4 years ago
1.04.2009
Help!!
No more diapers, No more diapers, No more diapers!! I am so sick of buying diapers! Those buggers cost a fortune and the prize that is left in them is no longer fun to change! Do any of you skilled parents know any tricks? Cash has no desire to be potty trained. Santa brought him a toilet and book and he could careless. He reads the book and just presses the flush button and he uses his toilet as a stool. He may not be ready but, I sure am! Anyone?
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I posted a potty post....for you, among others who have asked....
GOOD LUCK!!! :)
hahaha uses it as a stool. I'm sorry at the moment when you wrote that it was probably NOT funny! Yeah diapers....hmmm, we have gone through 6 packages in two weeks. The girls go through about 22-25 diapers PER day!! I feel ya. So Rach potty trained Easton back in the day (he was difficult and like Cash...couldn't care less) So she put Cherrio's in the toilet and told him to aim for them. Potty training quickly bacame a very fun thing! Don't know if that helps because in the end I have zero advice. I'll be asking you in 2 years :)
UGHHHH!!! This is a tough one. My neighbor is an occupational therapist and works with babies and toddlers. She gave me a TON of information on potty training. To start with she gave me sheets to track how often a diaper would be soiled or wet. I marked on the chart everyday for a week and found that it was pretty consistent. I also tracked when he would have any liquids. The next week she had me put him on the potty every half hour, which got old, and he didn't always want to sit on the potty that often, but it got him used to it. So then I went back to the chart where I tracked when he would go #1 and 2, and I would put him on the potty around those times and sing songs about how we can go potty or read his potty books. I also had a chart with stickers I kept telling him he got to put one on as soon as he went. FINALLY he starting peeing in the potty all the time, but #2 didn't come until about 2 months later. In all honestly I really think each child has their own time line. I think you can get them used to sitting on it, and I think it helped to know when he probably had to go, but really I think when they decide they're ready that's it! Good luck!!!
We are having the same problem over here! Jarrett is not interested at all. He WAS and now is NOT. UGHHH!! Everyone says "Just be patient... when he's ready he will." But I can't wait any longer either! I know how you feel!
Cant force it, when they are ready they are ready. We introduced Ryan to it when he was 1 1/2 and let him go potty when he felt like it onthe potty but as many times as we tried he wouldnt fully be potty trained. One day though right after he turned three he decided he wanted to wear underwear and not diapers anymore and never went back. He has that kind of personality though. Suckers work with Taylor, but then she'll only do it if you have suckers.
I made scott take Chase to the bathroom every time he went. They would talk about how "big boys use the toilet" :) - they had some great conversations. That's what really helped Chase, but I had to attempt it 3 or 4 times before he got it. We would work on it for a day or two & if it wasn't working (or i got frustrated), we would stop & I would try again a couple of weeks later.
I don't remember as much about potty training Max, but I know that with Anni she had to make the decision for herself. She is so stubborn that I started to wonder if it would happen, but just this last month she finally told me "No more diapers for me." She is doing wonderfully, but is only comfortable peeing on the toilet, so this is still a work in progress. Realizing that they aren't going to go to high school in diapers is reassuring - Good luck!
Cold turkey has worked for me both times. I take the kid out and spend $20 on any kind of underwear they want. we go home and put them on, and never go back to diapers again! Don't give in. It's potty training for you just as much as it is for them. Don't wait for them to tell you they have to go, tell them its time to go potty (every 30 min.) I also started Wyatt sitting down to pee. He is just now tall enough and carefull enough that I let him stand to pee. Any questions let me know.
Loves ya!
My son is 2 1/2 and we are doing this potty training process right now. We bought him a potty for his 2nd birthday, but he never wanted to sit on it (Its kind of a good thing because if we are out and he has to go he isn't going to have his own potty). We bought him underware that he wanted and started letting him wear them. He did have accidents, but I think that is the key. He didn't like the feeling of it so he would tell me he went. Once he started realizing how it felt when he went he has now started to tell me he needs to go. We bought pull ups and he wears those at night and during his naps for now. We did start him sitting down, but now he uses his stool to stand 'Like Daddy' he says. I think its good to have him go with daddy too, like someone else said so they know its normal and ok. I think that mostly they will do it when they are ready. Good luck.
there is a somethin called a potty watch. Cash puts it on and every time he has to go potty he puts it on and it plays a song till he is done going potty. He may like it??? IT is in baby aisle at grocery store. It was featured on good things utah.
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