[Mama2Rio]

do you use 3 different signs for "potty", "pee", and "poop"?

right now, we just have one for "potty". would we benifit from using 3 different signs?

 

[midnightwriter]

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Originally Posted by Mama2Rio do you use 3 different signs for "potty", "pee", and "poop"? right now, we just have one for "potty". would we benifit from using 3 different signs?

Hm, I've been only using "potty," (toilet), and I've been thinking about this too. I verbally say different things, but I still use the same sign. (I actually just blogged about it

) I think as she just started signing so much and has a growing sign vocabularly, I'm going to differentiate. I'd like to hear what others have done.

 

[MommyKhuong]

I just use the sign for potty. I think it would be too confusing to try to make little ones figure out which is which. The important thing is to point out and teach them that they are using the potty for elimination, regardless of whether it's pee or poo.

 

[midnightwriter]

But what about deferentiation between potty as an item vs. elimination? Right now DD signs "toilet" when she sees a bathroom.

 

[tbmum]

Nope, you can differentiate later - you'll realize the time as it will happen naturally. Mavey only signed actively a few times when little, yet the signing was really helpful as a question and recognition tool. (Though I'm probably just forgetting, lol) Later it was clearer, like for poops.

I'm doing it again with Jett, but earlier and a different sign. At least once a day he clearly signs, sometimes before, sometimes excitedly after, like if he has an accident. We cheer along! Our sign is hitting at his thigh 3 times. The repetition makes it clearer from general waving. It's a sign Maven used as I mentioned earlier - I could do it one handed when he was in a sling for instance.

Here are some helpful Baby Signing and EC tips.

 

[LCBMAX]

Until this week, I was really regretting that I didn't invent a new, easy sign for toilet. The whole wrist rotation, thumb between 2 fingers thing was too hard for my son til just now. We have used that sign since birth, and then the words "pee" and "poop", and different cue sounds for whichever one seemed likely to be happening. Last week my son said "poop!" and then did, and this week he says "pee!" and does, and yesterday he signed toilet for the first time. I feel strongly that he would have signed an easier sign for it sooner, but by the time I realized that I had set him up for a signing challenge, it felt too late to change since he clearly recognized the word and sign together.

 

[Twwly]

Just one for potty.