Potty Training.

JackoftheBox · January 2014

When did you (or do you plan to) start potty training with your LO? DS has used the potty a handful of times and want to sit on it a lot. What method did you use?

Chapter79 · January 2014

We used the "when you're ready, you let us know and do your thing" method. Because we tried everything, and she wasn't havin' it. Ever. I swear I thought she would prance into Kindergarten in a diaper. She was almost 4 before she was fully trained. But, she trained in literally one day and has never ever had an accident. I hated potty training.

tifdaski84 · January 2014

My LO is about a month younger than yours so this has been on our minds too. I think we're gonna take Chapter's approach and just wait until he shows a genuine interest in it. I'm sure we'll introduce the concept to him with a potty or whatever around two, but we'll wait until he's ready. I have a niece who was a nightmare to potty train and she and her mom were always at battle over it and I'd like to avoid that if at all possible.

As for method, I think (not that I have any real experience) that if we wait until he's ready, we'll just hole up in the house for few days until he's got it down pat.

This is the grand plan anyway. Who know how it actually go...I'm scared. Lol.

kristennd · January 2014

We're starting in a couple weeks. He'll start preschool in September and they require it. Also, my mother is giving me grief about putting it off for so long.

We've bought two potty chairs (2-story house) and some books and underpants. But we're taking a trip next week so will obviously wait until we've returned.

eyenigh · January 2014

22 months and he loves talking about the potty but has no interest in actually going. He'll sit on it and read but has yet to produce. He also likes to report the potty activities of his friends at day care: "Grayson went in the potty," "Sean loves the potty." Then I ask him "Do you want to be like Sean and Grayson and use the potty?"

"No potty, Mama. No."

So we wait.

KatieB19 · January 2014

You guys might hate me, but we were out of day time diapers at 2, and nighttime a few months later.

I did things a bit differently (we did elimination communication from a very early age) but I discovered around 15 months that if I let DS walk around with no pants, he would sit on his little potty whenever he had to go. Transitioning back to pants was tricky because he didn't know how to take them off and he had gotten used to just going without telling me (before 15 months he would sometimes tell me, but it was a lot more of me anticipating), but he figured it out.

KatieB19 · January 2014

You guys might hate me, but we were out of day time diapers at 2, and nighttime a few months later.

I did things a bit differently (we did elimination communication from a very early age) but I discovered around 15 months that if I let DS walk around with no pants, he would sit on his little potty whenever he had to go. Transitioning back to pants was tricky because he didn't know how to take them off and he had gotten used to just going without telling me (before 15 months he would sometimes tell me, but it was a lot more of me anticipating), but he figured it out.

Tink112011 · January 2014

We recently potty trained DS at 25 months old. It was so much easier than I thought it would be. He has shown an interest in the potty since 18 months. I bought him a potty seat at that time and it became part of his routine to sit and go potty right before bath time.

I did not follow a very strict method for him. When I felt that he was ready (woke up dry in the mornings), I let him run bare-bottomed for a day. He "got it" right away. We're busy and I work FT, so I really could not devote 3 full days to staying at home. I put him in undies after the first day and that was that. He had 2 accidents at home while wearing pants and undies (1 poop, 1 pee) and after those accidents, he definitely understood what he needed to do. The accidents were really a critical part of his training!

Daycare also helped once we decided we were ready to train him. They were awesome. But really, it was SO easy.

My only advice to you is to make sure you wait until he is ready. It cannot be a power struggle or battle in any way. As with anything with a toddler, it has to be completely on their terms. They have to be wanting, interested, and phsyically able. My son happened to train on the earlier end, but I say that he has a bladder of steel. He has woken up dry every morning since he has been potty trained, which I believe is quite unusual for his young age.

Tink112011 · January 2014

LibraryChica said:

This weekend. I actually posted on Working Moms about it this morning.

My mother trained me and my brother at 18 and 20 months and I said "of course whe will be trained by then" when she asked, but it just wasn't the right time and she wasn't ready. Now she is a little over 2 and she goes for hours dry, can dress/undress (a little -- enough to pull her leggings off), can communicate, can tell when she is going, is interested and I have a 4-day weekend, so we are going into panties this weekend (pull ups for nap/night), staying home and seeing how it goes. We have talked about it a lot, told her that on Friday the diapers are going away for good and I'm going to take her shopping to pick out some panties that she is excited about. She knows what needs to be done and seems happy to cooperate, so we will see how the actual execution pans out.

It sounds like she is ready, and you have done a great job preparing her. Good luck, let us know how it goes!

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