Potty training update, day 11
Well, I am very proud to report that Daisy is pretty consistently doing both pee and poop in her potty. I would say she is "potty trained," but there are still some hurdles to be crossed. These are not necessarily what I had expected them to be. I shall record, below:
--She seems to have a hard time pinpointing the exact right moment she needs to use the potty. As a result, she asks to go to the potty ten times in two hours, and usually, nothing comes out. So we are spending a lot of time going back and forth from the potty, a lot of it fruitlessly. Eventually, we get the timing right and she goes, but there are a lot of wasted trips.
--It can be difficult to convince her to spend any extended period of time on the potty. She will tell us she needs to go, and happily enough go and sit on the potty, but often she doesn't stay long. Once, a few days ago, she'd told us she needed the potty, and sat on it, but then announced she was done and got up--nothing in the potty--and had a big accident on the floor about a minute later. That hasn't happened since, but it's something that CAN happen if she won't sit on the potty long enough to complete the task. Having her read books on the potty seems to help, though. She will often read to herself on it, and sometimes we read to her while she's sitting and waiting.
--I haven't figured out yet what to do about outings. She is comfortable on her little potty, and can pull her own underpants or pullups down and sit on it and go, but the same does not apply to the big toilets we encounter when we are out (obviously). I have been trying to hold her over the big potty when we're out, but it's not so easy. It makes her nervous, which means she tenses up and is less likely to go, and she won't stay long like that. So, she has not yet successfully peed or pooped while we're out. I am going to get a portable seat to put on top of the big toilet, and hopefully that will help--but thus far, I can only report that she is potty trained when using her OWN little potty.
I guess that's about it to report. I am amazed at this little girl, really. After about three days, she started showing us that she WANTS to master this, and it was not about rewards. She wants to get it right--wants to go in the potty, to succeed, and to be more grown up. We have had to reassure her about accidents, so that she won't be distressed. It's surprising to me that she felt this way so quickly--after three days. I mean, she had a lifetime in diapers. You'd think she'd be entirely comfortable going in them. But she got the idea of going in the potty so quickly. Of course, we did pave the way for it by reading her books about going to the potty, and by showing her what we, the adults, do. So perhaps it's not really all that surprising.
Anyway, after all that bitching and moaning, potty training isn't so bad! We just need to figure out what to do on outings.
--She seems to have a hard time pinpointing the exact right moment she needs to use the potty. As a result, she asks to go to the potty ten times in two hours, and usually, nothing comes out. So we are spending a lot of time going back and forth from the potty, a lot of it fruitlessly. Eventually, we get the timing right and she goes, but there are a lot of wasted trips.
--It can be difficult to convince her to spend any extended period of time on the potty. She will tell us she needs to go, and happily enough go and sit on the potty, but often she doesn't stay long. Once, a few days ago, she'd told us she needed the potty, and sat on it, but then announced she was done and got up--nothing in the potty--and had a big accident on the floor about a minute later. That hasn't happened since, but it's something that CAN happen if she won't sit on the potty long enough to complete the task. Having her read books on the potty seems to help, though. She will often read to herself on it, and sometimes we read to her while she's sitting and waiting.
--I haven't figured out yet what to do about outings. She is comfortable on her little potty, and can pull her own underpants or pullups down and sit on it and go, but the same does not apply to the big toilets we encounter when we are out (obviously). I have been trying to hold her over the big potty when we're out, but it's not so easy. It makes her nervous, which means she tenses up and is less likely to go, and she won't stay long like that. So, she has not yet successfully peed or pooped while we're out. I am going to get a portable seat to put on top of the big toilet, and hopefully that will help--but thus far, I can only report that she is potty trained when using her OWN little potty.
I guess that's about it to report. I am amazed at this little girl, really. After about three days, she started showing us that she WANTS to master this, and it was not about rewards. She wants to get it right--wants to go in the potty, to succeed, and to be more grown up. We have had to reassure her about accidents, so that she won't be distressed. It's surprising to me that she felt this way so quickly--after three days. I mean, she had a lifetime in diapers. You'd think she'd be entirely comfortable going in them. But she got the idea of going in the potty so quickly. Of course, we did pave the way for it by reading her books about going to the potty, and by showing her what we, the adults, do. So perhaps it's not really all that surprising.
Anyway, after all that bitching and moaning, potty training isn't so bad! We just need to figure out what to do on outings.
posted by Sarah Goss at 11:16 AM
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