So, I wanted to try to potty train James before I had baby #2. I know he is a boy and a little young but I still wanted to just try. I did the 3 day no pants/underwear potty training technique. I gave him skittles every time he successfully went to the potty.
In the technique that I used it said the first day you couldn't leave the house. Day 2 you could leave in the morning for 1 hr and on day 3 you could leave for one hr in the morning and one hr in the afternoon. This technique also says that the first 3 days when you do go out the child is not to wear underwear/pull-ups-all these feel too much like diapers-but just loose pants or shorts. I want to preface this story with the fact that the first day of training James didn't have one pee accident but never went #2. I decided that our first outing would be to the library to check out some books about potty training. Remember, that James is just wearing loose shorts and no underwear. We get to the library and I talk to the librarian for honestly 1 min about where to find potty training books and James was standing behind me. I turn around to get James and look for our books and notice that there is a big semi soft pile of James poop beside him!!! I am shocked! We run to the restroom and get a ton of paper towels and try to clean the pile of poo the best that I can. I was soo embarrassed because I didn't want the librarian to see me cleaning up the poop-of course she did-because I didn't want her to ask me, "why the heck does your son not have underwear on?" I take James to the car and get him in clean clothes-luckily I had brought some. Then we go back into the library and I try to have him go potty again. He doesn't go and says he doesn't need to. We head to the children's area and he is playing on the little kid stage and I'm trying to look for some books. Literally, 3 mins hadn't passed and James calls out for me and I look at him and his front is covered in pee. Again shocked! We both leave the library crying. First outing is a epic FAIL! I feel like we will never leave the house again.
I'm happy to report that James is 100% pee trained with only the library catastrophe and a few accidents a friends house. He even wakes up dry from naps and bedtime. We didn't even talk about staying dry during those times, he just did it. However, pooing is a totally different story. He does NOT want to poo in the toilet! Help, from any mom out there in how they got their child to poop on the toilet. I have him in a pull-up (or special underwear as we call them) most of the time so I don't have to deal with poopy underwear. I'm trying not to get upset about his poo accidents because I feel like when he is ready he will do it.
Teaching his dog how to go on the potty.
My favorite underwear pose!
First day training. Trying to pump him with liquids.
3 comments:
Oh man this had me laughing so hard! Poop on the floor of the library!!
Everett's been wearing underwear for almost a year and still has poop issues sometimes. And if James wakes up dry in the morning that's awesome!! Neither of my boys can do that!
Britt this post has me laughing out loud! I even read it aloud to Scott, he's not laughing though, he feels your pain. :) He says he's happy when he wakes up with dry undies too.... I can't wait to see pics of sweet baby Ellie!!
The joys of potty training ;0). With both my boys we have done just underwear, if they had a poop accident I made THEM clean it up in the toilet. Both my boys only had a couple, it totally grossed them out. I also tried to keep track of when they were normally going #2 during the day. I would give them verbal reminders that soon they would need to go #2 on the potty. Also, if we were getting ready to leave the house I would give them a 30 min. warning that they should try and go #2 before we left. Seemed to work well for us. Every child is so different. Good luck! -Sarah Rutter
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