[blparent] potty training

[Tammy, Paul and Colyn]

Hi,

We used training pants instead of underwear.  There cotton and like 
underwear but they're thick and contain the mess better.  They also give 
them a sense of being in real pants, complete with the ability to pull them 
up and down by themselves.  Also, timed training worked well for us.  We 
tried to figure out how long Colyn could go without having an accident, and 
we put him on the potty about 5 minutes before that time so we were sure 
he'd need to go.  When he went in the potty and nhot in his pants, we made a 
huge deal out of it, and we told him what a good big boy he was and how 
proud we were of him, and all that kinda stuff.  We started with about 30 
minutes and then when he was reliably going whenever we put him on, we added 
ten minutes to the time.  We kept doing this until eventually he just went 
when he felt he had to go,  and we haven't had an accident since I can't 
remember when.  Now pooping, that's a whole other story.  It took a bit 
longer for that, but eventually he got that too.  Potty training is a long 
and very anxiety filled process.  Get some good pro-solve for your carpets. 
they sell it in both powder and liquid, and it works great.  I don't know if 
it works for furnature though, but I bet there's something out there that's 
just as good for that.

Hope this helps, and good luck,

Tammy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannan Zinck" <shannanzinck at gmail.com>
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:12 PM
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 period 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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