Dude, DS has full control, is getting the verbal skills (I got poop), but just has no desire to want to sit on the potty unless I hand him the M&M's to him while seated. He will wait until he hits the bathtub to stand and pee.
And by full control, he has at most 3 dirty diapers a day. I hate to see dry 4 times a day on his daycare report.
Post by SteelCity44 on May 31, 2013 11:43:29 GMT -5
Micah works on his Algebra during potty time, so I'm not sure when you're fitting that in, unless, of course you're eliminating or reducing your Geometry or English Lit.
I've thrown him on the pot when he's pooping during bath time with limited success. The first time, he freaked. The next, he didn't care. He does love to stand in the tub and pee, spraying it all over the tub. I don't mind that. I mind him squatting to poop in the tub every freaking day!
Post by thedahliharpa on May 31, 2013 11:46:16 GMT -5
The girls school doesn't take them to the potty until they are in the 2.5 room. H told us 3 days before she started that room that she was "done with diapers. No more diapers! Me big girl". So that was that. We had planted the seeds but there was no sense putting her in underwear if it wasn't going to be consistent at school. Fingers crossed it goes down the same way with D. It was too easy with H.
The girls school doesn't take them to the potty until they are in the 2.5 room. H told us 3 days before she started that room that she was "done with diapers. No more diapers! Me big girl". So that was that. We had planted the seeds but there was no sense putting her in underwear if it wasn't going to be consistent at school. Fingers crossed it goes down the same way with D. It was too easy with H.
soon you will just be completely robbed of your crunchy status.
First you tell us you don't bedshare and now you tell us you don't put D on the potty?! i'm appalled.
What will be next, we find out you DON'T CLOTH DIAPER?
(I feel like you said before you didn't cd that is why this is funny. fyi)
Well, my kid thinks the toilet is like a water table right now, so I don't think he's ready. I'm just going to watch for cues and see what happens. I plan to start in about a year.
The girls school doesn't take them to the potty until they are in the 2.5 room. H told us 3 days before she started that room that she was "done with diapers. No more diapers! Me big girl". So that was that. We had planted the seeds but there was no sense putting her in underwear if it wasn't going to be consistent at school. Fingers crossed it goes down the same way with D. It was too easy with H.
soon you will just be completely robbed of your crunchy status.
First you tell us you don't bedshare and now you tell us you don't put D on the potty?! i'm appalled.
What will be next, we find out you DON'T CLOTH DIAPER?
(I feel like you said before you didn't cd that is why this is funny. fyi)
We didn't CD H, we do D but we are lazy about it and getting lazier. We've always used disposables at night and after a mega disaster in the carseat I won't CD in the car. Though, on a long trip I'll put a cloth cover over a sposie. Sposies are like soda in this house. If I don't have many around I'm fine, but if they are stocked up we go through them much faster. When D goes to school in fall I'm not even asking about cloth. No one there does it and having two kids on the allergy list is as "special" as I want to be. I don't think cloth is hard or gross, it was just easier when we did prefolds and now our diapers take so long to dry. D was in a disposable when we met monkeybabe and I was like "oh no, she's gonna think I'm a fraud maybe I should pull a boob out" :-)
yes Matilda LOVES the toilet. She is always trying to put her hand in there whether I'm on there or not. And she tries to flush it now. Have to be careful to keep the bathroom door closed when not in there because its her favorite room.
and she loves toilet paper, of course
X is obsessed with the toilet. He plays with it while I get ready for work. His new thing is to put anything and everything he can find into the toilet. Yesterday it was DH's keys. I have to watch him because he will put toilet paper in the toilet, close the lid, then open it up again and reach in for the toilet paper to eat it...
yes I'm really hoping daycare just takes care of the whole thing for me! that would be sweet
Daycare did help quite a bit, although ours doesn't do pull-ups, so we kind of had no choice but to use their method. It turned out nicely, though. We did the weekend method: every weekend, she wore cotton training pants and we impressed upon her that when she was dry all weekend, she could be done with diapers and wear them to school. Then, after a while of being dry several days in cotton training pants, she could wear regular underwear. The whole thing took a couple of months, but it was really nice having daycare as a support.
Post by chasbride07 on May 31, 2013 13:21:40 GMT -5
Potty training DS2 has been a nightmare. He really could care less. We have tired pretty much everything. He'll be good for a week and then totally regress. Oh and he'll be 4 in September. At this rate DD will be trained sooner. She already hides to poop.
DS1 was completely trained (day and night) at 3 years and 4 months.
Between 18 mo and 2 years is when we'll start. We waited to really start J and put him in underwear until he was 2 years and 2 months and I feel like we almost missed a vital window of him being a willing sweet kid before he turned into a defiant shitheaded toddler with opinions (he's still mostly sweet, buuut he's a toddler). We were waiting until after a 2 week vacation, but he was ready before that. I think Anna will be quicker and easier to communicate with and will want to do what J is doing. We will only do the big potty. We have one that has a magnetic insert that pops into the top part really discretely when not in use and is also really stable for the kid to sit on.
Post by wildcatprincess on May 31, 2013 23:33:12 GMT -5
I would say "Riley, do you want to sit on the potty?" and she would say no. Then I gave up. Then a couple months later she asked to go on the potty and basically was trained from that day on. She was a few months shy of 3. I plan to go that route again
ETA: She's still not night trained, I feel like that's a long way off. Girl can pee through a diaper in a 2 hour nap and she doesn't drink all that much. I don't get it.
is early potty training/elimination communication a crunchy thing or the opposite? I'm trying to figure it out in my head. It seems it would be non-crunchy but I'm not sure.
So very very crunchy
Soooo crunchy. I went to an EC meet up in Brooklyn because I was curious, and that was by far the crunchiest experience this babywearing, CDing, (formerly) bedsharing, BLWing, still breastfeeding, vegetarian mama has had.
I was thinking next summer when he is in less clothes and we change more often bc of the heat? I will follow his lead though _ i don't want to push him too soon.
Good idea! I'm thinking the same. It will be good timing because we plan to ttc in the summer as well.
Now that you ladies have made me think about it, I figure we'll tackle this next summer. We'll be out of school and will have more time to be consistent.