As a stay at home dad I’m thankful for the little things. For our second child I’m very thankful because potty training him was relatively easy. Having said that, time heals all wounds and he’s been potty trained since he was three and a half. In our family time machine I’m sure that it was fraught with dashes to the potty, accidents and wet pants. Huggies has a new program (and it’s free!)to help you allow your child to be potty trained more readily by working with the strengths of your individual child.
At the end of the day, working with children is a mind game. Sometimes you have to play reverse psychology, then it’s reward based, oh no-here comes the punishment, embarrassment, removal of things they want and more. Potty training for some parents incorporates some to all of those methods. A toddler is a curious creature indeed.
The Pull-Ups Potty Partnership is a quick series of questions that helps you identify how your child thinks. How they think will impact how they react to change (like using the toilet), frustrations (like a full diaper), questions (like what is thing I’m wearing) and more.
Our oldest was an owl. He’s still an owl, he’s destined to work in a C.S.I. lab somewhere and will probably do all of his high school book reports on Sherlock Holmes.
When our youngest just started the process we were going to MomoCon, a con that’s geared for all ages and anime. He was insistent that he not wear a diaper. It was also their first train ride. Dozens of video games, hundreds of cosplayers and thousand of comics and games later-he was great and asked to go potty.
The results from the Potty Personality won’t potty train your child for you; but it will guide you into how best to make it happen. There’s a real psychologist, Dr. Heather Wittenberg whose specialty is the development of children who teamed up with Huggies to help create the system.
If you’re knee deep in the potty training process here’s a giveaway that will fill the bill. Consider it a road trip care package for the travelling potty trainer-just in time for Spring Break! It’s for some Pull-Ups Training Pants, Pull-Ups Big Kids Flushable Wipes, Travel Potty Seats, Snack & Play Travel Tray, Disney Coloring Books, Underwater Camera and a Portable Charger. It’s a $60 value and the winner can chose between a boy or girl package.
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best Mom and daughter potty training story every is- when I took my toddler in the stall with me at Target. I was going first and hadn’t had much time for ‘grooming’ before that—- anyway, the stalls were full because it was near the holidays- and she exclaims loudly- “mommy, why do you have so much fur down there!? I don’t want fur like that!”……. I have that story and I have the ‘mommy why is your pippy bleeding, do we have to call you an ambulance>” ….. I have a bunch of good ones lol.
My boys trained each other by sitting behind the trainee. I didn’t have to do anything to help.
I think this is a bad one. My determined daughter who needed to do everything by herself would get so angry if I by mistake flushed the toilet for her. She would have to get back on the potty and try to go again so she can flush.
I remember having a terrible time training my middle son. He would never pee in the toilet or his potty but would pee in the yard with no problem. Im glad we were friends with our neighbors. He is going to be potty training his son soon. I can’t wait!
This story is not that amazing but one time my son was playing video games and I was able to get him to stop without a melt down and he willing went poop in the toilet and we joked that it was anaconda lol
Well I don’t know if its good advice or bad advice, but I did put cheerios in the potty and allowed my grandson aim LOL
@tisonlyme143
My funnest potty training story ( horror story for my son) My son was 2 1/2 and my niece was 3. We were potty training them at the same time . She was on the potty and my son goes in. He starts screaming she broke it off she broke it off. We had to teach the difference between boys and girls. It took us along time to get him to sit back on the toilet he was afraid he would break ( it) off too.
We were potty training out second son and was at my parents house when he decided he needed to go. Well I hear him crying and walk in there and he is all the way down in the toilet because he did not have his potty seat on there and did not realize it. he was so upset his bottom got wet!
My two-year-old daughter loudly (she has no indoor voice) exclaimed, referring to the elderly lady ahead of us at the grocery store, “Mommy, she went poopoo?” and when I shook my head and tried to shush her, she added”Oh… she just farted!”
Mortifying.
My son told me that someone else peed his pants when we woke up to a wet bed lol, I’m not sure if there is a pee ghost but if there is he sure believes in it.
I struggled with potty training my daughter for a while. Finally, all it took was her uncle telling her she should go potty. She thought for one minute, said “OK” and that was the end. No more struggle. Not even an accident.
standing outside church and my son whips it out and goes on the bushes right in front of the church!!!