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Potty Chair Success!
We constantly ask M if she wants to sit on her potty chair. Sometimes it's yes. If she's actually going #2, it's a resounding no. Mostly, she likes to sit and read - it has nothing to do with actually going potty.
Yesterday, we did and she actually peed on the potty!!!!
So - where do I go from here? Schedule a weekend and just go for it - sans diapers? See how it goes?
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Re: Potty Chair Success!
Define a little while? I'm wondering if we do this over a long weekend and then send her to day care in panties?
Strike while the iron is hot! N was regularly going on the potty before baths last fall, I thought I?d let him take the lead and now? Nothing!
We introduced the potty around 18 months. By the time E was M's age, she was going potty before bathtime, so we started potty training. It took 3-4 months before she was completely potty trained (by that I mean going more than one or two days without an accident).
It seems like the earlier you start, the longer it takes. The moms I know who have successfully potty trained in a few days have started with kids who were closer to 3. If you want to do it in a weekend, I'd recommend waiting 6 months.
Yay, Mads.
I am saving this thread because we are there too!
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This is basically the same way it worked for us. I really would not go back now. Once DS went potty there was pretty much no going back to diapers except at night (and for naps for like a week). Even w/ preschool we just sent a bunch of clothes and said please take him often and we had an accident or two the first week and then he was good to go. She might regress and ask for a diaper and we did that once or twice in the beginning but right back to undies as soon as possible.
A friend of mine is having a harder time w/ her daughter because of consistency I think. She showed ready signs awhile ago and they let her go on the potty when she asked but kept going back to diapers and now she'll deliberately pee in her underwear and they've started bribing her. I think you just have to catch them when they seem excited - timing for me was horrible for ME - DH was gone and I was weaning DD from nursing but just had to do it and so happy we are done. Good luck - so exciting!
I?m really with Jill too. I?m just getting bitter about diapers. That?s my issue, not his.
Yay for Mads!!! I'd also agree with the girls about not pushing anything just yet. Just keep doing what you're doing. Mikayla was doing SO great just a few weeks ago, for about a week straight she was going a couple times a day in the potty and we were really excited. I think we might have started pushing a bit too much or she might just be in a phase of not being interested because we've had one success in the last week or so and that's it.
She was really sick just recently so maybe that's part of it too.
But, use your gut.. every kid is different I'm sure. Maybe Mads is a potty chair champ, ya never know. It's so hard not to push though, WE get all excited about the thought of no diapers!!
We started with Ella at the same age. I decided to just go for it, it seemed like all the signs were there. We went commando for the first day, loaded her up on drinks, and then cleaned up a bunch of messes. The potty chair also lived in the living room. I would watch her like a hawk and then run to the potty. If anything made it in, we danced and clapped our hands and she got a treat.
Day two she started to hold it until she got a diaper on for naps or bed. I thought we were still doing okay, she was learning how to control, right?
Day three she wanted nothing to do with the potty chair and would still hold it until she was in her diaper for naps. That couldn't be good for her, so we backed off, put diapers back on and then just casually asked her everyday, at aleast once a day, "Hey, do you want to put pee-pees in the potty?". It was always a resounding "No!"
Just over a month later she said "Yes." And went, and then wanted to dance and sing. So, even though the first attempt failed, she remembered the singing.
By the next day she was good to go for all day time, maybe an occasional accident. We did have one week that was accident crazy though.
About 2 months later she was sleepy time trained. She was probably staying dry through the night before that, but I was nervous.
My suggestions if you do go for it...
Lots and lots (and then some more) underwear
Clothes that she can access the potty quickly (skirts are great!)
Load up on favorite drinks to help encourage going
Poo's may or may not take longer. It's a different feeling to go on the toilet.
Post it notes to cover automatic toilet sensors in public bathrooms. One flush happy toilet and now we travel with her potty chair. I can't even get away with the kind that sit on the toilet, its her little chair or nothing. Or screaming like I am torturing her because I sat her on the toilet.
Find the treat that she likes. Ella got chocolate chips or m&m's for pees and a marshmallow for a poo. She doesn't need the treats anymore and only occasionally asks for a marshmallow.
I emailed you... but yeah, sometimes it just happens early.
We did some training, because gabe was staying dry in his diapers and peeing consistently at school. So between Christmas and NYE, at 2 yr 5 mo, we went for it, and we had accidents but within 2 weeks, he was diaper free except naps and nighttime. Even now we still have an accident here and there, but he's not 3 yet. I really wasnt going to push til 3. It just happened.
Audrey not so much. we put her back in pull ups, lots of potty trips and she became more successful (she also doesnt drink near as much, so not as many opportunities to pee in the potty) but her teacher said one day "send her in undies tomorrow and lots of spare clothes" and we did. That was February maybe? So 2 yr 6.5 mo?
encourage, dont push, get her used to it, get her having success with it... and one day she'll turn around and want undies... really... and she can watch my kids go anytime
That's so true! Ben played on the potty from about 22-25 months. He'd sit on it, and could pee on command even so he had that control. But he wasn't interested in doing it all the time. He then decided he didn't want to do it at all. and one day in the car at around 2 1/2, we were going to Fred Meyer and I said "do we need anything there?" and Ben said "Maybe we could buy some underpants" and that was that. HE was ready. He's still not night potty trained and he has no interest in it. Sigh....
Now my sister's little girl, she's a persnickity little one. She follows rules and has her routine and acts like she's a 70 year old old lady half the time. She could keep her diaper dry and would tell everyone exactly when she was peeing, but she would only poop on the potty and didn't want to pee on it. My sister tried a few times and her DD just didn't want to be bothered. I think it was the idea of "change" that bugged her. Then one day - she was about 3 1/2 - she said she was going to start wearing underpants next Saturday. And that was that. She was fully potty trained the next day. And later that week she was night potty trained. Again she knew she was ready and it was her decision.
I'm not saying that her age is the problem... some kids clearly potty train earlier than others. I'm just saying one coincidental pee while sitting on the potty doesn't mean she has any clue what's happening yet. It's a good first step because now she can get used to what it feels like. But there's no way I would expect a long weekend and then send her off to school with underpants.
Yeah for Maddy! She seems on track with what Payton did - and we potty trained her in 3 days when she was just over 2.5yrs... right around 2yrs she started going on the potty every night before bath and it was consistent. Around the same time she also started telling us when she was wet and wanted her diaper changed.. I waited a few months and then just figured out a weekend we could commit to and prepared ourselves. Voila, it was a breeze.
It's just as much potty training for you guys as it is for her.
I'd wait until you feel she is totally ready and YOU are ready, too.
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