https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:09:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881557 Sat, 20 Apr 2019 20:06:53 +0000 Alba4 2881557@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We are about to embark on potty training our younger son that turns 3 in June. When we started With our older kid, he had already been peeing consistently each night on the potty. We stopped putting him in diapers and only wore pull ups at night. We also bribed him a lot with candy, stickers, etc. pooping consistently on the potty came very slowly and there were lots of accidents!</p> <p>My younger son also isn’t showing too much interest. He’s a bit resistant to sitting, but I’m planning to wait until the warmer weather where peeing outside on trees will become a novelty! Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881535 Sat, 20 Apr 2019 12:23:06 +0000 Lindsay05 2881535@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Potty training has by far been the most frustrating phase of parenting (coming in very close second is meals). In hindsight it was obvious that potty training methods work differently for every child. My oldest is the type to please and rewards worked really well. She was trained in 4 days. So naturally I tried the same method with my second and it went horribly. Full out crying when trying to sit her on the potty. She is very strong willed so putting the idea in her head she chose when she wanted to do it. It took longer but she did it. You are on the right track and your child will get the hang of it. It seems like they never will then suddenly it clicks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881529 Sat, 20 Apr 2019 11:15:57 +0000 erinbaderin 2881529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Potty training with no pants - great success! Putting pants on - not so great! So many pairs of wet pants! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881470 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:31:32 +0000 Foodnerd81 2881470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: yay!!! Because it’s the only way I’ve done it, I can’t imagine doing it any other way. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881467 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:22:02 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2881467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think that was the hardest when I tried to teach him was that LO didn’t know when he needed to although he for sure knew when he didn’t. There’s an Elmo video and book and Daniel Tiger episode and game on his tablet that reinforced the message from a mechanical standpoint. Anyway, in no shape or form do I take credit for potty training LO. He obliged trying to pee and actually going at daycare. While I was still changing his pull-ups like they were diapers. Then, he asked for undies and said he’d keep them dry and all of a sudden he initiated going to the bathroom when he needed to. </p> <p>@erinbaderin: glad it’s going well! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881465 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:07:58 +0000 erinbaderin 2881465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Update - he woke up from his nap dry and we went no pants. A little bit later he stood up, said “uh oh, pee pee on the floor!”, went to the potty, and finished peeing in there. Since then he’s gone in the potty by himself three times and on the floor none times! I’m officially sold on theis method. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881445 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:02:07 +0000 Foodnerd81 2881445@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: oh yeah! I forgot about the age thing- I think the author was a little overzealous about the age thing. Also I absolutely used bribes (m&amp;ms) which she discouraged. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881442 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:50:54 +0000 skinnycow 2881442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We also did the Oh Crap method and my daughter caught on very quickly. She was so easy to potty train, though, and we may not be so lucky with the next kid. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881439 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:14:28 +0000 erinbaderin 2881439@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: Constipation shouldn’t be an issue, but only because he’s been on a daily dose of Restoralax for about two years. Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881438 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:09:44 +0000 bhbee 2881438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@erinbaderin: you can definitely do it at 3! That’s when we trained my son. I didn’t have a method really but with perseverance I think it will click for him. Pull-ups only for sleeping times until he gets the feeling. I will also add, if he has any constipation that can interfere with the feeling of needing to go. Probably not the issue but mentioning just in case. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881437 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 13:00:16 +0000 erinbaderin 2881437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok, I downloaded and am reading Oh Crap but it’s making me feel like I’ve already failed by waiting too long! Argh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881436 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:51:53 +0000 Silva 2881436@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>we are in the middle of it with my son. we did a day where he was naked and we paid close focused attention so every time he started to go we'd put him on the potty (we brought it with us from room to room). We set timers and had him try every 10-15 minutes. Day 2 I put him in training underwear (its just got extra padding so that pee doesn't go EVERYWHERE- he still gets wet). We gave him m&amp;ms and made a big deal about every success.<br /> By day 3 he was sick of us asking if he needed to go so I just said "let me know if you need to use the potty." By the 4th day he self initiated all of his pees on the potty. </p> <p>Poop has been more challenging for him- he's had a few successes but he hasn't made the connection in the same way he did for pee.<br /> We have been out of diapers for 2 weeks now. If we are home and playing indoors he gets himself to the potty every time for pee. 50/50 for poop (usually he starts to poop in his undies and then goes to the potty- sometimes he can finish and sometimes he can't). If he's playing outside i have to bring the potty out and remind him or he forgets.<br /> He hasn't had any success out of the house yet. We've been to the library, but just for an hour and he went before. We've been to 2 playdates and he had several accidents at both. I just bring changes of clothes, don't freak out but say "poop and pee go in the potty, let me know when you need to go again."<br /> He has been dry for naps and sleeping in undies for naps. We put a diaper on him at bedtime.</p> <p>My older daughter basically potty trained herself with very little intervention. We just put her on it at regular times throughout the day. My son is a different kid, obviously. He caught on very quickly with pee, and we are just kind of pushing through and hoping poop follows soon. Its messy- I rinse the poop off in the toilet and then do a load of wash every night. I'm not going back to diapers, so we're just waiting it out. He needed to be potty trained by the fall, so we've had to enforce a bit of an external schedule that I wasn't thrilled about.<br /> Our pediatrician said the most important part is to NOT stress them out about it or it will make it much harder. When I noticed my son getting stressed/anxious about us constantly prompting him to go I backed off and it definitely helped.</p> <p>Its hard to learn a new skill, and we've been emphasizing that he's trying so hard/working so hard to learn how to do this, etc. etc. We really celebrate successes in a big way- dancing, calling dad at work, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881434 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:42:31 +0000 LadyDi 2881434@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I loosely followed oh crap also. It does explain that most kids don’t understand when they need to go, they don’t even think about it, so letting them be naked or go commando teaches them the “I need to go to the bathroom” feeling because it’s uncomfortable to pee on the floor or in your pants. </p> <p>We let my son be naked for a day and put a potty in whatever room we were playing in and put him on every half hour, the next few days we went commando and he went to daycare that week in underwear, we never used pull ups. It took a few days and some tears but he eventually got it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881430 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:34:02 +0000 Foodnerd81 2881430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I mostly followed the Oh Crap book- 3 day (ish), starting with no bottoms- no underwear or pants or pull up. It was super easy with my older, not so easy but not terrible with my younger. It makes sense to me that kids understand better when bottomless than with underwear that feels to similar to<br /> A diaper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-you-potty-train#post-2881426 Fri, 19 Apr 2019 12:16:09 +0000 erinbaderin 2881426@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son turned three a month ago. For the last few months at bath time we’ve been having him sit on the potty - he’s peed a few times, and pooped once. We decided to try to get the training going in earnest last weekend and switched to pull-ups. We got him to sit on the potty on a pretty regular basis, although we weren’t as good about it as we should have been - he never peed on the potty. Daycare has taken him regularly all week, and he’s never peed on the potty. This weekend we thought we’d go with underpants so he can see how it feels to be wet, and we’ve been having him sit on the potty every half hour, and he’s peed in his underpants three times and never gone in the potty. The most recent time he’d been on the potty like two minutes earlier. </p> <p>Is this what it’s like? Am I getting too easily frustrated? He doesn’t seem to know how to go or when he has to go. Do I just need to be more patient? My older son basically just started telling us when he needed to use the potty one day and that was it. </p>