[blparent] potty training

Tue Jul 9 19:30:11 UTC 2013

Ronit, Erin, et all,

I can attest that Alex is super verbal and probably ready to try and
potty train. We've been gearing up in our house for this momentous
event as well and Erik is a month older. The two boys are pretty
chatty and I'm sure they will both do fine. Glad to know that Ronit is
doing it first so I can learn from her.

Erin, I love what you wrote about getting Dawson all psyched up about
potty training. We've had a potty chair in our bathroom for a year and
Erik actually used it a few times when he was 17 or 18 months old.
Nowadays though, he tells us very plainly that he won't go poop in the
potty and that he isn't a big boy. So, I love some of the techniques
you are using to make it fun and exciting.

I think we might need to get some videos for Erik to psych him up
since he is really, really adamant about not going in the potty
lately. He's really, really good at telling us he pooped the second
he's done it in his diapers though.

LM

On 7/8/13, Erin Rumer <erinrumer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, this was one of the ones we also got from the library and it's super
> cute.  I also let my son decorate his potty chair with Thomas the Train
> stickers which gave him a huge sense of pride and made his potty even more
> special.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 1:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] potty training
>
> Another good video is Go Potty Go!  Lots of catchy tunes about going,
> washing your hands, being a big kid--they'll drive you crazy, but they
> might
> help your son.  What I liked about the video was that it stressed the
> feeling in your tummy you get when it's time to go potty, starting to make
> that connection.
>
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erin Rumer
> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 12:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] potty training
>
> 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
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> 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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