[blparent] potty training

[Erin Rumer]

Hope that goes great for you and it's so exciting when our munchkins begin
to really understand the concept.  My son Dawson who is now 2 years and 8
months is beginning to consistently go poop in the potty and he couldn't be
more proud.  We like to grab our musical instruments after he's gone and
have a little party, dancing around the room and singing made-up songs about
having potty power.  I got several potty training videos for him from the
library and the one that really had the most impact on him was Potty Power.
We also leave the bathroom door open at home so he can see what my husband
and I are doing in there and so that we can talk about it while we're going
potty.  Dawson also loves to flush and close the lid for us when we're done
which reinforces where the pee and poop is supposed to go.  Going pee in the
potty is not consistent right now but I think that mostly has to do with the
fact that aim is a challenging thing.  Even though we have Dawson sit down
and have him try and hold his ding-dong down, sometimes he sprays outside
the potty and that upsets him because of the mess.  We're trying to get him
used to the shield in-between the legs but those are always so unnatural and
not the most comfortable.  Something else I have recently started is giving
Dawson a little prize every time he goes on his potty.  They're just little
toys I grabbed from the dollar bin at Target and he lights-up when he gets
handed his new little toy as he's on the potty chair.  As soon as this
becomes consistent I've explained to him that his final grand prize is
getting to play at Ikea in the play room that has a ball pit.  This is
something he's been wanting to do for months now and a child must be
entirely out of diapers to play there.

Happy potty training and have a great day.

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Ronit
Ovadia Mazzoni
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 10:00 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] potty training

Thanks everyone. We feel pretty srongly that this is the right time, Alex
seems ready and he is also in fulltime daycare and has just been moved to
the classroom where they work on potty training, so it doesn't really make
sense for us to wait longer. I Know there's lots of opinions on when is the
right time so I'm not going to get in to all that. He's very verbal for his
age which does help and it is a learning process for sure. Just one of those
things about parenting that's extra challenging, in my opinion, anyway.

On 7/8/13, Jennifer Bose <jen10514 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
>> 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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