Potty Training Advice - Washington, MI

My mom had 3 girls and every one of us was trained the same way. She took us to the store to buy some very pretty underwear and then told us we had to use the potty if we want to wear them. We all trained in a day minus the normal accidents. Good Luck!

The only thing with trying to potty train right now when the baby is born she might think it is ok to potty in in her pants again.. I have 3 boys all grown now and I tried to potty train before the second one was born and it backfired so you might want to wait until the baby is born to start...

SO... Having 2 kids that are potty trained I honestly don't think you can do it in ONE day... You may be able to get the idea in there, but its something that takes longer for them to recognize the feeling and act on it regularly. The main thing is to be consistant. You work full time? Talk to the person/ people who watch her while your at work and see what they usually do... Potty training shouldn't be stopped and started depending on whos there... SO sit down have a discussion with them, work out a plan on what ever method you want to use TOGETHER and stick to it. Its good that she shows an interest in the potty!!!

People have different thoughts on when a child is "potty trained". Some think its when they stop putting diapers or pull ups on them... Some think its when they go during the day... Some when they don't have any accidents in a week... Personally I don't look at a child as being fully potty trained until its been over a month since their last accident... Not saying that they can't have the occasional accident, but not on a weekly basis... It cuts down on the moms who say I potty trained my child at 6mo old... But she still had to wear diapers at night and Had to have her clothes changed at least once a day... :-)
My daughter was FULLY potty trained at about 2 1/2 but it was something SHE was ready for. (Our son is 3 1/2 and is just potty trained)It may take a few trial and error runs with methods till you find one that works for YOUR CHILD... Its all about their personality and their readiness.

Ok so I am currently working with my daughter on potty training. She will be 3 in Sept. She too was familiar with the potty and had gone on it previously a few times, but still wasn't too fond of it. I work full time too so I was looking for something that would work for us.

So this is what I did actually last weekend.

Friday night, I told my daughter that she was going to start going potty like a big girl tomorrow. (Before I began I had the potty, new underwear, the rubber pants, and pull ups) I stressed to her that she was going to no longer be able to wear diapers. I pointed out how she was going to go potty like her older cousins.

So Saturday she woke up and I told her today was the day to start going potty. I went and told her to go sit on the potty. She was excited to wear the panties and not too excited about the potty but was ok with it. I gave her incentive, a few jelly beans. I started a timer on the kitchen oven, every half hour she had to sit and try. If she went great, then I'd set it for an hour if she didn't she would have to try again in 15-20 minutes. She had a couple accidents and didn't always want to sit down but we kept at it. I put a pull up on her at night. And then Sunday kept at it. She actually started to do pee by Sunday when we told her to go, but we kept catching her trying to go poop in corners in her underwear. We'd catch her and put her on the toilet but she wouldn't go. And this kept happening until I caught her trying to go and made her sit on the toilet and told her she couldn't get off until she went poop. She cried and whined, but all of a sudden came out and said I did it. We celebrated and it seems she has sort of got the hang of it. By Sunday night when we told her to try, she went by herself and usually she would pee. And by MOnday she sometimes even went on her own I was told. She is now been going for almost a week and she still sometimes has accidents . We still have to tell her to go sometimes, but its been a huge success in my eyes. We are definately on the road to being fully potty trained.

Kelly, check the past postings as I believe this was covered last week. Several people wrote in on the potty training book that boasted you can train in one day.

I just read a few books and it comes down to is your child ready. I recommend getting a few books from the library and see what works best for your family.

I read it many years ago. I tried it. I wasn't very good at it. I believe that it would work if you were consistent with it. At the very least even if it took a couple of days it is better than weeks or even months!

I have a friend who potty trained her kids in 1 day. What she told me was: 1)tell friends she is not available the day she picked-do not call, stc. 2) got salty snacks and juices-things the kids liked, 3) had rewards like M'M's. They had a doll that would wet her pants/diapers, and then would talk with the child about training the doll to go pee in the potty. When the doll peed-the child would get the reward. Theey would do that a few times and then have the child setting on the potty.
During the day feeding the salty snacks and drinks so that they had to go potty. She spent the day training the child-every 15-20 minutes put them on the potty. She said her daughter was trained, The boys were also, but every once in awhile had an accident, but very seldom. I usually found my child would get so involved with playing he would have an accident.

I did use the "one day" potty training method with all 4 of my children and it "mostly" did work. By "mostly" I mean that you still need to remind them to go potty throughout the day. This isn't an "automatically you are completely trained and will never have an accident" event. That being said, all my kids did great with this and only one had very few accidents and, the best, they went straight to undies at night and never wet the bed. You really must clear the day of any other responsibility and just focus on potty training. I remember it being an intense day, but also a lot of fun. It was a lot easier to do with my first one but the second one had her example to follow so that wasn't so bad either. Good luck with this time in your life. I hope it works for you.

One of these days I'm going to write 'Lazy Parenting'... whenever I get around to it :D

I didn't potty train either of my kids... I read a lot about the historic and modern methods, and decided that that all sounded like a great deal of work, especially if I guessed wrong about when they were physically and mentally capable. So, instead of having to clean underpants, pants, socks, shoes, carpets, upholstery and car seats, I cleaned diapers until they grew out of the need for them.

They knew what the toilet was for (accompanied me into many more than one public restroom stall over the years) and became aware that babies wear diapers and adults don't. Eventually (at different ages) both of them figured it out, with a couple of periods of trying it out, sometimes for days, and then going back to not paying attention or caring for a while, and then 'getting it' for real.

I noticed that pattern of learning again and again: curiosity and exploration leading to 'doing' something for a little while, followed by a period of absolutely no interest in it. Later, sometimes weeks and sometimes months, when the issue came back to them again as 'interesting' they were well on their way to mastery.

I've seen a number of people attempt 'Diaper Free' and mostly it looks like a great deal of work for mom. Or dad. Or whoever is there. Given that we don't have dirt floors, and we do have restrictive clothing and the 'public gross-out factor', diaper free appears impractical to me, at least in the city.

L.

I am going to agree with Beth. My daughter is 3 1/2 and she is fully potty trained. All her choice... she decided when she wanted to go pee in the potty, and when she wanted to poop in the potty. she decided when she was ready to get rid of the pull up at night.

I know some people that use the books... I chose to let her be the leader and I don't have to hound her about when she has to go to the bathroom, I never bribed her or rewarded her. She decided she could do it and she does. Simple and easy transition.

L.
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My husband and I bought the Potty train in less than a day book and skimmed through. Overall we felt it had some good ideas, and used some of them with our 2 1/2 yr old. Some of the ideas I didn't like or didn't think would work with our daughter, so I can't say we really followed the whole method to a 'T', but our daughter is now potty trained and has very few accidents. I think it took her about two days to really get the idea. Good luck with your daughter!

I did it in one weekend with all 3 of my children. I took off their diaper and did not replace it with anything (they wore a long shirt and and my daughter wore a dress). With no safety net (underpants or diaper) they got it in a weekend. I was in the same situation - I worked full time and I could not be there everyday all day to work on it. It is intense - you have to put 100% of your focus on them all weekend.

Good luck.

My pediatrician (who has four kids) recommends the book, (this is a loose title) Potty Training in One Day. It is an older book that dates back to the early 70's and she swears by it. She says a lot of the writing is very dated like how happy your husband will be when he comes home from a hard day of work to find that your little darling is potty trained, but that the concepts have really worked for her. You do need to have one full day of doing nothing but being with your child and do this to the letter.

On a side note, I know lots of kids in my neighborhood who were potty trained and when the new baby came, they regressed a bit so don't be surprised or alarmed!

The one day potty training totally works!I tried it with my oldest when he was not yet 2 1/2...he was totally potty trained in about 4 hours (including pants up and down and wiping by himself). I tried it on my second son when he turned 2 1/2 with absolutely no luck, tried it again when he turned 3, no luck, he's now 3 1/2 and I'm pretty fed up :)He know how to go on the potty he just refuses to do it. Even tho the method didn't work for him, it did work in a sense because it taught him to be aware of how his body feels when he has to "go". He knows when he has to pee/poop in advance, he just chooses to do it in his diaper and no amount of bribing will convince him otherwise. I hope in a year or so when the baby starts potty training that will motivate #2 son to go on the potty.

We did the one day "potty party" it works great as in intro to potty training. If you read the book, the author will tell you again and again- there will be accidents and this is just for day time training, it will be a long time before they can go thru naps and nighttime dry. Potty training is a process, you have to find what works for you, nothing happens in "one day". Just have patience (and a LOT of it).

With expecting your second baby, you may want to wait to potty train the oldest, as they will often regress after a new baby comes. Yes I know it sounds great to only have one in diapers, but it was much easier to have 2 in diapers and only have to potty train once.

Hi,

My friend used that method to train both of her kids and it worked. She spent all day Saturday and by the end of the day she was potty trained.

M.

Greetings Kelly,

I have never heard of "one day" potty training. You can try it and see how it works. The potty training I know about takes time and patience. When you are at home with her have her sit on the potty when you go into the bathroom to do your business. Make a big deal when she puts something into it. Let who ever watches her during day know that she has taken an interest in using the potty. Have her wear pull ups or panties with training pants.

Much success!