Is there anything worse than potty training? Seriously though. And especially when you’ve gone through it before so you know that it is going to be a long and sometimes frustrating process. With Little Bug, it has been par for the course, with the process taking a few months. But we are finally there, out of diapers during the day, and into underpants for the day.
I started with Little Bug at the beginning of this year, just doing some naked weekends. He was super inconsistent, which was to be expected, but after about two months of this, he started showing more signs that he was ready, so we decided to try a three day transition. Which failed miserably because he just wasn’t quite ready.
Fast forward to the beginning of May and I worked from home for a couple of Fridays to help push the transition. It was much easier for him to be asked constantly if he needed to use the toilet, so I started asking him every hour or so if he needed to use the potty. He was pretty good about telling me if he needed to go after two days of this, so I backed off and let him start telling me. By the end of the second week, he was pretty consistently going in the potty, so we decided it was time to change to underwear. This was a BIG day for him, he loves his underpants and being a big boy.
It really seemed to click for him over the last two weeks. He has been able to tell me almost every time that he needs to pee, and has only had two accidents. The accidents are only when he is engrossed in some sort of activity and doesn’t want to take the time to pee. It seems like a conscious decision. He is an incredibly stubborn little person, so I could definitely see him deciding that peeing in his underpants is a better solution than leaving whatever game he is engrossed in to use the potty.
The only issue we have now is when he has a BM. He is sort of afraid of going on the potty for this, but with a little bit of talking an reassurance, he does just fine. I think it it partially because he is slightly afraid of falling into the toilet, which I understand. Other than that small hurdle we still need to conquer, he is pretty much there as far as being potty trained. Hallelujah!
Oh, one thing that worked really well for us was using the book Everyone Poops. He loves it, it is easy to read, and is silly, and I think it genuinely helped him get into the whole potty training experience.
What worked for you while potty training your kids?
wonderful kiwi / 23653 posts
What worked for us with our first is NOT potty training! Other than model/encourage we have not attempted but once she was ready, we haven’t had accidents! So I’m def going this route for #2. Call me lazy but it works for us
grapefruit / 4361 posts
We are mostly potty-trained over here but still in pull-ups in public because with a newborn I am just too fearful of forgetting to take him potty (I always have to initiate), or cleaning up a mess!
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I am with, SnowJewelz, with #1 we potty “trained” and it took FOREVER. months! years! it was such a long and messy process.
With #2 we did nothing. no books. no timing asking if he needed to go. It helped probably that he had an older sister that was already potty trained and so he was modeling her behavior. It really wasn’t something I was interested in doing or enforcing. One day I just put him in underpants and said “lets see what happens”. He had maybe one or two accidents that first week and then that was it, we didn’t look back.
I plan to do the same with #3, the “no training” method:)