Help me with potty training!

[nursewife]

The twins are just over 3, so I've been trying to crackdown on potty training. They have been pretty good, but get kind of excessive about it wanting up and down and up and down from their potties. At nap and bed time, they now freak out about going pee, since they don't want to go to bed. DH said to just let them be, but I don't want to tell them "no" if they ask to use the potty. Any tips? I'm getting so frustrated!

[ninjabridemom]

We put a potty in their room and they get to get up once after we've turned out lights.

[ginap]

C used the potty as an excuse to get out of bed as well. The good news is it was a short lived phase. One night I got so fed up that I put her potty right outside her bedroom door and told her that she couldn't use the potty in my bathroom any more. That was really the last time we had that fight and now if she gets up during bedtime it's because she actually does have to go potty.

[nursewife]

I tried leaving the potty in their room, but I hate just leaving it as they often take the pot out and want to dump it right away. Plus I'm having flashbacks of them 'playing with poop' on their walls. I think I might try the potty in their room tonight and see how that goes (and hope and cross fingers for the best).

[sarahbear]

It's pretty common for children to still need night diapers after potty training. Many need pull ups at night until 7 or 8. I think the I read that it's not something you should try and train besides restricted liquids before bed and using the toilet before bed. their bladders will eventually get strong enough to hold it overnight. As for naps, my son wet the bed a few times but after I started having him go to the bathroom right before nap time he stopped. I also put a towel down to assure him that it would catch any mess.

[nursewife]

Mar 6, 2015 18:25:14 GMT -5 sarahbear said:

It's pretty common for children to still need night diapers after potty training. Many need pull ups at night until 7 or 8. I think the I read that it's not something you should try and train besides restricted liquids before bed and using the toilet before bed. their bladders will eventually get strong enough to hold it overnight. As for naps, my son wet the bed a few times but after I started having him go to the bathroom right before nap time he stopped. I also put a towel down to assure him that it would catch any mess.

Thanks for the advice! I'll try leaving the potty in their room tonight and leave them with a diaper on. Hopefully DS doesn't do what he did this afternoon, which was take the diaper off, then pee on a blanket.

Also does anyone have any tips to teach DS how to pee standing up? Is it something I should just have H show him how to do?

[sarahbear]

My first would pee standing up from the start. But I've heard of throwing a couple cheerios in the bowl and telling him to try and hit them with pee. LOL

Eta: I remember having to tell him to pull his penis off his balls and aim it because when he'd pull his pants down it would usually be in a bad position.

[ninjabridemom]

Oh yeah, m&g aren't big players. The one poop on wall incident was because Gabriel tried to change his own diaper and he was cleaning off his hand lol.

I made up a song when they were little: Eewww Eewww, don't touch poop! Poop goes in the diaper or in the potty.

[ninjabridemom]

Oh yeah, we say "what do you say to the hole?" And they say "I'm going to get you with my pees!" Then they aim for the hole (a Sharpe dot on the potty bowl), it focuses them, etc.

We do have issues w the scrotum thing but are working on it.

Standing is so much better lol.

[cleo29]

We have done the three day method two times with great success. I think it works best if they are really ready. 1) you need a weekend where you can just be on lockdown in the house. This helps in the winter. 2) I would see if they are starting to hold it longer and waking up dry 3) are they aware of when they have gone pee or poop and can tell you they are going.

Good luck! I love being diaper free.

[papie]

I'm not sure why I was tagged here (@booby!) lol Maybe for our bedtime issues? Anyway, I did not allow a million ups and downs once they are in bed. AND NO POTTY IN THE ROOM. That's a recipe for a disaster. Potty goes in the bathroom. You can get up and go after you are in bed, but if it's not working you go back to bed. No distractions, no books, no talking, no fun. Once you are in bed, getting up is all business. You leave them in a pullup overnight and at naptime, and it is totally ok if it is wet, don't even mention it in the morning, you just change it. The fun of getting up to potty should wear off.

as for the actual potty training, we did rewards, but really, it only worked once they decided they were ready. Both girls were super good about pee as soon as we switched to underwear, but poop took an extra couple of months. It wasn't bad with Anna who only pooped twice a week, but it was quite disastrous with Sophia who went twice a day. But eventually she decided to do it and just like that, never had an accident again.

[papie]

Mar 6, 2015 20:21:24 GMT -5 @booby said:

papie - I tagged you bc this was YOU for like 2 years with Anna.

Or 7, lol. 

But it has gotten a lot better.  But dammit she still poops EVERY NIGHT about 30 minutes after she is in bed.