After two weeks of potty training, I'm happy to report that things are going quite well. Anna spends most days running around without any pants on or with just her big girl underwear. Since we don't really do much most days, operation potty train hasn't really impacted our social schedule whatsoever.
Anna tells me about 75% of the time that she has to go potty and then we walk into the bathroom and she sits right down and takes care of business. Other than requests for me to read her a book while she sits there, we really don't have any procrastination at all. The other 25% of the time is bit murky. She gets distracted by a video or an activity and she "leaks." I have to really remind her to go into the bathroom and try, which shouldn't be hard for me to remember. However, because she is usually pretty good about announcing that she's gotta go, I tend to then forget that she's not always going to remember. My bad, I know.
At the risk of sounding like this is all going perfectly, I'm going to throw the following items out for discussion. I'm struggling with the following issues... Any help/advice would be appreciated.
- Anna is TERRIFIED of the real toilet. She'll sometimes say she needs to potty when we're at a restaurant and then FREAK when we take her into the bathroom. An incident with an auto-flushing toilet really set us back.
- When we put on a pull-up (for outings, or around the house when I know we won't be vigilant about getting her into the bathroom), she completely forgets about the potty. She never requests to go once we get that pull-up on. It's like game off.
- When she does leak, which doesn't happen often, she seems sort of oblivious to it. At first she would run to me and tell me, but now she sorta doesn't care... that has me worried.
- Her pull-ups are never dry after naps. Hope that doesn't mean I'm rushing this. After all, she's two and half years old.
A brief moment of stillness...
4 comments:
Glad it's going well. I have no input here as I have no experience but I did just talk to my office mate about this. She has two young daughters. She said her oldest was afraid of public, especially auto flushing, restooms too. She'd have to go in the stall and hold her hand over the sensor so that it would not flush.
Her youngest daughter would actually request to wear a pull-up because she knew she wouldn't have to go through the whole bathroom process if she wore one so with her they only did pull-ups during nap and bedtime.
High five to you moms out there! I dont' know if I could do it.
This is not meant to be demoralizing but my eight year-old niece is STILL afraid of the public (self-flushing) toilets. So I got nuthin.
for the auto-flush issue: some people keep a post-it note in their purse/bag. If you put it over the sensor, then the thing won't go off unexpectedly and scare her to death.
also - do you let her flush her stuff (from the little potty) down the big potty when she's through? if not, then maybe start doing that, and acting all excited by it, like, "Let's tell that pee pee bye bye! Do you wanna flush it?" Maybe this would help her to start not being afraid of the "real" toilet?
That said, she's a wee one...I can't blame her for being scared of the big scary toilet! I think I was spooked by the flushing noises when I was a kid....WAY past any reasonable age for that sort of thing.
p.s. I have no idea about the naps/overnight thing. I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Not sure that's really "train-able" -- I think you just have to wait until they start waking up dry on their own before putting them down in underwear only. ???? That's my plan, anyway. Because at this point I'm not willing to sacrifice sleep in favor of toilet training!
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