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Potty Learning

luvlieKluvlieK member
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Anyone's child terrified?  

We started watching Elmo's potty time today because he is terrified.  Loves the movie, but still wants absolutely nothing to do with the potty.  

I am not going to force him.  But is there anything I could do to passively ease him into it? 

eta:  He has a little potty that he uses as a chair for his drum set...  Yea we lost on that one too lol 

47 months &
11 months
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Re: Potty Learning

  • nseesnsees

    my DS was terrified of the big potty and we made it in baby, baby steps.  i'm talking oh wow, you sat on the little potty in your clothes, let's throw a big party.

    i agree though...definitely don't push him.   listen to your instincts about how you can help him overcome that fear.


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  • *LrCg**LrCg* member
    This may sound silly but do you take him to the bathroom when you go?  Ever since DS could craw he'd follow us into the bathroom.  By the time he was walking at 11 months he was flushing the toliet for us non-stop (anytime he saw anyone go to the bathroom he was right behind them)!!  So when he was 13 months and started telling me he was wet I figured it was time but we were expecting a baby on the way so we wanted to wait until after the baby was born to see how he reacted to it.  So we just bought a very simple and basic Safety First potty that looked like ours and sat it in our bathroom for him to play with.  Long story short, after the birth of the baby, he was fine and PL at 18 months without issues (it took @ 4-5 days).  He was very comfortable with the toliet and actually only used his potty for about 2 weeks before he decided he only wants to use the big potty (with a ring of course).
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  • hamilton.jahamilton.ja

    Bruce was only scared to go poop on the potty but we just left it out all.the.time (it was in our living room on a waterproof pad...) and eventually he got more comfortable with being on it. We talked a lot about how everyone goes on the potty and they do pee AND poop, especially his older cousins that he totally idolizes. He would pee on it regularly and almost never have wet diapers, he would just use them for pooping in. He really did not want to poop sitting down for some reason it seemed.

    Then when the time came and he started to want to wear underpants like a big boy we let him poop in them a couple times and he HATED the clean up. He had to go in the bath to get rinsed off with the shower attachment becuase he would get smeared with poop when we took his pants off and he really hated that so after 3 times or so I said "If you pooped on the potty you wouldn't have to get rinsed off in the shower" and something clicked and he just started going on there.

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  • sweetmelodies&harmoniessweetmelodies&harmonies member
    I just saw this in a magazine ... :)
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  • luvlieKluvlieK member

    image*LrCg*:
    This may sound silly but do you take him to the bathroom when you go?  Ever since DS could craw he'd follow us into the bathroom.  By the time he was walking at 11 months he was flushing the toliet for us non-stop (anytime he saw anyone go to the bathroom he was right behind them)!!  So when he was 13 months and started telling me he was wet I figured it was time but we were expecting a baby on the way so we wanted to wait until after the baby was born to see how he reacted to it.  So we just bought a very simple and basic Safety First potty that looked like ours and sat it in our bathroom for him to play with.  Long story short, after the birth of the baby, he was fine and PL at 18 months without issues (it took @ 4-5 days).  He was very comfortable with the toliet and actually only used his potty for about 2 weeks before he decided he only wants to use the big potty (with a ring of course).

    He does.  I even show him Caedan's potty/Mommy's potty by opening and closing the mini lid. 

    47 months &
    11 months
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  • luvlieKluvlieK member

    imagesweetmelodies&harmonies:
    I just saw this in a magazine ... :)

    I saw that before.  I am not sure if its a good idea or not lol 

    47 months &
    11 months
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