Comments on: We Like, We Like to Potty

By: Of Potties and Puddles

Of Potties and Puddles — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:04:38 +0000

[...] months ago now I started thinking about undertaking the grand toilet learning journey with my toddler Jacob. I was full of confidence and feeling optimistic. I was convinced that if I [...]

By: Potty Learning with Patience and Praise | Crunchy Domestic Goddess

Potty Learning with Patience and Praise | Crunchy Domestic Goddess — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:34:13 +0000

[...] from Strocel uses the naked time technique as well. “During toilet training I … allow lots, and [...]

By: Lady M

Lady M — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:45:44 +0000

Good luck!

I’m hoping that the desire to imitate big brother will help us this second time around.

Q-ster was plain not interested for a long time – no rewards system, “big boy” talk – nothing made a difference until one day he decided he was tired of diapers, and then we were done.
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By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:24:04 +0000

Let me add a Dad’s perspective…it wasn’t a pain to toilet train Victoria. She learned how to use the potty when SHE was ready. No big deal. One night she said she wanted to use the potty and she did. After that there was no turning back.

@FeministBreeder: I understand your frustration, but don’t worry about whether or not your son is toilet trained. EVERY child gets toilet trained eventually – it just takes longer for some. I suspsect you’re more concerned with what OTHER people will think about him not being trained. If people are worried that he’s not yet using the potty, they’re probably not worth knowing.

By: Angela

Angela — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:17:17 +0000

Amber, your method is nearly exactly what I have done with my children. I am thankful for the slate floors in my new house

The other day my 16-month-old had an accident on the floor, walked to the bathroom and flushed the toilet LOL! She’s getting some of the concept at least!
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By: Dionna

Dionna — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:40:45 +0000

No tips, but I did want to share that Kieran was 15 or 16 months old when he first went in the potty (we have the same chair as you!). I was SO excited and cocky – my kid was going to PT *early*!
Um, no.
He enjoys going in the potty most times, but he still hasn’t gotten to a point where he will tell us he has to go. He’s even gone poo quite a few times.
I’m just not sure what else to do to help him learn the “gotta go” feeling. I probably didn’t let him spend enough time nekkid this summer, and I won’t subject him to nekkie time in our cold house this winter.
Good luck!
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By: Francesca

Francesca — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:38:24 +0000

I feel exactly like the feminist breeder above. I started potty training my kids in their first summer after they turned 2. It took 2 weeks with my elder boy, a little longer with my middle boy, and my youngest is still in diapers after months of trying. A confirmation that, as you say, repeating the same thing and expecting the same result with a different child doesn’t work. Good luck!
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By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:42:21 +0000

Emma was ready way before I was. She was 14 months old and I was days away from having Hannah. She wanted on the toilet and out of her diapers and I did everything I could to keep her in them and out of the bathroom. It worked too. I actually held her off for another couple of months, until I had my feet back under me from baby #2. By then, potty training was a snap. We ended up going to Ikea and purchasing alot of their inexpensive little toilets and putting them all over the house. There was a potting in every room. When we moved out to the country I even started carrying on in my van. Living 20 minutes from everything meant stopping on the side of the hwy to go…and it isn’t as easy for a girl as a boy. Having that potty in the van was a blessing on more than one occasion. I love that I can’t remembe what it is like to buy a diaper or change one.

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:22:06 +0000

Turns out if you’re just really lazy about potty training and wait until your kid is embarrassingly old, it doesn’t take any time at all And having the boy first makes the girl seem reeeeally easy by comparison. Although she developed an inordinate fondness for her princess pull-ups and pretended she needed them overnight much longer than she actually did (I think she’d wake up in the morning and pee in them on purpose, the crafty little bugger).
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By: pomomama aka ebbandflo

pomomama aka ebbandflo — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:28:02 +0000

Wee Guy was almost 4y before he started showing any savvy about learning to use the toilet/potty. He’d been dry thru the night for about 6 months but no interest/awareness in what was happening in his diaper during the day. Eventually I just threw up my hands, alarmed that I would still be diapering a 4y old – but once he could pee standing up (into the toilet!) then that was it. He never looked back and the actual training was minimal.
Pooping was a different matter. His nervous system took the longest time ever to connect between brain and sphincter, but eventually the slow dawning of the “i need a poo” recognition came. Moist flushable wipes and a good book helped the process along. The few times he crapped himself when he was too lazy to stop playing I emphasised the message by making him take a looooooong sloooooooooooow tepid shower to clean up thus making it faster to go poo on the loo rather than in his underwear.
Toilet training! Ugh – not a stage I wold wish to repeat ever. Roll on old age and incontinence
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