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PTing: putting on potty every 30 minutes vs. sitting on potty til they go
Mrs.Greg
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I'm getting conflicting advice on this. My DD is just starting to warm up to the idea of going potty on the toilet. Her DCP says to put her on the potty about an hour after a meal where she's had a good amount to drink and have her sit there til she goes. She started doing this with her at DC on Tuesday. The first time, she sat there for about 45 minutes. Yesterday, the shortest time she sat there was about 25 so she's getting faster. Her DCP thinks she's just stubborn. We have yet to get her to go on the potty at home. My mom seems to think we should just put her on the toilet every 20 to 30 minutes for, at most, 10 minutes. And if she doesn't go potty, let her get down. She's been in pull ups and we've been doing this since Tuesday and she pees in the pull up at some point but never in the toilet. She's in underwear today and DH thinks we should do what my mom says and if she pees in her underwear, he seems to think it will take a couple times doing that before DD will hate it enough that she'll tell us she needs to pee or she'll go when we put her on the toilet. Just wondering what others did and what worked?? TIA!!!
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Re: PTing: putting on potty every 30 minutes vs. sitting on potty til they go
What I think, based on my experience: 1. ditch the pull ups (except maybe for nap or bed). They're just a glorified diaper and kids know it. Both of my kids, during PTing, would treat a pull up the same as a diaper. 2. My initial instinct was to say go with whatever day care's doing, so that her training is consistent (assuming she's in daycare full time), but that seems like a very long time to keep her on the potty. But if, like you said, it's takng less time for her to pee, then maybe it'll work. With DS, we put him on the potty every 10-15 minutes the first day he was in underwear, encouraged him to pee, took him down if he didn't, and rewarded him (gummy bear) when he did. The next day we spread out the potty visits, and continued like that until he took initiative. It was exhausting, but had him fully trained within a week, for sure.
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We don't leave DS on the potty, keep him there for an extended time, or put him on it every 30 minutes. We have naked time-- obviously you can't do that at day care. The first time we did this, he started to pee on the floor and I quickly sat him on the potty and praised him. Now, whenever he's naked, he goes automatically to the potty and pees. He has even pooped in it (gross, but whatever). He sometimes pulls off his pull-ups and goes, but that's rare. I have been trying to convince DH to just get some underwear already, but he is stubborn. I think once we do that, it'll be a breeze to finish his training.
I wouldn't force a kid to sit on the toilet until they go... sounds like a way to get the kid to hate the toilet! I always asked if my dd had to go.... if she said no I respected that... She only had a few accidents the first few days we learned the toilet then after that she was accident free... at 20 months, I never once foreced her to go and now she is accident free.
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We had sucess with putting her on the potty every 45 minutes and underwear only. That way she got more of a handle on the result of peeing in your pants. It makes it more uncomfortable and therefore more appealing to get in on the potty. I would sing a song and that was the duration that she would try to go.
Eventually we started "catching" pee's. We would cheer like we were watching football or something and give a special treat.
Pooping was a different story all together!
Keeping a toddler on the potty longer than 5 or 10 minutes seems cruel to me. What does your dcp do while your DD is sitting on the potty?
This is how I did it with all 3.
DD#1- had occasional success for 3 days, then got it, with occasional accidents. Poop took another month or so.
DD#2- 3 weeks in undies not a single catch on the potty. Every single time she went in her undies, on my floor. Then woke up and was completely trained with an occasional accident.
DS- We had started watching the videos, and got him underwear to warm up to it and then one morning woke up, stripped sat and peed. From that minute on he was pee-trained, even waking up dry every morning. 4 weeks later we'll still working on poop.
BUT I really think at this age, ditching the pullups and taking the natural consequence of getting soiled, and eliminating the power struggle, it will likely be a smoother and happier process.