Potty training ~ Take 2 ~

[lovesfortune]

Here I go again. :rolleyes: My 2 yr old was fully potty trained with NO ACCIDENTS for a whole month and then decided one day he didn't like it anymore and after two weeks of me trying to keep it up, we went back to diapers. :mad:

So today he tells me "no more diapers"...so we are back to trying. already on pair #2 of undies.. and it's only been an hour! :eek:

for those of you that want kids think about POTTY TRAINING before you get serious about it. :p

[Mercury]

Hehe! I'll keep that in mind! Thanks for the heads up! :cool:

Good luck with it! It there a way to make it more fun? Like a potty treat or peeing on the cheerios in the toilet? Thats what my SIL does...

[vicklynn]

Oh my gosh, terrible 2s..lol
I have to say I got lucky with Rich. The day I knew he was to no longer wear diapers, I about died laughing.
A friend and I were going somewhere, heck this was 25 yrs ago, he was 2, and all of a sudden I heard this noise in the back of the car.I turn around and he is peeing in the ashtray, you know the old cars, where the ashtray is in the side wall. Yup, he lifted it up, and like a big boy, did his thing. I looked at T and told her, oh my gosh girl, pull over. Not sure what people thought, two grown women cracking up like we were, diaper change and pee cleaning going on.
Hope you never have to go through that.

[Equine_Woman]

Lol, Vicklynn, that's funny!!

Good luck Loves!!! My 3 year old just one day decided he was trained. It was a breeze!!! We haven't had any accidents in almost a month or so now!! So you're beating us!! We didn't even start until he turned 3!!

[palomino]

OH, I can totally wait a couple of years to have to go thru that with London. Ugh. I remember that ordeal LOL!

[lovesfortune]

Well that didn't last long. He must have known I had my hopes up. 4 pairs of underwear later... UGH. Put it away for another day.

Thanks for the support though!

[lovesfortune]

Mercury... thanks for the tips. I tried M&M's already and that worked for about 2 days. He really just doesn't seem to care. Oh well I guess.:poo:

[WashingtonBay]

for those of you that want kids think about POTTY TRAINING before you get serious about it. :p

Oh hey... when I have thought about the prospect, it didn't take me long to think about that ALL ON MY OWN! :D

[shelsnsaus]

For me, I had to find something that both my youngest girls wanted more than anything. Nothing else worked. My oldest (who is now nearly 13) was easy. I just coerced her into sitting on the potty with jelly beans until she actually went. Told her that was what she was supposed to do and than that was that.

My middle child (who is now 5 - oh dear where has the time gone?) Was trickier. She couldn't care less and she was three years old. She loved to pee anywhere but in the potty. She was horrible, because for whatever twisted reason in her head she thought it was a game. I finally figured out that she wanted to ride a pony more than anything. I told her she had to go 2 weeks with no accidents and than I'd take her to ride a pony for a whole hour. I knew she was perfectly capable, after all she knew when she had to go since she would deliberately pee in inappropriate areas. We used stickers and a weekly calendar to chart her successes. The sibling competition of her getting stickers and her sister not getting them was probably also motivation. Anyway, from the moment we made the deal she has never had an accident since.

My youngest I was determined to potty train before she turned three, since the preschool here agreed to enroll her as soon as she was trained. We used the same method as for my middle daughter except for the motivation. Jade wanted to go to school more than anything. Within a week of me telling her that she could go to school if she used the potty every time all the time, she was a pro. The school agreed to let me use pull ups with her just in case for the next week or so, but just her knowing that if she had an accident she would have to go home was enough for her to potty where she was supposed to.

[carla]

I know you've been going back and forth with this, but I haven't followed too closely. How much of a two year old is your son? Just turned? 2.5? Just wondering...

It was pretty easy with my son when we finally took the leap, but he was nearly three when we gave it our second or third- and final- try. (I remember his third bday and realizing he had done it!)

However, I also remember going through the constant wash stage.. it didn't last long, though. I had tried once or twice and regressed back to diapers- finally I called my cousin one day and said, "are we just supposed to launder our way through and not turn back??"

She said yes, so that's what we did. Hindsight being what it is, we were done in no time at all. Easy to say now, huh? LOL!

Good luck!

[42many]

Well that didn't last long. He must have known I had my hopes up. 4 pairs of underwear later... UGH. Put it away for another day.

Thanks for the support though!

HAH!!! That is EXACTLY what my latest potty training attempt ended up as with my 2yo a couple weeks ago. Except we went through something like 7 pairs of underwear (and 3 sets of pants, before I finally got wise and quit putting those on) before the end of day 1. I think we did 3 pairs of the underwear within an hour, too! There wasn't a day 2 - my laundry (and I!!) couldn't handle it!

I think my next attempt will be a much more elongated thing - when my now-4yo potty trained we did it really slowly over several months, just having him sit on the potty alot, getting stickers and treats, etc. This time I figured I just wanted it DONE, though. Thhbbbbt on that.

[lovesfortune]

Carla.. he will be 3 at the end of March. I think I might have to get some stickers and try the motiviation thing... NEXT week. I like to start things on a monday for some reason.

I really just don't get how he could go a whole month with no accidents and then get all the way back to diapers and not caring. We've thought back and the only thing we did is try to teach him to pee standing up instead of sitting... do you think that really did it and now he's confused???

[carla]

Oh, it's possible! I remember the first thing I tried with my son when he was around 2 1/2.. He was huge into Thomas the Train then-

Anyways, I made this beautiful (in my eyes, lol) train track on a bright green poster board. Each segment of the tracks was for a sticker each time he used the potty. At the end of the track I drew a Thomas character to signify that, once he filled up each spot, he would get to pick a train from the store. It was genious!! ;)

Oh, it went great! I was so excited, he was excited, it was fun for the whole family. The big day came, we got the last sticker on, and headed straight for the store. The new train was just beautiful, lol.

The next day I made a new chart and hung it on the wall. I called K over to see. He took one look at it, looked in his hand at his new train, and said, "mmmh, no thanks.." and went on his merry little way. :hysterical:

After that time, it was a little bit before I tried that again. I was so crushed. :(

[lovesfortune]

LOL! That's pretty much what my son did with the M&M's. He was SO INTERESTED, but then he quickly figured it out and didn't care anymore.

I might try my hand at making a poster board to put stickers on. Part of me just wants to wait a bit more and then try potty training BOTH of my kids at the same time. When my daughter is 18 months (2 months away). She seems really interested in it now, moreso than he is!

[42many]

NOT a bad idea at all - when I was potty training my now-4yo, the 2 yo was SO interested (he was probably around 17 months or so). I came very very close to getting him potty trained too, since he was in there every time we were and poking around the potty wanting to try. I made the mistake of not keeping it up, though, and once the older was doing it on his own (and it was no longer a family affair!) the little one lost interest.