Toilet Training General Chatter

[onthefly]

it's mystifying, isn't it?
DS used the potty at daycare on friday... and has weed on the plants a few times over the weekend, but then has also weed and pooed himself

[Aligater]

I think it because they have peers who are doing the same thing at Child care so they copy each others behavior but at home they just forget

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

How is everyone going, we have had 2 days away from home and will be out again today, is it worth getting some pull ups for her to use when we are out and about, will these leak if she doesn't tell me she's done wees?

She is still asking to wear knickers so they are over her nappy

I spoke to mum and she said i was TT'd before i was 2, am thinking i might buy some treats and stickers today as a reward system for her, for not having her dummy during the day and for wees on the potty.. is anyone else trying rewards?

[thepixie]

I have been using pull ups for outings (well most of the time this weekend) and they last about 2 hours, which is about how long you would wait between toilet trips anyway. I doubt they would survive overnight so I have just been using nappies for that. I haven't been using rewards because I have a psychological problem with it, I am not sure why. Maybe I am just being an idiot, but I don't want to reward her for what is normal behaviour IYKWIM. Although as we have not been having a great run I have been reconsidering my stance.
AFM this morning has been marginally better - with a lot of hovering and encouragement we managed two wees in the potty..... closely followed by one on the floor/ some nice clean towels

[Mum2SweetCs]

great thread
i have no idea where to begin with DD. She's already 2yrs and 8months. She has no problem telling and comphrending everything and anything but when it comes to going to the toilet she is just not interested.

I already told her she cannot wee in her nappy anymore and she says she's a big girl and wont wee in her nappy but she still does.

[Miss.September]

Wow, glad I came across this!

DD is almost 21 months. She's been coming up and saying "Do wees" and "Do poos" and "Toidet" She's usually been in her nappy when she's said it, but it's a great start. She put her toy in her potty and said "Do wees, good girl" so she's kind of understanding it. This week is the first week I've been home for solid amounts of time so I've put a pair of undies on her and we'll see how we go. She doesn't like her potty, but is happy to sit on the toilet. Can't wait for it to all start clicking into place. Any tips will be much appreciated!

[~StarBright~]

Well we have some of the two steps forward one step back thing happening... he still prefers naked-ness... lol but last week he would constantly say "i need to do poo's" run to the toilet and nothing, this happened like ten times a day for about three days (on all days he eventually did a poo at night once his nappy was on)- but that phase seems to have stopped now.

Yesterday i managed to get him to WEAR UNDIES!!!!!! And shorts... and he proceeded to wet his pants twice- so after two changes i gave up and let him be his free naked self.. then later in the afternoon when DH came home he wanted to go outside with Daddy and play in the ute, so we said he had to put clothes on- so he put shorts on with no nappy and no undies and with some asking evry few minutes he remembered to pull his shorts down and wee!!! (still outside lol) I think i can kind of see where he delema is, as when he is nearly finished wee-ing and the stream isnt so full on it dribbles onto his pants- which is why i am guessing the few times in the past where he has been good and remebered to pull down undies or shorts, he usually takes them right off and ditches them and wont put anything back on...

But we are getting there slowly.. today is a bit on the cooler side so i told him he had to wear clothes and he could either wear undies under his clothes or a nappy- we settled on a nappy- but then he wouldnt put clothes on!!!

How is everyone else going????

[AndiE]

OMG - I feel like I've just arrived home! This thread is perfect for us atm.
We've been trying to get DS1 interested. He'll do a wee on the loo before a shower/bath and before bed/nap. It's currently 50/50 success rate.

But ...

He won't tell us if he needs to wee. Won't tell us after. He'll happily sit in a wet nappy all day. And don't get me started on poo - we're a long way off hitting the loo on that issue!

I think part of the TT issue here is my and DH's consistency in getting him onto the loo. As DS1 is still in a nappy, it's easy to "forget" or think "I'll ask him in 5 mins", which becomes 10, which becomes 15 etc. But by the same token, I wish DS1 would cotton onto the idea that it's not "nice" to be wet or pooey.

We're on hols up the sunshine coast soon, I'm tempted to focus on TTing him then as DH and I will have plenty of time (compared to the usual goings on at home).

Thank you for starting this thread - it will be good to bounce some general ideas around in a chit-chat thread.

[thepixie]

for your DD indie!!!
and welcome AndiE the more the merrier! or is that misery loves company?

[~StarBright~]

Indie>>> I send my hubby text messages lol The highlight of my month was when DS did a poo on the toilet lol Bet that was the highlight of his day receiving that text NOT!!!! Feel free to share your excitement here any time!!!! And YAY!!! for your DD!!!!!!

AndiE... lol my son is the same!! He knows he has a poo-ey nappy but still runs away so i have to chase him and pin him down to change it!! He would sit in his poo all day if i let him!!!! We are at the stage thought where he will let me take off a wet nappy (he comes and says Mummy i am full of wee's) and my bigget bargaining power is that if he lets me take a dirty one off he doesnt have to put another one on!!

Its been raining here again so he couldnt make it outside yesterday so we tried using the toilet again- but the poor lil guy wants to stand up- which is VERY MESSY indeed!!! But he did actually got here all by himself once and came to tell me he even cleaned up- very cute!! But he used alot of toilet paper mopping up his mess lol

Baby steps as they say!!!

[Miss.September]

Just thought I'd pop in. TT has all but stopped for us for the moment. Put knickers on DD, she freaked, held on and then hasn't told me since that she's done wees or poos. So I'm happy to hold off for a bit.

But just thought I'd let you know, you can get a free toilet training guide from Huggies - you can download the form and attach a pull-ups barcode and they'll send it to you. It comes with Disney Pixar Cars/Disney Princess progress chart, big kid certificate and stars stickers.

[Glass half full]

First post!! Hope its ok I join in here.

I'm so glad I found this thread as I have just started TT my 2 year old daughter this past week and its good to see that some of the things she has been doing aren't so strange after all She is another one who likes to go nudies!

I just thought I'd give TT a go as bub #2 is due in 5 weeks so if she got the hang of it then great it was over with before the new bub is here, if not no big deal. She seemed scared at first so I tried a different potty. Ended up getting the fisher price one someone else mentioned that looks like a little toilet and it plays a song when the wee in it! I never thought I'd resort to anything like that, but she loves it!! We've only been using that the last 2 days but she's going pretty well. She had 2 accidents this morning and about 5 wees on the potty which she walked to all by herself without me asking if needed to go!! One of the accidents was when she was running around the room like a looney so I guess she was too distracted to notice, but the trail did lead to the potty with a decent puddle in front of it so I take that as a good sign that she realised she was weeing and tried to get to the potty.

I know its early days and I'm sure we'll have good bad days but I can' help but feel super proud right now Will see how she goes this afternoon after her nap. Will definately be keeping an eye on this thread too.

[1pj]

has anyone tried the 3 day potty training Ebook?

[peanutter]

we have the potty in the back room (laminated floors, FTW!!) and we have a *bunch* of books next to the potty, and DH has devised a seated soccer game they play wile he poos. DS, not DH

we take a trip there around every meal, plus after the bath/shower, and mid morning and afternoon.

we still use nappies the rest of the time ... have tried knickers for two stints, but he's just not ready yet ...

[FabFiona]

So here's my debrief from yesterday... We did ok.

I set up an alarm on my phone so that when it went off it was "TOILET TIME!!!" He quite enjoyed the fun of this and so off we went. Two proper wees on the toilet all day although he did get a few drops out at other times because he was there. When he did have an accidents (about 5 of them I think) he knew what was happening and ran to me straight away and off we went to the toilet. I think that either he doesn't quite recognise that his body wants to do a wee or is too busy playing so doesn't pay attention. Either way, I think that the accidents are part of learning and at least he's not wetting and then ignoring.

Poo was fantastic! He yells out "mummy, the POO IS COMING OUT!!" We all race to the toilet and get the end of it in the toilet. He loved that it was in there and enjoyed flushing. We then rang everyone to tell them.

Much praise all round when things went right and not a big fuss when he wet himself.

Here's some questions:

- What should I do in the car at this early stage?
- Do I need to hang around at home until we are accident free? I'm not sure I'm brave enough to go out tomorrow arvo without a nappy on. We would generally go to the zoo. Put on a nappy or just keep up with the program?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Starting to ramp up the toilet training with DD2 as she's quite interested in doing what DD1 does.
Wee's are all good and we've only had about 2 accidents with wee's in the last week.
She is in knickers basically the whole time she's home now but has been asking for nappies at times and she wears them when we go out.

She had an accident with a poo the other day and was quite upset but seems ok at realising when she needs to go & trying to hold on until she gets to the toilet (prefers the toilet to the potty).

I did want to ask though DD'1 is fully TT'd and has no issues overnight or anything but HOW do i teach her to wipe her bum, he arms just don't seem long enough and i'm just not sure where to start.

[thepixie]

ZF I'm probably not explaining it very well and TBH I don't even really understand what my problem is with it... That's why I said it was a psychological problem, its a bit irrational and doesn't make sense even to me. PacRak we had the same when we. first put her in knickers - no real understanding that they weren't like a nappy at first. Good luck to all!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

ZF I'm probably not explaining it very well and TBH I don't even really understand what my problem is with it... That's why I said it was a psychological problem, its a bit irrational and doesn't make sense even to me. PacRak we had the same when we. first put her in knickers - no real understanding that they weren't like a nappy at first. Good luck to all!

I hope it didn't sound rude hun, i wasn't trying to... i was saying for me i think the reward system might work as although for us it's 'normal' for them it's not IYKWIM.
I'm not big on rewarding kids for certain behaviours but i think if i make a big deal out of when she goes wees etc then it might work.. i'm thinking stickers, pretty junk jewelery etc and then throw in some cookies or m&m's every now and then... see how we go... at the moment we use the 'your a big girl now'