https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:47:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-39336 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:44:08 +0000 Miss Adia 39336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I am with Bells. I have a book with a little girl that looks like my LO and the little girl tells us about her day. She says she can put on her own pants and eat her cereal on her own. She can even play by herself without mommy and daddy. She brags about how much of a big girl she is until mom has to come in and change her diaper.<br /> One day at the store, she wanted these pretty pink undies and her mom said they were for big girls only. Big girls who can go to the bathroom on their own. So in the end, Molly went to the potty and got her special big girl underwear. </p> <p>It totally worked! We went to the store and I pointed out the Disney Princess underwear. she wanted some, I told her not until she gets rid of her baby diaper and I swear it took a week. She was determined to get big girl underwear at the age of 2. I remember the first day she wore her underwear all day. She didn't even want to put pants on because she didn't want to cover them up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-39333 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:38:35 +0000 erwoo 39333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My almost 32 month son had a fear of pooping in the potty as well so he's really only pooped in there 3x since I started potty training almost two weeks ago. I guess not bad; but he's had two poop in the underwear incidents since we started as well. My incentives are 1 marshmallow and 1 sticker for pee; and 2 marshmallows and 2 stickers AND a fun trip to the basement (where all his ride-on toys, moon bounce, and misc. other toys are at) for poops. I don't think we need the basement incentive anymore b/c he seems more than happy with the first two incentives. Oh, and then we do a "potty dance" kind of like ring around the rosies and cheer "yay!" I don't think my husband is a fan of the dancing around but he'll do it if it'll make him get excited about going in the potty. We've got pee pretty much down; but the poop is still questionable. I wish I had better suggestions for poop incentive though. Oh, and I pretty much have him go in our toilet with a toilet ring (baby bjorn makes a pretty good one) and we wave to his poop whenever he poops. He gets really excited to see it come out and see it go down. Yuck to both but if it gets him excited to see both then so be it! Good luck! Make it fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-39284 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:48:50 +0000 Wondermommy 39284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrsbells: Yeah, we bought him the Elmo potty training dvd for Christmas, so we'll see if that helps. Just gotta wait a few more days for him to open it, lol! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-39280 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:39:31 +0000 Mrsbells 39280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I;ve heard a lot of people had success with potty training by reading a potty training book that has characters in it that your LO likes. I've seen lots of fun interactive potty training books at toys r us, maybe that might help? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-39273 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:36:20 +0000 Wondermommy 39273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>No one else? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-38718 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:27:13 +0000 Wondermommy 38718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@banana: Usually their aim isn't good enough to start off standing up, but once they get the hang of the potty, it's not too hard of a transition. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-38660 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:47:40 +0000 banana 38660@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sorry, random question (that's sort of related). But when do little boys train to pee standing up? LOL. Might be a stupid question but I have a 2 year old boy and whenever I think about potty training, I always wondered if you potty train them sitting down or standing up? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-38642 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:30:41 +0000 Wondermommy 38642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Bueller? Bueller? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-38116 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:48:37 +0000 Wondermommy 38116@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey119: Nope, he refuses to sit on the potty for a poop. He avoids the entire bathroom, even, lol! He sits on the big-boy potty to pee, with one of those little adapter seats, and has little feet on a step-stool, and we've been bringing him in there with us when we poop, so he can put two and two together. (No pun intended!)<br /> I wish I'd learned about e.c. months, heck, years ago. Alas, I only learned of it about three or four months ago. I don't know what rock I was living under, but I'd never heard of it until someone mentioned it on WB. Probably would have made life sooooo much easier with both of my LOs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-38105 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:40:44 +0000 chopsuey 38105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hurmm.. bribery doesn't work for the poop? :T Do you have him sit on a mini potty or the toilet? Maybe you could take him in with you when you have to go #2 and show him how wonderful it is to poop like a big person? HAHA I don't know!<br /> If he doesn't sit on the toilet maybe you can have him start?<br /> Eek! Good luck!</p> <p>I started my LO on elimination communication a few months ago. She's almost 9 months old. Pooping is actually easier for her when she sits on her potty. Curious to see how potty training will look when she gets older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/potty-training-woes#post-38093 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:30:49 +0000 Wondermommy 38093@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Let me just say I've been through potty training with my oldest, (he's 11) and it was a long, drawn out struggle, so I'm trying to avoid that this go around. I started (with my oldest) before he was ready I think, and that made it all the more worse. And I made the mistake of using Pull-Ups, so I'm also going to avoid those when possible this time. (Except maybe on prolonged outings, away from home, etc.)<br /> We're using a much more laissez-faire approach this time, involving a good amount of bribery and good-ol' reverse psychology. It's working so far. Buuuuuutttt, here's where we're running into trouble. He doesn't want to poop on the potty. When he feels a poop coming on, he throws an all out fit for a diaper. We're talking full-scale meltdown, Chernobyl style until the diaper goes on. Frustrating to say the least. And I know, I know, we shouldn't give in to the tantrum, but dammit, man! And the only reason we have the diapers still in the house, is because he doesn't stay dry every night. (Even when we limit his liquid intake after a certain time in the evenings) So not having any at all is not an option right now. </p> <p>Any suggestions?</p> <p>Fwiw, LO is 3 and 1/4, and he pees on the potty like a champ. </p>