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>    1. Toilet training (Nadine Lattimore)
>    2. Re: Toilet training (Keith Rempel)
>    3. Re: Toilet training (sonshines59)
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>    5. Re: Toilet training (Nadine Lattimore)
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> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:07:24 +0000
> From: Nadine Lattimore <nadine.lattimore at gmail.com>
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [blParent] Toilet training
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> Hi there anyone care to share experiences of toilet training? No useful
> vision and a guide dog who I?m hoping won?t get to accidents before I do.
>
> Regards
> Nadine
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:36:57 -0700
> From: Keith Rempel <keith.rempel at gmail.com>
> To: Nadine Lattimore via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blParent] Toilet training
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> Hi,
>
> I have a 5 year old girl and a recently potty trained 3-year-old boy.
>
>
> Prior to training my first I was anxious about how it would go, and how
> I would handle poop messes that weren't contained on the change table.
> As it turns out, it is way easier to wipe a bum when the poop hasn't
> been mashed around in a diaper for a few minutes!
>
>
> My daughter trained really easily. I think maybe only 1 or 2 poop minor
> poop accidents.
>
>
> With my son, I think we maybe started him before he was ready. It is
> pretty tough to deal with poop-filled underwear, whether you can see or
> not. We backed off with him, and in a few months a switch went off and
> he trained himself.
>
>
> A helpful suggestion my mom made was to have my kids bend over the tub
> while I wipe them after a poop. It's nice to keep them standing still,
> bent over, and not touching the toilet.
>
> I'd also recommend waiting until you are sure your child is ready. Be
> excited, be very excited. I am a very happy father, do be done with
> diapers.
>
>
> Oh, one more thing. I keep some baby wipes on top of my toilet for the
> messier poops.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Keith
>
> On 2022-02-13 8:07 a.m., Nadine Lattimore via BlParent wrote:
> > Hi there anyone care to share experiences of toilet training? No useful
> vision and a guide dog who I?m hoping won?t get to accidents before I do.
> >
> > Regards
> > Nadine
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> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:48:13 -0800
> From: sonshines59 <sonshines59 at gmail.com>
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Cc: nadine.lattimore at gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [blParent] Toilet training
> Message-ID: <20220213194813.sonshines59 at gmail.com>
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> Hi, Nadine,
>
> I'm a grandma now, but we were very relaxed about potty training with both
> daughters, and they managed it in di"erent ways at different ages. We to
> ook our cues from them.
>
> Some parents try to put kids on a potty schedule which works when they are
> truly ready, but sometimes, if the kids aren't ready, the parents have
> actually unknowingly scheduled themselves, and not the kids, into putting
> their kid on the toilet when they aren't really ready yet. They try to get
> kids trained before their systems are mature enough.
>
> I had a niece who didn't "get it" until she was three. Our youngest
> daughter started "practicing" several months before she was consistently
> able to use the toilet, about the middle of her second year. A lot of this
> you play by ear with your kids. Watch for when they show an interest in the
> toilet. Get them one of their own they can sit on. Praise them for having a
> toilet just like mom and dad. It starts out being something they imitate
> and do just for fun, not knowing what it's really for, but they catch on
> when they're encouraged.
>
> Our younger daughter wanted so badly to go to school like big sissy. She
> had her own little potty seat, and was wearing pull-ups to get the hang of
> how it is to wear underpants. I took advantage of her desire and told her
> that the school wouldn't allow her to go until she could potty all by
> herself. This was three months before her third birthday, and she was
> super-motivated, and was rady for preschool by her third birthday. The
> whole process is a series of steps forward and backward then forward.
> Reward the positive steps, and don't sweat the misses. It can be a slow
> process, and all depends on each kid.
>
> Also look for some potty training tips online.
>
>
>
>
> judy
> "Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."
> Sent From The HIMS U2 Mini
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nadine Lattimore via BlParent  <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> To:  blparent at nfbnet.org
> CC: nadine.lattimore at gmail.com
> Date: Sunday, February 13, 2022 7:07 am
> Subject: [blParent] Toilet training
>
> >
> >
> > Hi there anyone care to share experiences of toilet training? No useful
> vision and a guide dog who I'm hoping won't get to accidents before I do.
> Regards
> Nadine
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> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 12:24:27 -0800
> From: sonshines59 <sonshines59 at gmail.com>
> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blParent] Toilet training
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> Right. We were able to wipe our kids as they sat on the potty. Sitting
> will expose all the cracks and crevices that need to be cleaned well.
>
>
>
>
> judy
> "Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."
> Sent From The HIMS U2 Mini
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith Rempel via BlParent  <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> To:  blparent at nfbnet.org
> CC: keith.rempel at gmail.com
> Date: Sunday, February 13, 2022 10:36 am
> Subject: Re: [blParent] Toilet training
>
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> I have a 5 year old girl and a recently potty trained 3-year-old boy.
>
> Prior to training my first I was anxious about how it would go, and how
> I would handle poop messes that weren't contained on the change table.
> As it turns out, it is way easier to wipe a bum when the poop hasn't
> been mashed around in a diaper for a few minutes!
>
> My daughter trained really easily. I think maybe only 1 or 2 poop minor
> poop accidents.
>
> With my son, I think we maybe started him before he was ready. It is
> pretty tough to deal with poop-filled underwear, whether you can see or
> not. We backed off with him, and in a few months a switch went off and
> he trained himself.
>
> A helpful suggestion my mom made was to have my kids bend over the tub
> while I wipe them after a poop. It's nice to keep them standing still,
> bent over, and not touching the toilet.
> I'd also recommend waiting until you are sure your child is ready. Be
> excited, be very excited. I am a very happy father, do be done with
> diapers.
>
> Oh, one more thing. I keep some baby wipes on top of my toilet for the
> messier poops.
> Good luck.
> Keith
> On 2022-02-13 8:07 addm., Nadine Lattimore via BlParent wrote:
> > Hi there anyone care to share experiences of toilet training? No useful
> vision and a guide dog who I'm hoping won't get to accidents before I do.
> >
> > Regards
> > Nadine
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:11:32 +0000
> From: Nadine Lattimore <nadine.lattimore at gmail.com>
> To: sonshines59 <sonshines59 at gmail.com>
> Cc: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blParent] Toilet training
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>
> Hi Judy thanks for response.
>
> Yep all ready here has potty and seat for big toilet. Knows exactly what
> to do and reads through potty training theme book while sitting on potty.
>
> Possibly overthinking it re my blindness, but it can play such a subtle
> role in everyday life as a parent. Just wondering if anyone has any
> specific tips or tricks. Hoping I will be alerted to any accidents and like
> I said guide dog won?t find them first.
>
> Regards
> Nadine
>
> > On 13 Feb 2022, at 19:48, sonshines59 <sonshines59 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ?Hi, Nadine,
> >
> > I'm a grandma now, but we were very relaxed about potty training with
> both daughters, and they managed it in di"erent ways at different ages. We
> to ook our cues from them.
> >
> > Some parents try to put kids on a potty schedule which works when they
> are truly ready, but sometimes, if the kids aren't ready, the parents have
> actually unknowingly scheduled themselves, and not the kids, into putting
> their kid on the toilet when they aren't really ready yet. They try to get
> kids trained before their systems are mature enough.
> >
> > I had a niece who didn't "get it" until she was three. Our youngest
> daughter started "practicing" several months before she was consistently
> able to use the toilet, about the middle of her second year. A lot of this
> you play by ear with your kids. Watch for when they show an interest in the
> toilet. Get them one of their own they can sit on. Praise them for having a
> toilet just like mom and dad. It starts out being something they imitate
> and do just for fun, not knowing what it's really for, but they catch on
> when they're encouraged.
> >
> > Our younger daughter wanted so badly to go to school like big sissy. She
> had her own little potty seat, and was wearing pull-ups to get the hang of
> how it is to wear underpants. I took advantage of her desire and told her
> that the school wouldn't allow her to go until she could potty all by
> herself. This was three months before her third birthday, and she was
> super-motivated, and was rady for preschool by her third birthday. The
> whole process is a series of steps forward and backward then forward.
> Reward the positive steps, and don't sweat the misses. It can be a slow
> process, and all depends on each kid.
> >
> > Also look for some potty training tips online.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > judy
> > "Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."
> > Sent From The HIMS U2 Mini
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nadine Lattimore via BlParent  <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> > To:  blparent at nfbnet.org
> > CC: nadine.lattimore at gmail.com
> > Date: Sunday, February 13, 2022 7:07 am
> > Subject: [blParent] Toilet training
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi there anyone care to share experiences of toilet training? No useful
> vision and a guide dog who I'm hoping won't get to accidents before I do.
> > Regards
> > Nadine
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:51:11 -0800
> From: sonshines59 <sonshines59 at gmail.com>
> To: nadine.lattimore at gmail.com
> Cc: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blParent] Toilet training
> Message-ID: <20220214005111.sonshines59 at gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Hi, Nadine,
>
> You sound great!
>
> You're mentioning the guide dog reminds me of when potty training really
> took off for our older one in 1987. She had been working on it for months,
> when I went in mid-November to San Rafael to train with my second guide
> dog. When I got back with a new dog orginally from Phoenix, Arizona,
> traveling to Idaho and two feet of snow in December, I was having to get my
> new dog used to going out back in the snow, which she had never seen or
> experienced, to potty, at the same time helping our toddler get on the
> potty when she needed to. I spent about two months of sometimes, getting
> our daughter on the potty, taking new-dog outside, circling a few times,
> then attaching her leash somewhere, rushing back in to check on our
> daughter, finishing up, going back outside to finish relieving new-pup.
> What a rush!
>
>
>
>
> judy
> "Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."
> Sent From The HIMS U2 Mini
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nadine Lattimore  <nadine.lattimore at gmail.com>
> To:  sonshines59 at gmail.com
> CC: blparent at nfbnet.org
> Date: Sunday, February 13, 2022 4:11 pm
> Subject: Re: [blParent] Toilet training
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Judy thanks for response.
> >
> > Yep all ready here has potty and seat for big toilet. Knows exactly what
> to do and reads through potty training theme book while sitting on potty.
> >
> > Possibly overthinking it re my blindness, but it can play such a subtle
> role in everyday life as a parent. Just wondering if anyone has any
> specific tips or tricks. Hoping I will be alerted to any accidents and like
> I said guide dog won't find them first.
> >
> > Regards
> > Nadine
> >
> > On 13 Feb 2022, at 19:48, sonshines59 <sonshines59 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Hi, Nadine,
> >
> > I'm a grandma now, but we were very relaxed about potty training with
> both daughters, and they managed it in di"erent ways at different ages. We
> to ook our cues from them.
> >
> > Some parents try to put kids on a potty schedule which works when they
> are truly ready, but sometimes, if the kids aren't ready, the parents have
> actually unknowingly scheduled themselves, and not the kids, into putting
> their kid on the toilet when they aren't really ready yet. They try to get
> kids trained before their systems are mature enough.
> >
> > I had a niece who didn't "get it" until she was three. Our youngest
> daughter started "practicing" several months before she was consistently
> able to use the toilet, about the middle of her second year. A lot of this
> you play by ear with your kids. Watch for when they show an interest in the
> toilet. Get them one of their own they can sit on. Praise them for having a
> toilet just like mom and dad. It starts out being something they imitate
> and do just for fun, not knowing what it's really for, but they catch on
> when they're encouraged.
> >
> > Our younger daughter wanted so badly to go to school like big sissy. She
> had her own little potty seat, and was wearing pull-ups to get the hang of
> how it is to wear underpants. I took advantage of her desire and told her
> that the school wouldn't allow her to go until she could potty all by
> herself. This was three months before her third birthday, and she was
> super-motivated, and was rady for preschool by her third birthday. The
> whole process is a series of steps forward and backward then forward.
> Reward the positive steps, and don't sweat the misses. It can be a slow
> process, and all depends on each kid.
> >
> > Also look for some potty training tips online.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > judy
> > "Embrace each day with His mercies and blessings."
> > Sent From The HIMS U2 Mini
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nadine Lattimore via BlParent  <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> > To:  blparent at nfbnet.org
> > CC: nadine.lattimore at gmail.com
> > Date: Sunday, February 13, 2022 7:07 am
> > Subject: [blParent] Toilet training
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi there anyone care to share experiences of toilet training? No useful
> vision and a guide dog who I'm hoping won't get to accidents before I do.
> > Regards
> > Nadine
> >
> >
>
>
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