"If he is still having 2-3 accidents everyday hes not really potty trained right?"
Right.
If I had a child in that situation, and took him to Ikea's Småland to play, and he had an accident, they'd boot him. If I were sending him to daycare, I'd expect the same, if they had such rules.
OFF TOPIC!
Now, I could be wrong (I haven't started training my son yet):
If a parent is looking for the child's pee/poop signals -- isn't the child potty training the parent and not vice versa??
Not trying to offend. Just curious. How does the child start to realize when he/she needs to go if the parent swoops in and takes the child to the bathroom?
As I said, we haven't started yet. Must do some research first....
Doesn't matter. Gets to the same goal. And IMO is easier for the parent to read the kidlet's signs! Gets things done earlier.
Watch your kids. See if they make a certain face right before they go. Then, when you see that face, it's a teachable moment, swooping them onto the potty (we had one next to the family bed and one downstairs in the living room, because he REFUSED to sit on the toilet for a time) shows them "this is where you go". And then, when dipes (we used cloth) and clothes are pulled right back up, no obnoxious changing needed, that's another bonus!
Heck, even at night DS had signals, and that's where our potty-learning began.
He would squirm and wake, I would nurse him back to sleep, then 10 minutes later he would flood his dipe and wake for an hour, very upset. AUGH. This happened most nights.
Realized at long last that the squirming was him saying "I gotta go!". So that's when we moved the potty next to my side of the bed. He'd squirm, I'd wake up, swing him over onto the potty, he'd pee, I'd swing him back up, pull up the dipe, and we'd go back to sleep. Ahhhh. Nice.
If I had waited until he said "excuse me Mother darling, I must go wee now" late at night, well, I'd still be waiting. In fact he's sleeping next to me on the couch right now, because he wakes when he needs to pee, but doesn't like going on his own at night. So he woke, came out to find me, sat down, went to sleep. When I'm done with this post, I'll turn off lights and take him back to bed, stopping for a potty break on the way. (this is just a nighttime thing...during the day he's fabulous and has been since he was 2.5)
My friends thought I was crazy, having the potties outside of bathrooms. But it all worked out, and it was much less work for me, and less time needed from "uh oh" to go, and I'm happy with it.
