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| my experience is to rent or buy the video called "IT'S POTTY TIME" ! It so worked with my daughter and she potty trained in 4 days!! so, we are about to buy if for my son and see if he is as sucessful as she was.. we will see..... |
| posted by Suzanne on 01/02/2009 07:27 PM
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| do you know where i can get it? |
| posted by melanie on 01/02/2009 07:32 PM
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| google it, and you can seek out the best deal. I may have to get that one, since my 3 yr old is no where near potty trained yet! |
| posted by Annette+4 on 01/04/2009 08:24 PM
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Melanie,
I am still working with my 4 year old, Tricia. She has a speech delay and doesn't accept change very well without a fight. Wearing a diaper is the last thing she has to change from being a baby and she doesn't like it. At first I thought it was because she was autistic that she didn't want to train, but now a realize that she is just being a stubborn 4 year old and playing my husband and me. I realized my mistake for letting her not train so long and have started just reminding her to go. At first she through a huge fight, but now it's not so bad. With a little patience and understanding, I've been able to coax her along into wearing the big girl panties. I'm praying that she'll want to wear them soon. In the mean time, I'm going to work on her 2 year old brother and teaching him to shoot at cheerios in the toilet, lol |
| posted by Elizabeth on 01/04/2009 08:30 PM
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| i've heard that cheerio thing works well for boys..lol... and we started her on the potty yesterday. she's been wearing big girl underwear and has had 2 accedents, but she has also gone potty on the toilet 3 times since we've started. so it's slow going, but it's going. the had part for me is getting my husband to help out, for the most part i keep doing it by myself, and it's stressful. |
| posted by melanie on 01/05/2009 12:12 AM
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| I hear you on that Melanie. My husband is learning the more he gets involved the less fight the children give because daddy's voice is deeper than mommy's. I don't know what it is with deep voices, but my kids seem to obey really well with deeper voices. My brother-in-law has a really deep voice (bass) and my kids straighten up instantly to it. |
| posted by Elizabeth on 01/05/2009 06:48 AM
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| oh i know, it is so frustrating, since i'm home with her all day, sometimes it feels like she never listens to me, but once daddy comes home, if he raises his voice she's terrified...lol...i just want him to be more involved so i don't have to do it all by myself. |
| posted by melanie on 01/05/2009 12:12 PM
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| Started potty training today.. He went first thing this morning with no problem.. Now everything I ask him if he has to go potty, he say no potty.. I praised him when he did it and we gave each other high five, but now he doesn't want to.. guess, just keep trying and he will again when he wants too. |
| posted by Suzanne on 01/05/2009 01:01 PM
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| if you ask him, he may just keep saying no, but if you tell him "it's time to potty" then have him try every hour or however long you want to space it out, then he can't say "no" because you're not asking him, then eventualy he will let you know when he has to go. |
| posted by melanie on 01/05/2009 01:08 PM
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| Thanks, melanie I will try that! how long should I space it out? My daughter practically potty trained her self so, this is all different to me. |
| posted by Suzanne on 01/05/2009 02:06 PM
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| well for samara we've been doing every two hours, and if she eats, we try her about 15mins after she eats to see if she'll go, tha's usualy when we catch it...lol....other wise we've had no luck. we also stopped giving her drinks through out the day, only when she eats, to help her associate, drinking/eating and using the potty. but if he's new i'd say every hour. is he wearing pull ups? |
| posted by melanie on 01/05/2009 04:44 PM
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| No, too expensive.. going to start putting him in underwear once he gets the idea of going to the potty durning the day.. Diapers at night and then pull ups at night later on. Thanks for the advise. |
| posted by Suzanne on 01/05/2009 04:50 PM
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| well they make a "cool alert" pull up, that gets cold when they pee, so they can relate an uncomfortable sensation with going, it may help, and if you go to walmart you can get a pack of 40-50 for about 10 dollars, which isn't too bad, and you can space them out, so he wears them only once or twice a day, and that may help him want to tell you he has to go before it gets cold. |
| posted by melanie on 01/05/2009 09:45 PM
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Melanie,
Who makes the "cool alert" pull up? I've tried the pampers pull ups/easy ups and they don't work with either of my kids. My daughter especially has ignored it ever since we bought them. I don't know what to do with her except keep asking her to go potty and working on potty training her brother. |
| posted by Elizabeth on 01/06/2009 06:59 AM
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| Yeah, I might try the cool alert ones. This morning though, I said I had to go potty and then the next thing I know he was in the bathroom getting the potty chair. It took him a while and was really trying hard because you see his stomach working, and then finally he went. Not much but he did! So, we are going to try again later. But, I think on pay day I am going to get some of the cool alert pull ups and see if that kind of helps. won't hurt. Thanks for the information. |
| posted by Suzanne on 01/06/2009 08:51 AM
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| Elizabeth, huggies makes the cool alert pull up, i don't care for pampers either, they never worked for my daughter, not even as a diaper.and the generic ones just fall apart, but we've had good results with the cool alert, they also have a "learning design" where the images fade away when the child pees, but unless they aren't wearing clothes, they would never know, so i'd recommend the cool alert, they get very cold and my daughter doesn't like it, which is the idea. |
| posted by melanie on 01/06/2009 11:53 AM
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Suzanne,
I'm glad he went by himself today, that's great. |
| posted by melanie on 01/06/2009 11:54 AM
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| thanks for all the information.. |
| posted by Suzanne on 01/06/2009 12:54 PM
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| Thank you Melanie for the info. I'll have to try them since the pamper's easy ups/feel and learns are not working. They also have a picture that disappears to help train, but for Tricia has never worked. I'll keep you updated. |
| posted by Elizabeth on 01/06/2009 01:28 PM
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| good luck to you both! |
| posted by melanie on 01/06/2009 01:37 PM
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| Well, I tried the Huggies Cool Alert and No Luck. It didn't even phase my little girl. Now what? I'm running out of options except wait till summer and force it or use an occupational therapists. |
| posted by Elizabeth on 01/12/2009 12:19 PM
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Elizabeth, can you get an O/T to help with potty training? Wow, that seems like a dream. I want to hear more! My boy will sometimes go when I say "let's go potty!" and sometimes he just says NO!
He has been having some diaper rash issues lately, and cries when I change him. I tell him to poop on the potty next time, and he won't have a boo boo. He says "OK". Then, what do I find in the diaper the next day? poop!
Funny thing is... my 3 other kids all poop trained first, then the pee came within a few weeks, and we were done in less than 2 months. This little one is my biggest challenge!
Good luck to all of us! |
| posted by Annette+4 on 01/12/2009 12:39 PM
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| well i'm sorry to hear the cool alerts didn't work for you Elizabeth. my daughter has been doin pretty well on the potty. she still won't tell me that she has to go, but she will get undressed and get on the potty when she is ready, and sit there til she goes. she gets very excited when she actualy goes, and we make a huge deal about it. it going better then i expected, but i think it will still be some time before she poops on the potty. |
| posted by melanie on 01/12/2009 12:59 PM
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Melanie, It sounds like your little one will be doing it all on her own soon! Getting her to go without refusing is half the battle!
My little guy wasn't effected by the cool alerts either. But I will use them anyway. Regular underpants feel yuckier, so they work better... it's just messier for a while. |
| posted by Annette+4 on 01/12/2009 01:08 PM
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| That's interesting Annette. Regular underpants are yuckier. I'll have to try that since my daughter Tricia has sensory integration issues at times. Yes, an OT is available to help with potty training. My DH just got out of the military and we went through a lot of red tape to get the help we needed for Tricia. She is slightly autistic so for her help is everywhere. I want to hold off on getting an OT as long as possible, but if she isn't potty trained by the time she is 5 (which is this July) then I will get an OT because this is nuts that I can't get through to her. |
| posted by Elizabeth on 01/12/2009 01:59 PM
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I don't know if this is typical or not, but when we were first potty training Arden, we put underwear on when we were at home, but diapers/pullups for night and for when we were going out of the house. One day I asked Arden if he pooped in his underwear and he told me "no mommy. I pooped in my diaper. It's okay" or that was what he was talking about. So, I don't know why it was so confusing for him, but since then it has been diaper only at night, and it has been much better. He still has accidents sometimes, when he doesn't want to stop playing and waits too long, but, for the most part, he knows what to do.
The other thing that helped us was not wearing anything at all. I don't know what it was, but for some reason being naked really helped him to go to the bathroom. It also was easier for me to see as soon as he went (no camoflague of clothes) so I was able to say "hey, stop, don't pee there" or whatever. Often when he was wearing clothes, I wouldn't see anything at all until he walked right up to me and sat on my lap or something.
Good luck to all!!!
-Rhonda |
| posted by Rhonda on 01/13/2009 04:10 PM
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| yea Samara prefers to be naked when she gets on the potty. she'll wear her clothes, then when it's time to try on the potty she strips down completely. i have no idea why, but once she's done, she puts everything back on....lol |
| posted by melanie on 01/13/2009 05:17 PM
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That was so annoying, I just wrote this long post before I signed in, I came from my email you know, anyways when I hit the button to post it took me to the sign on page and I did and after I signed in my long post just disappeared.
I wanted to add a quick note about the cool alert training pants. I used them with Jack and one time he peed and I wasnt able to change it for about 20 minutes or so and when I finally could take it off there were all these little white chrystal like things coming out of the diaper where it was wet with pee. Jack told me it hurt and they were stuck to his penis. I washed him off and called his pediatrician who told me not to worry, but I was. I mean come on, what makes it cool like that? I wouldnt want that next to my privates! |
| posted by luvmyboys on 01/13/2009 06:45 PM
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| oh wow, thats horrible, but i'm glad it wasn't serious. they do get cold quick, samara will tug at them right away if she went, she doesn't like the cold either |
| posted by melanie on 01/13/2009 08:23 PM
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I just want to say to luvmyboys.... (and anyone else that has encountered this....
When you reply, then have to go to the sign in screen, just use the little arrow beside your back button (I use Mozilla) and click on the page before your last one (before the log in on one) and it will pull your post back up, then hit "post reply" or submit whatever it says, then it will go through. I have done that and yes, it bugs the mess out of me when it happens, but I figured out how to go around it! hahaha
Hope that helps! |
| posted by Annette+4 on 01/13/2009 08:26 PM
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I am leery of those feel wet ones, because my daughter got a nasty rash from them. I've only used a couple of the cool alert, and although Jake was not phased by it, I will use them when we are full swing potty training and we have to go somewhere... but I won't use them at night.
When my older boys were potty training, we didn't have pull-ups... so I used thick training pants and plastic pants on top. It worked for the most part. At night, I put a diaper on them. Then they invented pull ups. My oldest was a bedwetter until 11 yrs old, my 16 yr old had complete night control by 4. My daughter is 5 and still wets at night 1/2 the week. We should own stock in pull-ups! |
| posted by Annette+4 on 01/13/2009 08:29 PM
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| The cool Alerts didn't even phase my son either.. Not worth it.. |
| posted by Suzanne on 01/14/2009 08:39 AM
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