DS is finally potty trained!

[NYCCaitlin]

And it's about time! On July 3rd my bay will be four! So he'll be heading to pre-school, but he has to be potty trained and we finally trained him! yay! So when did your kids become potty trained?

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Good for you! So far my oldest learned how to use the potty all the time by about 2.5. I never pressured them and they did it when they were ready.

 

[buzzmom3]

Congrats! My son was fully potty trained,i.e. all night long, just before he turned 4. He was fine during the day by 3 1/2 but I felt like I would never get rid of pull ups! Boys are hard to get intrested in potty training.

 

[Luv2trav]

Thank you for posting this... DS 5 was potty trained at 2.5 years old.... Easiest experience ever... Then DS 3 almost 3.5 it has been a huge struggle... He has been dry for 5 days however will not poop on the potty... It's reassuring that some of your children were almost 4 before they were fully potty trained...

 

[AprilFool]

My DD6 was night/day trained at about 31/2. My DD who just turned 3 has been night/day trained since Jan. I used stickers as rewards for using the potty. They got a sticker book, which we left on the top of the toilet, and got 1 sticker for pee and 2 for poop. I let them pick out their own "special" panties at the store and we had about a week of accidents before they were completely trained. Do not leave your kids in pull-ups too long, just take the plunge to real underwear it is just too easy for them to wet them and sometimes they just don't care. If they actually get WET they will learn pretty quick. Good luck.

 

[Georgia]

My DD4 was 2 1/2 when she was potty trained during the day. We worked on it all one summer. I thought it was a huge pain in the butt. There is nothing like having to run full speed through the mall with a toddler yelling "I have to go." She wasn't trained through the night until she was just over 3. Nights were harder for her.

I'm dreading this with my boys. I've heard boys are harder to train.

Also, I hate the smug super parents that think they have their kids trained at like 18 months. Ummm....okay...I flunked.

 

[jennifer293]

DD was fully potty trained in February and she just turned 3 this past Sunday!!!

 

[hrsmom]

Congratulations!


My DD was completely trained at 2.5. My DS is going to be 2 in July and he's just becoming interested in the potty and has used it a few times - no pressure though, he's still pretty young.

 

[TMB1203]

My oldest one was 2 1/2..very easy once he became interested. My youngest is 3 1/2 and has little/no interest. I can talk him into going potty before baths but he won't go poop on the toilet (he said he's afraid of the fish biting his butt???? )

I've tried big boy underware...rewarding w/stickers and candy...nothing seems to work consistently....

 

[phillmolly]

We had a hard time potty traing my DN, he started going #1 on the toilet when he was about 2.5 but no way would he go #2. He would get a stomach ache from holding it in all day! We would put a diaper on him and he would go. We just had to give him time and finally when he was about 3.5 he just started going #2 on the potty. My SIL was so relived because she was about a week away from baby #2. I was worried that he would backtrack after the baby, but he did just fine. He was a big boy and his sister was a baby who wears diapers. Good luck and remeber all kids are different and the most important thing is to not rush them if they are not ready.

 

[hebbynan]

Boys have to be the absolute worst to potty train. Oldest DS was 3 1/2 before he was "trained". I tried with him when he turned 3, but he didn't want any part of it. He knew when he had to go, he just flat out refused to tell me. Then one day he woke up and decided that he'd had enough with diapers. He started doing pees and poops automatically. Now DS3 is quite an experience right now. I've tried training 3 different times with him and really doesn't want to do it. He runs and hides when he 'goes' and refuses to come and tell me what he did. That boy would sit in poopy diapers all day, if I let him. Weird kid!! I even pulled out the bribes....big boy bed, moving upstairs to the "big room" with his brother, etc. But he's so darn stubborn! (I think he gets that from his Dad! ). I've kind of given up for now. I'm hoping that this summer, he'll get some more interest. I don't want to push it to make an issue out of it. Just keep your fingers crossed for me that he's trained by this fall.....October is the boys' surprise trip to Disney and man, I want him potty trained by then!!!!

 

[taraprather]

My son was super easy to potty train (although I was young and lived with my parents and had lots of help from my mom!). He was fully trained, day and night by 19 months!!!
Now my daughter on the other hand was day potty trained at the age of 2 1/2. She is now a little over 3 and still wears pull ups to bed (BUT, she's gone the past 2 nights without waking up wet!!!!)

 

[reginaastralis]

Thanks ladies!

I am in the middle of training Juliette ... and whew, you all are making me feel so much better.

She really wants some big girl princess panties. She's not happy with her pull ups anymore ... but she's not ready for princess panties, if you know what I mean.

At school, she is one of the youngest in her class, and the only one showing interest of the girls. They have three boys training and her. She comes home and tells me all about Luis and Zane going potty, and how they're big boys. It's so cute. She tells me all about her stickers and candy, they have a chart for their stickers at school and they get an m & m if they go.

We're in the stage where we have to go and check out the potties wherever we are. Last night at dinner, the potty scared her when it flushed.

And for the moms who want them trained by the next time they go to Disney ... lol ... you could do what we did on our last trip in March. We took a picture in front of ever potty. LOL. I want to do it again in May, but we'll be there by ourselves for this trip. If you get stopped by a strange woman asking you to take her picture in front of the bathroom, that's us! It made for a cute scrapbooking page this last time.

 

[Jacksmom99]

Don't feel bad...my DS was almost 4 1/2 before he would poop on the toilet! I kept repeating the mantra "he won't go to kindergarten in diapers" over and over! He was trained by 3 1/2 for pee, but refused to do the other on the toilet. We had to use charts and stickers just to get him to sit on the toilet WITH a pullup on for 5 minutes a day. Then we has to progress to cutting small holes in the pullup, until finally the hole was large enough for everything to go into the toilet. What a process! Not to mention, being a boy with an immature bladder, he wasn't dry at night. I was so afraid to go back to pullups after FINALLY getting rid of them, that I put plastic sheets on his mattress and washed bedding every day for 3 years!! (well we had an extra set to put on, but it has to be washed) DS was traumatized by kidney surgery and all the tests leading up to it when he was 3, so I know this had a lot to do with it. I know that DS is not the norm, but I like reassuring parents that it will happen, Don't worry, DH and I tell EVERYONE that asks us for parenting advice that we'll got A++'s for sleeping kiddos, but FAILED potty training big time!

Funny story about training, we tried to take DS's pullup away because he would go get one when he needed to "go". So, I hid them trying to get him to use the toilet. Well, our house was for sale and was shown that day....I went upstairs when I got home from work and found a large pile of ......on DS's floor. I just kept hoping they thought we had a large dog!

Kim

 

[taylorsmommy05]

And it's about time! On July 3rd my bay will be four! So he'll be heading to pre-school, but he has to be potty trained and we finally trained him! yay! So when did your kids become potty trained?

congrats! I am so jealous!!

 

[abcboys]

Congrats!! I hate potty training. My oldest son trained pretty easy by 2 1/2. My middle son was a bit harder but trained 1 month before turning 3. My youngest son is 21 months and neither of us has any desire to start yet. I'm not even looking forward to it!!!

 

[disneymomof2boyz]

My ds was just potty trained about 2 months ago, and boy are we relieved!!
I just decided one morning that I wanted him to be potty trained by the time we visited WDW, and I just started working on it.
It took him about 2 wks to get it right, and now he doesn't even wear diapers to sleep. He just turned 2.5 this month, and I know that the reason why it was so easy for him is because of his personality. He's very disciplined in terms of times of sleep, and where things have to be, so I know that contributed to how easy and fast it was.
Now...I have another son who is 1year and 6 months, and I have the feeling it will harder, simply b/c he's VERY easygoing, and less disciplined. But we'll see once we get to it.
Congrats to you, I believe that it's such a mommy victory as well..

 

[scouthawkk]

My son was super easy to potty train (although I was young and lived with my parents and had lots of help from my mom!). He was fully trained, day and night by 19 months!!!

My DS (now 4 1/2) was easy, too. Fully trained at 18 months, but we waited until 19 months to have his "big boy now" party...just in case (had the grandparents over. DS got to pickout a new pack of underwear to add to the supply, and throw out one of his left over pullups...the rest got donated to the cause at his school). And has been standing to pee since about a month before he turned 2. I'll never forget the day he came running out of the bathroom at Ft. Wilderness (as I was checking us in) all excited and yelling for all the world to hear "mommy, mommy, I peed standing up!!!" Of course, I recently found out that while in the bathroom with DH he was just as proud to announce "daddy, I didn't pee on the floor!" Way to go son!

I will add though, that he had wonderful teachers at the school he was at. He was the youngest in his class, and was curious about what the other "big" kids were doing behind the closed door. When the teachers noticed the interest, they talked to us, and we all agreed that he may be ready to start traing. He had already been dry through the night for over two months at that point, so we thought we'd give it a try. Didn't force anything, but as a team of sorts, we worked together, them at school, us at home. Worked out well for all involved.

 

[nessz79]

My oldest was a bit of a pain, but was fully trained day/night by about 3 1/2 (maybe a couple months earlier). It got to the point that I knew he could potty train easily, he just didn't feel like it. So I decided enough was enough and as soon as we were off for summer (I'm a teacher), we said "time to be a big boy and go in the potty." I'd say it took a few days and then we were mostly accident-free. There were some accidents about once a day for a couple weeks. It's been great ever since!

Our youngest is now 2 1/2...he'll be 3 in late August. I'm planning on having him trained by the end of this summer. I think he's really ready, but 2 is such a difficult age for having them do anything you want them to do. I think it'll be easier as he gets closer to 3.

Best of luck!!

 

[DisneyMomx7]

With seven kids I've been all over the spectrum. One dd was trained at 18 months, one ds wasn't trained until about a month before he turned 4! The average age seemed to be between 2 1/2 and 3.