He loves to loudly announce to the world that he has “poop”, and yesterday after watching me, he decided that he wanted to sit on the big toilet himself and check it all out. So I figure it is time to get him a potty chair/seat/stepstool thing, even if we don’t do much with it for a while, at least it’s something to keep him from falling into the toilet when he sits on it 
. He’s not even two yet, I guess I didn’t expect him to show any interest for a while yet.
So, do you have any potty training hints/tips/tricks to share??
Summer is a great time for training! Spend lots of time outside. He can practice peeing on trees. Depending on his commitment, you can offer the Spiderman undies as a reward.
Of course I live in the country, so this worked great. (Feeling like a Hick now). If you’re city or suburb dwellers it may not be so wonderful;) You can take a potty chair outside too. Way less to be nervous about, then.
My daughter was relaly interested at 18 months and we did all kinds of stuff to get her trained. But it came to a screeching halt and we tried again at 2 years. Then she was ready. Both my kids trained in about a week. Daughter at 2, son at 2 1/2.
I was lucky, my daughter pretty much trained herself. We would be in line at the cashier when she’d announce that she “had to go:. I was the one saying, “Just go in your diaper.” But she insisted on finding a potty.
bribery.. i mean treats!
when son #1 went thru pt… he got 1 sweet tart everytime he peed and 5 when he pooped…. since he was son #1, he got all the new, cool underwear
when son #2 went thru pt, he picked out what candy he wanted, which was m&m’s…. he started them stopped and refused to pt. told my mom last summer, he was 4.5 yrs old, that he was going to poop in his diaper for the rest of his life! so my mom tells him that she will have a potty party for him when he is pt’d…. with a pooh cake. it worked… he finally got pt and we went thru with a small pooh cake… he loves pooh to death!
now that son #3 is attempting… he turned 3 at the end of may and is the youngest of the 3 of them to start this early… i think he was just ‘ready’. i think kids are naturally ready when they are ready and not when we are ready… becuase this is what i have experienced with my 3. i pushed #1 and also #2 and they were harder to train… #3 is loving it! he picked out the krabby patty gummy treats and gets 1 when he pees. poop gets him 2 treats. i also printed out a really cool pt sheet for him to put stickers on it: http://www.pottytrainingconcepts.com/images/Potty-Training-Chart2.gif
it’s the best pt chart i’ve seen so far because it has so many squares!
good luck… by the way, i came over to see if you had your ww up yet! mine is up!
*waves hi to Kailani*
Hi! Made my way here via ProBlogger. I think the best thing to keep in mind about potty training is that every kid has his/her own timeline. I gave my son a lot of opportunities and reminders but every time he made a breakthrough was almost a total surprise to me. Like the day he came running over to tell me he’d used the regular toilet all on his own (without falling in!) and the day he actually did #2 and wiped himself up perfectly.
Enjoy the (sometimes wet) ride!
my only advice- wait until he’s ready, and you have an entire week to do nothing else. at all. get some extra underpants- you’ll need LOTS. and when it’s over, treat yourself to something really nice
you’ll have earned it!!
I was just looking at your toddler website list- we’ve outgrown most of it, but Jack loved Noggin.com, too.
I seond the take it slow, let Little Duck dictate the pace. Our Okapis took a very long time – despite our bribery attempts and demonstrations and urging (out of desperation). When they were ready it took about a week. From the moment we started showing them the potties, it took over a year. Sigh.
Patience, patience, patience. You can make him do it, but it is probably not worth the effect it would have on him. If you have time, try to let him do it on his own while you try to make it easy for him to do it however he wants.
If he’d interested now, go for it! Foster the interest, jump on it while you have the chance. Otherwise…yeah, be patient!
Patience … that’s my suggestion. My V has shown interest a few times and I’ve gotten all excited with anitcipation only to have him not even remotely interested in it a week later. He’s 2-1/2 and tells me he loves his diapers. It’ll happen at some point, I’m sure. In the meantime, I’ll just drink more wine.
My suggestion: jellybeans. When Yak the Younger was potty training (eons ago) we kept a glass jar of jelly bellies in the bathroom. He got one for “number one” – two for “number two.” Jelly bellies are small and have few calories – not enough to matter – but boy did they have a big impact on a kid who otherwise didn’t get candy. And no, we didn’t have a problem “phasing out” once he’d learned. We let him get them until the jar was empty and that ended that.