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December 2010 Moms
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potty training poll
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Too bad clicky polls are out ...
Have you started training? Are you fully trained already? Waiting still? Boy or girl?
Would you start at home over a weekend or just show up at daycare with underwear and let them go for it first? The type A mommy in me says do a weekend and maybe even a daycare vacation. The mommy who also has a newborn who is nursing all day long thinks daycare should do it or we should wait. Thoughts?
ETA: I guess I should have mentioned up here he's in the potty training class at daycare. They have 12 kids and about 8 of them are currently being trained. They have 4 teachers in there with 12 kids (state ratio is 1:12 I think) just because of that. I don't feel it's their job to start training either, but they are completely on board with that. Like I didn't come up with that idea on my own, they suggested it. 
Like I said, I would typically think to take off a week and keep him at home for it.
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Re: potty training poll
I'd talk to DC first and see what they think.
Oh, I know we'd be washing a lot. Daycare doesn't even bother with pants in their room!
There are 12 kids and about 8 of them are training. I think maybe he'd at least have peer pressure to do it too! Everyday I go to get him, there are at least 4 kids in underwear only running around! They have 3-4 teachers at once though, so I know they will be on top of it. I know he's ready, but not sure if I am!
I bought all the equipment last weekend; training underwear, rubber underwear and toliet seat. But she really only wants to throw the toliet paper in the toliet and flush it.
I'll take a day or two off work and tell daycare what i'm doing and have them start on te following Monday. They may have some ideas or tips. I don't feel it's their "job" to trainer or start training.
we are pt'd and we did an intensive week thing. we didnt go anywhere and started with her bottom bare ntil she could learn to hold it a little bit.
she did great and it has been two months now. i would wait until ds is ready and then do it at home and not have dc try first.
Talk to DC, ours won't do that for us. We have to start it and they will support our efforts.
We started with A about a month ago sitting on it a few times during the evening and every 30 minutes when we are home on the weekends but she doesn't want to release in to the potty. She'll sit on it, sing about it, read books about it etc but she will hold it until the diaper is back on and my back is turned.
I told her today we are taking a break and if she wants to sit on the potty to ask Mommy. We'll try again in a month or so.
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We talk and read about the potty a lot more now and he seems to get the while concept more, but I still don't think we are ready. We will probably try again over the summer, maybe may or June.
Peeing in the potty is a totally different story. Today he is wearing undies, but I fully expect to have to change wet undies several times. He is not as motivated for some reason.
J doesn't go to DC so I'm not too sure about how they deal with potty training. It would be awesome if it was part of their 'curriculum'!
Last week I bought a toilet ring for the toilet since it maybe be easier to train him on it. He'll happily sit on it if I ask him to. He'll say "poo poo" and pretend to squeeze but its all just pretend. Hes never actually gone in the toilet. I don't know if hes actually ready so I won't push it. We did buy underwear but have yet to put it on G.
Like everyone else, I'll probably wait til its warmer and he can go naked in the house. I'll sit him on the toilet like every hour.
I guess we are in the very earliest stages of training. DS and many of the other kids at daycare are in diapers, but when it's time to change diapers everyone is also encouraged to try to use the potty. Sometimes DS wants to. Occasionally/rarely he will actually pee while on the potty (I don't think poop ever made it in, though.) At home he occasionally wants to sit on it and a fraction of those times he will actually pee.
I'm content to go with the flow at this pace because he seems to slowly be gaining interest and I wouldn't want to force him into it before he was ready otherwise.
However, now that I'm pregnant, I'm wondering how long this slow method will last. I'm due in late September. If this method is ridiculously slow...like over a year...then it's actually no big deal because I won't have to stress it in the newborn time. Sure, I think your 3rd birthday is a good deadline for potty training, but I also don't really care, as long as it's REALLY done by age 4. And obviously if this goes fast then I won't have to worry. I just sense that it could be mostly slow, which is the worst scenario. I feel like I could be at that hardest stage of potty training right when I'm 9 mo pregnant and then nursing a baby. So I do wonder if we should take a more active approach. I just don't want to stress him out, though.
We are so far away from potty training, I haven't even thought about it. He has interest in the potty, but if you set him on it, he doesn't know how to do it. He will tell you after he goes, but not before.
I'm not sure about the DC thing, but I think readiness is the biggest factor, and if you think he's ready then sure you could have them help you do it. But if he's not ready, it's probably not going to work very well, KWIM? Do you think he's ready?
We started in noe,bed over a 3 day weekend. She doesnt go to daycare, so i cant comment on that. At first it was very successful and we left the house in undies and such. But then I realized there was just too many accidents. I was changing her pants every time we got out of the car. She comes with me to work, and in the evenings my parents watch her and those times werent going great. So now we do undies at home and at my parents, and pull-ups when we are out.
At home we have no problems, very few accidents, and I set a timer to help remind both of us when its potty time (every hour). I feel like a big failure for going back to pull-ups when we are out, but there just seemed to be a huge regression after the first few successful weeks. I blame it entirely on myself for not being diligent enough about potty times.
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Oh yeah, and he's maybe 25% PT'd even at that so we're not even close.
DS will pee in the potty, but I haven't tried to enforce any regularity. He usually likes to pee in the potty after his bath and is excited for a new sticker. I have to admit that there are times at home when he asks to use the potty, but I'm in a rush or I've just gotten him dressed, and I tell him another time. I still look at it as more of a novelty and honestly, I like the convenience of diapers.
Today was the first time ever that he asked for his diaper to be changed. We were leaving the mall and I changed him in the back of the car. I was really surprised and wonder if this is the start of him wanting to use the potty more.
We'll really make an effort this summer. He doesn't go to daycare, so it will be us and the nanny. For him, I think that any time after 2.5 years will be fair game for training.
I'm waiting until the weather warms up to really try again too.
Our dc does help PT. In his room, they make all kids sit on the potty in the am, right after nap, then again in the afternoon. He goes on the potty there about once or twice a week.
Girl. She's day trained for sure, 95% on naps and about 50% on nights.
They started putting on the toilet at daycare whenever they were changing diapers when she mvoed to 2s in September, so we just followed course at home. We tried 3 day PTing in November b/c she was doing so well and it was an epic disaster. Went back to just going when she asked or at diapering times, then picked a long weekend in Feb. and stuck her in undies. It's been just shy of a month and she's had a total of 5 accidents.
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J will use the potty, both at home and DC, sometimes but we aren't actively training. We may try a long weekend this summer but lately I've been thinking we'll just wait until like Thanksgiving weekend and try to train both kids at the same time (J will be 3 and K will be 18 months).
We haven't started training, although I put DS in underwear for 3 hours on Sat. He didn't pee in them OR in the potty. Most of the time when you ask him if he wants to sit on the potty he yells, "Noooo!"
His daycare works on potty training when they show signs of readiness, and then they go straight to underwear with no turning back. I have a "parent-teacher conference" next Monday to talk and I'm sure we'll discuss it then, but he's not showing signs of readiness yet. And I don't plan to push it. DD's old daycare started pressuring me to PT her at 2y5m. Every attempt was met with resistance. She was finally PT at 3y9m. It was long, dragged out, and painful. This time around I want to ease up.
We aren't actively training, but he's gone pee several times on the potty, including one time standing up! Now that was a sight!
We stopped using his little potty though, b/c he was complaining it hurt his butt. We have a potty ring that goes on the big toilet now.
We ask him everyday, but he doesn't have much interest.
In a couple months, he'll be in a PTing room at DC, so we'll try to gear him up for that soon. I wanted to start at home before that, but he's been really sick for several months, so it would have been wasted effort.