Comments on: Respectful Potty Training

By: At the end of my tether with potty/toilet traning DS

At the end of my tether with potty/toilet traning DS — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:28:44 +0000

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By: Dawn

Dawn — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:12:57 +0000

I find this amazing! My son is 15 and did not potty train until he was over 3… I did not want to pressure him and he did exactly what you said… Went spontaneously one day when HE DECIDED. He would say “no thank you poop in potty mama” when I suggested it. I wish I knew about this way back when!! Good luck to all the mama’s who give this a shot!

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:54:44 +0000

With my first son I started putting him on the potty first thing in the AM when he was around 13 months and by 17 months he could control his bladder to the point that he would pee immediately when I put him on the potty. I would put him on every couple of hours and he stayed dry. It was nice because it was simple, but it took work on my part to make sure a potty was available whenever he needed it. He was what most people consider “fully trained” (meaning he would tell me when he needed go) by about 2 1/2 years old.

I just haven’t had the time to do that with my second. He’s now 21 months and I just started putting him on the potty first thing in the AM. Just like his big brother, he always goes, so I am hoping he will develop control quickly, too — we’ll see. Both my kids were in cloth diapers and I put them in absorbent cotton underwear with a water-proof cover around the house as they got older.

By: camille

camille — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:19:38 +0000

while the information on the “history” of elimination and why children have a hard time transitioning to eliminating in a toilet is extremely fascinating to me, i feel compelled to share that cloth diapering is much easier and less labor-intensive than indicated in the response. with modern cloth diapers (such as BumGenius, FuzziBunz, Applecheeks, etc) no soaking in water-and-vinegar is required. in fact, no pins or plastic pants are necessary either. the diapers go on in a very similar fashion as disposables with velcro or snaps and if a child is breastfed exclusively, no dumping of solids into the toilet is necessary. also, many tools are available to make cloth diapering even easier, such as a sprayer (similar to your sink’s sprayer) that attaches to the toilet water-intake pipe to clean off the diaper without having to touch anything. although we didn’t practice elimination communication, i credit cloth diapers as the reason my son was completely potty trained (except nighttime, of course) at 2 years and 5 months. I apologize for the lengthy response, but i wanted to give a wider perspective on cloth diapers. they are not intimidating at all, and have proved to be almost an addiction–which i can comfortably feed with the money i’ve saved by not using disposables!