So…”here we go go go, on an adventure!” We have been potty training our little one for about 2 months…could be more. We have been taking it pretty slow and trying all sorts of things. We started by just letting her run around with out anything on over the weekends when both her Daddy and I are at hand to help out. Then we started putting on some big girl pants. We found that setting a timer and putting her on the potty every 20 min when the timer goes off helped. When she hears the timer she will now say :”Potty Time!” and rush to the potty. She does not always go so we adjusted the timer to every half hour and that seems to work better. We did that for about a week. Now, we just ask her, often, if she wants to pee pee.
I feel like its important to not just let her sit and sit (we did do this in the beginning)…I feel like she should know that when she sits on the potty she should be doing her business and not just use it as a chair to just chill out on. So I will put her on the potty and keep reminding her that she should pee pee. She will then tell me that she is done (even when she has not gone and that is fine) or she will make a game of it. I then just take her off.
Today, we are going to go out for the first time with no diaper on….I am a bit worried about how this is going to go down. This is as much a learning experience for our little one as it is for us! I am planning on just taking her potty with us. I am going to put it in a shopping bag and take a bottle of water with to give it a rinse if we are lucky and actually get to use it today. Maybe take something like toilet paper with to give it a wipe too. Yes…this is going to be ‘a fun day’ 😀
The thing I have learned from potty training so far is to take it day by day. Stay calm…really, don’t do it if you are in a bad mood. And lots and lots of praise helps!
Please, any little tips is welcome! As I said, this is as much a learning experience for our little one as it is for us!
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Let’s see…have been doing this potty thing now for about a week and have gone out with our little one…armed with the blue potty….about twice. She pooped in her potty on the first day, but peed in the splash pool. And on the second outing she peepeed in the back of the car, on the potty. Found this nifty little trick on some other blog…can’t remember the name of it though. Was googleing about how one goes about with a toddler and potty training.
Yes, its still not perfect. She still gives us the ‘pee pee’ after it has happened, but have a couple of bright moments too! Have this blue potty and one that goes on a normal toilet. We use a washing basket for her to get onto the toilet. Yesterday we found pee pee on the washing basket, so she ‘kinda’ made it to the toilet by herself ! Very proud of her!!
This is hard work, and I don’t have the patience for it most of the time, but its one of those things that she has to learn.
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09/10/2011
Aggggg, what can I say…it went really well, and then really bad. I have given up until my exams are over and I have more patience for our little girl and her blue potty….
Had days when she would tell us that she needs to use the potty and then peepees in the potty no problems and then we had days that she just did not care…well, that is what it felt like to me. I had to ask her if she wanted to go, and she would say no, and then she would just pee in her trousers a minute later. Agggggggggggg, went through all her clothing one day! It just seemed to get worse, so decided to leave it for a bit. I hope that when we start trying again she will be more keen.
Then we go visit a little friend of hers and this little girl does not need any help. She can pull down her trousers and use her potty with no help from her Mommy, pull her trousers back on and off she goes!
What am I doing wrong ???!!!???!! Agggggggggggggggggggggg !!!!!!!!!!
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07/07/2012
She now gets it…after what seems like for EVER, she gets it. She is now almost 3.5 years old. Still needs a bit of help pulling up her knickers and trousers properly, but hey, she is pooping and peeing IN A POTTY!! And with out me having to constantly remind her too! Its great!