3 Day Potty Training - Lafayette, LA

What I did with both of my kids.. I stopped buying pull-ups and diapers..and they hated to be wet or get the underwear wet/ dirty. My daughter was 2 and my son was 3.. (It seems that boys take longer..)

I don't know about the 3 day potty training, but I do remember trying to potty train my daughter. The pull-ups only confused her because she couldn't feel the 'wettness' when she forgot to potty. After I started letting her wear regular underwear (need to be prepared for a few accidents), she was potty trained in a couple of weeks. This was with the help of the daycare personnel. Good luck!

A., I haven't actually tried the 3-day training but I have spoken to daycare workers and they all have said that if you are consistent with your potty training he will eventually pick it up. They all told me to get a timer and take him to the potty first thing in the morning and then set the timer, I think the timer was more for me to remember to take him, but basically you take him to the bathroom every 30-45 min. Don't ask him if he has to go, they always so no. Just tell him time to go potty and take him. It takes a lot of patience and time and clean ups but it also takes longer than three days. Well, it did with my son anyway, he is very stubborn. I kept him in pullups or a nighttime boxer short type diaper for nighttime until we got the day thing down good. He wore regular underwear during the day while training. Call some daycares see what process they use, basically it should be the same as the 3-day potty training and go from there. Good luck!
P.S. my son has been trained for almost two years and he still sometimes pees in the corner of the bathroom missing the toilet completely. They get in a hurry and don't pay attention, but at least for the most part he goes in the toilet and he raises the seat, my 10yr & 13 yr old never raise the seat.

A.,
Only three days in I wouldn't get too discouraged. Give it some time. You might also think about getting him some underoos and plastic/vinyl underwear. Make a big deal about the underoos with his favorite character and how cool and 'grown up' it is, and then have him put them on, and put the rubber pants on over them. Then (and this is the ugly part) when he makes a mess in his pullups, make him change them and clean himself off as best he can. Trust me, most kids really hate being nasty and hate having to clean that mess. Then you help them finish up, and after a couple of days of that, things should get better. The longest I've heard of that taking to work is about a week. You'll still want to keep the pullups around for night time, because at three, they're not going to be potty trained at night for awhile. I don't know what the 3 Day Potty Training method is, but if you're having problems with that, you might give this a try and see what happens. I hope that helps.
S.

p.s. Try cheerios in the potty. It sounds stupid, but when he needs to pee, throw in a couple of cheerios so he has something 'to aim for.' Make a game out of it. It will help take some of the stress off for him too.

In the begining you have to tell him, not the other way around. You have to take him every couple of hours to give it a try. This is trial and error. Especially busy little guys you are having such a great time, they forget they have to go. Just keep trying and it will work. Every kid gets it on their own time.

My son, 3, was that way until a few weeks after his 3rd birthday. He had been wearing underwear for over a month, but I had to stay on top of things to prevent an accident. (I was trained, he wasn't.) We also made our reward system more organized. We kept a chart with star stickers & if he got enough stickers in a week, he got a Hot Wheels when we went to the store. He got more stickers if it was his idea to go or he did #2. We still gave him small rewards, stickers or animal crackers, every time he went though. Anyway, we had been doing all this for over month when something just clicked & he started going to the potty on his own, sometimes without me even knowing it, pulling down his pants and everything. He even stopped asking for stickers and rewards. (Except the Hot Wheels, we haven't broken him of that one yet.) I'm not sure what kind of role the rewards played in it all (though it definitely helped a lot with #2) but I think the underwear was an important step. When we went out, I would put a pull up on over his underwear, so he could still feel the wetness, but it wouldn't make a mess. I think the best advice though is to relax, it will happen when he is ready.

I have used "Potty Training in less than 24 hours" by Foxx and Azrin on six of my kids. While it took more than 24 hours, it took about 3 days. What is special about this book is that it tells you to reward for dry pants. Instead of just praising when they go on the potty you praise for dry pants. Once you've decided to train, there are 3 criteria to determine if your child is ready. You check their pants every ten minutes and give them an m&m or skittle for staying dry. I don't have time to go in detail but it works. Also you "practice" when they make a mistake. You say, "You're playing legos and you feel pee-pee coming, what are you going to do?" and you both run to the potty and practice going real quick. You do this from different spots all over the house. You are supposed to practice about 10 times from all different spots. Don't be negative just have him help you clean up messes and practice. The book really had some ingenious ideas...all positive.

if this is a boy, buy a little stool to put in front of the potty for him to stand on. Also, the father should take him in the bathroom with him every chance he gets for them to go together. i had by boys trained by the age of two because of this.

I don't know anything about the 3 day potty training but I also tried the pull-ups without much luck. What I ended up doing and it worked much better (but not an overnight cure) is putting cloth training pants on both my 2 and 3 yr olds with plastic pants over them. The pull-ups (to me anyway) were nothing more than another diaper. My little boy responded immediately - my little girl we are still working on but she has done much better this way as well.

Good luck - it can be frustrating!

I did the 3 day potty training with my strong-willed son when he was about 3 1/2. The focus in the book I had was making sure he was dry, not wet. Take a weekend when you have someone to help with the younger one and focus on nothing but the potty. Give him lots of snacks and drinks. The book I used said to stay in the potty the whole day, but we couldn't do that. So after multiple accidents (after having just been in the potty) on the carpet, we limited him to the kitchen area with a small potty. We put a towel down around the potty to catch accidents. Also, when he does have an accident, make a big deal of it when it happens and then don't say anymore. Just say, oh no you didn't keep your underwear dry. I can't remember the exact dialog, but no spanking, discipline etc involved. I also took an idea from a friend about having a potty party (complete with streamers and noise makers). Not sure if that helped, but I did it. Also, we had a dollar store prize box. That hurt us somewhat because the requirement was for him to go potty to get the prize and if he didn't need to go, he got upset about it. So then we turned it into the "you can play with it while you sit on the potty and if you potty you can play with it away from the potty box". Somehow on the first afternoon after several accidents and much prompting, he went #2 in the potty by himself. Then later on, he peed in the potty. We also made a big deal out of that by calling the grandparents and telling them. We had fewer accidents on the next day and by the third day, he was pretty much trained. We still had the occasional accident the first week and even had night time accidents. We kept him in underwear the whole time. He had already been in pullups because he had outgrown the biggest size diaper about a year before we started training, so he just viewed those as diapers. Even now at 5 years of age, I still have to prompt him to go (like when we are getting ready to leave and when it's time to nap and go to bed). It's like he's not going to do it if we want him to, but on his own schedule. I have no idea how he is going to handle kindergarten in the fall. He went to 4k last year for 4 hours and didn't go potty the whole time he was there.
Hope all this makes sense. I found the "book" that I used on the internet. It was a printable version, but I still had to "pay" for it. Good luck! My next potty training adventure is with a now 2 1/2 year old girl with constipation issues.

B.

Hi A.,

I had both my boys potty trained in a weekend when they were 33 months. It involved A LOT of Gatorade. The trick with my kids was to sit on them on the potty backwards facing the wall. We would let them run around the house with no pullup or undies, let them drink a ton of juice or Gatorade and when they would have to go run them into the bathroom and let the sit backwards. I think it made them secure enough that they didn't feel they would fall in.

Good Luck
A. K