All Day Potty Attempt = FAILURE

March 2, 2007 · 8 comments

He only made it a couple of hours.  After the initial whining and crying, he did really well!  Even ran into the bathroom twice on his own to just go!

Then a little after I ran out to do some errands, he had an accident and it was all over.

Panic sets in as soon as we mention underwear again.

Maybe a little each day?

Hell, I don’t know.  Is changing diapers really that big of a deal?  😕

ANYONE???

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<![CDATA[jen]]&gt March 2, 2007 at 5:45 pm

Me, i like diapers. they are clean. they are useful. they have elmo on them. M has used the potty 2x in 3 days. I know from where you speak. Diapers. We should start a campaign. They aren\'t just for babies anymore.

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<![CDATA[eternall March 2, 2007 at 7:26 pm

I used to do daycare and the mom\'s that had the boys were never potty trained very early 3 1/2 to 4 years old. They were sent to me in pull ups and when the mom\'s complained about the potty training not going well I told them \"no more pull-ups…underwear only\" and that worked really well. They didn\'t feel wet, so they didn\'t care…it was easier to just go in the pull up instead of stopping playing and going to the potty. When I was potty training my daughter I tried to stay home (lucky for us it only took 1 week). If I was going anywhere or was worried about my furniture I put rubber pants over the training underwear (thicker so they absorbed more but still would make her feel wet). My daughter hated the wet feeling and it worked really fast for her. We also tried to go to the bathroom ALOT…it seemed like we were living in the bathroom. Both of my girls were potty trained fairly quickly (within a week and at age 2 1/2), but everyone that I knew that had boys, it took longer for them and they were always older (3 1/2 to 4 1/2). Good luck Dawn, I hope lil\' Matt gets it soon!

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March 3, 2007 at 12:45 am

Me, i like diapers. they are clean. they are useful. they have elmo on them.

M has used the potty 2x in 3 days. I know from where you speak.

Diapers. We should start a campaign. They aren’t just for babies anymore.

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March 3, 2007 at 2:26 am

I used to do daycare and the mom’s that had the boys were never potty trained very early 3 1/2 to 4 years old. They were sent to me in pull ups and when the mom’s complained about the potty training not going well I told them “no more pull-ups…underwear only” and that worked really well. They didn’t feel wet, so they didn’t care…it was easier to just go in the pull up instead of stopping playing and going to the potty. When I was potty training my daughter I tried to stay home (lucky for us it only took 1 week). If I was going anywhere or was worried about my furniture I put rubber pants over the training underwear (thicker so they absorbed more but still would make her feel wet). My daughter hated the wet feeling and it worked really fast for her. We also tried to go to the bathroom ALOT…it seemed like we were living in the bathroom. Both of my girls were potty trained fairly quickly (within a week and at age 2 1/2), but everyone that I knew that had boys, it took longer for them and they were always older (3 1/2 to 4 1/2). Good luck Dawn, I hope lil’ Matt gets it soon!

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<![CDATA[pgoodnes March 3, 2007 at 2:58 am

LOL Jen! You know, really, diapers are better in so many ways! Just think of what a pain it\'s going to be when we go out places and our little ones have to go! Hurry! Find a potty!! 🙂 Diapers = easy! Amy, I think the whole pull-up thing definitely backfired on us. We started using them to make changes easier for the on the go boy; should have used them like the commercials show!!

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March 3, 2007 at 9:58 am

LOL Jen! You know, really, diapers are better in so many ways! Just think of what a pain it’s going to be when we go out places and our little ones have to go! Hurry! Find a potty!! 🙂 Diapers = easy!

Amy, I think the whole pull-up thing definitely backfired on us. We started using them to make changes easier for the on the go boy; should have used them like the commercials show!!

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<![CDATA[Shine]]& March 4, 2007 at 2:26 am

It was quite literally 2 months before my son\'s 4th birthday (and 2 months before he was to start preschool!) before he was \"potty trained\". Afterward we still had plenty of accidents and sometimes we still do (he\'s 4 1/2 now). He still wears a pull up at night because he won\'t wake up to go pee. We used pull ups too, and that is the problem with them, they\'re just diapers in disguise. Even after warning from friends it might make things more difficult, I still used them. We tried a number of times to get him to use the potty and he refused and at some point he would even change his pull up himself when it was wet. We also tried everything from bribes of toys and trips and candy- nothing was working. All the other moms I talked to assured me that he would potty train soon and he wouldn\'t be in diapers forever and everything would work out fine. I didn\'t believe them. But we tried again and again, sometimes taking a month off at a time and trying again with more positive reinforcement. We let him know all the good things he could do if he didn\'t wear diapers anymore like going to school. The last straw for me was when he was changing his own pull up and purposely peed on the carpet in his bedroom. So I told him that the next day he was wearing underwear and that was it. I took all the pull ups and put them in my closet where he couldn\'t get to them. The next day (the next few for that matter) were not easy, he cried and resisted, but when he did go on the potty, I rewarded him with a small toy (from the dollar store) or a sucker. Eventually he figured it out and started going on a regular basis. But that first week or two, we pretty much stayed home. I can\'t tell you exactly how long the whole process took, but I would think it was a good two to three weeks before I felt like things were moving smoothly. And then I still had to ask him every hour or so if he had to go potty and sometimes demand that he stop what he was doing to go potty because I knew he had to go and an accident was going to happen. So I will tell you, just keep trying, take a break if you need to. Realize that it will alter your routine for a week or two, but it\'s important to be consistent!! HE WON\'T BE WEARING DIAPERS FOREVER!!! GEEZ I can go on and on!! Jen, you crack me up!

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March 4, 2007 at 9:26 am

It was quite literally 2 months before my son’s 4th birthday (and 2 months before he was to start preschool!) before he was “potty trained”. Afterward we still had plenty of accidents and sometimes we still do (he’s 4 1/2 now). He still wears a pull up at night because he won’t wake up to go pee.

We used pull ups too, and that is the problem with them, they’re just diapers in disguise. Even after warning from friends it might make things more difficult, I still used them.

We tried a number of times to get him to use the potty and he refused and at some point he would even change his pull up himself when it was wet. We also tried everything from bribes of toys and trips and candy- nothing was working. All the other moms I talked to assured me that he would potty train soon and he wouldn’t be in diapers forever and everything would work out fine. I didn’t believe them.

But we tried again and again, sometimes taking a month off at a time and trying again with more positive reinforcement. We let him know all the good things he could do if he didn’t wear diapers anymore like going to school.

The last straw for me was when he was changing his own pull up and purposely peed on the carpet in his bedroom. So I told him that the next day he was wearing underwear and that was it. I took all the pull ups and put them in my closet where he couldn’t get to them.

The next day (the next few for that matter) were not easy, he cried and resisted, but when he did go on the potty, I rewarded him with a small toy (from the dollar store) or a sucker. Eventually he figured it out and started going on a regular basis. But that first week or two, we pretty much stayed home.

I can’t tell you exactly how long the whole process took, but I would think it was a good two to three weeks before I felt like things were moving smoothly. And then I still had to ask him every hour or so if he had to go potty and sometimes demand that he stop what he was doing to go potty because I knew he had to go and an accident was going to happen.

So I will tell you, just keep trying, take a break if you need to. Realize that it will alter your routine for a week or two, but it’s important to be consistent!! HE WON’T BE WEARING DIAPERS FOREVER!!!

GEEZ I can go on and on!!

Jen, you crack me up!

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