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I kept my son totally naked, the feeling of underwear confused him the first try. By day 3/4 we started underwear.
Literally. Every 15 mins. “Let’s go to the bathroom”. You don’t ask if the need it, you just go.
Have her drinking a lot all day so the experience is often and the can build that pathway. If they only need to pee twice, they’re not being trained.
Talked about feeling it in his stomach, trying to build awareness around the feeling so he could catch it before just releasing it.
No disappointment when there’s an accident, they’re learning a whole new crazy way of life. Just ‘ok, next time we will put it in the toilet’. No speeches etc.
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Oh, and by day, three, you start taking little walks further and further near your house
If she can tell you when she needs to go it seems like you’re 80% done
Oh Crap! It worked like a charm for us. Potty trained so quickly.
a tip that was useful for us was don't ask "do you need the bathroom/ to potty?" (cuz they just say no) say "let mama/dada know when you need the potty" -- also when we started to venture out, as soon as we got somewhere id find the bathroom and point it out "there's the potty. you let me know when you need to go"
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I got my daughter one of those cushioned seats that you place over the toilet for little kid bottoms. It had princess designs on it. We did the whole "throne" thing, and she got to wear her costume princess dresses afterward. She thought it was great fun. Took only 1 1/2 days, and she was a full queen by then, lol! 👑
(*Example below is Minnie Mouse)
https://www.target.com/p/disney-baby-minnie-34-pop-attitude-34-soft-potty-seat-with-potty-hook/-/A-13982721#lnk=sametab
Love this
For my daughter, she got a balloon every time she peed and 2 for poop. We taped them all around the house and when she got a certain amount we had a Potty Party with cupcakes.
Day 1 at school with underwear-no accidents, she crushed it!
Our method was to start putting underwear on the week prior every now and then, just so they could understand the feeling. They didn’t like it at first but we hyped up the importance that they started to really want to be “big boys” about it. Then once we were ready to commit, weekend of asking/putting them on the potty every 10 mins, only wearing underwear all day
Best of luck and hope it's a success!! We're looking into doing this soon as well!
What has been everyone's preferred approach to get through the night? Have you all put your toddler back into a diaper or had them wear underwear + a diaper?
lol my 5.5 year old will occasionally come in our room still simply to tell us he’s going pee. Dosent need us to escort him or anything, he just needs to announce to us he’s going to the bathroom then goes back to bed.
We got really lucky about night training in general though and were able to tackle it with the day time potty training. One or two accidents at night and the process of changing sheets and clothes etc at 1am I think deterred them. This is not the norm however
In a similar boat with my 2 yr old boy, he has no interest in sitting on the potty. How do we turn it into something he wants to do?
Sitting with them can help. Showing them pictures on your phone, or maybe watching something.
Also gummi bears 😜
Mini marshmallow
We did Oh Crap! But our issue was getting him to stay seated. He'd sit, say nothing is coming, then go to stand. Either that or we'd be reading endlessly and he'd be too focused on the book to actually go.
The savior was his Tonie box and the poop tonie. He went from sitting for 4.5 seconds to sitting for 45 minutes.
Watching the ms rachel potty training video on repeat for a week before starting really helped my toddler. We also didn’t do the naked method but just put underwear/clothes on her (recommended by her Montessori school). This worked well for us because she was able to feel when she was wet, got excited about wearing underwear and didn’t want to wet them, and the clothes absorbed a lot of the pee when she had an accident so less to clean off our floors and rugs. We also did hand stamps an celebrated her like crazy when she used the potty, which motivated her. We also tried to get her to sit on the potty every 30-45 min (15 was way too often for her). That stressed her out and she refused to do it and threw fits. So we ultimately just had to work with her to understand when she had a peepee feeling and watched for clues (squirming, holding herself) to decide when to use the potty. You know your kid best so don’t be afraid to switch things up to better suit your kid’s personality. My kid is VERY stubborn and does best when we can explain to her why we are doing things (when you have a peepee feeling tell us so you can sit on the potty and don’t wet your underwear which feels really yucky) versus just telling her she has to sit on the potty at specific intervals (not going to happen)
We did O Crap for both of our kids. I don’t remember prompting every 15 minutes, maybe once an hour? And if they said no, we didn’t go. I seem to recall the whole point of no underwear was teaching them the signals their bodies gave, and being SUPER vigilant. Because they won’t get it at first, and you don’t want them sitting on the potty all day either. Instead when they start to go NOT on the potty, you immediately rush them to the potty as soon as they start. And then talk about, “pee goes in the potty, not the floor. That feeling you had? That’s when you need to be on the potty so all the pee goes in the potty. We just need to be a bit sooner next time.”
But it’s been a few years, and definitely all kids are different. My second wanted to sit on the potty that whole first day, so we just let her. And it worked out! To me the biggest thing is to be consistent with whatever your message is, and just keep going. After day one for both kids, we were miserable, certain that it was all going wrong. But magically on day 2 it was much better and day 3 was even more.
If day 1 feels like a disaster at the end of the day, stay the course, don't give up. We did the 3 day method with the OH crap potty books and with both kids day 1 naked was rough. We had lots of accidents, and nothing seemed to be clicking but we pushed through and did naked day 2 and it clicked. We out diapers on for naps and bedtime only and told them we are putting diapers on because we are still learning. Take them off immediately when they are done with naps and wake up. Good luck!!
So she tells us when she needs to go (we went out last night and showed her where the bathroom was and she went!) think is more about getting her to go in school
Manage your expectations. The first 3 days is intense. The first week you are still in it and through the first month you will need to be prepared for accidents and getting out of the house or going anywhere overnight is hard.
But be patient and you will get there.
I am another proponent of the oh crap method. I have potty trained 2 boys and 1 girl. The first was the hardest but he was only 14 months, but had started to rip his diapers off. The last was the easiest, we woke up day one, i prompted him to try the potty and he just did it. I was floored. You can’t be sure which type you are going to get, but assume the harder version until proven otherwise.
we just trusted the process the ped suggested: don't rush. We'd take him to the bathroom every couple of hrs but still while wearing dipers. Every day we'd offer underware or diaper? He'd pick dipers until he didn't and never had a single accident, day or night
he was almost 4 though