DS is just about 2.5. We brought a potty into the house at around 18 months, just to hang out and have it be something he could get used to. At about 20 months, he peed in it one night before his bath and did a few times after that, but one day, just wanted nothing to do with it. Not wanting to make it a power struggle, we backed off.
Since then, we've been kinda inconsistent, honestly. He's peed a couple more times here and there in it. We ask him to let us know when he needs to go so we can get the potty to catch it and I know he understands. He loves reading potty books. He has lots of friends who he sees use the potty(even his), he knows whats up with it.
Complicating matters a bit, we've had to switch entirely to disposable diapers for the past few months. He was almost exclusively in cloth before then, but even after stripping all my diapers and adding doublers and the likes, none of mine can hold his toddler sized pee without leaking. I can't afford new ones
Generally, DH and I are pretty chill about the whole thing. DH, admittedly, still has issues with the fact that its going to be "messy," but whatever, he'll get over it. But, ok, here is the punch line, (finally!), DS is doing that thing when he tells us just about every time he does something in his diaper (except at night of course). Isn't this a critical moment in PT/PL maybe? Where do I go from here???
Since then, we've been kinda inconsistent, honestly. He's peed a couple more times here and there in it. We ask him to let us know when he needs to go so we can get the potty to catch it and I know he understands. He loves reading potty books. He has lots of friends who he sees use the potty(even his), he knows whats up with it.
Complicating matters a bit, we've had to switch entirely to disposable diapers for the past few months. He was almost exclusively in cloth before then, but even after stripping all my diapers and adding doublers and the likes, none of mine can hold his toddler sized pee without leaking. I can't afford new ones
Generally, DH and I are pretty chill about the whole thing. DH, admittedly, still has issues with the fact that its going to be "messy," but whatever, he'll get over it. But, ok, here is the punch line, (finally!), DS is doing that thing when he tells us just about every time he does something in his diaper (except at night of course). Isn't this a critical moment in PT/PL maybe? Where do I go from here???
