About two weeks ago we had an issue with a swim diaper. As we were getting ready to leave for swim lesson Jack screamed from the kitchen, “I’m peeing on the floor”.
The diaper had leaked and he was a little upset. We had a talk about the potty and that if he started using the potty things like that wouldn’t happen.
So last week he was really getting good at telling me he had to go and one day he used the potty all day. I was amazed. It seemed like just yesterday I was saying that he wasn’t interested in potty training and now he is.
And then he wasn’t. Just as quickly as he was excited to learn, he’s lost interest. Some days he tells me he has to go and some days I ask him if he wants to try but lately I can just tell he’s just not that into it.
Which is fine except I feel like I should start potty training him, because he does seem to understand what is going on. I don’t want to baby him, but at the same time I don’t want to push him.
After one bad experience with a pull up, he refuses to wear them. He gets so upset if he gets wet from a leaky diaper, which makes me hesitant to put underwear on him, cause I don’t want to scare him off them.
So my other option is to keep him in diapers and keep reminding him to go, or to not do any of it. To say he’s still young and to wait till he’s ready. Why traumatize either of us.
But then again summer time seems to be the easiest time to do this, we are both home a lot and we don’t have anywhere we have to be.
And I’m not sure what to do.
So when and how did you potty train your kids? What worked for you? What was an epic fail?
All of my kids did it when they were ready so there was very little training that I did. Gia had no interest until her doctor asked her if she sometimes had accidents. She said yes and the dr said when she has to go, she has to stop what she's doing and go. And that was it. She never looked back. She was a week out from turning 3. Nico was 3. The twins were three months away from being 3.
Um, my oldest is 3 1/2 and he's still not potty trained. We're veered back and forth on it, and he's just not cooperating. So we don't want to push, though I really want to get him out of pull ups before he turns 4. I understand your frustration.
I'm glad you popped into my place today and I saw this post of yours! For us, my oldest was 4 in Feb. He could not start school unless he was trained- and he was to start at 4. I had pushed before the potty training thing and gave up. It wasn't worth the guilt or the stress. I totally let him take the lead, so with 2 months to go before starting school- I was ok. It's all you. Soon he started telling me he didn't need them and then he didn't need them at night either. I didn't believe him. To this day he has not had one accident at night. Seriously. I say the closer to 4 the better. Hence I refuse to stress about the twins- they're 2.5 and as far as I'm concerned, I have at least a year to go. Good luck! — Farrah
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Ohhhh I hear your frustration! I put off potty training H-Berry for a longggg time…she showed interest super early on & then she totally lost interest & I chickened out. Lol.
I JUST finished potty training her {she's 2.5} and was getting ready to write a post about it in the next week or two. Basically we go cold-turkey at our house~ all underwear except for naps & bedtime. The first few days are rough but both girls have been receptive to it & done well {after the initial accident-fest}. We also do the reward chart thing + let them pick out a "prize" {H's choice: the world's MOST ANNOYING TOY…but whatever works, right??} for when they are officially trained.
Good luck, Godspeed & hang in there…it WILL happen!! {and the only reason I even did it at this point was because Baby Nug will be here next month & I knew I'd put it off until next summer if I didn't try now lol}.
When I really felt like my kids were ready I did a full on Potty Boot Camp for a weekend. We didn't leave the house and they didn't wear diapers. It worked pretty well with all of them. My son was slower to have a BM on the potty. For awhile he would put a diaper on at nap and have his BM when he woke up, but after about 6 months he finally went on the potty. He also was a big bed wetter for a long time, but I don't think that was in any way linked to his daytime potty training. Good Luck!!!