i am sick of bodily fluids.

[hubes]

This kid. I have no idea if he's ready to be Potty trained. So I'm constantly sitting with him on the toilet, asking if he wants to go to the toilet, cleaning up if he's missed the toilet.

Yesterday I found him on the deck with a pile of poop, a whisk and a broom.

He's also peeing though all his diapers. I just climbed in bed and oh, guess what? Pee. On our only set of freshly washed sheets.

This day needs to end.

[maggiemoo]

I hear that. We are on week 3. He can keep his underwear dry. His aim sucks. When he needs to poop, he acts crazy. I spend half of the day in the bathroom with him. Turn my back for 10 secounds and he poops his pants. I'm so over it.

[studytime45]

I don't have kids but I've never seen a well-adjusted 12 year old poop their pants on the regular. So it'll be over by, at the latest, 12.

I should write a book on parenting...

[papie]

Isn't he just 2? I would stop training for now. Seriously, when they are ready it is SO easy. You just have to wait and hit the sweet spot.

Sophia likes to sit on it before bath when she is already naked, and has peed in it before, but I refuse to even entertain the idea of taking off her diaper to have her sit on the potty before several months. She just turned 2 and I really think it is too young.

[eddy]

Ditto Papie
All my earlier attempts were futile. When Jack was ready we no joke did it in 24 hours with zero accidents. I felt like an idiot for pushing earlier and stressing myself out.

Also Jack was three when he PT. Thankfully we had a daycare that was all about "natural PT" meaning they didn't force us to do it by a certain age. That made the process so so much easier.

[luvvy]

I do not look forward to the day when we start potty training. Good luck and maybe the other moms here are right. Can you put it off for now and try again in a few months? No need to add more stress to your life.

[hubes]

Maybe he is too little. I don't know. At this point, I just wish that someone would talk to me about it. DH talked to his friends, and they think he's too young (but their kids were potty trained at 2), the daycare lady is scamming me, but no one has had a conversation with me about it.

[papie]

I'm sorry you are so stressed. For most kids, 2.5-3 is a more appropriate age. Don't compare him to other kids.

With Anna, she was a bit interested around 2, so we tried to have her sit on it a couple of times a day, but then she wasn,T really interested anymore and stopped. Then around 2.5, she was going a couple of times a day at daycare, and was keeping her diapers dry for really long periods, waking dry from naps, etc. So we tried pullups one weekend. She said she would just pee in her pullups. We stopped. The next weekend, we tried underwear and made a big fuss about it. There were seriously MAYBE 5 accidents and then she was trained.

I think there is nothing wrong with trying and going back if it doesn't work. Give him a few months and try again.

[eddy]

Oh yes and ditto Papie again, interest doesn't equal readiness.

Jack was interested for a good long while. He would maybe pee on the potty and maybe not. But that didn't equal him ready to take on the initative to go pee on his own, which is key to successful PT. You can ask and bribe until you are blue in the face with some success but they won't PT until they can physicially realize on their own that they need to use the toilet.

What we did is every couple months on the weekend we would try it out. If it was a struggle then we backed offand vowed to do it again. One weekend it just clicked. I have heard this is very much the case with a lot of boys as they are slower to PT.

[lilafowler]

Ellie turned 2 in June and I'm pretty sure she is NOT ready-a few times she sat on the potty naked and actually peed in it-twice after her shower before she was changed she started pooping and I put her on the potty and she finished in it-but if you ask if she wants to use it she says NO. She likes sitting on it with her clothes on (we have a little potty that she put dinosaur stickers all over and then the seat that goes on the big toilet).

She asks to sit on the potty seat on the toilet and insists on getting completely naked for it-but after a few she says she wants to get down. I assume she's not ready but I foster any interest she shows, as sporadic as it is.

How do you actually know they're ready???

[hubes]

I just talked to DH, who talked to daycare.

The head teacher said he was doing really well, and that he only had one accident yesterday (poop). She also said that the afternoon helpers "better not have put him in diapers." Which leads me to believe they will have a conversation about it today.

Ditto Lila. How do you know that they are ready?

[ProfessorArtNerd]

Knowing they were ready- it was trial and error for us. We just tried in the morning, and if there were accidents, we let it alone for a few weeks. Tried again, it was a no-go. two weeks later, easy peasy!

[Deleted]

He doesn't sound ready to me. At minimum, he doesn't sound ready enough to abandon diapers. What the day care does is on them, imo. But at home, I'd probably go ahead and put him back in diapers and let it for a big.

To me, they are ready when they show and express interest in using the potty, in how everyone uses the potty, and let you know when they have to go or when they've gone. If he's content to pee/shit in his diaper and roam around, he's likely not ready at all.

[hubes]

He's not content in a dirty diaper though, and he does have an interest in the potty- he will run in and use it himself if he's running around naked. If he wets somewhere he isn't supposed to, he gets upset and has to clean it up right away.