I wanted to have options so that when Jake inevitably decided he didn't like something, I could try something else. So we bought some Pull-ups (with Toy Story decorations on them), got a huge pile of training pants/underwear, pulled out the potty chair we purchased a year ago, got a small toilet seat attachment to put over our normal seat and a step so he can reach the toilet. I told Jake about all of this last night and told him we would start tomorrow morning.
Jake woke up this morning screaming, "Big boy underwear!! Toy Story!! Potty!!" What time is it? 7:30am? The kid gets his little mind set on something and obsesses over it - he is so my child. Up the stairs to his room I went and so it began... 30 minutes on the toilet (with the attachment seat)... 15 minutes on the potty chair in the bathroom... 15 minutes on the potty chair in the living room... and then I got an idea. Jake likes to hide in the space between the loveseat and the chair to do his "business" so I put the potty there and SUCCESS!
However, since then, he just keeps telling me after he pees in his underwear. It has been a long morning.The word suck has replaced the word rock.
I pulled out a play house/cabana and thought maybe I could make him his own little outhouse. He was so excited. I put the potty in there and he learned how to open and shut the zippered door. He then came out and showed me his wet underwear. Ugh. Then as I was putting new underwear on him, Luke was dancing around with the potty chair on his head. Yuck.
Naptime can not come soon enough. Oh, but I now have an extra load of underwear to wash. Joy.
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good luck!!! some tips that helped us. I did not like pull ups. He would still pee in them. EC was potty trained in 2 days by staying at home in undies. He was immediately uncomfortable when he peed and got the point fast. No accidents since. That was at 2 1/2. oh and bribery... MNM's worked wonders! He will do great.
Wish us luck around here. Its the weekend we are taking away the binky. WAAAAA!!! not sure who its going to be harder for him or me?
Have patience--I know he'll get it.
He will get it. Gavyn loved peeing in Fruit Loops, it's the only thing we could use to get him to go. So standing up went quickly with him. Good luck!
I wrote a lot about potty training here: http://milkingtheissue.blogspot.com/2010/08/potty-training-tips.html
Good luck. ;)
Oh dear, sounds like you are going to be doing a lot of laundry! My daycare provider used to sit the potty trainers on the potty's about every 30 minutes at first. For us bribery worked (a small m & m or something similar).
Sounds like he is ready though with that much interest in it. Good luck!
We're going through this intermittently right now with Soren. I've started on getting him to poop in the potty (most days) only because I know the signs of when he's ready to go. Because he wants his privacy, he says "Mommy, go cook!" or "Mommy, go clean!" (such a child of a feminist here). So when he does that, I ask him if he wants to poop on the potty and he says yes. It's because of the lollipop reward, most certainly.
I hope things are going better today. Potty training is something I've been dreading since he was born. It seems so tedious!
Oh Kari....you crack me up! I've been potty training Paige for a while and she's just so darn stubborn! She doesn't want to wear panties, so I bought boxers. She doesn't want to wear boxers, so I bought Toy Story undies. Yes. Boy underwear.
We have all kinds of girl panties, Dora, Minnie Mouse, Elmo. What does she do with these panties? Why, she wears them on her head. For the last few weeks, she grabs a pair of panties puts them on her head and walks around like it's perfectly normal.
The kicker. She can do it. Go potty...she just doesn't want to.
My little one will go if he has nothing on his bottom, but if he has anything on, forget it, he's not bothering w/the potty. He just turned three, and everyone around me tells me he should be out of diapers by now, but whatever. He'll do it when he's ready and we'll just keep working with him. :) Good luck with your fun! he he he :)
When I trained Lil O years ago I would put on her big girl panties then a pull up on top of them.
It allowed her to feel icky and wet and didn't leave you with a wet spot to clean up.
It's still frustrating with all the panties I washed but she got the hang of it quickly.
Good luck.
When we potty trained O, we just left her naked. She didn't have accidents that way. The second I put her in big girl panties, she would pee. So, naked worked for us. Good luck - we also gave her an m&m (she called them m's because there is only one m on the candy!) every time she peed, and 2 for poops. :) Ah, the joys of motherhood.
good luck my son just turned 3 and he does so well at day care with maybe one accident a day. But bring him home and he is lazy! He will poop in the potty but still continues to pee in his pullups! We try underwear and he pees through them! Maybe by kindergarten he will be trained!
You still rock. But not as much as Jake with the seat on his head. I want a pic of that. It takes time. I seriously dread training two boys at the same time.
You poor thing! I hope the word rock once again replaces the word suck!
OH! I am SOOOO glad that I am not alone in this scenario right now!! Now I don't feel as bad, and you made me laugh, too! Thanks Kari, for sharing! My boy just turned 3 and we are having the power struggle over potty-training too. Plus, patience is SO not my strong suit......so it will be an interesting journey for us. He doesn't even want the big boy underwear on and he cries when I try to put them on him {or pull-ups}.
Thanks for making me smile today!
You still rock!
;-)
In my opinion, it's not past time... unless he's in kindergarten (that's what my mom always said)!! Some are ready later. if he's showing an interest, that's great.
I didn't use pull-ups either as it's like a diaper and my son didn't get the message/uncomfortable. We just used underwear and stayed home and focused on potty training for a few days and that was it... oh, also I let my son be in charge of his toileting and cleaning up any accidents... had a stack of wash rags for the wood floor and put down beach towels on carpet areas, a bucket with water for soiled undies that he would have to put in there and a stack of clean undies. Also, we didn't show any emotion if he wet his pants. Just matter of fact he needed to clean up and take care of it.
Hang in there. :D
It's not funny, but it is the way you tell it. I am happy for you (I think?). It will be worth it at some point when he decides he is much more comfortable with dry pants. Just in time for Luke to start training! Ahhhh good times...
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