Comments on: Trick to Potty Training: Send Kid to Grandma’s! & Stickers!

By: cloudscome

cloudscome — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:05:09 +0000

Ha I guess this is the big weekend for a lot of us. We are in the throes of it over here too. I bought new stickers and M&Ms and new underwear. All of it helps but nothing is perfect until they decide it's worth the effort, right? Hope things improve quickly for you all. cloudscome's last blog post..Daffodils on a City Street

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:39:16 +0000

Yes, you will.

Mike
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By: Holly

Holly — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:16:23 +0000

I potty trained BigSis at 25 months when LilSis was 5 months old and nursing a lot and needing tended to get to sleep at naptimes. BigSis did exactly the same thing, where she’d barge into the dark room and announce her needs – or her accidents!

My solution was to make the toileting totally her responsibility. She did her own pants and unders, turned on her own light (with the help of the stepstool), and unless it was a poo wiped herself and washed her own hands. All that is very do-able with some practice. If she pooed, she would just wait on the pot until I was done with LilSis and then I’d help her clean up. I also had to purchase an extra little pot for upstairs (her main lil’ pot was downstairs) because I kept the stairway gate closed. So then she could do the whole thing.

With all that, she RARELY still had to use the toilet while I was totally occupied with LiSis – even though it had been constant before. Whatev. The problem was solved.

Be encouraged, it’ll get better.

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:14:17 +0000

Hi,

I have a three year old son who is potty trained and I work in daycare so I have seen lots of things tried. I hope you don’t mind me giving you a few things that I have seen work. For my son we let him run around with no underwear at all. He did not want to poop on the floor so he quickly started using the toilet.When he was in underwear and pooped in them we taught him how to clean them out and put them in the laundry room himslef. Yes, that is messier and requires me to clean the bathroom when he isn’t looking, but the added time away from his toys and fun things really got the message through to him. We always made sure we didn’t treat it like a punishment but just what needed to happen next. And just so you know he was a little bit younger than your son is now. At daycare we use the sticker thing a lot. For pooping issues specifically we sometimes give a glass of apple juice or something along those lines and then put them on the toilet about 15 minutes later. Or sometimes we have played music and had a little impromptu party for the child. This may not help with keeping Little Brother breastfeeding at that moment but at least Big Brother will poop in the toilet. We usually use Jock Jams but I suppose it could be any special song. We only play it for pooping on the toilet though. Again, these are just a few things I have seen work. In the end it will happen and then all this will seem like a bad joke. Best of luck to you.

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By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:41:55 +0000

Just thought I would point out to you that BigBrother’s name is on your blog now. As a reader of your previous blog,I thought you might want to know that it isn’t so private now.;) Love your mad writing skillz…

By: chris

chris — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 03:15:22 +0000

Hi, I can't remember if I ever de-lurked, so if not, Hi! It sounds like you are doing a great job with the two kids. I like reading your blog - you have a way with words. We potty-trained early (my goal was done by 2 years old), but one thing that helped (someone mentioned as well), if bigbro poops approximately at the same time (i.e. in the morning or in the afternoon), have him sit on the potty with a favorite acitivity. we had a lego table that fit over his knees on the toddler pot, and we also read a lot of books there. eventually he would just go without the long sitting session...then again, i didn't have to nurse another at the same time! chris's last blog post..Osterhase

By: Ginger

Ginger — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:31:41 +0000

At least BigBrother will use the potty. Our daughter, roughly, the same age has no desire to sit on the potty, wear panties (no matter if Curious George, Dora, Disney princesses, etc are on them) or wear pull ups. She has on occasion used the potty for pee and poop, but now she just really has no desire to do so. Stickers don’t work either for us. I have just given up for awhile, but I am tempted to do the underwear all day, but that doesn’t work on days I work (I work 2 1/2 days per week). Oh well. I am sure we will get there eventually. She is advanced in just about every other way so I am trying not to stress too much. Good luck!

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:32:08 +0000

Aaaahhhh we are potty training this week so I feel your pain. We have been using the toddler potty for some time now but this week I hid all diapers and pull ups (I do keep 2 in the car in case we run out of spare changes of clothes while out). We went cold turkey to panties 24-7. She wakes up wet every morning but dry every nap. Yesterday was a disaster but today has been much better. It takes so much patience. Our sticker chart does have straight lines and it drives me crazy when she puts todays sticker in the last spot for Monday! Christy's last blog post..Redo Part Deaux

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:51:38 +0000

You poor thing. There nothing that can stress you out faster than both kids needing your attention at the same time and it just can’t happen.

Lil’ Bum, thankfully was potty trained a few months before Baby Bum was born. That being said, she was a couple of months over 3 years. I tried the pull-ups thing, your right, she was fine to go in them. The first few times we tried panties she went in them too. I’m sure that is why I easily gave up.

Upon arriving home with a gigantic box of pull-ups I decided enough was enough and Lil’ Bum apparently had enough too because it worked.

It will get better.