Potty, ready? or not?

[tnmom66]

My 20 month old tells me when she needs a clean diaper and is telling me before she pees sometimes. She has peed in the potty a few times, but usually sits for a few seconds, stands up and says "No" and then squats and pees on my floor, or else pees soon after I get her diaper back on her.I have "caught" her mid-poop and had her finish on the potty, too.

I tend to think this is the beginning of a long process. Since she'll run to the bathroom and sit on the potty, I think I should encourage her. My 2 older kids were 2 1/2 or older and I don't remember much about them training. I do remember I tried to get them to start early and it was futile, but when they were older, they basically trained themselves.

Anybody had a similar experience?

[crunchy_mommy]

Hmm I saw you got no responses... not sure I'll be any help but at least this will bump your thread up!

DS is 17mos and he has been telling me more & more that he needs to pee/poop so when he tells me, we go straight to the potty. He usually ends up holding it in & going in his diaper instead or the floor or something, but I figure if he's asking I might as well take him. He's fascinated by the potty and finally got over his fear of it but we seem to have a timing issue (maybe I'm just not patient enough?)

At any rate, though I don't have experience, I would think if your DD wants to run to the potty & try to use it, might as well encourage it (even if she isn't usually 'successful') -- my guess is that we'll both end up spending more time potty-learning but I have a feeling once they get it, they'll get it for good -- I could be totally off but that's how DS was for things like walking... Took steps at 7 mos old but didn't try to full-on walk until he could do it perfectly...

[Astraia]

My DD was telling me she needed a diaper, and would sometimes tell me when she needed to pee/poo. I figured she was ready for an introduction to potty training. She was interested in sitting on the potty, so I'd put her on regularly and if she ever peed on the floor I'd ask her, "did you peepee? DO we peepee on the floor? NO, it goes in the potty!" in a happy, cheery voice.

I asked a question on here and osmeone recommended having her dolls/toys "pee" on the potty- make the pssss noise and then clap and cheer and reinforce the doll. We did that, and it made a HUGE difference. Sometimes we'd put my son on the potty, too, which she thought was hilarious.

I think sitting on a potty and doing stuff is weird and a little bit scary if you're not used to it. The doll going on the potty seemed to make it more of a fun, natural thing- it's like a game all of a sudden.

[nelson]

I would jump at the chance to have a kid out of diapers, I say go for it! My DS is 25 months, and we always had a potty for him around the house and after he ran to it and sat down and pooped 2 different times, I decided to give it a go. He has been in only underwear for two weeks now and still has some accidents, but overall is doing really well. I just had to have a different mind set about it and realized that changing wet undies and a pair of shorts every once in a while is actually easier than trying to change a diaper, and DS refuses to put a diaper on again, which is fine by me! I do think with some LO's there is that window when they are willing to train when they are younger and if you miss it, it may not happen again for a while. Good Luck!

[Niki25]

I say go for it! I had my daughter potty trained at 19 months. I am sooo glad shes out of diapers now. We struggled a little bit at first and I started to get discouraged but than a friend recommended The Potty Boot Camp to me.. By Suzane Riffel. I just downloaded the book off of the website (which was awesome!) www.thepottybootcamp.com Maybe this will help you as much as it did me. Goodluck!

[swd12422]

I'd say go for it, too. Buy her special undies and just repeat 100+ times a day, "Peepee in potty ONLY. No peepee in pretty undies!" Seriously. She'll get it. Even though at first she'll still pee in them and be sad to have to take them off. But the sadness is a good motivator for her to keep the next pair dry! (We ended up having to leave DS naked after one accident, b/c he knew he'd get another pair if he peed in them. So the "consequence" was no underwear if you pee in them, and that got the message through. Otherwise, he figured they were just like diapers, but not as functional.)

[boogaloo]

The nice thing about starting this early is that you have lots of time and can make it fun. My DS has been using the potty about once a day. My library even had a bag of books that we checked out that had like 5 books about going to the potty, a doll, and a CD with songs all about the potty. My favorite book for him about the potty is a Potty for me and for me is Early Start Potty Training. HTH.

[Lillypop]

go for it! let her be naked (especially now that the weather is nice) and have a potty available, and prompt her to sit on it often (we do it about every 15-20 minutes here when potty learning)

my 26 month old DS finally had the "click" happen in his head a week and a half ago ... no more misses at home. ever. he always runs to the potty now on his own to pee and poop. he does get a diaper at night but it's dry about half the time. no diapers at nap time ... he doesn't need them. he is still working on being accurate with PLing when we're out, but I figure it'll come with time.

my 31 month old DSS is not there yet ... but he has some developmental delays and anxiety/emotional issues, so we're prepared for him to be in diapers for a little longer.

I also promised DS that I'd get him Spongebob undies if he would pee and poop on the potty all the time (so we're gonna go buy some tomorrow) ... hey, whatever works, right?! (he watches Spongebob when he's at his dad's house, and he LOVES anything Spongebob!)

[tnmom66]

Originally Posted by Niki25

I say go for it! I had my daughter potty trained at 19 months. I am sooo glad shes out of diapers now. We struggled a little bit at first and I started to get discouraged but than a friend recommended The Potty Boot Camp to me.. By Suzane Riffel. I just downloaded the book off of the website (which was awesome!) www.thepottybootcamp.com Maybe this will help you as much as it did me. Goodluck!

for some reason, she has started refusing to sit on the potty again. <Sigh.>

I think she's physically ready, but doesn't want to work with me.

I'll check this website. Thanks.

Lydia