Help - Mrstjohnson is worrying again!!

rwbeagles

Yep that works great but really if you have carpets it's rather frightening.

Precisely why we waited to get new carpets until after LOL.  Regarding the weather...its still warm inside silly!  Its puppies that are a pain in the winter.

well yeah but I mean if you GO anywhere LOL...I mean it's easy in the mall or grocery store to whisk a kid into the bathroom and pull down shorts...NOT SO...a snowsuit, long pants, jacket, long underwear etc.

Or do you just like...quarantine the kid the whole time? I mean ya gotta proof your training in the real world...lol.

I'm picturing those kids from "A Christmas Story" and how they dressed to go to school ya know?

rwbeagles

  I'm picturing those kids from "A Christmas Story" and how they dressed to go to school ya know?

Nah, I don't dress her like that.  The kids sweat to death in those types of getups.  I hated wearing snow pants and won't make her wear them either.  At most, it would be a coat (which comes off if we go to the mall) shirt and pants...that's pretty much it.  The weather is weird here.  We don't get that much snow, but it is colder than a you know what so there isn't much to do outside.  At the mall or in a store, coats come off right away since they get soo hot.  I will tell you what though, an accident outside in the cold with a pair a pants would probably reinforce the whole get to the bathroom in time...yikes that would be cold!!

mrstjohnson

 I will tell you what though, an accident outside in the cold with a pair a pants would probably reinforce the whole get to the bathroom in time...yikes that would be cold!!

Not at first though...

Dolly Parton once said that was how she and her siblings kept warm in their bed in the Ozarks...LMBO.

mrstjohnson

We are going straight to underwear - the old fashioned way LOL. 

BEST way IMO.  Really.  Pull-ups are just a gimmick... I tell you, various companies make MILLIONS out of parents, convincing them to buy utterly needless products, and pull-ups is just one of them.....

 Don't be so quick to judge. For kids with potty training challenges (for example, overnight bed wetting), pull ups can be an incredibly helpful tool.

rwbeagles

boneyjean

I hear lots of people say they stay home for a week and let their child go diaperless. 

 

Yep that works great but really if you have carpets it's rather frightening.

We have carpets throughout, and I didn't find it frightening at all.  Just give the kid lots of opportunities to go in the right place, and praise them to the skies for getting it right, and any other progress.  (Like, even SITTING on the potty at first, and actually ASKING, or managing to hold it, later.)  Oh, and don't expect/rely on them "asking" too soon... Just like puppies really.  There are people out there who use elimination communication, which basially means the baby NEVER wears a nappy, from birth.  The mother learns the cues and the child learns to do it in a specific place.... lots of patience, praise and LOTS of opportunities to get it right - again, just like puppies. 

Cita

 Don't be so quick to judge. For kids with potty training challenges (for example, overnight bed wetting), pull ups can be an incredibly helpful tool.

Using them for bedwetting is an entirely different kettle of fish to using them because you think that's "how to do it", when in reality, it's just another added step to confuse and over-complicate the process, and another added expense for the parents.  If they were ONLY EVER used for bedwetting and similar issues, I would never have made the comment, because the manufacturers would never make millions out of parents that way would they?  Thinking of it, nighttime pants for kids with bedwetting issues is a seperate product again! 

Chuffy

We have carpets throughout, and I didn't find it frightening at all.

That'd be you...LOL. I don't even allow my dogs to run on my carpet until they are 100%. Different strokes for different folks. I use a crate, and a schedule to teach holding it, to a pup. I don't follow them around seeing if maybe they need to go...allowing them to wander over large areas in my house like I did my toddlers lol.

It got done. I think most people pick it up eventually so obviously whatever works for you...works for you.

Chuffy

  

Cita

  Don't be so quick to judge. For kids with potty training challenges (for example, overnight bed wetting), pull ups can be an incredibly helpful tool.

Using them for bedwetting is an entirely different kettle of fish to using them because you think that's "how to do it", when in reality, it's just another added step to confuse and over-complicate the process, and another added expense for the parents.  If they were ONLY EVER used for bedwetting and similar issues, I would never have made the comment, because the manufacturers would never make millions out of parents that way would they?  Thinking of it, nighttime pants for kids with bedwetting issues is a seperate product again! 

I agree!  Nowadays people use them for daytime training pants.  To me that doesn't do a thing.  Bedwetting is completely different.  A lot of the times thats a medical condition. 

rwbeagles

Chuffy

We have carpets throughout, and I didn't find it frightening at all.

 

That'd be you...LOL. I don't even allow my dogs to run on my carpet until they are 100%. Different strokes for different folks. I use a crate, and a schedule to teach holding it, to a pup. I don't follow them around seeing if maybe they need to go...allowing them to wander over large areas in my house like I did my toddlers lol.

It got done. I think most people pick it up eventually so obviously whatever works for you...works for you.

Ha ha, I didn't find it frightening at all - BUT - I haven't had new carpets anywhere in my house since we moved in 2 years ago!  Maybe *I* would have been wetting myself if we had.....

What I did with ill was, I started out by letting him wear pants for a few minutes at a time, just to "try them on".  I made a real big thing of it, saying what a BIG boy he was etc and how SMART they looked, ya da ya da ya da da.   I started him out sitting on the potty the same way.  This is still when he is wearing nappies.... just so he can try it out and get used to it.

Then one morning I started waking him early and getting him on the potty straight away - nearly everyone holds it while asleep and wees when they wake up, so it's like a puppy really.  You just pre-empt it.  So then I could praise him to the skies, and as a reward, I would let him wear his pants (knowing they would stay dry for the duration) and run about for a little while.  Then, back in a nappy.  After a few days, he told me he didn't want to put his nappy on.  "I'm a BIG boy mummy.  I wear PANTS."  OK boy, you're the boss....  We haven't looked back.

I'd always say, If in doubt, get the potty out.  We read lots of stories to him on the potty.  And we even increased his telly time.  My thinking was, the more often he was on there, the more often he'd get it right.  It's been gradually whittled down now, so that he does most of his stuff on the toilet, and only uses the potty occasionally, but he still likes to sit on it for a good 10 minutes or more.  I suppose he is going to be one of those that take a newspaper with them...