Potty training stuff

[judecorp]

Punk will be 22 months old on Friday (where did the time go?) and she is really stepping up her interest in the potty. She has gone potty successfully several times. I am wicked impressed because aside from bringing a potty up from the basement, I didn't really do anything.

About two weeks ago maybe, as we were getting ready for bed one night, she said, "Poop in the potty." She has never asked to do anything on the potty before and didn't even particularly want to sit on the potty, so I assumed she was just stalling bedtime. But I believe that if a kid asks to go to the potty, you need to take her. So I did. And she sat there, and sat there, and then did a gigantic turd on the potty! I was shocked!

She has pooped on the potty about 6 times now, maybe a few more. She will typically poop on the potty every day as long as you bring it up. But last night and today she has asked to pee-pee in the potty, too. And she has peed both times!

She is still peeing in the diaper and she also pooped in the diaper this morning (which was surprising, she usually asks to poop on the potty at home), but I am not sweating it because like I said, I'm not really running this show. It's nice not to clean poop diapers, though.

Those of you with older kids, about how long did it take to go from occasionally being interested in doing something in the potty, and doing the underwear/training pants thing? Curious.

Comments

[starzz.livejournal.com]

Nathaniel will NOT poop in the potty :(

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

My friend's kid is like that, too. He will ask for a diaper so he can go poop.

[hetterrific.livejournal.com]

My niece has a chair that she hides behind to poop. She has to find a "pooping chair" everywhere she goes just in case she has to poop.

[sarahaubry.livejournal.com]

and she gives him a diaper?

[hoo.livejournal.com]

V learned how at around the same age Punk is now, and then regressed/lost interest with the arrival of her sister. Last January (2yrs 9mos) we decided it was time, and got through one weekend of wailing and accidents. After that she had it figured out.

We're still working on the naptime and overnights.

[kaleidoscopeeye.livejournal.com]

That is wonderful that she is leading the way so well :)

[sassyjenski.livejournal.com]

Hi Jude!

Long time! Anyway, with my first kid, I broke out all the sticker charts and rewards, etc. She pooped for the first time in the potty around the same as as Gus, but wasn't actually "trained" until 3 and a half. it was a solid year and a half of starts and stops, and I was vaguely worried that she would NEVER fully transition.

With abby, she was completely trained at 2 and a half, with no encouragement but a low key "good job", b/c i thought she was just starting the year long process. But one day, she just stopped using diapers. At all. With no accidents.

so, i'd recommend cautious optimism. yay gus!

[(Anonymous)]

It seems like it happened really quickly once they got interested.

Might as well go ahead and buy underwear. You may have to do a lot of washing initially, but I think the underwear (especially with fun designs) kind of seals the deal.

[anitsirk.livejournal.com]

that was me.

[jost.livejournal.com]

Not everyone wants to read about potty stuff.

Oh, my dear, sweet, misinformed Jude.... Of course everyone wants to read about potty stuff! After all, Everybody Poops.

[meglett.livejournal.com]

sounds promising! quinn first showed interest (i.e., she noticed what we were doing on the potty, heh) at about 15 months, so that's when we bought the first tiny potty to help encourage her interest. over the next few months she did her business sometimes in the potty. but she was 28-30 months before she was really PT. i think it could have happened sooner--we sort of slacked off for a while....

[mtgirl.livejournal.com]

I am a huge believer in the child led potty training -the only thing that worked for my kid. I think you are going to have a rockin' easy time with your punkin. Christian was 4 when he perfected the pooping part, but the peeing was younger. I was just super patient until he just was done with it. Oh, and we did use a "Poo Poo Prize Box" toward the end.

It took us a little longer, because when he was almost trained, we moved to Colorado, and I decided he didn't need the additional pressure.

Buy some underpants, try it out, and then if she's not quite ready, then pull back a bit. She's going to be awesome at this and easy though, I think. She will let you know.

Oh, and we did a lot of the love and logic bit -let him come in if we were going potty and were really enthusiastic about the peeing and whatnot -even though I'm not a communal pottier by nature. We still sometimes say, "I have to go pee pee on the potty" with too much enthusiasm at our house...That worked the best for us.

Oooh, and great timing, because I loved letting Christian run around in the back yard with no pants and peeing...sort of easier with boys, but SO much fun. The only time in my life I actually had penis envy. Oh, I also sent him out to try it in the snow once...because how fun is that?! I was so excited! What kind of mother am I? Eeeek!

That's my "I am so not an expert that I don't even play one on TV" opinion.

[hetterrific.livejournal.com]

Way to go Punk!

Catherine knows that she has to go, but doesn't quite know when. It's like she gives us a 10 minute warning for poops. She's OBSESSED with potties, though. Wherever we go, she wants to see the potty. At her daycare we have to talk about the potty when we get there and when we leave. Our biggest issue, I think, is that she's afraid of public bathrooms because of the noise.

[sarahaubry.livejournal.com]

just switch her to underwear. the whole belief that "kids will do it when ready" is bunk. it's something that our society has evolved to. in the 1940's kids were potty trained by age two (you can research it and find the stats)and it's only recently that people think their child has to be "ready." unless, that is, that we are evolving into dumber people :) she sounds like the switch is soon! go punk and go mama!

[bloomchen.livejournal.com]

J turned 3 at the end of May and had no interest in potty training. All summer he was at a summer camp where every kid in his group was trained except him - and he still had no interest and clearly peer pressure had no influence. We tried it all - rewards, stickers, cool potty - but didn't push it too much. He started preschool in September on a Thursday and after one day there decided he was a big boy and that was that. We went to the movies on Sat and he had one accident after the movie (I had brought a towel for him to sit on in case), but after that he was trained for day for everything. He actually was trained for night then as well - he could hold it all night and was dry in the mornings - but he was too lazy to use the potty first thing so we kept pullups on him overnight for about a year. So I am a firm believer that once a kid's ready, they're ready, and pushing them to conform doesn't work. So it's great that Punk is interested now - go Punk!

[msredkitty.livejournal.com]

this is pretty much how it happened with meyer. we showed him how to pee in the potty, bought rewards, had a little toddler potty...and we just got lazy and stopped pushing it after like, two weeks. then he just decided to do it. he was day-time potty trained by 2 1/2, and overnight by 3. i *do* think kids need to do it in their own time. i have so many friends that cried and bribed and struggled and it didn't happen any faster.

so yeah, rock on with the underpants, little lady!
(one thing we did do was make him go pee right before bed and limit beverages in the evening)

[tracy-n-mia.livejournal.com]

What we started doing was in addition to putting her on when she asked we also put her on after every time she woke up. The very first time we put her on the toilet she was 11 months old. At 23 months we just tried undies one weekend. She had one pee accident, one poop accident then that was it. She got it.

[goddesswhitty.livejournal.com]

Awesome, Jude! That's so awesome! I'm glad you're following her cues and she is leading so well!

I, too, believe that there really isn't any benefit to forcing the issue. I don't even really believe in rewarding poops on the potty because the poop on the potty IS the reward. The fact that you didn't have to sit around in your own poo is reward enough, I think. We don't do sticker charts, or M&Ms, or "here, pee on these Cheerios" (I have all boys, k? :-P), or any of that. Leif has shown an interest WAY earlier than Aidan did, and earlier than Joseph as well. Aidan was a late trainer, Joseph was trained at about 3 or something.

So yeah. Yay Punk! Good job with your pooping! I'd say go ahead and buy the underroos.

[tea-soaked.livejournal.com]

I'm catching up - my first time seeing this post - have to say sounds pretty cool to me - go Punk!