Potty Training.....UGH! I think that pretty much sums it up! Some kids are easy, others....not so much. Neither one of my boys caught on too quick. I started training Logan when he was about 15 months old, and it took me until he was 2 and 1/2 just to master peeing. I was crazy when it came to trying to teach him. I tried everything I could think of. Rewarding him with treats, not the best idea. He would try to go and couldn't and still expected a treat for trying, and the sucker that I was I couldn't say no. I tried throwing Cheerios in the potty and telling him to shoot at them, but then I caught him looking in the potty for cereal... Gross. I tried Pull Ups....BIG WASTE OF MONEY!!! I bought big boy underpants, man I did A LOT of laundry that year. My friend Ellen even suggested that I let him run around the house with nothing on. There are 10 kids in her family and she said that's how her mother trained them. Well my heart goes out to that woman, I got tired of scrubbing the carpet after one day. I would have to say in my opinion real underpants are the way to go. Yes you do a heck of a lot more laundry but when they have an accident in, them they realize it more so than they do in a diaper or a Pull Up. There not absorbent. So when it came time to start training Wyatt, I went out and bought tons of underpants. I would let him pick them out, he liked that. At first he was peeing like every 20 minutes. I was like OMG kid how can you pee so much? So I started limiting his sippy cup. He hated that but, I really needed to do it anyway. We started with a sticker chart, it worked well for a while. He was going on the potty almost as much as he was in his pants. One day I took him to the bathroom and after he went I said, " Good job buddy! Mama has to go too." So I sat down as he was picking out his sticker and he turns around and hands me one and says, " One for me for peeing and one for you, good job Mama!" How cute is that?! It took quiet a while for him to learn control and to recognize the feeling of needing to go but eventually he got it. Pooping on the other hand was a different story. He was a closet poo per. LOL. All of a sudden he would disappear, and I knew he was pooping. Most of the time he'd go to his room, sometimes I would catch him behind the recliner. He was so excited when he would pee on the potty, but wanted nothing to do with pooping on it. One day he took his pant off and pooped right on my living room floor! He would go and then come back out and play and not even tell me. He was perfectly content just sitting in his own poop. It didn't bother him at all. LOL. I realized I needed to get a handle on this and fast.
Mother's day came and Ang took the boys out to buy me something. Wyatt insisted on this purple piggy bank. She said he picked it up and said, "I want to get this for Mama." She tried to sway him towards other things but he held onto that pig throughout the whole store. (Those kind of gifts are my favorite) When he gave it to me he said,"Happy Birf-day Mama, purple piggy, Best present EVA!!" I was cracking up! He was always going in my room and getting that pig, he wanted to play with it.
Back to potty training... The sticker thing was getting old. So one day I said," Wyatt come here I have a surprise for you." I took him in the bathroom and next to the potty was the pig. " This is Poopie the pig and she's hungry. She likes to eat quarters. Every time you poop on the potty, we are going to feed her a quarter. And when she gets full we will take those quarters and go get ice cream." He was immediately impressed. Needles to say this was the trick I'd been waiting for. It totally worked.
Every mother goes through this, and every mother knows each child is different. The key to surviving it is to be patience, consistent, and willing to try anything to find out what works for your child.
I would also recommend Elmo's potty time movie. Logan really liked that, Wyatt not so much. The potty's that make the fake flushing noise or play music when they go, are kind of expansive and they just scared my kids. They were paying attention to the feeling of going in the potty and trying to listen to it and all of a sudden this loud song started playing, it freaked Logan out.
We do use a pull up at night now instead of a diaper. He likes it because he can take them on and off himself, and one Pull Up a day is very affordable. Just remember, lots of praise, lots of love, and pack lots of extra undies and pants when your out and about!
Mother's day came and Ang took the boys out to buy me something. Wyatt insisted on this purple piggy bank. She said he picked it up and said, "I want to get this for Mama." She tried to sway him towards other things but he held onto that pig throughout the whole store. (Those kind of gifts are my favorite) When he gave it to me he said,"Happy Birf-day Mama, purple piggy, Best present EVA!!" I was cracking up! He was always going in my room and getting that pig, he wanted to play with it.
Back to potty training... The sticker thing was getting old. So one day I said," Wyatt come here I have a surprise for you." I took him in the bathroom and next to the potty was the pig. " This is Poopie the pig and she's hungry. She likes to eat quarters. Every time you poop on the potty, we are going to feed her a quarter. And when she gets full we will take those quarters and go get ice cream." He was immediately impressed. Needles to say this was the trick I'd been waiting for. It totally worked.
Every mother goes through this, and every mother knows each child is different. The key to surviving it is to be patience, consistent, and willing to try anything to find out what works for your child.
I would also recommend Elmo's potty time movie. Logan really liked that, Wyatt not so much. The potty's that make the fake flushing noise or play music when they go, are kind of expansive and they just scared my kids. They were paying attention to the feeling of going in the potty and trying to listen to it and all of a sudden this loud song started playing, it freaked Logan out.
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