Extreme potty training

[homewithtwins]

I am working without a net today. No diapers, just Dora the Explorer underwear. I expect it to be a long messy day.

We tried the Pampers "Feel and Learn" pull-ups for a week. Some help but nothing dramatic. I figure when it soaks them they will have to notice. We are down to about four diapers a day but had plateaued.

I will let you know how it works out.

[Don-Dad]

Watch out for Lincoln Logs :)

[tt3]

Oh, definately keep us posted, we're at the same place with our toddler! (Including the Dora undies, just not the guts on my part to do it yet)

[homewithtwins]

We made it to 11:00 without a major accident. Toddler A wet her pants. Told me immediately, I think it upset he ra little. It was not a big mess. She asked for a diaper after I sat her on the potty to make sure she finished. She did not want to pee in her pants again.

I put toddler B on the potty assuming she needed to go if A did. She surprised me by pooping in the potty. I thought, "This is great!" We cheered and made a big deal of the whole thing.

Apparently, she did not finish. Ten minutes later, I was standing beside her looking at birds on the feeder at the back door. I heard a very disturbing sound from inside her pants. My luck had run out. Fortunately, I was there to prevent anything else from running out on the carpet.

Ten minutes later, as I am beginning to type this update for you, I hear over my shoulder, "I pooped in my Dora panties. I need to change them." A had given me something to take care of. Fortunately, It was more solid than B's mess.

I guess this is progress. Afterall, we saved $0.38 each time they went in their pants instead of a diaper

[Jackson's Dad]

$0.38? But how much is your labor to clean poop worth? Man, this is a stage I am *not* looking forward to.

Hey, new business idea: PoopCleaners. Send your kids to a potty training boot camp. Who's in? (NOT me.)

[homewithtwins]

A couple of suggestions for anyone else planning to try this.

1. Buy more underwear than you think you need. When you burn through them quicjly and unexpectedly, you don't have time to wash and dry a load of laundry. :???:

2. Have plenty of spray and wash or shout on hand. :shock:

3. A big can of carpet and upolstry cleaner. Luckily, I have a steam cleaner. :roll:

4. Wait for a warm sunny day, keep them outside as much as possible. 8)

5. Do it on your wife's day off. :D

[homewithtwins]

After three days we are still trying the extreme method. Limited success so far. they will let me know right away if they are wet now, have been asking to go some. Poop is the problem. They never let me know when they have to poop, and don't let me know most of the time when they have pooped in their pants. I am not sure I understand this part

We went to the zoo this weekend so we used diapers. No accidents the whole day. They seem to do better when we are out and about than at home. Another oddity of the toddler mind.

[SmokinZBT]

When my mother-in-law trained my wife and her brother, she went hardcore.
She put them in old clothes and had them in the kitchen on limolium for the day. They were not allowed to leave the confines unless they told her they had to go to the bathroom. They sat in their own mess for the day, and by nightime, they were potty trained.

The clothes were thrown away.

[homewithtwins]

I am not willing to go to the "sit in your poop" extreme. I am trying putting them in dresses while the weather is warmer. I am hoping that makes it easier for them to go to the potty.

[maroonz]

One of the veteran dads in my class told me about using cloth diapers near the end to help potty train something about the weight seems to make them let you know when they need to go to the potty. I am starting to work on the training but thought this would be an idea for some.

[chads]

I don't really like to admit this technique, but it worked.

We started training our daughter when she was 2 to go in the potty. We had been basically be trying for about year to get her to go in the potty... reading all the books, continually asking her, "Do you have to go?" Then she'd keep telling us "no... no..." then a few minutes later, she was dirty or wet. We'd go in with her about every 15 minutes or so during the day and try to get her to go... she wouldn't go, then right after she got off the potty... she'd go in her pants.

Finally her mother and I got fed up and said, "If you go in you pants you get a spanking." Now I can see all the "anti-spankers" up in arms... but I tell, you... we didn't have to give her too many spankings... like maybe 3 or 4... then she would tell us she had to go.... and she went. She hasn't went in her pants since.

I know how negative feedback is supposed to be bad for the child... at least according to experts... but it did work. And I don't think she's going to have any trauma later in life over the 4 spankings I gave her when she was 3... thoughts?

[Fina]

How did your day of Dora underpants go? Did it work in one day? I'd like to try that with my 2 year old. Please Advise of your success. Fina

[homewithtwins]

We can stay dry all day now, the poop problem has not solved itself. The pediatrician and everyone I talk to says Just wait it out. they are not yet 2.5 so we are not in too bad of shape.

[tt3]

I've got an idea about that, one that I want to swing by you, since you're living it right now too...
But not now, perhaps tomorrow... ;)

[dabrewinguy]

We have used the "anti-extreme" method of potty training, and although it has taken a bit longer, it was very successful. Basically I just ask her all day long if she wants to try going, and when she says yes, we go. And when that is successful, we have a mini party! If she goes in the diaper, I put on my disappointed face, change her and tell her that she should have gone on the potty. We are at about 60% right now, and Maya (2y.o.) is even showing signs of interest, so I think she'll be trained soon too. I just don't think hardcore extreme is the way to go for my kids.