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My daughter loves books, so we kept a book box in all the bathrooms of the house. Every time she sat on the toilet, we read a book to her while she sat. She loved it.
I have three kids ages 9,6 and 2. When my kids started to potty train we would take them in to go potty often. With my oldest he got change when he went potty. My middle child got stickers and my youngest got m&ms. We would praise them, ready potty training books and stuff too. Potty training can be really tough especially if the kids are not fully ready, it makes a huge diffrence
we each of them i let them pick out their first few packs of "big kid" underwear.
with my daughter we used a sticker chart & small rewards like smarties, a lollipop, all leading up to her big prize of going to chuck e cheese when she learned to use the potty all the time. i was working full time & needed something that daycare would be able to keep up with.
when it was time to get my son on the big kid potty i decided to use the three day, stay at home method which since i was working at the elementary school & had labor day weekend off i could do. when he woke up on saturday morning we took off his diaper & put on a pair of the big kid undies he had picked out. that was it, no other clothing. the first day i'd have him try to go potty every hour or so. on sunday i moved it back to every 2hrs. by monday he was going on his own with no encouragement. we also gave him little treats over the weekend like a few m&m's, sweettarts etc. & after he was using the potty with no incidents for a bit we took him to chuck e cheese also.
I created a sticker chart. Every time I he goes to the potty I made it special event in at home.
Hi, my name is Sara and I have three boys ages 9, 6, and 3.
Obviously my 9 year old son is potty trained, lol, and we really didnt have any issues with him. It was one of those things where he did it in his own time and then he was done.
With my 6 year old, it seems like day time potty training was the easiet. He was day time potty trained when he was 3, however, we still have the occassional night time accident. The last one being last week! It is very frustrating to us. For about the last year, my DH and I would take our son to the potty before we went to bed to help insure that he did not wet the bed. That seemed to work 90% of the time. We also limited liquid before bed as well. Over the last couple of months we have stopped the night time bathroom break and my DS6 seems to be doing well. However, when he is super tired he will tend to wet the bed. I just never know :(
My DS3 seems to be doing pretty well. He was simple. We went to the store to check out the big boy undies and he picked out some Thomas the Train and has basically been motivated since then. He will independentally get up and use the potty and most times during nap or night time, he will wake with a dry diaper. I am anxious to use the Goodnites because I really need to find something that will keep him dry when he does go. Seems like the floodgates open and he will leak through his diaper onto his clothes when he does potty in his sleep. He really loves Spiderman so I am sure he will love the Goodnites!
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Quoting AnakaAlisyn:My daughter loves books, so we kept a book box in all the bathrooms of the house. Every time she sat on the toilet, we read a book to her while she sat. She loved it.
Hey, my name is Sarah and I'm from Arkansas, I'm a mom of 3, my oldest is 6 my youngest is 8 months with my middle child almost 3. I am 28 years old.
I have been having bedtime potty training issues with my 6 year old and I have tried many things. I have asked her pediatritian all about what to do and he doesn't seem concerned. She was totally potty trained for a good 5 months, then all of a sudden started wetting the bed again not knowing why. So we have been doing pullups at night we also have tried waking her 2-3 times a night to go potty with still no success. We have tried no drinks after dinner and making sure she goes before bed etc... So we just stick with pull ups for now and hope that she will let us know when she is ready.
We just hope that she gets this night time potty training soon cause it's starting to get very expensive to keep buying these nighttime pants! I thought I would be done buying diapers when she was 2/3, not 3 years later I'm still spending about $15 a month of her night diapers! Plus I have two others in diapers still, one just night time and the baby full time.
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on Jun. 27, 2012 at 10:51 AM