A mom writes on our Facebook discussion board:
“I need advice on when to start potty training. I am a new mom with my only son so I need some advice. He will be three in September and I have sat him on the toilet but what is the time limit? I find that I don’t have the patience to sit there. But I need to because Pull-ups are expensive.”
Mama, I am right there with you. Except that my son is 2. And my 3-year-old has already been through the potty training experience.
But still. Potty training is by far my least favorite part of motherhood. I almost drove myself to the bottle after potty training my daughter. It made me wish I had been bold enough to try that whole “EC” thing, where babies are potty trained by the time they were six months old.
But I digress. We used a big potty chart with stickers and I let her add stickers for each time she went potty. There were stickers everywhere. On the chart, on the floor, on the carpet, on her clothes, on the living room mirror. EVERYWHERE. It was crazy. (By the way, that graphic isn’t just to illustrate this post. That book was really good in getting my daughter to be interested in even sitting on the toilet. Click the photo to find out more about it.)
Eventually, she got it. But not without a lot of praying, a lot of time sitting on the floor in the bathroom while she took her sweet little time doing number 2. A whole lot of time with my face in the toilet, talking about, “Did you pee? Did you poop?” A whole lot of underwear changes when we didn’t get to the bathroom in time.
But just because I’ve been through it once, doesn’t mean I feel at all like I know what I’m doing. So can we help this mom out?
Got any potty training tips? Ready, set, go!
Whatever good advice you guys have to offer I’m all ears! My son is two and we’re having a rough time with this. I have that book, and he loves it but he just doesn’t like to stop playing to use the potty! Please help
You need to potty train him ASAP, trust me you will save money on diapers. my train my girls at 2
thanks
Rosa
MommysDiary.com
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@ facebook mom i have trained 3kids 1 girl very very easy and 2 boys one was easy and one was not. when your baby is ready to wear pullups you should start introducing the potty at that time. dont just have the potty in the bathroom but anywhere that your child is most comfortable and relaxed. most children are hard to train if they are not ready. my oldest daughter was trained in one month and she was 18 months of age,my oldest son took a year but i started him at two and when i saw he was about to be three i buckled down and got to business and my baby son was trained in two weeks after he turned two. he was really ready. i allowed him to go in the bathroom with me and my hubby every time he was around and my husband went i would send my son in there. i started that when he was 13-14 months. with my daughter i didnt buy her pullups couldnt afford it so she wore the potty training under wear and every time i gave her liquids she was on the toilet and i would time her to see how long it would to be continued
i would time her to see how long it would take the liquid to travel and have her on the pot before it came out. she loved my reaction and hated being wet. if she wet her self we would talk about while she was wet and while i wouldnt let her get a rash i didnt rush to change her wet or poopie undies. she didnt like being wet or having the poop on her behind so she just decided it was better to use the toilet esp since i reacted like she was the greatest human being on the planet. my baby son didnt like being wet either and he wanted to wear his brand new underwear “not no pullups mommy!!!” my oldest son didnt get potty trained for a year because i was in no hurry and neither was he when i did get ready he still wasnt but i used the same methods on all three of my older kids and they are 16,15,5y.o and none are worse for wear. i have a 16month old and she has just started going to the restroom with me about a month ago. she is my very last baby and i will potty train her with out pullups because she is allergic
i hope this info helps someone out there
My son (4) started potty training at 2.5. My daughter is 2, and she doing ok, except she always dumps the urine out of the potty onto the floor if I leave the room.
This tip will only work if you have a back yard: My suggestion is to wait until a sunny, warm day, and take the diapers away, period except for at night. Put shorts on the baby and no underwear/training pants. Do everything that you possibly can outside for that day. Put the potty outside and have the baby sit on it from time to time, but don’t force it. If you have a little tent, let nap time be in the tent. It might take a whole weekend for it to work. You’ll be outside, so there won’t be a problem with puddles of pee. At some point during that day, he’ll probably start to run to the potty or tell you when ever he feels an urge to pee/poop. You can use stickers, too.
I did this with my son and it took 2 days to get the concept, and 2 weeks for him to make it to the toilet 8 times out of ten.