So.. DD is probably slowly moving towards being ready to potty train. She's definitely aware of when she's wet/poopy, she likes to sit on the potty and she's even started saying, "I need to go potty!" (which I think is more because she hears her big cousins saying this, rather than actually knowing that she needs to go).
However, the room that she's in at her daycare, doesn't do potty training. She'd have to move to the next room up and, at this point, I'm not willing to take her away from her friends (who she's been with since 12 weeks old) just so that we can start potty training. Also, I'm just not really in a big rush. She sits on the potty at home 1-2 times a day, sometimes more on the weekends, but other than one poop, she's never actually peed or pooped in the potty. She likes to just sit there, hold some toilet paper, wipe and then get up. She's yet to pee and I think the one poop was just a coincidence....
I feel like EVERYONE I know is potty training their two year (or younger) old. Am I the only one who just isn't in a rush???
Re: Am I the ONLY one not potty training my two year old...
I am not trying t all. Dd's language is just now erupting and a new baby will be here in 7 weeks. Pedi said don't even bother. Im a ok with it.
I am planning on a full on potty training attempt the first week of June, which is the first week that I'm out of school (teacher) for the summer. I'm hoping that she'll catch on quickly and that it'll be an easy transition. If she still doesn't get it and it's not going smoothly, then we'll go back to diapers and try again at a different time or at her own pace.
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DD2 Sept 2011
My DD1 peed on her little potty a handful of times, when we first got it around 20 months, but showed no interest after that. We had a chaotic fall and winter with traveling and DH deploying. I finally cleared a week in February, when she turned 2.5 and we potty trained that week using the 3 Day method.
DD1 had a language explosion a month or two after turning 2. While the 3 Day says that they don't have to be overly verbal, it helps. All in all, 2.5 has been a good time to potty train for us.
*Raises hand* I'm in no hurry.
I agree with other posters, trust your mama instincts and follow your daughter's lead. One little girl in my DS's class was fully potty trained by the time she turned 2 (she was the youngest of 3 and I wonder if perhaps seeing her siblings doing in made her want to do it) while another little girl who will be 3 this spring is just now getting started (she's an only child so I wonder if maybe part of it is that she doesn't see siblings donig it at home like the first girl I mentioned??)
DS is a little over 2 and we've been told 100 times that it is too early to PT a boy. Well since he expressed interest on his own, we've encouraged it but are definitely not pushing it. He poops on the toilet all the time but doesn't tell us when he has to pee. Recently, though, after he has peed in his diaper he tries to pull it off and comes and asks for a dry diaper...so maybe we're heading in the right direction with that. I don't know...we take it day by day!
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I'm in no rush either. He's not ready, so we'll wait until he is.
The only thing we do is sit on the potty before bathtimes. He's started to even say "nooo" when I ask if he wants to sit on the potty first. So, that's fine, but if he starts to pee in the tub (and we talk all the way through this), he is gently lifted out of the tub and put on the potty, where he'll finish every time.
Like I say - he's not ready. I'm okay with that.
There's not a potty in Tegan's classroom, so they honestly just can't always take her to the potty. There is a potty in the next room over and it's within sight of her room, but it's considered a separate room and there's a fear that either that classroom or Tegan's would be without direct supervision or out of ratio of she needed to go potty. I did talk to the director and she offered to move Tegan officially up to the other room, but it would just be mean to take her away from her friends, especially since she'd be able to see them, but not play with them.
No rush here, either. DD sits on the potty a lot, but it's her choice. She's gone pee 4 times in the potty. If she looks shifty, I will ask, but I'm not setting up a regular routine or anything. I read somewhere that once they successfully go in the potty 10 times, that's a good time to start really pushing. That seems reasonable to me, so that's what I'm doing.
Most of my friends kids weren't potty trained until 3 years+. I would rather wait until she's really ready and get it done in 2-4 months, than start early and drag it out 2 years.
This was about the same timing we did with DD and it worked out perfectly. We were dedicated to the 3-day method and she had it down in one day after only one accident. If we tried earlier I'm not so sure we'd have the same success.