Talk about Toilet Training

Outside of using the baby talk style of words like wee wee and poopy, I think this is a great idea. I really feel that if you spend quality time with your child, you will see the signs. No, I don't have the answer for the words.

 

We have a few friends who did EC with their kids, to varying degrees of success. Most admitted that either the kid still wore diapers and went in them most of the time, or they didn't, and in those cases, even the most successful of them spent a few to several months cleaning up after their baby as they essentially tried to housebreak them-- including some rather unfortunate stories of the copiously projected results when they failed to adequately "read" the baby's signals.

While we both enjoyed the thought of a baby toilet trained by six or eight months, neither of us cared to engage either in the extra (or at least extra gross) cleaning, and definitely didn't fancy trying to add precisely gauging the meaning of a baby's facial expressions or whatnot while going on aggravated sleep deprivation, and while one or the other of us was trying to work at least part-time. We're sticking with the usual cycle of diapers and then toilet training starting at 18-20 months or so.

 

I have nothing to contribute to this discussion other than to suggest the following:

Please spare the world the horror of seeing Baby's First Shit. Please just flush it.

I know you wouldn't do it--you're too classy--but it's been done too often.

 

We had success with what we look back and refer to as "naked summers".
When our little girls were about 2, we had them spend a lot of the summer outside with no underwear on.
Yes, that's a benefit of isolated country living.
Turns out little girls do not like to have pee running down their legs.
It got them motivated to sue the potty.
And PS, a human under age 2 is not more intelligent than most dogs. It took my kids more than 2 years to surpass our golden retriever in the smarts category. She can still outwit them sometimes with cunning and experience.

 

My son was trained by letting him run around naked and diaperless in the backyard in the summer. He had a potty and an old stump on which to pee. He was about 1.5 years old when this started. He wore a diaper to bed and when we went out. By about Christmas he was fully trained.

My daughter just got frustrated with the diaper and was out of them and fully trained by about 1.5 years. No muss, no fuss. Pretty much like she is.

 

I'm thinking night time training is the hardest. Our eldest (who is now 9) took ages to get through the night and we ended up resorting to a "bell and pad", which is a pad placed under the child that is hooked up to a bell - it is piercingly loud, but only goes off when it is wet. His little brother slept through the whole thing, but his parents were frazzled by the end

His brain just wasn't getting the "you need to pee" message when he was asleep. All good now, though.

 

Just like training a pup, you get to know when they are likely to go - thats when I started putting mine on the potty. Soon as they ate - room was made at the other end, so soon as they ate - onto the potty they would go - except, we called it the 'po', so obviously later it became the Edgar Allan.
Myself, I was started at three months I think I was told. I was left sitting there for hours - which I dont think is training, just waiting for the inevitable to happen.
My sisters kids used to go, then sing out 'pieces of faeces, pieces of faeces' - like some strange pirate chant.
They do say with boys, something to aim at in the toilet bowl is handy - but I should leave that for the gentlemen to comment on.

Oh yeah. Watch out for when you start them on the big toilet. Responding to calls for help one day, I found my probably three year old holding onto the edge of the toilet as he had slid down so his backs of knees and elbows were resting on the ceramic - feet sticking out and facing forward.

 

I don't remember being potty trained and with my own kids i suppose they were all around two. All of them pretty uneventful. Except for daughter no. 1 who went through a short-lived, but passionate anal retentive phase. You've probably read about them.

 

Thank you so much for this information. It will come in handy sooner than I had expected.