Ryan will be turning 2 in another two months. To date, he’s still not trained to use the potty although we tried half-heartedly quite long ago. We gave up half way as it didn’t seem to be easy to do despite how some people have said that it’s an easy conditioning.
When we first brought him to the new babysitter back in February this year, they were determined and optimistic about potty training him. But soon after, they too decided to give up and told me that it’s best to let him naturally come to it when he is ready. I bet you to my last dollar that they couldn’t get him to sit on that potty for more than 5 seconds! Haha.
Anyway, now that he’s approaching 2, I’m wondering if he’s behind in being toilet trained. When do babies or toddlers get potty trained anyway? Is there some kind of magic formula to this? We have no idea how to do it or when we should start.
Any mummy or daddy out there have something to share?
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I am keen to know too… but for now, I start by asking Hayley to sit on the potty before I bath her. Everytime she sits on the potty, she will say the words ’shee shee, mmm mmm’. Sometimes she will shee shee sometimes not. So I think she knows what the potty is for but she just doesn’t know in exact what, when or why she needs to tell us and I don’t know how to teach her
Would be interesting to see if other experienced mummy out there have anything to share with us…
At least Hayley still sits there and does her job in it. That’s a good start, I feel. Now just need to learn how to teach her to tell before going ahead to do it in the diapers, huh?
Let’s wait and see if there will be any comments to this post by more experienced parents to teach us a thing or two
Hi Penny,
I wrote about this potty training topic sometime in March. Below is the link, you may want to read it. In fact, my boy has been 99% toilet-trained now. He doesn’t wear diaper during the day, except when we go out. He has learnt how to communicate to us when he has the urgency to poo or pee.
http://ourlittlesmarties.com/2009/03/17/potty-training-our-toddlers/
Sigh, leave it to the boy I say. I have tried and then I gave up because I was tired of cleaning up wee wee. Then one day, Ryan came back from the baby sitter and voila! he was potty trained. Apparently, the nanny makes him go every 15 mins – can die ah. Now he does not use diaper during the day, only at night. Sometimes he will say he is big boy and does not need it. I think they will come to this on their own terms if we just leave them be. Yeah, me lazy mum.
Hey i actually had the same problem with my daughter and i was afraid she was taking too long but i actually found a couple of books that really helped me out that came with an actual potty training kit. The website i posted is where you can get more information hopefully it helps you as much as it helped me
Haha i forgot to post the site the site is:
http://store.joyberrybooks.com/index.cfm/product/10/teach-me-about-potty-training-board-book-and-cd-for-girls.cfm
My boy will be turning 2 in Oct and he’s not potty trained yet. I’m anxious as well as I plan to let him start schooling next year. Yeah, he won’t want to sit on the potty or stand to pee for more than 2 seconds. Sometimes he don’t even allow me to take off his pants.
Emily, thanks for sharing your post!
I do have a friend whose mum helped her potty train her baby who was just a few weeks old back then. Amazing!
Busy Bee, I don’t think you’re a lazy mum, just the type who prefers to let nature take its course and a patient one indeed who doesn’t sweat the small stuff! Salute!
Mike, thanks for sharing the site. So you must be pretty happy with the kit to recommend it. Will have a look at it
Julie, I can sense your urgency to have him trained since you’re sending him to school already…hopefully some of the comments here from others can help you with the process. Good luck and do share your stories here afterwards!
Mine is turning 2 this Sept. Have not started. Laziness on mummy’s part. But I have a nice super cute potty given by a friend. Well, it has become my boy’s toy now. He will seriously PRETEND to use it.
Just started trying to potty train my two year old and it’s not going well. He likes to sit on the potty, but has no intention of actually going potty in the potty. So let me know if you find anything that works.
Sin Yee, haha, at least he’s pretending to use it! It can easily be for real one day!
Erin, he probably thinks it’s a nice seat!
Here’s something we tried over the weekend and it worked for a while. We took him to the bathroom and removed his diaper, then asked him to pee. He dutifully did. Then we washed him up and put on his shorts, without the diaper. We then told him that the next time he wants to pee or poo, he should tell us and we would go to the toilet and do it there like he just did. He agreed and he actually did tell us when he wanted to pee!! But soon after we had to put on his diaper again to let him take his nap. I thought it was some kind of progress although it didn’t involve him sitting on the potty but using the bathroom directly.