Two words that can strike fear into the heart of even the bravest of parents. You can start it and have your child not be ready for the switch out of diapers or your child could use it as a power struggle with you or the accidents can get the best of you. Potty training is not for the weak kneed and queasy, it takes patients and a strong stomach. You have to have potty talks, read books about it, say things like "everybody pees and poohs", watch movies about the bathroom, and maybe even buy a potty doll to model how it's done. There is a period of time in which your life and your child's life revolve around where the bathroom is and when your child last went. Yep potty training sucks!
Our daughter has been training for awhile now. Okay, I mean using the toilet for awhile now, the training started long ago and has been done in baby steps along the way.
First we brought out "the potty seat" at 18ish months, it pretty much just took up space. After getting used to sitting on the potty chair we tested out the toilet too. All along talking about how one day she'd be out of diapers and using the toilet. Slowly we built her comfort level keeping in mind that it could be a long road to have her trained when the real training started. Well she has taken to using the toilet like a duck takes to water. We've found that she does not like wet undies, so she makes it to the potty. Of course this doesn't help us when she forgets to take off her undies first. But we're working on it, one small step at a time. Only one more kid to train... Lord help me!
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