Potty Training for Working Moms?

Hey, I'm not sure if I can help, but I'll throw in my two cents. I have a 3 year old son and I babysit another 3 year old boy, Kolin, during the week. My son wasn't interested in potty training until just about his 3rd birthday and amazingly enough, that's when Kolin's Mom decided to start potty training him as well. We have found that if we work together with similar methods things go more smoothly. We set a time interval to try to go potty and make sure we remind them where to go when the need arises. We haven't done anything fancy to help them, but we just made sure we were on the same page to stop from confusing the poor boy. Good luck!!

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E.

B.,

I don't know if you have a boy or girl, but what worked for us with our boys was this...they were each 1 month shy of three years old. We took the diaper off of them on Saturday morning and by Sunday night they were trained during the day. Night-time training took about 6 months after that. We just kind of waited for them to show they were ready instead of trying to make them when we thought they should. If your child is showing interest in training, that's great for you. Maybe try a weekend without a diaper or anything on his/her bottom for that matter and see how it goes.

Good luck!

Ok...does your toddler go to daycare? I used to be a nanny of 5 children, three i had to teach potty training....OH MY WAS IT HARD!!!!!all kids are differernt, but one strag i learned was to put them on there potty ever time you go. Also, I would make a game out of it...Meaning, in the bathroom, i had a chart...When ever they told me they had to go potty, they got a star on there chart, if they went pee, they got another star, if they went poop they got another star....so they could get three stars at a time....I never took stars away if they had an accident though, but i never told them i would...When they got 10 stars they got to choose a $5 item from the $ store....They could save there stars, and when they got 20 stars, they got a movie from the blockbuster to rent...it was fun for everyone....I was actually potty training a 3 yr old when the 19 month got interested in the game....he always wanted stars....try it...

Does your child go to daycare? The daycare that my kids go to is very helpful with everything like that because they do spend the majority of their time at daycare. I would start with buying books and getting your child interested in it. Until they understand what the potty is for and show an interest in it I don't think there is any point in trying. But we first tried potty training when my daughter was 2 1/2 maybe and we did the reward system and it worked for a while, then she totally lost interest. A month of so later we tried again, and this time the teachers at daycare suggested this, they did cold turkey. We put her in big girl panties and just told her that she had to let us know when she had to use the potty, and we'd also ask her every 20 minutes or so. This way if she wet herself she'd feel something different than getting a diaper wet. This really worked well, it's gross, but within a few days she was using the potty every time. Good luck!!

my daycares and everyone else who watched my kids at home really helped, they were wonderful. my son actually wasnt 100% potty trained until he was in preschool. the teacher set a time and he went to the bathroom every day, 2x a day. i helped at home and we kept each other up on any changes or things we thought might help at school or at home and it worked. we never pushed either of my kids to do it and it seemed to work out, they did it on their own. my daughter was just wanting to do it cuz her brother was, she was younger when she did...she just kinda got on the potty and went, she would tell me when she was on it. she would do it a lot after i would so that might be an idea also. she still likes to be in the bathroom when i am but she was potty trained at 3. go with your instincts and they will let u know when they're ready. i think 2 is a bad age because they're soo curious about everything else that they could care less about the potty.

hi,well my son was fascinated by flushing the toilet,so we would tell him that he couldnt flush unless he used it.It really worked.
Now my daughter I took her to the department store and left her pick out two packs of underwear she really liked.And told her she couldnt pee in them because they wouldnt be any good anymore.And when she did have accidents i would tell her throw them away there no good now,acouse i would get them out afterwards and wash them but she didnt know.So before she was done with both packs she was potty trained.I guess she didnt want to loose anymore.And once a month i would buy her a new pack.Hope this helps good luck