months before we actually started potty training. That gives them time to get comfortable with it, play on it, etc. We read potty books while sitting on the potty. After a few months they were always ready to actually use it. We hyped it up big time!! Singing, dancing, high fives, stickers, so much praise just for trying to go, LOL.

So just keep it relaxed and fun, soon he will get the hang of it!
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post #5 of 6
10/24/10 at 1:40pm
Our ped told us that once they were dry all night, that they probably were ready to try to potty train during the day. So that's what we did. When they were dry at night, I let them choose underwear and start trying to use the potty during the day.

I didn't really use rewards/stickers etc My kids were really so excited to actually use the potty, we didn't need to go that route, but it does work for some folks.

Incidentally neither of my kids wanted to use the little potty seats, they just used the regular toilet.

We were very low key about it and it does take a longer than you want it to! LOL! Not many kids are trained in a day (except my sister supposedly told my mom one day that she was a big girl and that was that LOL).
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post #6 of 6
10/29/10 at 11:22am
My guy was a little over 2 when we started, we made up a potty chart (a train one) got his favorite stickers (Wiggles) and I gave him a sticker for sitting on it the first day. Second day, that morning, plopped him on it naked and distracted him for 20 minuites with books and stickers and etc....then let him have a sticker. Did that the next day too, no success either time. The third morning, after about 15 minuites, he started peeing. He had the most STARTLED look on his face, but when I clapped and cheered and hold him he could have a bunch of stickers, he realized, each morning that it was ok to pee in the potty. After about a week of that, the times getting shorter and shorter where within just a minuite, he'd pee, we tried doing it off and on during the day. Poop was the same, first time was a total accident, and he looked freaked out, but when I got excited, he was too.

My tips, are give him stickers, as many as he wants. He does two drops, gets a sticker, does two more, gets a sticker, that's ok! One time he stopped his pee a half dozen times to get stickers. M&Ms too were helpful for getting him on the poppy, when he didn't want to sit. Be patient, sometimes it takes a half hour sitting there at first til they are comfy enough to realx and pee, so be sure to entertain with books or small toys!
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