I have tried about 3 times before this to potty train Oren
but he just had no desire. We even bribed him with a trip to Disneyland because
he wants to go so bad but that didn’t work either. He would just look at us and
say no I want a diaper I still a baby. We told him we could go buy a new toy
have candy but nothing worked until now. So about 2 weeks ago I was just so
tired of changing his butt and new we need to potty train him plus then I could
save some money and only have one in diapers. We have talked about it and even bought
special underwear for him to wear. So I
was like ok hold strong and push through it we can do it. I knew this was going
to be a different experience from when I did Donaven so I braced myself. I
looked up different ways to help encourage him and help the process go smooth.
I put him right into to underwear did not want to do the whole pull up thing
(in my opinion they don’t work it’s just a bigger diaper that holds less). Oren
is my different child. I love him to death but he has his own beat and you just
have to figure out what that is lol. So for him I need to take him to the potty
every 13 minutes for the first 6 hours of potty training then he finally got
it. If I was a minute over he would go in his pants but finish on the potty. I
even had a timer going so he knew when it beeped it was time to go and try and
he went willingly.
I went back and forth trying to decide on how to teach him
with Donaven I taught him to sit backwards and it’s amazing I never have to
clean up anything. He eventually learned to go the correct way but on his own
time and when he was ready. So I decided to do it again since it was such a
success last time. The only down fall of this method is that you have to take
off your pants and underwear instead of just pulling them half way day. But hey
whatever works right. To say the least we went without pants for a few days
until he mastered it. We are still working on putting everything on the correct
way because he loves to put his underwear on backwards and laughs because he
gives himself a wedgie. I just laugh and say whatever you want kid. I am just
proud that you put them on yourself and went potty by yourself. Everything
takes time to learn and understand. We have even mastered going poop in the
potty. By day 3 we were accident free and have been since then (knock on wood).
I am just so proud of him and what he has accomplished. I
can’t believe that my little ODB is growing up and will be 3 next month. (which
was my goal I wanted him potty trained before he turned 3 made it J ) I am truly the
luckiest mom in the world to have wonderful children in my life and to be their
mother. They each bring a unique quality to our family to complete it and make
it wonderful and worth all the hard times.
My little boy!!! My big boy!!