Potty Training
GlitterGirl starting doing number two in the potty around 17 or 18 months old, and within another three or four months was going pee pee in the potty almost all of the time as well. She was in panties on her second birthday.
I am not trying to compare the two girls, but I also know that it is possible for an under-two-year-old to go on the potty.
I also have this theory that if you potty train before too much obstinance kicks in it is much, much, easier.
The problem is that TwinkleToes has marks that tells me she was tied to something. Probably the potty. And at first if you sat her on a potty she completely lost it. Not just a fit, a primal meltdown type of fit.
So, we’ve been working on that. At first I just had the potty in the main room of the house. Then we started sitting on it with the lid on it and fully clothed. Once she was fine with that I pulled the lid off and let her sit and stand and sit and stand as I did the same in a big chair. It was a fun game and she got used to it.
Then I started playing the game during a diaper change, without the diaper. She thought I was strange, but humored me and did it anyway and eventually loosened up enough to laugh while we did it.
We’ve finally reached the point where she can sit on the potty without a diaper on and she’s fine with it. But she doesn’t do anything in it. I told her one time to “put something in there” and she got up and got a toy and put it in. So then I told her to put her pee-pee in there, and she just smiles at me and makes goofy faces.
GlitterGirl was pretty obvious when she was, ummm, going. There was a red face and a certain facial expression. I could sit her on the potty while she was doing it, and she got the idea of what to do. No such luck with TwinkleToes, you don’t know she’s gone until you smell it.
I decided I’d try the “naked” approach, where you let them run around naked and the theory is that they won’t want to pee down their legs so they’ll go sit on the potty.
TwinkleToes crapped in the floor while my back was turned for like 15 seconds. Lucky for me the dog was outside with RK when it happened, otherwise he’d have thought it was a treat and I’d have never known it. Also lucky for me, it was firm and cleaned up easily.
I picked it up with a paper towel and put it in the little potty, and told it her goes in there.
Just my luck next time she’ll do it in the floor and pick it up and put it in the potty herself.
June 26th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
OMG
ROFL
I have had my password for almost 2 weeks….too lazy (too busy as well) to open the email to find out what it was.
But I just couldn’t read the poo on the floor story without some comment!
still LOL
June 26th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Duh – guess I needed a password before I commented. Not the sharpest tool in the shed. Oh man that was funny. And thanks – because I thought 17 months was too young and have been ignoring my daughter’s announcements of “poo poo” that come right before she goes. I’m thinking I may start with the potty training. Have you ever used one of those things that fits on top of the toilet? I guess I’d better read up on potty training. I don’t have a clue as to how it works.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
I am still laughing about the poo on the floor story. I’m sure you could share that story for many years and still get a laugh!
Seriously though, I applaud the fact you recognized your daughter’s fear of the potty and related that to her possibly being tied to it for lengthy periods of time. Most importantly, you diffused the fear by making it into a fun game. You are taking baby steps in the right direction and I am learning so much from all your posts about GG & TT.
June 26th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
katie – we use a little potty in the room we spend the most time in so it’s a constant reminder and it’s close by if they need it.
GG started using the big potty with a seat on it about a month or two into the process.
My friends who have waited until they were in the midst of the terrible twos to get started have had it much rougher than I had it with GG. And, once she hit the terrible twos she wanted to do the opposite of what I wanted her to do, so I can’t imagine being successful if we’d waited.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:18 am
If she is anything like my daughter, it will only take one or two times of making it to the potty, and she’ll have it down. Have you tried just panties? Sometimes kids hate it when they are wet or yucky and that gives them insentive to go.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:43 am
I was going to wait until I got her to go at least once before trying panties, but I may go ahead and try. That will keep the icky stuff of the floor, at least.
Next question. Where to buy panties in 6 and 9 month sizes.
I found them in 2t for GlitterGirl, and even that was difficult. I may have to get some 2t and then try to run a seam in the sides to make them smaller.
June 27th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
LMAO!!!!!!!Sorry however it is quite funny…lol.A friend was trying to potty train her little guy in a simular way last year,suddenly she could smell a god awful stench,looked around the playroom and noticed that he was playing with his toy dump truck that was full of poo…..man was she upset!!!!!!……as we all said well it is a “DUMP” truck…..lol