What is your potty training plan?

Re: What is your potty training plan?

• penguingrrl member

  February 2010

  My older daughter was mentioning the toilet quite a bit starting around 18-19 months and has been sitting on her ring since then, but hadn't made any real progress.  I think the fact that diapers are so absorbent was hindering her progress since she seemed completely unaware of when she was going to the bathroom or even of when she had gone.  So I decided since we're stuck inside due to a major snowstorm to put her in panties and see what happens for 3 days starting yesterday.  So far she has pooped in the toilet once and peed all over my house .  But, she's starting to recognize what it feels like when she has just gone, so we have made some headway already.  I think I'll stop if she hasn't gotten it at least mostly by tomorrow and revisit it in a month.  She needs to be trained to start preschool in the fall, so I'm figuring we have time, but I want to give her a chance to connect it without it being totally stressful.
  

  

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• Meg&Jesse

  February 2010

  penguingrrl:

  So far she has pooped in the toilet once and peed all over my house . 

  

  Peeing all over the house made me laugh!  Hey, with boys I have to worry about him "spraying" all over the house.  My mom told me that one time my brother peed all over the bathroom walls and when she asked him what he was thinking he said he wanted to see what would happen when he moved it!

  

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• Sally J member

  February 2010

  No plan here, just going with the flow.  My DD isn't showing any interest at all.  My DS hates pooping in his diaper and prefers to go in the toilet (we have little donut rings).  If we don't catch him with poop quick enough then he will take his diaper off and bring the poopy diaper to us.  So gross.  He also seems to know when he has to pee, but not soon enough.

  Neither of them will wear underwear so we allow naked time.  This means they pee around the house, but sometimes will hold it until we can get them to the bathroom.  My DS is still intact and sometimes he will hold his penis when he's peeing and then his foreskin balloons out...it's freaky looking, but he thinks it's hysterical.

  Ah, the joys of potty training.

  

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• cateye

  February 2010

  We got the potty and encouraged DD to sit on it when we went to the bathroom and as she got more interested, we put her on the potty after she peed in the diaper (or if we "caught" her going in the diaper). 

  Once we thought she was ready (started asking to go to the potty - although it was usually after she had already peed in the diaper), we gave her lots and lots of naked time.  She peed on the floor. . .often. . .before she really figured it out, but she would usually just pee in the diaper/pull-up if she wore one.  We also asked/reminded her about trying often once we took off the diapers. 

   This was all done with lot and lots of praise, although we started giving her candy for pooping in the potty, because she was having a hard time with that part (no matter how much we praised her, she still cried every time she pooped in the toilet). 
  

  I'd say the biggest thing is following your LO's cues and making sure they are really ready.  We had some big (unplanned) changes part way through potty training and DD stopped responding, so we gave it a break and came back to it once things were back in order.  From that point, it only took about a month to totally potty train.   
  

   

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