Who else is waiting to potty train?

[formerlyllizzyb]

We're going to *try* this summer, starting in June once work ends for me. I think we're going to take a more relaxed approach rather than the hard core 72 hour boot camp. If it doesn't take, or he's not interested, we'll back off and try again a month later.

Really, my goal is just to have him PTed by the holidays (so, 3 months shy of 3 years.)

[devonpow]

I'm waiting until he turns 3, unless there is a major, glaringly obvious reason to do it earlier that comes up.

[claralou]

We have to have her PT by August when preschool starts. I'm putting this off.

[TrudyCampbell]

I'm waiting for a long time. Probably until she's 3 or close to it. She's not ready and I'm frankly not really in the mood to try it right now.

[thedahliharpa]

We are waiting until 4th of July to consider starting. H PT at 2.5 and it was a breeze. Plus they have to wear diapers in the toddler room and they switch room after July 4th. I won't start now only to send her to school in diapers 3 days a week. I like the ease of being able to have a little girl in dressss during summer to simplify getting clothes off fast enough in public.

[rjamz]

Apr 9, 2014 13:35:13 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I'm waiting for a long time. Probably until she's 3 or close to it. She's not ready and I'm frankly not really in the mood to try it right now.

Same

Plus he poops like 5 mini poops a day so id rather wait till he consolidates them

[katfco]

Caleb is showing zero interest, so we're waiting until he shows interest.

[kdrake8]

We are going to get serious about trying in June, once school is out. Since we are both teachers, it makes no sense to me to start trying now and have 3 different sets of people saying/doing different things when I can wait 2 more months and then have a few months to teach her myself.

[muppetinma]

Special snowflake, but me!! Once he starts school in the fall, they're going to work on it with him, but we have realistic expectations. It's very possible that he just might not have the skill set to be successful for years and years at this point. If he's PTed by kindergarten, I'll be happy. If we can do it sooner than that, even better.

[carawestt]

Us. I'm in no rush and he's not showing any signs of being interested. We'll follow his lead.

[honeybee503]

We ask her occasionally if she'd like to use the potty and she always says no. I am going to try and follow her lead to see when she gets more interested. I just bought her a book about it so I'm hoping that will help, but I'm really in no rush.

[Regina Philange]

We are waiting. We will try over the winter i am guessing.

[breezy8407]

H is super pushy about it. I don't get why.

Neither really shows any signs besides asking to sit on the potty with their clothes on, but then they get scared of it.

I am in no hurry for some reason. I just don't want to set us up for frustration if it doesn't go well.

[TrudyCampbell]

I've been meaning to ask this actually and maybe this is the right thread for it. Violet does not seem bothered by a dirty diaper, at all. Is this normal at all? If we ask her if she pooped, she says yes/no appropriately, but she would never tell us on her own. She's happy to hang out in her own poop. (Ick.)

[eddy]

I will do what I did with my oldest, wait until 3. It was easy peasy and he was PT in 24 hours.

[unclejesse]

We are not pushing it at all. We talk about pooping in the potty but he is showing no interest. He hides every single time he poops. We have the seat that goes on the toilet, but we will be getting the toddler potty when he is starting to show interest.

[Deleted]

Apr 9, 2014 13:39:32 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I've been meaning to ask this actually and maybe this is the right thread for it. Violet does not seem bothered by a dirty diaper, at all. Is this normal at all? If we ask her if she pooped, she says yes/no appropriately, but she would never tell us on her own. She's happy to hang out in her own poop. (Ick.)

Well, even if I KNOW J has pooped, and asked him, he will say no so I don't change him.  I think its normal and fine.

[muppetinma]

Apr 9, 2014 13:39:32 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I've been meaning to ask this actually and maybe this is the right thread for it. Violet does not seem bothered by a dirty diaper, at all. Is this normal at all? If we ask her if she pooped, she says yes/no appropriately, but she would never tell us on her own. She's happy to hang out in her own poop. (Ick.)

Andrew is the same way.  He won't nap if he's pooped, but won't tell us that that's the issue.  He could sit in poop happily all day long.

[unclejesse]

Apr 9, 2014 13:39:32 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I've been meaning to ask this actually and maybe this is the right thread for it. Violet does not seem bothered by a dirty diaper, at all. Is this normal at all? If we ask her if she pooped, she says yes/no appropriately, but she would never tell us on her own. She's happy to hang out in her own poop. (Ick.)

I will ask A if he pooped and he says no every time. He doesn't seem to care at all about sitting in a poo diaper.
Eta: I change him right away because I figure if I gwt him used to having a clean bum right away, maybe that will get him interested in PT.

[TrudyCampbell]

Apr 9, 2014 13:42:08 GMT -5 muppetinma said:

Apr 9, 2014 13:39:32 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I've been meaning to ask this actually and maybe this is the right thread for it. Violet does not seem bothered by a dirty diaper, at all. Is this normal at all? If we ask her if she pooped, she says yes/no appropriately, but she would never tell us on her own. She's happy to hang out in her own poop. (Ick.)

Andrew is the same way.  He won't nap if he's pooped, but won't tell us that that's the issue.  He could sit in poop happily all day long.

Same, that's the only time she gets upset by poop is if she's in her crib about to fall asleep. If she is crying before a nap/bedtime it is 99% of the time due to poop. Other than that, she doesn't care.

[eddy]

It always makes me laugh when Leo all innocently goes into a different room to play. Then 1 minute later he reappears he is all "Doo dooo doo" pretending like nothing happened when it is VERY obvious he pooped. Bud you have the stinkiest poop known to man, you aren't fooling anyone.

[Deleted]

I'm not pushing at all. My H is, and I'm working with him to back off. J is just not interested in going himself. He wants to go with my H, and they talk about it and stuff, but J does not want to sit on the potty. If I just place him on it, he will sit for a second and then want off. He just doesn't seem to have the knowledge or desire yet, so I'm waiting. I'd love to have it done by three, but we will see. It'll be interesting though, because the little boy we sit fors parents are pushing it on their son. They asked me my philosophy and thoughts, and I said I didn't think he was ready yet either, but they seem to want to move forward with training. So, I'll do what they wish, and who knows, maybe he will influence J.

[rileym2010]

We did a trial weekend and he had absolutely no interest. We will probably try again after disney trip. If it did happen to take right before, don't want to worry about newly trained toddler and long lines.

[vthokie]

I'm waiting until the summer. I need to be home more consistently first. I actually got her a potty book for her birthday and e'll start reading that to prep her. Then we'll just go with the flow. Ha ha

[silverjm]

We'll wait another year probably unless he starts showing interest. At this point he seems to have no concept of being wet/dirty.

[nannerl]

Apr 9, 2014 13:35:58 GMT -5 rjamz said:

Apr 9, 2014 13:35:13 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I'm waiting for a long time. Probably until she's 3 or close to it. She's not ready and I'm frankly not really in the mood to try it right now.

Same

Plus he poops like 5 mini poops a day so id rather wait till he consolidates them

OK, this made me legit snort.

[shmoo]

Apr 9, 2014 13:39:32 GMT -5 TrudyCampbell said:

I've been meaning to ask this actually and maybe this is the right thread for it. Violet does not seem bothered by a dirty diaper, at all. Is this normal at all? If we ask her if she pooped, she says yes/no appropriately, but she would never tell us on her own. She's happy to hang out in her own poop. (Ick.)

I don't think it is abnormal, but I do think it means she is not ready to be potty trained. G doesn't care either and one of his therapists has had us working on getting him to identify that he had pooped and that he wants to be changed as a precursor to pt.

[PatBenatar]

I'm in no hurry. She will move up to the next room at daycare in September and they start working on it then so I will probably do the same.

She will tell me she pooped after the fact, but sometimes it's a lie. I ask her if she wants to go on the potty and she always says no.

[nls0412]

We're in no rush. We talk about it quite a bit, but that's about the extent of it.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Apr 9, 2014 13:37:32 GMT -5 carawestt said:

Us. I'm in no rush and he's not showing any signs of being interested. We'll follow his lead.

This. He did poop on a friend's patio a few weeks ago as he was wandering around diaperless ... he was utterly shocked, then cried.