Now that Ethan has turned two, and has been watching his 4 year old brother go through the Potty Training stages for the last year – he seems like he’s ready and interested to start.
We recently pulled the little potty chair out of storage and washed it out, so Ethan could get the practice sitting on it, and so we can talk about it. I’m not trying to push him (At ALL!) but he is genuinely interested. When he is naked, he runs to the potty yelling ‘Gotta Poop!!’ and sets up the stool to try and sit down on the toilet.
With Andrew, we were able to ‘naked’ potty train him. He was terrified of messing the floor, so he would naturally run to the bathroom before having an accident… He was fully ‘naked’ trained at 2 1/2. (All of our family and friends can attest to that! They’d come over and see a little naked boy running around…) When he turned 3, I realized that most of the fact that he’s not potty trained with clothes was our inconsistencies. *We* were going to have to work harder at transitioning him into the clothed potty trained stage.
We started just at home initially. We used bribes, toys, and a potty-chart to encourage him to use the toilet frequently. I headed to Walmart and picked up several toys that he would like (that were on the cheaper end) like cars, and construction vehicles. We started with the largest toy for the first success, and then moved our way down to the smaller items, eventually switching to m&m’s for an instant reward – and using a sticker chart to track progress for larger rewards.
The thought of leaving the house with Andrew was terrifying! Not knowing when he would have to go, or where we would be when he had to go was really the hardest stumbling block we came across with training… so we used Huggies Pull-Ups a lot for our outings – just in case we couldn’t make it. It is so much easier to use a pull-up than it is to change their clothing in the middle of your outing!
Because Andrew is not fully night-trained, we still use Pull-Ups at night time, nap time, and for longer car rides..
The last time I went to the store to purchase diapers for the boys, It hit me…
Soon, I’ll have TWO boys wearing pull-ups instead of diapers. It is a bit more expensive per diaper for a pull-up than it is for a regular diaper.. Granted, Andrew only uses 2-3 a day – Ethan, on the other hand is in that interested stage, where “I Do It!” is his most common phrase, and he wants the freedom of pulling his diaper on and off, and has not yet made it into the toilet when he needed to be there… And he’s DEFINITELY not afraid of peeing on the floor (as witnessed several times…) So we’ll be going through a lot more Pull-Ups than we did with Andrew.
Thankfully, Walmart has put Huggies Pull-Ups on Rollback! That will help this mama deal with the costs of having two boys in this potty training stage!
How did you deal with Potty Training?
Did you use Pull-Ups?
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I feel for you! I had to train 2 girls at one time…not 2 boys..yikes! lol Good luck!!!
I had such a difficult time potty training my son..He’s 5 and I still have issues.. He likes to hold it until the last minute and sometimes doesn’t make it!
Didnt have pull ups when my kids were potty training,both my son an daughter were 2 when I trained them,,back then it was just terrycloth underware that was a bit thicker in the middle,,each was different an I had to adapt my training methods to each one but they did great an it wasnt too hard
We are about to tackle potty training with my 3 year old grandson after the holidays. Not looking forward to it at all! I know he will have a ton of accidents so I’ll be part of the “clean up crew”.
I used Pull-Ups when my kids were young and they worked great!
It won’t be long until we are potty training my niece and I hope she will be as easy to train as her older sister. She was really good about telling you when she needed to go and loved using her potty training chair. The youngest one has been the complete opposite of the oldest so far so I imagine we are in for fun times with potty training her. Thank you for the great post!
It seems like a million years ago pting our 6 kids. The youngest is 13. we just didnt pressure alTHOUGH there are a TON of others out there who love to give their 2 cents worth. One really funny and harmless thing I did with the younger set of kids was to always set them on the big potty just before a bath, starting at 6 months or so. Just to get them to not be afraid. To listen to a flush without terror. To get to know what it might be used for. SO many times our kids would just go on a whim and we’d laugh and be so excited we were SO clever to save a diaper. LOL. But, each kid for some strange reason just got it together, basically on their own, at 2 years and 2 months. ALL 6. It was just weird they had some innate time frame when they were ready. We did nothing really but just let it happen and of course small rewards when they did. We were very VERY lucky!
Long ago and far away in another universe there were no Pull-ups. I really don’t remember how we managed.
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