Comments on: Potty Training Tips & Tricks

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By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 16:52:42 +0000

So, I didn’t think that having the little potty out in the living room would make much of a difference since our bathroom is like 5 steps further down the hall but I did go ahead and try it, and moved her sticker chart right behind it. Well, so far so good! She has been telling me when she needs to go and I praise her like crazy telling her what a big girl she is! And then she gets a sticker too, of course. I really hope this does the trick! Will let you know in a few weeks.

By: Sarah-Anne K.

Sarah-Anne K. — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:54:01 +0000

What has worked best for my children (2 boys: 3 1/2 and 19mos) is having the potty in the room with us. This way, there isn’t the mad dash for the bathroom. Once they’re consistently going well on the potty, we transition the potty into the bathroom. But for the last two years, the potty has simply been in the living room as we play together. My 3 1/2 year old goes on the big toilet, and my little one almost always makes it onto the potty. Sometimes he’ll forget, and mid-stream I’ll move him onto his potty.That works, too.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 12:43:46 +0000

Yes, she has been getting a treat for it since we started. Marshmallows (tiny ones) or as she calls them, “marshbubbles”. Not the healthiest of treats but she LOVES them. We are at the point that she still enjoys the treats but even if I don’t have them she will still go in the potty when I tell her it is time. She just won’t tell me with enough time to get there before she needs to go. There have been a few instances where she has and we praise her like crazy when she does that! It is just not consistent.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:48:15 +0000

Do you offer her any reward/treat for actually making it on the potty?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:40:29 +0000

HELP PLEASE!! My 22 mo old has been potting training for the good part of a year now and she really likes going on the potty. The only problem is I still have to make her go about every half an hour to an hour. She won’t tell us before she needs to go! I am not sure how to get her to tell me earlier before she needs to go. She will stand there, say “mommy, potty” spread her legs and pee. I know she can hold it for quite a few hours but I just can’t figure out why she doesn’t tell me with enough time to get to the bathroom… Any suggestions would be great. I am also trying to get her fully trained before our second comes in August.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:59:46 +0000

Here’s what I read (and followed). When you can give your child a list of instructions to follow, and he/she follows, they are probably ready to be potty trained. Example: go to the kitchen table, pick up napkin, put the napkin on the chair.

My son was getting very good at following directions. He also used to bring me a clean diaper when he was wet. That showed me that he did understand what having a wet diaper meant. My suggestion to you is go atleast a day with no diaper. See if your daughter registers that she is wet when she has an accident. I did this with my niece, and she really did not care at all when she wet herself. We’re waiting a little longer for her :0)

My son is now 2 1/2, and fully potty trained, day and night.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:53:52 +0000

My son started aggresively potty training at 2 years, and did really well. If he was not wearing a diaper, he would go in the little toilet. If I put a diaper on him (at home or going out) he would use the diaper. I would ask him why he peed, and he answered “Mommy, I have a diaper!”. I think it does confuse them. I stopped diapers completely, and if he has an accident, he has an accident. My son doesn’t like the feel of being wet or dirty, so accidents are very rare for him.

When it was time to take a nap, I explained to my son that he had no diaper on. I would ask him where he needed to go potty, and waited for him to point, or say the bathroom. I did do the naked thing to, for a while, just until my son could at least give me a 30 second warning on when he had to go.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:40:54 +0000

:0) I just wrote a post about potty training on my blog, since my son is officially fully potty trained! He is 2 1/2, and has been potty trained for about 6 months during the day, and one full month at night.

I did basically what you did. I let him run around naked, because it was easier for him to run to the little toilet himself and sit on it, rather than having to mess with taking clothes off. I also did not use pull ups or anything similar. He hated the wet feeling when I did start putting little underwear on him, so that actually helped a lot. I also went at his pace, not mine. I knew he was ready because he would bring me a clean diaper whenever he peed his current diaper.

Oh, and we stayed home for a few days straight. I wanted him to really get the hang of using the potty before I took him out without a diaper.

Oh, and just a quick tip for getting him throught the night: Have him go to the bathroom right before bed, and wake him up once to take him to the bathroom. My daughter still wakes up at night (she is 10 months old) so whenever she would wake up, I would wake him up and take him to the bathroom.

Good luck, I hope he is out of diapers completely before the new little one arrives! (for your sake).