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RatLabGuy

RatLabGuy

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Our 3 y/o son just told us he needed to go potty BEFORE peeing, Waited to happily go use the toilet.

Been a bit of a battle.

You parents know what I'm talking about here.
 
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get the diapers off him. Make him run around in "Bigboy" underwear. he wets and craps himself a few times he won't wanat anymore of it. Took my Girl about 3 times of that and she started paying attention to the call of nature.


Oh and congrats! you're shortly on your way to no more diapers!..... until you get to be about 70 :D
 
Some are more stubborn than others

Use the training underware, the cloth ones, they get heavy and cold and quite unpleasant.

we've been off diapers for about 9 months total now, very few wet beds, and a rare case of not making it in time. Usually a result of being too intent on the Leapster.

Once you get there, life is so much more fun, you don't have to lug around " The Bag" just keep a change of clothes in the car or near by just incase.

oh, our daugther is 4 and a half now, will be going to Kindergarden this fall.

The struggle for us now is learning the alphabet and numbers ( attention span is the biggest problem)
 
I'm right there with ya, my oldest is 3yrs/3months old. He's great about peeing, he wears bigboy underpants from morning to night. Problem is crapping, he'll only do it in a diaper. We've got him to sit on the potty with a diaper on, but that's gotta stop soon. One time we cut a hole in the diaper, and he flipped out when his :poop: hit the water. Now he knows better and makes sure to ask for a diaper without a hole :lol:
Here once the weather gets warmer, we're gonna "run out" of diapers. Like Brent said, it'll be a mess for all of us, hopefully he'll learn after the first time.
This is the tip of the iceberg for me, my twins just turned 2 :eek:
 
We tried to get our son to use the potty for a while, but just didnt learn, then all of a sudden last year he just stopped and used the toilet all the time. Quite odd. Can't wait for the little girl to do that so i can stop buying the dang expensive diapers :(
 
Congrats on the new freedom! It's a wonderful day when diapers aren't involved.











Blkvoodoo said:
oh, our daugther is 4 and a half now, will be going to Kindergarden this fall.

The struggle for us now is learning the alphabet and numbers ( attention span is the biggest problem)
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Our daughter is the same age and has the same problem. The only time I can get her to focus on numbers and letters is when whe's riding in the car and bored. He knows the the alphabet in CAPS, but lower case bores her. She can count to 100 if I help her along every time she gets to another 10 number set, i.e. 20's, 30's, 40's, etc.
 
mbalbritton said:
get the diapers off him. Make him run around in "Bigboy" underwear. he wets and craps himself a few times he won't wanat anymore of it. Took my Girl about 3 times of that and she started paying attention to the call of nature.
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He's planty smart for this... creepy smart... at the age of 3 years and 4 months, he can recognize/name almost all letters, count to 20 and recognize the numbers (even double digits together!!), name/recognize about 8 geometric shapes (including rhombus and trapazoid), and probably 12 colors.
I can only assume this all comes form his mom's genes.

We've had him in the training underpants for awhile - both the fabric ones w/ a vinyl outside, and regular cloth (and we use a vynil cover for it). now granted, the vinyl is for us. Pee is easy to clean, :poop: is not.
However, the problem seems to be that he just dosn't seem to mind having the wet pants. He knows what he's supposed to do. We put him on the potty several times a day, he knows when he's using it correctly and is happy about it.
It's just when he's in the middle of doing something he wants to do, there's no prying him away to go use the potty. We can see the look on his face that says exactly what's going on. He's perfectly fine being wet. There have been times when we didn't catch it and it had clearly been a long time. He just dosn't seem to care. He knows we're upset (He'll say he's sorry).
It's clearly the stubborn "I just dosn't feel like doing this right now, so I won't" kind of thing. He is the master of control.
Aparently, his grandmother had the same problem with his dad. Hm.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Aparently, his grandmother had the same problem with his dad. Hm.
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man how many times have I heard that !!!

Then there is Mom's best friend, who relives EVERY thing I ever did wrong when there is a crowd around.


And they wonder why I moved 900 miles away
 
I am in the same boat with all you dads. Maycee is 3 and very smart.Walking at 9 mo., Potty trained at 2 1/2,Counting,ABC's, sign language,spanish,shapes, I could brag all night, but Thats not the point of my post...The point of my post is this.....Enjoy these times, cause they wont last long. We as parents take pride in these milestones and celebrate them with our babies,even try to rush them along a little, all along they are growing up and taking our ''babies'' with them. I love my little girl like nothing else, I just miss my baby sometimes.
 
purpleTJchick said:
wow, I really hope I never get a munchikin.... I like my mutts. I envy the parents sometimes.. but only for a few years...
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Dogs are like 3 year olds that never grow up.
 
yea, no teenagers, plus they potty train in under a year... and a great warning system depending on the dog. oohh... and constent playing games you want, you can leave them at home without child services coming to get them, they never look at you in disapointement, always happy to see you, and easy to find them food
 
All that is true Lauren. And no matter how busy you get, they are always still your best friend. Love mine, but love the kids too.

David, We had a game for potty training the oldest. It's called sink the Cheerios. When you take him to the potty, stand him in front, of course he'll need something to stand on. Throw a palm full of Cheerios in the mode and tell him to aim and sink them. My son used to strain till his butt disappeared trying to sink em. Worked great. The second son was trained by the first son, and my daughter more or less trained herself.
Another thing you can do is take him in with you. You go first, the sound of you peeing will trigger him needing to, then let him do as you did.
 
I bribed my boys and my girlfriends twin girls. That worked great! Children love Skittles! If they use the potty, make a very big deal out of it. Only give them two or three pieces of candy as they dont know the differemce.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Our 3 y/o son just told us he needed to go potty BEFORE peeing, Waited to happily go use the toilet.
Been a bit of a battle.
You parents know what I'm talking about here.
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LOL. You don't say? He's a genius! :)

We didn't work at it too hard. One day, at about 2 1/2 she declared she was through with diapers. And she was. And we were as happy and proud as you! I think when they're ready, they're ready, and trying to train them too early just leads to frustration on all sides.

I still have no clue why it's such a hard concept for kids when you can train a dog in a few days. ????
 
Our 3 y/o son just told us he needed to go potty BEFORE peeing, Waited to happily go use the toilet.

Been a bit of a battle.

You parents know what I'm talking about here.
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I friggin hate you :flipoff2:. I have a 2 year old and a 1 year old. Both think its the funniest thing ever to crap themselves and laugh about it. I've got like a year or 2 left of diapers :confused: . I don't know if it aggrivates me more for having to change them or to spend 40 bucks a week on diapers and wipes.

" The Bag"
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I carry a backpack with the stuff in it if I take mine out. Whoever thought it would be funny to make a purse 3x normal size to put diapers in should be shot, disemboweled, and hung in that particular order.
 
oh ya, great pee training for boys, toss a Froot Loop in the toilet and tell them to aim to pee in the hole. becomes a game and he'd rather do that.... I know I do! :D
 
My son is almost four and was potty trained by three. When he showed an interest in using the potty we started working with him. One thing that helped with the times he was working intently with something was a "potty watch". You set the watch for a period of time of your choosing and when the timer goes off "it's time to go potty". This removes you as a parent from the equation and allows the child more independence to address his own needs. After about two weeks we even quit using a diaper/pull-up at night, only two accidents since then and he was sick then. Some children need more monitoring than others but the "watch" is a great tool help.

Just a thought about teaching letters, if you present the sound a letter makes rather than the letter name it will help with learning to read. My son was sounding out words before he was 3.5 yrs old. He was also brought up in a "Montessori Environment" which helped.
 
RenegadeT said:
One time we cut a hole in the diaper, and he flipped out when his :poop: hit the water. Now he knows better and makes sure to ask for a diaper without a hole :lol:
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that's freakin funny
 
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