I Hate Potty Training!!!

[naws]

I posted this in my LJ too.
we attempted to do the 'dr.phil' method yesterday. rolled up the area rugs, had plenty of juice available, talked about having a potty party. got the elmo potty doll and everything. in a 3.5 hour span he peed on the floor 11 times! afterwards he'd go sit on the potty, but he just wouldn't sit there BEFORE he had to go. and anytime i asked he'd say "no sit potty." then 30 seconds later he'd pee.

after awhile he started asking for a diaper. he knows what to do, he has gone on the potty before. just not sure if he has quite fully made the brain-pee pee connection yet.

tried again for a little bit this morning because he didn't want the diaper when he woke up. he wanted to wear "nemo" (he has some nemo underwear). we tried the underwear. it lasted a little less than a minute. then we had to go bare because every other pair was in the dryer. finally, after he pooed in his "rubber" training pants we went back to the diaper.

potty training in a day my ass!

[PotatoFace]

are you training him with no pants on?

[courey]

I so agree... about 6 months ago we tried training our daughter, and gave up for now after about a week. She's just not interested yet. :(

i'm so.sick.of.diapers.

[angeles]

I want diapers again [post22] I'm sorry, my baby started kindergarten today so I'm being nostalgic.

He was pretty easy to train, though.

xo, angeles

[Dave]

Yeah, I thought my oldest son was pretty easy, too.
Kai's a different story!

-courey
I suppose my day wouldn't be complete without posting from my husbands account. [bang]

[supernova]

My son knows what to do, he just doesn't want to. We've talked and talked. I know he understands. He just doesn't want to. I haven't figured out why. He even goes and sits on there. But nothing. Unfortunately, he's not too comfortable and is asking for diaper changes a lot. It's sometimes the first thing he says to me in the morning.

Today was just about my last straw. He pooped. In the shower. He said 'poop', and I turned the water off and grabbed him to put him on the potty about a millisecond too late. Grrrrrrrrrr.

[Rose Bud]

In line with what others have mentioned, I was gonna say that all the expert's techniques and plans won't work if your kid just isn't ready.

[FaerieDreamer]

My kid's like your's Supernova. He knows exactly what to do. He even tells us that he wants to sit on the potty (always after the fact), he'll tell us when he's pooped. The whole bit. Just once he's there he doesn't want to do anything.

I am also so sick of diapers.

[grumpydawn]

Both of my children did not respond to any of the methods suggested by experts.

The best advice given to me was to "play the Potty Game." [post08]

[FaerieDreamer]

Xavier went pee on the potty yesterday!!!!!! For the first time ever!

In his class, they'll let the kids sit on the potty if they want to when it's time to change diapers. Well, Xavier loves to do this, at home as well, and his teacher said he peed in the potty yesterday morning! YAY!!!

Now...how to we continue this at home?

:)

[LavenderSession]

I remember going through all of the above with Morgan (it was just a few months ago). She loved going pee in public bathrooms (go figure), but didn't show interest at home. Then, one day I finally said "I'm so sick of changing diapers!!" I put panties on her and she was trained in about 2 days. It's all a matter of when they are ready. Before that, we had tried everything, but no go. Kids always decide when they are ready.

Fairiedreamer, just keep encouraging him to sit on the potty. Eventually, he'll get it.

[Autumn]

I used a "Potty Chart" with my daughter.

I got a big piece of poster board. I drew a line down the center. Once side I labeled "Potty", the other side I labeled "Poop". I kept stickers in the bathroom, and every time she pottied or pooped in the toilet, she got a sticker. Once she got a whole row of stickers, she got a treat. I kept a little container of special treats for her on the fridge - stickers, small toys, candy, kid jewelry, etc.

That worked for us!

[courey]

I don't know if Kaiya is finally getting ready or what but she's driving me nuts with the "I have to go potty" and then sitting there and doing nothing routine. It's all just fun to her right now. grr. Or I'll change her diaper and she'll immediately poop. In her diaper. And then say, "I have poop!"

noooo kiiiiddiiiing. :r

[FaerieDreamer]

haha Xavier does the exact same thing courey. he'll say "I go potty?" so we'll get him stripped down and sit him there and 30 seconds later he's up "All done!" and nothings there! And the second we get him back into a diaper he's gone.

I'm just taking it all in stride at this point. We're just getting started so even an interest is progress for us.

[PotatoFace]

okay, now i have a question because i dont understand this.

My cousin, is training her little girl without underpants on. She lets her run around without her underwear on to potty train her. I dont understand the logic in this? She has peed and pooed on the carpet countless times and she brings her over to peoples houses without her underwear on. The other day i was at my aunts house for a bbq and she is there, again without underwear climbing all over her furniture. I was scared she was gonna pee on something.

Funny thing, she said that the minute she put underwear on her, she peed in her pants. So where is the logic in that aspect of the potty training?

So, whats with the no underwear?

[courey]

Because diapers soak things up and tend to make them feel dry a lot longer. The idea is that wet = uncomfortable and sooner or later they'll get the hang of how to stay dry.

[PotatoFace]

no i understand that.

she will put her in a skirt with no undies on. or will just let her run around with nothing on from the waist down.

she would feel the wet with undies on. i always thought that if they felt the wet, then it would trigger something to make them associate that with going potty.

[courey]

Oh, I totally misread the "no underwear" in your post. :(
Hm, no underwear... I dunno. Doesn't seem like it would do much good to me!
Maybe she knows a secret I don't.

[PotatoFace]

hahaha, not really. kis still isnt potty trained!

[naws]

we've tried regular underwear, no underwear, and thick potty training underwear (the no underwear was mainly b/c he'd soaked all we had). no luck with any of them. he tells me when he's gone poo poo after the fact and then I dump it in the toilet showing him where it's supposed to go. he sits on the potty for about 10 seconds and then says "all done" and flushes. Last weekend he peed on the potty while we were at my parent's house.

he just seems to go in spurts (lol)

i guess it'll click with him some day. for now we just try to ask him if he wants to go potty as often as we can and I've switched to the generic pull-ups for money reasons and in hopes that he won't be as comfortable.

[DaintyLilPeanut]

We are trying to train our daughter and she is so inconsistant although this past weekend, she is getting better. She just started to poop on the toilet and she has been peeing on the toilet for as long as I can remember.

We do the 'no underwear' thing. The reason that I do this is because if I put her in diapers, she won't tell me she has to go. If I put her in panties, she won't tell me she needs to go until afterwards. If I leave her lil ass neked and runnin' around, she'll tell me and actually perform on the toilet.

The thing that I find so cute about it all is the different steps that the kids go through. The whole excitement behind wiping. Then, you get to the on and off the toilet a million times before there is production. Then, there is the fear from the poop causing immediate flushing (the stage we are at). Finally, the studying of the matter at hand. Oy.

I haven't heard of the one day method although that sounds like fun. :r Or not. I just think that each child is geared to go when they want to go. Some can be trained at six months and some can be trained at three years and I don't see anything wrong with any of the ages involved aside from the fact that diapers are so expensive.