Potty Training

klineme03

I am terrified of potty training my twin two year old girls! 

I have two little potties for them, although they don't use it for the intended purpose. They are not affraid of the big toilet either. They will say they need to go potty and i sit them on the toilet just to get them used to it, but they don't go. I was wondering if any one had any tips on how to do this with twins. I plan on doing it over Labor Day weekend. I will be by myself, as DH has to work all weekend.

They are still in their cribs and don't wake in the middle of the night should i use pull-ups at night and at nap time and undies the rest of the time?

Any advice would be great! Thanks!

carrotcake06

Twins aren't PTed but I did PT my oldest. Daycare wanted to start a bit shy of 2.5 and I didn't think he was ready. They did a version of the 3 day method, as in we did underpants cold turkey. It didn't work great. He had accidents for a looooong time and he pooped in his underpants daily for more than 6 months. He finally, finally started pooping in the potty a week before I had the twins. He still, at almost 4.5, wears a nighttime pull up.

My advice is basically not to force it. If they're ready, it will be (relatively) easy. Especially if you have head strong kids, like my oldest. If your kids are easy going, you may have an easier time doing something on your schedule. My oldest is not one of those kids.

You could try small rewards, lots of people use m&ms, for when they go. We did for a bit but then phases them out. I'm not big into extrinsic rewards. You pee on the potty bc that's what big kids do, not bc I'm going to go buy you a toy later. But that's jmo.

ppants

We PT our b/g twins at the same time when they were a little over 2.5 yrs.  We put them in underwear and took them to the potty every hour.  They got one sticker for pee and two for poop.  DD pooped her pants the first three days and then got it.  DS had several pee accidents.  They were completely PT in 2 weeks.  Good luck!

klineme03

Thanks Ladies!!

megs2011

I'm dreading this lol. We are going to wait till closer to 2.5 to really start trying but we have potties for them and seats on our toilets. Sometimes they ask to go on them but do nothing. Sometimes they run to the bathroom door but they have already pooped. We just go with the flow right now. Baby 3 is set to arrive in september so that's enough change for them for a while.

KMommytobe

2 is really young. We got my DS1 a potty for Christmas at 2.5 because he was showing signs. We got a fun potty book and mostly sat on the potty for fun and to learn what happens on the potty. If he said he had to go we sat on it but didn't push him at all.

He turned 3 in July and needs to be trained for preschool in September so at that point I started putting him in undies and said that he's a big boy now and doesn't need diapers anymore. He protested that first day but honestly that was it. It took him maybe a week and he was pretty much fully trained. I think he just wasn't ready until 3. I know boys can be later but the main thing is you don't want to rush the process at all. When they are ready they're ready. Good luck!

Edit. Wanted to add we did make a sticker chart with one column for pee and the other for poop. Once he got 10 stickers for each we told him we would take him to the store to get a prize (monster truck!). He still likes putting stickers on.