potty boot camp

Ethansmommy18

My 2 and a half year old is starting potty training today. I am using the book potty boot camp has anyone had success with this? how long did it take for your child to catch on? any tips?

BrandyD06

I can honestly say I have never heard of this. What is it?

Ethansmommy18

It is a book written by a doctor with a potty technique for each day. It is hard to explain without reading it. the main goal of the book is for the child to self initiate themselves to the potty.

XCrissCrossX

I didn't read the book but I did a version I saw on pinterest. Stay at home, isolate to one room, run around naked? He did very well and understood what was going on by day 3.

kgs0505

Caveat - I did not read this book.  We tried to have him tell us when he needed to go potty and reminded him a lot.  My son never told me he had to go potty.  He told me after every time.  This went on for 3 days.  After than we switched to   trips every 45 minutes to the potty.   That worked great!  At first he needed to be distracted to just sit on the potty for more than 2 seconds, so we read books, sang songs, etc.  It would take 20 minutes or longer for anything to happen.  Once that was working, the distraction technique was too distracting and we switched to focusing only on peeing. "Go pee go!" in a cheer leader sort of way, with a big "Yay" and clapping after.  Then of course the bribery of an m&m and a sticker   Now, 2 weeks later, he pees pretty much right away and he's about 75-85% in the potty everytime.  Still working on pooping.

Good luck!  Make sure you have lots of cleaning supplies on hand, it's an adventure!

ckandi007

Never heard of the book. I didn't have immediate plans to potty train, but DS started telling me whenever he peed in his diaper and would want to take it off. On a rainy day, I started him off with underwear. He peed in them once, wetting his pants, and he was really upset. That's all it took because something clicked and he would go in the potty after that. I had a small potty set up in the family room so it was easy access and dressed in him pants that were easier to pull down on his own. Whenever he did anything in the potty, I was a big cheerleader! We also went to Target so he could pick out his own underwear. He's a really proud guy so I just keep praising and high-5ing him. He also likes to analyze his pee/poop (little pee pee, big pee pee, Nike poop, etc...lol). It's been over a month already and he's had maybe two accidents towards the beginning, but none in the last few weeks. He'll be 2 1/2 next week.