For all intensive purposes, the twins are potty trained.
At least they were.
All of a sudden NayNay started going in his pants again. What the hell?? It’s so frustrating to go from doing great in underwear to crapping in the pants again. I’m about ready to pull my hair out.
What really pisses me off is the people out there that say “oh, you can potty train in 2 days.”
Or one day.
WHAT.EVER!
We were 18 months old when we “started” potty training. Here we are, a year and a half later, still crapping in our pants.
I get annoyed at people that also say “if they wake up dry for a week you can start wearing underwear at night.”
No. No, you can’t.
We still wear pull ups at night. Even BoBo who loves to “poop in the water.” (that’s toilet water he’s talking about)
And the absolutely WORST part of it? NayNay doesn’t even care that he had an accident. He thinks it’s funny. How are you supposed to discipline a laughing child that only says “Oh no, mommy’s mad. Poor mommy!”
Ya know, if you got your kids potty trained in 2 days with no more “accidents” (I use that term loosly because I almost think he is doing it on purpose) and were wearing underwear at night a week later…I want to hear from you. How the hell did you do it? Help!
Well my kids aren’t being potty trained quite yet but I don’t think it’s possible in two days, it’s a pretty long process. I do have a Potty Tots program giveaway on my blog though that might help you
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Two days? Those people are LYING!!! My son is three and has been potty trained since he was 2 and a half and he STILL wears a diaper to bed…and it is NEVER dry when he wakes up. I wish I could help you but in my experience, although there ARE true ligit “accidents”, a lot of the time it is a control thing with the child. Maybe that’s why your son laughs when he does it. That said, a lot of kids do regress after they have already been potty trained for awhile. My friend’s son had no problem peeing in the toilet but when it came to the other he would ALWAYS go in his pants. This went on until he was 5!!! She discussed this with her pediatrician and was told to “retrain” him. She had to sit him on the potty for 10 minutes before school, when he got home and again before he went to bed…even if he didn’t have to go. It was supposed to get him used to and comfortable with the whole “pooping process”. The doctor said it was psychological b/c he may have had a bad/painful experience with it at one time and therefore may have been afraid to go on the toilet again. I doubt this is the case with your son. Maybe if you ignore his laughs (he is so freakin cute though!) and pretend like it doesn’t bother you (although it will be hard to do I’m sure) he will soon see that he won’t get a rise out of you and stop doing it? Just an idea. Grasping at straws here. Good luck
Each kid is different. My daugher trained herself overnight, literally, when she was hit with Rotavirus. We went from diapers all the time to panties all the time. Overnight. She was 31? 32 months old? We had introduced the idea, she’d sat on the toilet a few times, but it took explosive diarrhea to convince her that she never wanted to risk doing *that* in her diaper again.
My son was VERY interested at 18 months old. So we worked on it. It took….6 months? of real attention, reminding, encouraging, etc. before he had it down, and this was after 7-8 months of just kind of winging it. I’ve never heard of a child that was actually successfully trained after one, two, three nights. The PARENTS were nicely trained to bring their children to the bathroom every 2 hours around the clock. But that isn’t a potty trained child.
I wish I could give you advice but my oldest got potty trained only when HE was ready. Even after that it was a while before he no longer had any accidents. My sister had her 3 boys potty trained within 2-3 days. I have no idea what her secret was. I did everything she told me she did. I just think when the kid is ready, it’ll happen.
Hopefully for number 2, I won’t be so stressed. Maybe that will help.
Okay, I have one of those children that trained in 3 days and I swear I’m NOT lying!!! I did nakie training with him at 28 months and he just got it. Honest to God, he’s been dry since. I didn’t trust him at night for the longest time, but yes, he even stayed dry overnight since then too.
His twin sister on the other hand is a completely different story…I used the same “techniques” on her and I would call her (now at 35 months) just barely day-time trained. She definitely still lets loose at night so is still in a pull-up.
They are all so different. Just keep doing what you’ve been doing. He’ll get there. I know how frustrating it is!!
We’re going through potty training right now. It sounds like he’s just doing it for attention though. I’d make him clean it up himself, or just ignore him when he poops. After he sits in a poopy pair of underwear for a day, I bet he’ll stop!
Sorry I have no advice except that every child is different. I was one of the lucky ones. My son was trained before his second birthday. It took just 2 days and no more diapers and I don’t think they had pull ups then but if they did I never knew it. But keep in mind he was different from the start. He never woke up for feedings or diaper changes in the night. I would change him around 2 or 3 am and he slept through it. He slept 10 hours or more and still took a nap after lunch every day. He required a lot of sleep and he liked to sleep. Most nights he would be dry when I would check him so I didn’t even have to change him more than once a month during the night. He loved to sink the cherrios in the potty so it was real easy because he would run into the bathroom grab the baggy of cherrios throw them in then sink them. He loved it. Then when I caught him trying to mess his pants which was easy to detect because he would always hold his breath and turn red, I grabbed him ran to the bathroom and put him on the pot making a big deal of course of what a big boy he was. Well when all was done I made such a big fuss and jumped around the house clapping (you would of thought I was some kind of mad women or something) he just giggled and giggled. From then on he would go to the bathroom and I would make a big fuss every time (picture me doing this for months) but he never went in his pants and life was good~! He got such a kick out of his mother making a fool of herself he loved using the potty. But I have seen mothers struggle with potty training for months and months. I had a friend that her daughter was going on four years old and she tried everything she , I and every friend could think of to try and potty train her child. Nothing worked then one day she just started using her potty and never wore diapers again. I guess when they are ready they are ready. Hang in there and hopefully he will be potty trained for good