Potty Training?

[mistythemommy]

My dd is almost 18 months old and when she is wet or dirty she brings me the wipes and a diaper.....do you think it is time to start potty training her?

My 5 year old took forever to potty train and I am scared that is what it is going to be like now!
Please HELP

[Jane Q. Public]

I potty train the lazy way. So I'm sure some won't agree with me.
The reason I got lazy about potty training is because of how my eldest just potty trained herself very young- and I'm not kidding. She was 14mo old and in the 2-3yr old class at daycare (always moved up in the classes first since she walked so early- earlier than all the other children in the nursery) and they were potty training. So she just came home one day wanting to go potty and did so. Within a few weeks she was completely potty trained. She wore pullups at night though and sometimes had nighttime "accidents" up until she was about 2.5yrs old.

She spoiled me. And she also did not teach me how to potty train a child!

So my son came along and I just waited till he seemed totally ready. He did not completely potty train until he was almost 3yrs old- and that started because he would go pee in his little potty right next to daddy peeing in the regular toilet before they took a shower together every day. We did not push him to potty train either- as I said... I potty train the lazy way. :lol We did use a cup of M&M's as a treat after he went potty (and that meant he initiated it also- usually when daddy went to the bathroom)- but that's it.
He still has nighttime accidents and wears a pullup (after a few months recently of trying to just wear underwear and still peeing the bed everynight) but I think that's due to him sleeping so deeply. He never has daytime accidents and hasn't for an extremely long time. He just turned 5 a little over a week ago, btw.

My youngest? She's 29mo old and has only recently started showing an interest in going potty- usually anytime someone else does, especially me. (No, she doesn't watch DH use the bathroom- I mean when I or her siblings are going. :lol ) So I always LET her sit on the potty if she wants to- but I don't push it on her. Lately she's been peeing in her potty pretty regularly- a couple times a day or everytime she wants to and sits on it. But she still wears diapers (or pullups- I did buy her some pullups recently to wear during the day because it's easier to pull up and down since she wants to "go potty" so often lately). She has not done #2 (haha) in the potty yet but one day I think she wanted to. She told me she had poopoo and I thought she meant in her diaper. (sometimes- but not usually- she would let us know she pooped after she did) but I checked her diaper and there wasn't any and it didn't DAWN on me she might be saying she needed to go- as in the past she sometimes had told us she had poopoo when really she was just wet diaper or nothing at all! I completely forgot she'd been going potty some though and just figured she was fibbing about it again. Few minutes later she told me again and there was poop in there! *sigh* I bet I could have gotten her to do her first "poop" in the potty if I'd taken her.
Bad mommy. :(

Lazy mommy! LOL

Anyway, my suggestion would be to do the lazy way. But ofcourse I'm going to say that because that's what I do!

I do believe they say that if your child is verbal enough to be able to let you know that she would need to go (and you test that by them being able to verbalize that they HAVE gone in the diaper) as well as if they are starting to show signs of discomfort when they soil the diaper and wanting it to be changed-that they might be ready to start potty training. Ofcourse everyone handles that differently. Some would start intense training in the form of taking them at regular intervals/etc and some would do the lazy way like me and just waiting till they start showing an interest in going potty.

The only time my daughter brings me a diaper or the wipes is if they are out somewhere and I know she can get them and I ask her to get them though. If she started bringing them TO ME without being asked when she soiled herself- I might think she's definitely ready to start going potty more often. Depends on how you want to potty train. If you want to really work with her on this- then I think that's a sign that she's ready since she's showing signs of wanting to be changed when she soils herself. HOWEVER, she has to be able to verbalize that to you as well. Atleast that is what I think. I'd rather them be able to tell me they need to go rather than me having to read body language/etc to know or to take them constantly.

But then I'm a lazy potty training mom- remember? :D

[DawnM]

if they are showing signs of knowing when they have to potty or being wet/dirty I would encourage them to use the potty. Can't hurt, if they don't go no big deal, once she starts going pretty consistently I would switch to panties.

My oldest was like the lazy moms :D , she was trained by 2 & pretty much did it on her own. She started on panties during the day at about 18 mths, then one night I forgot to switch her to a dipe for night, she stayed dry so that was that. She had 1 or 2 accidents ever!

I have been putting ds on the potty for about a month & he is just now 1. Now before you think I am nutty let me say. I know he will nto learn right off & he doesnt' even always go but I just want him to be familiar & comfortable w/ the potty. I always hear how toddlers are scared of the potty or scared to pooh in the potty, this way he will be familiar w/ it & hopefully no scared to potty! I usually set him on it once or twice a day, I would say about 1//3 time he actually does anything, most of the time he just sits there for awhile & I talk to him. I am hoping that he will be a easy potty trainer. Now he stays dry at night if he doesnt' nurse so I figure that is a good sign!!!


dawn

[mistythemommy]

I guess I will try the lazy way too....her vocab is very low still so I don't think she would be able to communicate to me very well that she needed to go

[overandunder]

I would try. Just have a potty sitting in the toilet for her, and take her every now and then asking her is she wants to sit on the potty.

My kids used to trudge along after me when I went to the loo, so basically thats how they learnt! Everytime I sat down so did they.
Both of my kids were out of nappies by age two :)

Good luck!

[Snaughty]

We are potty trained during the day and only at home right now and we weren't even trying. One day ds was walking around naked and just went in and peed in the potty. :dunno I figured I would just encourage that and here we are. I didn't know the first thing about potty training, but luckily ds did! :lol