shit about potty training. No pun intended! I have successfully potty trained two children but apparently that doesn't mean I know what I am doing.
With Little Man, he was obsessed with Toy Story so I bought Toy Story underwear and threatened to throw them away. After one pair got tossed (then later retrieved) in the trash, he knew I meant business. TaDa! He was potty trained at 26 months.
With Toot, I tried the same trick (with princess/Elmo panties) but it didn't work as well. She didn't care that I would throw them away. She became potty trained at 28 months when SHE was ready.
I don't have the energy to ask 50 million times a day "Do you need to go peepee?" so I don't. I also don't like the wear panties during the day and diapers at night thing. It just seemed it would have confused me when I was 2 so why confuse the kids more than they already are so we waited till they woke up with dry diapers to start the process. And they didn't run around naked and pee everywhere. They either kept their diaper on or wore panties/underwear and tried to make it in time. The nakedness came after potty training was mastered. Thank goodness!
With Smiley, I gotta whole other situation on my hands. He sometimes makes it threw the night completely dry and other nights, not so much. He will not watch TV at all so no cool underwear to obsess over. I know, that's probably a good thing, but not when I need a shower or need to bribe him with cool undies. He loves to be naked and will take his diaper off and pee on the floor/couch/bed/TABLE. He has sat on the "potty" 20 million times and I have never seen him pee in it much less anything else. He only goes and sits on it when I tell him we need to put another diaper on him. Then he's all "I GOTTA GO PEE!!!" and runs to the bathroom. I'm outta ideas. I'm sure this is nothing compared to what we will go threw later on in life with him but I'd like to get this down first.
Any suggestions. I need all the help I can get. I have never used a little potty chair. I just bought the thing you set on the big potty. Do you think it would help for him to have his OWN chair?
HELP PLEASE!!
Passing The Baton
2 years ago
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LOL!! Sorry I have no advice! I just started potty training my first one last month. It's going ok, but he will never tell me when he has to go... so its me asking him all the time and most of the time he will tell me "later" or "tomorrow." He just turned 3 in sept, so I figured it was time to start. I bought him some lightning mcqueen undies, but have yet to put them on him - only because we are really short on pants at the moment... he's at that between stage for pants which totally sucks! 2ts are highwaters, but 3ts are like tents on him ;) I'm totally taking the lazy approach with it. I figure it will happen when he's really ready. He's totally fine running around in soaked pull-ups. Of course they have to be lightning mcqueen pull ups though! :)
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