After months of on again/off again potty training (if we can call it that), I think the over 3 year old has turned a corner. We’ll be saying bye bye to diapers very soon (or, as she told her father ‘I’m throwing out my diapers, daddy!’).
As we did with our son, we take the kids’ lead on potty training. It took him about 6 months, from the starting of ‘trying’ to when he really got it. She was the same.
What’s this stress free, but prolonged method? Well, there’s no real trick. We start by having the potty being available (a small one in the play room, an ones that sit on the toilet). Then every so often we’d talk about using it, how the rest of us use it (open door policies when going to the bathroom aren’t necessarily by choice as parents, but they do come in handy sometimes) and asking them if they’d like to try.
My kids would sometimes sit on the toilet or potty and nothing would happen. But they were happy to try. Stress free.
Then, we put on underwear. There’s excitement because they are new, and what ‘big people’ wear. And we test the waters. They either start to pee, and stop themselves, showing great control. Or they pee right through several times over. In those cases, we don’t push. We take a break.
My daughter had been doing that for the past couple of months. Every so often, I’d put on underwear and see if she’d tell me when she needed to go, or show interest. Instead, she would typically start to pee, not stop herself and say ‘I’m peeing”. Yes. Yes you are.
Finally, last week, I tried again, and instead of peeing, she would stop and tell me, or say ‘I have to go pee’ and off to the toilet we went.
That was it. Then, that same day, she pooped on the toilet which sends off parenting fireworks and jumps for joy and celebrations (we always said pooping would warrant a treat – it did with an ice cream trip out). Her pride shone through and my independent, stubborn girl convinced herself she was done with diapers.
And she has been. Just like that. We are still cautious when we head out for long periods of time, and she’s still in diapers at night (that always takes some extra time), but potty training for me is coming to an end.
It was stress free, even if this diaper stage seemed to last a long time, following their leads worked for us. And I couldn’t be more proud of her!
Are you in the throws of potty training? How is it going for you? How was potty training when you were doing it?
We are in the throes (hopefully the far end) of potty training. For the past two years. My son decided at 2 years old that he wanted to be on the potty, so we obliged. However, this has been fraught with highs and lows, accidents and frustration for all involved. He gets focused and forgets, or can’t make it in time before the poop decides to come out on its own. He still soaks an underjam at night, but he’s been in underwear for over a year. We never did the pull up thing unless it was a long car trip. they’re just like diapers, just more $$.
We are on a deadline of sorts, being that he starts JK in September, and they have informed us if he has an “accident”, we have to come change him, they will not. We work downtown Ottawa, and live waaay out in the suburbs. Uhh, right.
So he has to be 99.9999% confident to go to the potty by then.
However, despite some setbacks this spring, lately he is making it to the potty, and asking to go when we are outv happy when he makes it. HUZZAH!
We were very careful with him in the beginning not to use food as a reward (both hubs and I are trying to project healthy eating habits) so we have done new toy cars, a trip on the O-Train, a park walk, and other such rewards. It seems to be working! He gets a “surprise” if he stays dry all week. This past week, it was running the Tot Trot at the Canada Day Road Race. He loved it!
Potty training is hard. glad you are having success!
My son is still 6 months, but I have a feeling that the potty training with him will be fun.
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