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BabyNewbury2012
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Any Tips for Potty Training my 27 month old in a working two parent household??
BabyNewbury2012
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In her daycare they no longer change the kids on a change table, they take them in the bathroom, put them on the toilet and then clean them up and put a pamper on them. My daughter has not done number 1 or number two at school yet. She has done a few number ones at home though. They said at school she cannot come in underwear at least until she starts pottying at school....totally understandable. They did suggest pull ups. They will help but obviously the parents have to put 100% into it.
As soon as she pees or poops she asks me to change her bum. Even though she asks it is a huge fight to get her to stay still to change her. And yesterday she said no more pampers mommy. I just dont know where to start. She do ask to sit on the potty but 99% of the time does nothing and then Im chasing her trying to get a pamper back on her.
I was thinking of starting to do more serious training at home but I really dont know where to start. My husband does mornings as I am at work before she gets up. He drops her off around 8:30 and I pick her up at 3:30 and then she usually is in be by 7:30-8:00. On weekends we are usually both home with her. Obviously if we start this on a weekend we have to continue to stick with it and continue through the week.
Any tips or advice I would really appreciate it! Thank you 
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Re: Any Tips for Potty Training my 27 month old in a working two parent household??
This is what has worked for me (once) and I am contemplating biting the bullet with DS, but I'm dragging my heels because PTing sucks. I was even fortunate with a relatively easy trainer, and it still sucks. You have to commit and be willing to inconvenience yourself a lot. Running to the potty in store, at the park, from outside playing, stopping in the car. When they are starting to learn they have to go a lot. So basically, just be ready.
I'm a big proponent of treats. Find a treat that they love and go with that and then up the treat ante for poop. I'm an odd one and think that pullups have a place in PTing. I like to use them at first so that I'm not stressed about messes and kiddo isn't upset about them while trying to learn. Get potty books, let them pick out a potty, explain the treats and get ready to camp out with books or some electronics in the bathroom. Try to entertain them and keep them on the potty until you have success. My DD went 5x when I started that but also had a ton of accidents in her pullup because she it took awhile to learn how to fully go. She would get excited about peeing some and stop.
After a few weeks of getting the hang of going I switched to underwear and tried to focus on the independence aspect of it. This is and eating are the two big things in toddlers lives that they have control over. So, try and teach them that they need to listen to their body and get themselves to the potty instead of them relying on you.
Or you can ignore all of that and take 3-5 days off and do the 3 or 5 day potty training method:)
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Well....what we're doing isn't working! Or hardly.
We are in the throws of PTing right now with our 2.5 yr old. It was actually DS's daycare that brought up the idea of potty training and so we went with it. I would not be doing this right now without their support/pushing it.
At home we started giving him treats just for sitting b/c when we brought up the idea of sitting on the potty he would throw himself on the ground and scream. So we gave him 1 M&M to sit and we let him watch the ipad or read a book to get him to sit for extended periods of time when we figured out he would sit and then stand up and have an accident.
At this point our boy is peeing standing up at school, but will not do the same at home and seems unable to pee in the potty sitting down. Like I think he's holding it when he sits but he doesn't realize it.
We've now gotten ourselves into a situation where I think he wants to sit on the potty just so he can watch baby einsteins on the ipad.
All that to say, I wouldn't recommend doing what we are doing.
This is what worked for us.
At 20 months, DD showed signs of interest in the potty. We took her to the store and let her pick out her new toilet. Brought it home, and there it sat for 6 months.
At 26 months, I knew she was ready. I took a week off work to solely focus on potty training (plus is that it was a holiday week, so I was only gone 4 days). Went to the grocery to stock up on everything we'd need in case we couldn't leave the house. My opinion was that once we were committed to PTing, we weren't going back to diapers. DD got to pick out her own new underwear (the thick Gerber training pants). And then we started the first morning.
We talked to her a lot leading up to this about being excited that she was going to be such a big girl. She got "special drink" - fruit punch - and lots of snack type food that she normally doesn't get. I really pushed the drinking, thinking that the more often she felt the sensation of peeing, the more likely this was to work. She got to wear her new underwear and a t-shirt. Towels on all the furniture. Every 15-20 minutes we sat on the potty. If she urinated, she got 3 M&Ms. If she defecated, she got 8 M&Ms.
The first day we had a few accidents. Talked to her about when she felt like that, she needed to get up and go to the potty. By the 3rd morning, I was confident enough to take her to the store. We went potty immediately before leaving, immediately upon arriving at the store, leaving the store, and getting home.
And that was that. She had a few accidents during the day at daycare over the next couple weeks, but that was expected. We incentivized her to stay dry for 5 days in a row, by allowing her to pick out a couple packs of new big girl underwear. But, to get to wear them, she had to have no accidents while at school. It took a couple weeks, but she did it.
Throughout this time, we did continue diapers at night because she slept 12 hours, and I felt it was too long for her bladder to hold it. Once I noticed a consistency in her diaper being dry every morning, we got rid of the diapers completely.
We really let her "own" everything about it, and sicne she was ready, it was a success. But, it's different for every kid. Good luck!
We're in same boat. Our pedi suggested that we pick a weekend and go for it. Put her in panties and take her to the potty every 30 minutes (or was it every 15 minutes? seems like a lot). No pull ups. Don't go back to diapers.
I'm trying to psych myself up for it.
DD has had her own potty and she has been sitting on it for months. She likes it. We read books, have a couple about this very topic that we talk about. She has gone pee and poo a handful of times but nothing consistent. She "tries" which is hilarious because she grunts on purpose. Not sure where she learned that. Anyway, actually really like pp's method of staying at home for a week and gradually venturing out of the home.
Hmm...maybe this weekend should be THE weekend. I can take DD shopping this afternoon to buy some panties.