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potty training?
So M has started telling us after she goes "poo poo" or "pee pee". I am wondering if we are in the very very beginning stages of potty training? I am not expecting it to happen soon, and know she doesn't tell me before she has to go, but I am wondering if there is anything we should be doing with her to help? I'll be honest and say that I haven't done any reading on this yet... it kinda caught me off guard how soon this happened.
We do have a little potty out for her to see and sit on if she wants to... and she ALWAYS has to go into the bathroom when I go in there...but I wasn't sure if there was a good book or something else that we should be doing? She doesn't go to school - so we are really all she has in this area for training...
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Re: potty training?
It can't hurt to at least think about it! I can tell you that Leo was telling us that he had gone (and wanted a diaper change) long before he was really ready to be trained. But plenty of children do it faster than him, you never know
We have an Elmo potty video but he never seemed interested. I think the biggest thing to encourage readiness for us was to have his potty in the bathroom and bring him with us when we went. We'd talk about using the potty, get him comfortable sitting on his, talk about him using it one day, etc etc. Other than that I think she's so young that unless she starts asking to go I really wouldn't worry about it
*sigh* that sounds completely heavenly. Is it wrong to hope the next one is a girl just so potty training might be easier?
Please come potty train my kid. At 2.5 years old, she still has no desire to sit her @ss on the potty.
That would never have worked with my girl. She refused to go on the potty until she was ready to be PTed. If I had done it this way it would have been miserable for both of us. I do think if she had been at daycare at the time it might have been ok though. Kids are very different for others than they are for their parents, at least me kid is.
read my reply below. You are not alone, so... Abby was not PTed until almost 3 yo. Once she decided she wanted to go on the potty it was easy- peasy though. She just did not care until almost 3. One big things that got her really interested though was her good friend (that we saw very regularly at the time) was wearing "big girl panties." They had swim lessons together so Abby saw her put on her big girl panties after lessons and decided she wanted to wear them too. (I had tried that before and it never worked until her friend was wearing them)
Personally, I'd just get a potty or two to have around the house for her to play with. Take her dolls/ toys to the potty. I'd get a book or two for her to ready and maybe a movie about it too
I've very laid back about it though. We did little bits here and there and then one morning he woke up and said, "no diaper" and that was that. We have them overnight b/c he poos at night and usually tinkles too, but day time and nap we're diaper free and it went pretty quickly.