Posted on 06/11/2008 9:08:16 PM PDT by Oyarsa
An operator of a so-called “Booty Camp” in suburban Chicago has a claim that will astonish parents of droopy-diapered toddlers everywhere. Give her five hours, she says, and she’ll give you a potty-trained toddler.
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Princess G was a pain to potty train. Thought it would never happen. Junior G, however, trained himself in one day. I told him when he wore big boy pants like his sister he could go to school with her.
He took off his diaper and was dry from then on.
Of course, then I had to pay for another kid to go to fun school.
I used to watch those old Frankenstein movies, and wondered how they managed to toilet-train the monster before he started running amok.
Now I never considered that. Once they energized him he was off and running.
That would seem to me more a case of forgetting that your objective was to drain the swamp when you’re surrounded by alligators.
2 1/2 before they can start this boot camp.
Never had a kid still in diapers at 2 1/2.
This approach was similar to what worked for me. An elderly pediatrician recommended that I put regular undies on my son, explain what was expected, and not use parental influence at all (up until this point no motivation like candy or praise had worked.) She also said, once you start there’s no going back to diapers or pull ups if there’s an accident...just keep moving forward with the “big boy” undies. I was a stay at home mom, so this approach worked. We didn’t go away from home for a few days until he had it figured out.
I also was to let him change his own pants, if he had an accident, and clean up after himself (that sort of works, but you do have to help a little.)
Main thing was, don’t show any sign of disappointment or disapproval if there is an accident, and don’t be overly enthusiastic when they get it right. Just act in a manner of fact matter, like it’s a natural thing that happens. I think 2 1/2 was about the time we did tried this method and it worked.
My grandmother swore up and down that all of her kids (3) were “potty trained” by 12 months. She said she would sit them on the potty every couple of hours until they went. They weren’t allowed up.
It sounds like a bunch of crap to me, but I suppose she may have been hard headed enough to let a kid scream until they urinated. It is probably easier than cleaning the old school diapers.
My 1st was trained somewhere between 18-24 months. It was all about the undies. Wet undies must feel much worse than wet diapers.
Night time training was harder. A urologist friend claims being able to hold it at night is about hormones more than training. It took about 3 months of intermittent wet beds before he could have a cup of water on his nightstand again.
None of mine were in diapers that long either, or my grandson. What I see happening with some children is that many moms now just don’t realize and can’t or aren’t willing to spend the one-on-one time it takes to get a child potty trained. It took me a short time with all of mine; but it was an intense time.
A book about that was out about 30 years ago...
People sworn by it..
I tried some of it..
But not the bit where the child was to use the potty in the kitchen and then carry it himself all the way to the bathroom..
LOL
I wonder if anything can be done to help a certain Senator... “DEPENDS”?
Yep. I think disposable diapers are the problem. Very seldom did moms have two kids in diapers. Washing them for one was hard enough. You got the older one potty trained real fast. I was looking for some of those terry cloth pants for my granddaughter the other day. I couldn’t find any.
We used the system with all of our children and can verify that it works. Essentially, the child needs to be physically and mentally ready. Our sons were close to 3 years old and our daughter was about 2 years old when we did the potty training. You need to clear your calendar of everything else and totally devote your day to potty training. If you do that you should have a pretty stress-free experience.
*** She said she would sit them on the potty every couple of hours until they went. They weren’t allowed up.***
I remember a woman who sat her kid on the lit kitchen stove if he wet his pants. She was later commited as a certified crazy.
I picked a warm day and dressed them in nothing more than a t-shirt. I introduced them to the potty and explained the situation to them.
They both had and "accident" on the floor and both of them were horrified.
I said, "Oops! We don't put that on the floor! That goes in the potty!"
I then had them get paper towels and put the "Oops" where it belonged.
I then set aside about two or three weeks of my schedule to make sure we stayed home so they had access to the facilities and could "practice".
No trauma. No drama. No big deal.
And no pants. If they had an accident, they knew it as it was happening. They both learned *very* fast.
My daughter was about 18 months old and my son was 22 months. Why those ages? Because that was when my gut told me they were ready. I didn't want to rush them.
So, yeah. A system that trains 2.5 year olds? I think it's legit and perfectly fine.
Kids aren't stupid.
That's exactly what it is. :)
Funny, my wife is now making a lot of progress potty training my daughter. She’s two and a half now. When she goes on the potty we clap to give her encouragement. Because she is the age she is, she can tell us when she has to go. Leading up to this we always asked her whether she did go in her diaper to make her more aware of it. Then we started to ask her if she needed to go. But one day potty training? Color me skeptical.
The easiest way in the world to train a little boy to pee in the toilet is to throw a couple of Cheerios in and tell him to ‘sink’ the Cheerios. Works every time - just like magic!
Yeah, we used the cotton quilted training pants. You can still get them at clothdiaper.com, they’re made by Gerber.
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