Potty training boot camp??

[DCJenn]

Since we're supposedly moving when Nikolai will be 2 and some change, I figure we're going to get that trauma out of the way and settled before we start the potty training. I just hope he's ready to transition to the big boy bed because I promised our crib to Rick's niece. (but only if she finished her GED before having the baby....)

Jenn

I've hear pullups send the child a mixed message and that they should be avoided. A few times in wet/dirty undies apparently is an effective way to start the process. I guess pullups are too much like diapers?

[DCJenn]

My friend bought the cheapest most horrible diapers (one size too small) she could find and used them (I think she even planned on leaks and nastiness) and then she had each of her boys pick out new undies- and when they did their thing, she left them in the nastiness long enough to point out that if they used the potty, they wouldn't be uncomfortable. Of course, this works only if they CARE that they're in soggy diapers that are too small. But her eldest was so uncomfortable that it lastest about a week. The second one took a little longer, but as she was getting the second boy trained her then one-year old daughter decided she wanted undies like her brothers. My friend kept her in diapers a little while longer but the girl was the quickest and the easiest she said.

Jenn

re: Pullups. I agree that they should be avoided. I wish I heeded that advice. The big plus was that DD could completely dress herself with a Pullup. I think the problem is that the pullup is too absorbent and they don't feel wet enough. Also, it feels more like a diaper than undies, I'm guessing.

For this next round, we will use Pullups only at night. Hold me to that one!

Now they have the "Feel -n- Learn" thing that is supposed to be not as absorbent. My theory is that they took a decade-old diaper "formula" (i.e one not as absorbent as they are now) called it a "trainer" and slapped a higher price on it.

The whold damn' thing is such a conspiracy!

[Flynn]

I'm reading this again and laughing outloud AGAIN!!!

You guys are so hilarious.

Yesterday evening during swimming lessons as DD makes a "holding her poop face" her instructor says "do you need to go potty" and DD says "NO BECAUSE I'M IN CHARGE OF MY POOP AND I SAY AFTER SWIMMING IS OK." So now it's funny whereas at the time -- not so much.

Kids are kids. They crack me up!!!!

and DD says "NO BECAUSE I'M IN CHARGE OF MY POOP AND I SAY AFTER SWIMMING IS OK."

OMG! That is SO funny! And so much funnier when it doesn't happen to me!

I'm sure the swim teacher was loving that.

Geez, between that and the Target story....

[Gwendolyn]

:=

This has been such a great tread to follow. DS is 2.5 and not even close to being ready. He could sit in the gooberiest of diapers, he doesn't go through the night, he has little interst in changing his own clothes. Some of that has begun to change, but I was starting to get nervous with all of the potty training questions from others. It is such a relief that he won't be the freakish kid, for a while anyways. Thank you all!!!

[Sheherezade]

I got one of each. Despite nearly identical training plans, one child started using the potty at 2 with virtually no accidents. The other held out until 4. I think it just depends on the kid. (And I now wish I hadn't worried so much about the one that took *forever* to get interested!)