Monday, November 16, 2009
Caution: Frustration, and Potty Training
Shayden has not gone poop once in the toilet (minus when she accidentally went about a month ago). It's been 2 weeks! Should I put her back in diapers? Every once and a while she'll accidentally pee her pants. She'll look at me and say, "No!!" When I know she needs to go, or when she's in the process of going. I'll pick her up and take her to the bathroom and have her sit there, but she'll arch her back and kick and scream the whole way. Gavon has been sad and needy all day. The whole day has been like that. It's been a hard day.
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I got frustrated several times potty training Caleb. I would call my mom and tell her what was happening to see if she had any pointers. She would just laugh and say that "sounds like potty training."
Caleb would have his good days and his bad days. Now they are usually good days, but we still have accidents once in a while. I say keep with it. She will just get better and better.
One suggestion would take her every hour and give her treat (sticker, fruit snack, candy) whatever will get her motivated to keep going back to the potty. Caleb loved his dinosaur stickers and his board of his stickers.
Sorry this is a really long comment.
Jayne had some problems with pooping... i tell her to "push out the poopers" and when she does, she gets a big song and dance from me, and like 8 MM's. soon she was doing it. And i found out what time of day jayne pooped, because it was usually around the same time everyday, with slight variations, and i would make her sit on the potty until she pooped, because i know she has to go. or take her every couple of miutes around that time, if she wouldn't go... until she went in the potty. Then i make a HUGE deal out of it... don't go back to diapers, she can do this! (and so can you)
8 months...I know it kills, but that is the average time a child takes to potty train.
One thing that helped us was to make Lee clean up his own poop when he did it in his underwear. We had to be a little forceful--not mean, but take his hands and make him dunk the poop in the toilet, make him spray off the floor and wipe it with towels, make him load up the laundry, and explain to him in a calm, firm voice that this is the consequence of pooping in his underwear. Then, that was combined with the massive praise and attention of going in the toilet.
But I dunno, Shayden is pretty independent. She gets her mind wrapped around something, and has a really hard time with change. Which is a good thing, when in the right circumstances. Maybe she's just not ready. She might need more time just to get used to the idea of potty training. I think about her hard time with baths and how after she had a bath party with Lee and that little stool in the tub, she loved it. Maybe something like that would help. She needs to see the benefit and the fun of going poop in the toilet, and then she will.
One more quick suggestion: cloth diapers. I've heard--didn't try it, but heard--that because kids can feel their own waste better in cloth diapers, they prefer to use the potty. And they're a little easier to clean up than underwear filled with poop.
Potty training is NO fun! I dont know if this will work for you, but we had the same problem with Koen, pee came really easy but poo was another story. I think he was potty training for a week and half or two weeks before he finally got it. What we did was let him go pantsless and stayed clothes to the potty. He didnt mind when something caught it but as soon as he had no pants on he ran to the potty and it was lots quicker because he had nothing to take off. I think with him some of it was getting to where he had "advance" notice. hehe
Oh Raychel! So sorry! It took Senn a lot longer with poop than pee. Does she go on a normal schedule (ie-every morning or bed time, etc.) If you know when to anticipate it, then that can be helpful. It took us 5 months to finally get it done. She would be doing fine, but then would get sick. Sometimes you need to just back off and wait until later. LOVES!
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