[blparent] potty training

[Jennifer Bose]

Hi, Ronit.

Good luck with this; it does work out eventually. I agree with waiting
a little longer, too, when kids are cognitively a little further
along. We got serious about potty-training when my daughter Abigail
was close to 3-1/2, and by then I could just have little conversations
about it with her, reminding her that if she needs to go potty, she
should tell me. Now, she almost always just takes herself to the potty
when she needs to and is pretty independent. But I guess it's great if
you can go through this process earlier, too.

Jen

On 7/8/13, Star Gazer <pickrellrebecca at gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple things that worked for us was that I could hear a difference in my
> daughter's voice and she moved differently.
> Basically find behaviors that are nonvisual that you can pick up on. Also,
> realize that this method and/or this period in time may not work for you.
> Nothing wrong with that.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ronit
> Ovadia Mazzoni
> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 11:48 PM
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> Subject: [blparent] potty training
>
> Hi everyone,
> We have just started potty training our 27 month old son and we are using
> the method described in the ebook "oh crap potty training." Basically this
> method advocates letting the child be naked for a while while you teach
> them
> to go to the potty and then move on to pants but no underwear. One of the
> big concepts that they stress is looking for signals that they need to go
> so
> you can prompt them to get on the potty. I'm finding this very challenging
> since it is mostly a visual thing and mostly subtle. My husband has picked
> up on a few things since he is sighted but when I am alone with Alex, I am
> finding that I only know he's had an accident after he goes. Sometimes my
> husband can catch it right before it happens and rush him to the potty but
> I
> never can. Does anyone have any techniques for figuring out these signals
> in
> a non visual way?
> Thanks so much.
> Ronit
>
>
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