If you didn't EC- when/how

BabyButler2010

did you potty train your toddler?  DS is 33lbs now and will be outgrowing his FBs soon...He can tell you when he is peeing/pooping, so I know he is ready...the trouble is, I don't know how we can potty train with our crazy schedules at the moment...Please share your potty training methods  Maybe one of them will be a good fit for us!  I should ad that I've asked him if he wants to use the potty from time to time and occasionally he will pee on the potty, but if he is busy playing he really refuses to even try.  

kcisthebombdotcom

I shouldn't comment on thins since we haven't successfully done it yet, but this is what we're doing tomorrow.

We bought a potty a while ago. We encourage him sitting on it and offer praise when he takes off his diaper and sits down on it. I've explained how he's going to learn how to go pee and poop in it like big boys do. We've been telling him his friends are big boys and dont' wear diapers/pee and poop in the big boy potty (luckily he has friends older than him so this bribe works, lol). We got him a book on potty training and read it frequently. We took him to the store today and let him pick out big boy underwear. He knows that as of tomorrow morning we are all done with diapers and will be in big boy underwear,

When he wakes up tomorrow we are ditching diapers and putting him in underwear. I have a sticker chart. For every time he goes in the potty, he gets a mickey mouse sticker for his sticker chart (he LOVES mickey and stickers). If he has an accident, we're going to tell him it's ok, clean him up, and reinforce that when he needs to pee/poop he has to let mommy know he has to go potty.

I'll let you know how we do!

00jennifer00

We've ec'd our youngest 3.  With my oldest, I was massively pregnant and he was 2y9m.  We had tried repeatedly to get him to use the potty, but he was not having it.  One day I was at the store and saw a potty seat.  I told him we were going to buy it and special treat.  He could have the special treat if he peed on the potty.  We got home and set the potty up in the living room thinking it would take a while.  He went pretty much right away.  We had him sit frequently (always have a boy sit to pee until they get the hang of pooping, otherwise they may shy away from the pooping sensation...we learned our lesson the hard way) and he honest to goodness didn't need diapers from that day.  I was satisfied because I got my two months off of diapers before the new came.

Angela814

DD2 just mostly potty trained herself. She started telling me that she had to go potty, and I started putting her on the toilet. Sometimes she'd tell me right after, so I'd put her on the toilet, remind her to tell me before she went, and then get her a new diaper/pull up. My personal method is to just put her on when she asks, and not worry about it if she goes in her pull up. (I switched to pull ups just because it's faster and easier for me.) She might have one "accident" a day now, but we're getting closer.

erbear

Well, I waited until I was 100% sure she was ready, then I waited another month and went cold turkey. Put her in undies, told her that you don't pee or poop in undies, and told her to tell me when she needed to go potty. I asked her every hour or so if her undies were still clean and dry and made a huge deal out of it when they were. She had one pee accident, then figured it out. She had two poop accidents, then figured it out. It took one day. If kids are ready, potty training is easy. People who force their kids to train early tend to struggle.

KateLouise

My LO knew when she needed to go or was going, but if I offered her the toilet wasn't interested.

Then she started fighting having her nappy changed. Would kick and squeal and generally make it painful.

So one day I basically had had enough and said, "no more nappies for you." She pee'd all over the floor that day. Everytime I said, "oh well" cleaned it up and told her we do our wee in the toilet and to let me know if she needed to go.

The next day, she'd clutch her bottom, but not ask to go or tell me. But she was clutching early enough for me to get her to the toilet.

day 3 she'd tell me she needed to go.

And we were done. We had no issues between pee or poo.

We've had a couple of accidents since, but nothing major or ongoing.