Potty training (Read 563 times)

of course, when you are all happy that you're child is potty-trained, you get stuck in horrendous traffic and you hear the dreaded 'daddy...i have to go poopoo', then commence driving like a maniac to the next rest stop or McDonalds.

We were lucky to have a plastic bag in our car once, when it took us 3 hours to drive 2.5 miles through Boston!!

I agree. Patience is definately the key. We used skittles when our DS1 would use the potty. And stickers. After he got 10 stickers, we would load up and go get ice cream. He thought this was great. I think he would have peed and pood in the plastic potty for 5 more years if he could go get ice cream every couple days. We even let him pee outside in the bushes if he would just do it somewhere besides in the diaper. Really, all our silly stuff we did was helpful, but what really did it for him was finally saying bye-bye to the pullups. We went cold turkey to undies, and after 2 messes, he was pretty much trained. He's really stubborn, so I'm sure he would still be in pullups if I hadn't stopped using them. The other thing that really helped for him was seeing the other boys at Church (mothers morning out) do it. Something about 5 little boys lined up in the bathroom. I'm sure it's different with girls though.

that's funny Yours and Kirsten's idea of using stickers, and skittles, is a Great idea. & I am also going to try to get our son to get used to undies, no p.u.'s, and see if that would do it.

yeah, we went straight to undies...pullups are expensive..We made such a huge deal out o wearing underwear, how cool it is, how all the other big kids are wearing it, how colorful they are, etc...

Timing really is everything . . . my dd trained in about 5 days . . . but not until she was closer to 3. There's a great video out there called "Potty Power." It's adorable, though it will have you singing "No more diapers for me" for about a month. Of course, considering what diapers do to your budget, you might not mind so much . . .

yeah, we went straight to undies...pullups are expensive..We made such a huge deal out o wearing underwear, how cool it is, how all the other big kids are wearing it, how colorful they are, etc...

"Don't Pee Pee on Thomas" and "We don't poo poo on Lightning McQueen!" seems to work too. Makes 'em feel like they're going to ruin their friends day if they have an accident. (never mind Mommy or Daddy's day) It's really cute. I can still hear him saying "NNNOooooooooo, can't poo poo on Liken McMeeeeeen".......