[blparent] potty training

[Joy Wolf]

We used these wonderful one piece training pants.  They're like the older
style training pants in the sense that they're cloth on the inside and have
a vinyl type cover, but they're all one piece.  They were enough different
from the pull-ups that my daughter noticed, and they would feel wet inside
more than diapers or pull-ups, but they kept at least much of the mess
inside.  For my daughter, who took a bit longer to really get it, they were
wonderful.  I wasn't too worried about the carpet at home because it cleaned
up fairly easily.  However, in my opinion there is nothing worse than taking
a little one out somewhere and having them end up completely soaked, and oh,
by the way, that was the one and only time you forgot to pack enough extra
clothes, lol.  Can you tell I've experienced that one? Anyway, sadly I can't
for the life of me remember what those training pants were called, but for
us they were helpful.  I've known parents who swear by pull-ups, and others
who absolutely hate them.  I refused to use them myself becase as you
mentioned they just didn't seem much different than diapers, but I think
this is an individual choice.  Also, don't expect potty training to go the
way you planned, no matter what your hopes are, lol.  My daughter took many
months to train.  My son absolutely refused to sit on the potty, and would
get upset if I tried to push the issue.  I finally gave up and put him back
in diapers.  One day we were shopping and he insisted on a new potty seat,
even though we had one for him at home.  I grumbled about how if I was going
to spend 20 dollars on this thing he'd better use it, lol, but I bought it.
He was just 3 at that time.  Well, we came home, he used it, and never went
back.  In fact, from that moment on he was both day and night trained and
probably only had two or three accidents total.  So, neither potty training
experience went as I thought it would for us.  I'll stop rambling now, but
wish you the best of luck.  Just try hard not to get frustrated, be
consistent, and above all, pay attention to his signals.  He will let you
know when he's really ready to make it happen.  Take care.

Joy and family

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Shannan Zinck
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 9:12 PM
To: blparent at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blparent] potty training

Starting the wonderful Potty training process. One of our biggest parenting
fears. any tips? We can never tell when he has to go and using underwear
just seems way too messy for us since we can hardly find out where he goes
and our house has carpet in every room except the kitchen and the bathrooms
I hate carpet. I heard that pull ups are not the best because it's too much
like a diaper and I believe it since our son treats them as such. Some one
suggested using underwear with a pull up over them. He is averaging peeing
half in the toilet and half in his pants and hasn't tried to do # 2 in the
toilet yet which I expected would be the case. I remember when we started
the adoption process and this was in the top 5 list of parenting dreads.
Myles has shown interest for a long time and right now we have a window of
opportunity, It's summer, we have a decent time eriod of little upheaval
and busyness, I know it's a good time to really go for it but, what do I do
next that won't ruin my carpets and furniture. any ideas would be great.

-- 
Shannan Zinck
Survival is letting GOD take over!!!
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