Potty Training
So my youngest daughter is almost 16months. She’s been going pee and poop on the potty for the last few months. Not always regularly, but pretty consistently. I don’t push her too much but I do keep her in panties when we are at home. She’s doing well! Reagan my 3 1/2 year old trained early like Kaylee. I also didn’t want to be changing 2 pairs of diapers.
My suggestion for those who are PT are to have your kids go nudie or wear panties. For us, pull ups were the devil and they were really expensive anyway. Sometimes I think PT can be an issue and you always have to listen to your kids and follow their lead.
Do you have any tips or suggestions for those who are PT?
~Alicia
I wanted to add to this post and say I found some potty training and bathroom ideas on tipjunkie today. You can see a bathroom reminder sign here and bathroom and good behavior punch cards here!
~trisha
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I agree with the pullup being evil in the home. For outings they can be great but way to expensive and confusing for kids. Just a fancy diaper is all they are.
My 3 year old trained himself at 17 months..Now my youngest who is 17 months has no interest in the potty what so ever..all kids are different, I do not want to push him till he is ready…hopefully it is soon though!
I am dreading this part- my kids are almost 2 so Im working on my daughter now. I didnt want to buy a potty because ill probably have to wean them off the potty onto the real toilet anyways, so i bought a soft Dora toilet seat. My son wont sit on it, so i decided to start with one first.My daughter has done both on the toilet a few times, but i dont think she knows whats shes doing yet. I thought about getting her dora underwears, tell her she has to keep dora clean and dry but she still doesnt understand. I agree i think pulls ups might confuse themwith diapers, but i might try them out when i get serious with PT
Connor did really well with just pullups/underwear and I’ll be doing the same with James once he is more interested in the potty. He’ll sit on the little one with his diaper on or off.
I was just going to post about this today on my personal blog. I have attempted potty training my 34 month old boy a couple of times to no avail. I really would like him out of diapers by 3, but I know that’s not my decision.
Thanks for the great tips. I just went & bought some pull ups last night thinking that might encourage him, but after reading these comments maybe not. My daughter was much easier to train!
We finally finished PTing #3. All my kids did not initiate. I was always amazed to hear other moms talk about how their kids wanted to PT & were younger than 3.
It was a long battle of wills with each child. I agree with the others who say skip pull ups and go straight to underwear. If you have to go out, put a pull up over the underwear to minimize leakage at Target
Good luck. I’m so relieved it’s over in my house.
My son took an extreme interest in PTing when he was 19 months old. He was in underwear for everything except bed time (when we use Pull-ups) by 24 months.
My tip is to put them on the potty if they are dry when they wake up from nap or sleeping. They will most likely pee a few minutes after they wake up – and you have instant, easy success that they understand. It sets them up for potty success!
And I think its a myth that boys are harder to PT.
My son was a stinker and he didn’t fully potty train until 3. I think our biggest problem was not letting him do it on his own time. Our family kept pushing and pushing from age 1 and up. I knew you couldn’t force a kid to do this but since he was my first I listened to them. It turned out to be an awful struggle. So this time we’ll take it slow with our daughter and wait until she shows us she’s ready.
My youngest will be 2 soon and I haven’t even thought about this yet. We’re in the middle of a move and didn’t want to get him all trained and then have the upheaval set us back. I was waiting until we’re in the new house and done rocking his little world as he knows it (less than a week now and I’m sitting here reading posts).
i just let my kids do it at their own pace. no sense in rushing it and pushing it if they arent ready. my oldest was almost 3, my middle dd was 3.5 and my baby is amlost 18 months, adn i havent even thought about when im gonna try it. she cant really talk yet, so until she understands what potty means, im not gonna press the issue.
Wow, kudos to you for the early trainers. My Babe is almost 10 months older than yours and she has only gone on the potty twice (and then just because I caught her at the right moment). We read books about the potty and always make the offer if she seems like she has to go but we honestly haven’t given it the old college try yet. The problem with the panties thing for us is that there are other people in our house – my mother in law and brother in law. I’m afraid that the “accidents” would be an imposition for them and so I’ve just sort of put it on the back burner.
Wow, my daughter is almost 17 months, and I haven’t even considered potty training her yet. I guess it would help if she could walk first! I didn’t even realize that it might be time to start thinking about potty training.
We did underwear too. When Matthew was ready he got peeing down very well but struggled with pooping. We set up a potty chart so everytime he pooped he got to put up a sticker. This was better than rewarding him with food treats like icecream!
Wow good job to your daughter getting trained so young!!
I agree with the Panties and being nude! I think that is how my daughter was trained so quickly. She was pretty much 100% trained in 2 weeks. She does love to run around nakey though now
But, yeah I never bothered with pull ups. I was afraid that they were to much like diapers and would just confuse her. I also asked her every so often if she needed to go to remind her.
And another thing, when we were out in public I always reminded her that she had big girl panties on and not a diaper to let me know if she needed to go potty.
I agree with listening to your kids. My son was a late one with potty training. He was almost 4 before out of diapers. We had tried several times before, and he kept telling us he was scared of the potty. Then one day, he just told us he was going to use the potty, and has been ever since.
We also kept his potty chair in full view from about 18 months on. He always knew it was there and got used to seeing it. When he finally started using the potty, we rewarded him with pennies, and he knew that if he used it enough he could buy something with the money. It made it more fun for him.
I spent the last week with my potty-training niece and it takes WORK! She wore panties unless we were going out (and not just to Grandy’s house). That said, it was really hard for me not to get over-frustrated with her when she had an accident. I showed her my disappointment and made an extra emphasis on praise when she used the potty on outings.
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I second the underwear.
Pull ups feel like diapers to them, and they know they can pee/poop in diapers.
As for advice, Here’s mine.
Ask them hourly if they have to go potty. Sometimes, little ones get too busy playing or doing other things and they forget to go, even though they need too. Stopping them from play, or the movie, or whatever and asking them if they need to go, usually reminds them to go, before they have an accident.