I know it's not very interesting to talk about potty training but I think the process is really funny. At least that's what I keep trying to tell myself. First of all let me just say that Little S has been stripped of all diapers.
He really hates the idea of leaving his diapers behind and I'm finding it hard cleaning up the messes. I´m at my wits end.
I guess he isn't ready for this and I'm losing my mind running after him with towels and carpet cleaner. It's been two weeks now and I feel like we are getting nowhere. Everyone is discouraged, him, me...the cats.
Here's what I'm doing. Am I doing something wrong here? I'll take any tips I can get:
1) I steer him to the potty every 30 minutes.
2) He has a potty chair that came with a sticker chart. He likes the stickers okay but the chart makes no sense to him. (Our new upstairs toilet is really strange and the seat is oval so a converter will not work. He has to continue to use the little potty until he gets bigger.)
3) I have a second potty downstairs so he doesn't have to go upstairs to the main potty.
4) I let him watch his friends and me and Seb pee on the potty. He's seen everyone on it!
5) I don't scream (although I want to) when he pees I just say..."oh honey you have to go pee on the potty..." I am ultra careful about what I say.
6) We only use one language for potty talk to make it even simpler for him.
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My daughter and niece were the same way. We gave up trying to train them and just waited until they were ready. Neither seemed very bothered by diapers and so we just kept buying them. One day, they trained themselves. It was really that easy with both of them. When they were ready, it was a done deal with no accidents after about 2 days. My daughter was 2 weeks before her 3rd birthday, my niece was 3 yrs 7 mo. Don't sweat it and sooner or later, it will just happen! Really, I promise!
I trained them on m&m's..when he went on the potty...he got one m&m..(or whatever) and to train them to aim...drop cheerios in the water and have him sink them..
My oldest was 3 years old to the day when he was potty trained....trust me..they won't go to college in diapers;)
no kids here but i can tell you that my little brother was finally potty trained at something like 3.5 after my parents were able to explain to him that wearing diapers was bad for the environment as it created waste, i guess until then he didn't see the need to give them up.
oh, and The Husband apparently also hung onto his till 3+ and I can tell you he turned out just fine.
I'm not a mother yet, but, oh, what fun things I get to look forward to?!
I've had 2 year old success so here's my tidbit...
My hunch is that he sort of has to be ready and also it's a recognition factor.
I trained a 2 year old so I know this. He was about 2.7 or more a bit more and we had many accidents.
What I did was really paid attention and started reminding him if he needed to go. He really looked like he was in deep thought too.
I also figured out when he did #2 which he would shyly hide in a corner. This really worked to know and then we rushed over and did it.
Also what might work is that you need to do it at certain times. When he wakes up in the morning, go to the toilet. 10am go. 12pm go. 2 pm go. 4pm etc..
In theory it takes 21 days to make a habit, so don't give up!
I'd say rewards are the biggest thing. If he knows he gets a reward for going in the right place, he might start thinking about making sure he goes where he needs to..
And maybe you need to x out the days and count down 21. Keep it for a month and it should become more of a habit...
Hang in there!
We put Muppet on the potty regularly, like once every hour and a half or so. When we got lucky, we partied and he got a treat. When nothing happened, nothing happened.
We did this for months and months and months (or so it felt--was about five months in total). And then one day, he decided he was ready.
I understand he has a bit of a language block going on. Is he able to communicate pipi and caca? He might not be ready. There's no law that says he's got to go on the potty by a certain age.
With my oldest, we started in much the same way as you. And maybe a couple of months later, we were at friends for an apéro and she suddenly asked for the potty chair to go caca. Our friends' kids were much older and their potty chair was stuck up high iin the garage, but they got it down, and our daughter used it. After that day when she asked for the chair she was pretty much "propre".
I'm just really frustrated by it all. I know I have been this week and when I wrote that post! It's just that with us moving right around the time he turns three I feel like he'll be traumatized enough without starting training so we're really trying to get him used to it now.
This is our third time trying and the last few times he definitely wasn't ready but now he has all the signs of being ready. He goes to the cupboard and actually pulls out a diaper when he want to poop! He KNOWS!
I haven't tried it yet (I think we'll be starting next week), but my doctor had a suggestion as to tell when they're ready.
She said not to ask them if they need to go to the potty or sit them down on a pot every few hours. Instead, put them in regular underpants one morning and watch them. If they start to do a dance or show some other sign before they need to pee, then you can go ahead and get them on the pot. But if they just go with no warning then they're not ready, put them back in a diaper and try again in 2 weeks.
It made sense to me, but like I said, I haven't actually tried it! Good luck!
We used a sticker chart. We took a piece of construction paper and each potty use received a sticker. So many stickers bought the kid a cheap toy. Each week we increased the number of stickers needed for the toy and then went to a bigger sticker for everyday dry and the kids had to have a number of days dry for a toy. We didn't worry about night at first but gradually worked to that. My daughter was potty trained by two, but my son was using a pull up only at night for awhile. He turned three in March and has been pull up free since February. Good luck - it will happen, but you have to stick with it. No going back.
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