So far:
Step 1 - Using the potty ✓
Step 2 - No nappies during the day ✓
Step 3 - Using the toilet ✓
Step 4 - No nappies at night ✓
However there is another step but I'm not sure if it's really Step 5 or if we've missed it along the way.
Step 5 - Knowing when you need to go to the toilet without being told
So after washing endless amounts of mini undies we decided to try and encourage Toddler 2.9 to use the toilet on his own without us prompting him. In the past stickers have worked so we went down the well trodden path. Toddler 2.9 and I drew a lovely picture of a pond with our crayons and for that pond we have lots of frog stickers to put on it each time undies are dry.
Our Busy Little Pond
Day 1 - Wet undies 4 v Frog stickers 1
(hmmm maybe stickers just aren't enough this time?)
Day 2 - Wet undies 2 v Frog stickers 5
(still lots of prompting by us but a few "Mummy I need a wee" moments).
So my washing load so far is decreasing slightly but I'm not sure if I'm really teaching Toddler 2.9 how to know when it's time to go to the toilet. I've explained he might feel it in his tummy or his doodle (he often grabs himself just before he does a wee) but is he really getting it?
It has at least given us Toddler Gold moment when this morning I asked if his undies were wet or dry and Toddler 2.9 responded "they were dry as a bone Mummy!" (Courtesy of his visiting country grandma!).
Will the frogs win over the wet undies? Any other ideas how I can do it?
Toilet training for Luke too a very long time. We started when he was almost 3 and it took us almost a year before he finally stopped having accidents.
ReplyDeleteFor Isla we just started her beginning of this year (she was slightly more than 2 then). She resisted it at first but then she saw a funny, but quite rude, clip on youtube of a baby on potty and singing a song and she was hooked.
She now tells us when she has to use the potty, makes the same sounds as the baby on youtube, has a laugh about it and .... goes. She is out of diapers except for nap time and bed time now.
Can you share the youtube video link with us? Maybe it will work for someone else too?!
ReplyDeleteRemember the motto, whatever works!!