Hi all!
We are loosely following "Diaper Free by Three" and it's working out great. We have a routine for pottying and he goes 5 or 6 times a day. We started when he was 18 mos and he is 25 mos now. He never tells us he has to go (never fussed when his diaper was wet/dirty either) but I just found out that he tells his grandma to take him to the potty when she watches him at bedtime because she did not realize he goes right before bed. It is obvious that he holds it for the potty, he often has a dry dipe and pees a lot when we do put him on the potty. He is very very verbal but behind on gross motor skills, so we always figured the asking/telling would be easy and the physically peeing in the potty might be hard. Nope. He pretty much doesn't tell us, but he knows we will be sitting on the potty soon enough so he holds it, I think. Oh, he pretty much only pees in the potty, pooping has been a little more spotty.
I guess I'm not sure how to proceed from here. He already regressed once and we didn't sweat it and he went back to what he is doing now.
What do we do in public? He uses a little potty chair (a must because he likes to read on the potty for 10-20 minutes at a time) what does everyone else do? I have a car potty, but it's going to start getting scorching hot, so that won't work anymore.
I feel like if we want to progress I can't put him in situations where he has to pee in his diaper because we don't put him on his potty chair.
Any other advice on how to progress on this and potty learning in general?
Oh, the potty routine grew out of putting him on the potty when he was already peeing, it wasn't an imposed time-schedule. We go first thing in the am, after breakfast, after snack etc. And every time I go I take him with me. It isn't every 45 minutes or a set interval.
Thank you!
We are loosely following "Diaper Free by Three" and it's working out great. We have a routine for pottying and he goes 5 or 6 times a day. We started when he was 18 mos and he is 25 mos now. He never tells us he has to go (never fussed when his diaper was wet/dirty either) but I just found out that he tells his grandma to take him to the potty when she watches him at bedtime because she did not realize he goes right before bed. It is obvious that he holds it for the potty, he often has a dry dipe and pees a lot when we do put him on the potty. He is very very verbal but behind on gross motor skills, so we always figured the asking/telling would be easy and the physically peeing in the potty might be hard. Nope. He pretty much doesn't tell us, but he knows we will be sitting on the potty soon enough so he holds it, I think. Oh, he pretty much only pees in the potty, pooping has been a little more spotty.
I guess I'm not sure how to proceed from here. He already regressed once and we didn't sweat it and he went back to what he is doing now.
What do we do in public? He uses a little potty chair (a must because he likes to read on the potty for 10-20 minutes at a time) what does everyone else do? I have a car potty, but it's going to start getting scorching hot, so that won't work anymore.
I feel like if we want to progress I can't put him in situations where he has to pee in his diaper because we don't put him on his potty chair.
Any other advice on how to progress on this and potty learning in general?
Oh, the potty routine grew out of putting him on the potty when he was already peeing, it wasn't an imposed time-schedule. We go first thing in the am, after breakfast, after snack etc. And every time I go I take him with me. It isn't every 45 minutes or a set interval.
Thank you!
