Do you have a 3.3 year old child whom you should have potty trained a year ago, but didn't because you were 8 months pregnant/had a hernia?
Do you have a giant mountain of laundry that never seems to diminish despite your daily diligence?
I have the solution to both.
I do.
"Impossible!" I hear you muttering, but, it is true.
Just follow these simple steps and I guarantee results*!!!
1. Buy the child some real underwear. Stop using diapers and Pull-Ups. If you're nervous about nighttime, fine, use them at night. But no more diapers during the day. Big kid underwear.
2. Put a load of laundry in the washer. Whites. Or Towels.
3. Use the most human-looking toy you can find to demonstrate for the child how he/she will be sitting on the big potty to poop and pee from now on (See, Superman sits on the potty to go pee-pee). Then have the child use the toy to show you how to do it (NO! Superman never swims in the potty!). Do this at the beginning of the day for a few days in a row.
4. Have the child sit on the big potty and try to poop and/or pee. Feel free to reward the child for successful deposits (candy, stickers, money - whatever motivates your kid).
5. Switch the laundry over to the dryer and start washing another load. Set a timer to go off in 1 hour.
6. Every time the timer goes off, put your kid on the potty and switch over the laundry.
Soon**, your two biggest issues will be simultaneously solved.
Additional Notes:
- Make sure to keep the batches small enough so they will certainly get dry.
- Do not skip sitting on the potty, consistency is vital.
- Make sure to keep the kid drinking; a gun with no ammo cannot shoot.
- If your kid has an accident in their pants, don't get mad, just put them on the potty and remind them that poop and pee goes in the potty.
- If your kid refuses to poop and seems constipated, you can either put them in a diaper and let them poop in it OR take them to a restaurant with underwear on. Poop will happen.
Do I just need to keep on keeping on or do you have any suggestions to hurry things up and get the poop in the potty? Freaking three years of diapers, enough is enough!
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*I guarantee that if you keep the laundry going every hour, you will get laundry done; You and I both hope the potty training part will be work.
**Where "soon" = an indefinite and undetermined amount of time, greater than one day and probably less than infinity.
***footnotes bug me.
4 Brilliant Bits of Inspiration:
Mine has been potty trained for about 7 months now and he still poops in his pants from time to time. The way I understand it is it takes the kiddos a little more time to master the pooping business. Good luck. Thanks for the tip about doing the laundry. :)
Oh how I hated potty training! My boy was so hard to train. The girls were much easier.
I have no advice whatsoever on the best way to do it because it's all about what will work with YOUR child.
Have fun with that!
This is why we're starting early this time. (Well, that and they don't make diapers bigger than size 6...)
Potty training is miserable. (And it CREATES a freakin' ton of laundry.)
I have always wondered if somewhere, in some parallel universe, there was a family that existed like mine. I have found it! Your son and my son would make great pals, they are so alike! I guess that is how 3-year old boys are though, pretty similar. You are great though, I really love reading your blogs and I am going to make your chocolate cake tomorrow! Maybe I will make it tonight and eat it tomorrow so that the waiting can be done while I sleep.....now there is an idea! Good luck with the potty training....
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