Help! Need advice on handling potty training toddler at DL.

[mom2pirateNpooh]

Our DS22months decided - last night, successfully - to start potty training. He'd been hinting for a while, but I tried to put it off until after vacation. Nope. We leave for Disneyland on Monday night - just me, DS22mo, and DS9. I am afraid we'll spend our entire vacation dashing between bathrooms, dragging poor DS9 into them as well, instead of going on rides. Does anyone have experience with a potty-training child at any of the parks? Any advice, please? Thanks!

 

[BigEeyore]

22 months is really early for potty training - so kudos to you for taking it on so early! To make it easier on everyone, I would just go the pull-up route while you are at the parks. That way you don't constantly have to be asking him if he has to go, and just let him tell you if/when he needs to go.
Good luck!

 

[of2dbeach]

When my youngest of 5 decided she wanted to go to disney in Panties and wasent really potty trained we told her Cinderella wouldnt let little girls in the castle who might have an accident so she had to wear a pull up. we were having a character Breakfast in the castle. She wasent crazy on the idea so we got Disney Princess pull ups.Lucky for us in the castle Cinderella commented at how big she had gotten since the last time she was there ( TG ) You could also put his underwear on over his pull up/ diaper so he would feel like a "Big Boy " . I am sure Mickey would understand if he still needed to wear a pull up because it is hard to wait in long lines when you have to go potty!! Maybe Mickey can send him a special post card saying he can't wait to see him and make sure he brings his pulls ups so he dosent miss all the fun times ??? Just thinking and typing...

 

[mom2pirateNpooh]

Thanks for the great suggestions! Yes, 22 months is really early for potty training (especially since his big brother didn't start till age 3.5), though I guess I shouldn't be surprised - he started walking the day he turned 9 months.

I will bring pull-ups, and perhaps those, along with a little reminder note from Mickey, will appease DS. The little guy just wants to spend all day in the bathroom right now, which would be a real nightmare at DL. He won't let anyone near him with a diaper, but he tolerates pull-ups, albeit after a prolonged battle. Stubborn...! Of course this all happened AFTER I stocked up on regular diapers for the trip! Oh well, back to the store!

 

[Ohio Disney Girl]

We have a recently potty-trained DS and are doing DW in Sept., and are worried also. He rarely has an accident at this point (at least for the last 3 weeks), but we still take him every 1 1/2 hours and if he doesn't go, we try again in 30 min. If we wait too long AND he is busy with toys, he was forgetting and not making it to the potty in time prior to the past 3 weeks.

However, if we put him in a pull-up or goodnights, or even a swim diaper, he is smart enough to know it will hold it and doesn't even TRY to go to the bathroom, so we've totally sworn off all of those.

So, we are using the waterproof liner gerber training underwear for the airplane and car travel. They hold up well enough in accidents to get to a bathroom without leaking, but still feel like underwear.

Just a thought!

 

[jenseib]

My DD jsut started too before we left. We were in underwear full time by the time we went, but I jsut put her in pull ups the hwole time and never once had any accidents. (except once when DH took her for a ride on the monorail while I shopped and she told him as they were boarding that she had to go and he told her to jsut go in the pull-up. GRRRR ) She told us every other time and we went when she had too, or I would put her on the toilet when I had to go, to try. But she wasn't very good at peeing on demand at that point.
She stil lwears pullups to bed, but hates the feel of being wet and wants out of them first thing usually. And sometimes at night she will wake up crying that she wet them.
We have gone on a couple of 9-10 hour drives this summer, and I put a pull up on for the drive too, but so far she hasn't had an accident. But we made very frequent stops! (sometimes she felt she had to go 30 miles after the last visit. )

 

[mom2pirateNpooh]

However, if we put him in a pull-up or goodnights, or even a swim diaper, he is smart enough to know it will hold it and doesn't even TRY to go to the bathroom, so we've totally sworn off all of those.

So, we are using the waterproof liner gerber training underwear for the airplane and car travel. They hold up well enough in accidents to get to a bathroom without leaking, but still feel like underwear.

Just a thought!

We are finding the same problem - he has figured out that pull-ups, etc. work just like regular diapers. Unfortunately, he still pulls them down, like training pants! With the cloth training pants he notices before it's too terribly late, and makes a dash for the potty. For obvious reasons, that approach won't work on our trip. I'm okay with pull-ups for travel and in the parks, as that will minimize accidents. But where did you find the Gerber pants with a waterproof liner? They sound great!