Tuesday, April 22, 2008
The Right Stuff
This past Saturday, our stake had a women's conference. It was so great, and I learned so much. My favorite class was taught by our bishop's wife on taming our children. She had a quote that I am trying to live by. It was, "There is more than one right way to do things." I am the type of person that always second guesses myself. I always end up asking Jon, who tells me to do whatever I want. For example, I have been thinking about potty training Livie. But she doesn't really show very much interest. So I go back and forth, back and forth, should I potty train her, should I wait? My goal for this week is to become more decisive, and not think I am going to mess things up. That being said, does anyone have any advice on Livie's potty problem?
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Yeah, I'm the same way...Brandon always tells me either way is fine but sometimes I wish he'd make up my mind for me!!
I'm trying to decide the same thing with Courtney. I may watch your comments to see people's opinions! Courtney goes on the potty when she wants, but refuses to wear big girl underwear or go when I ask.
I am that same way...it's easy to second guess yourself as a new parent. About potty training, I by now means really know what I'm talking about but this is what I'm doing right now to introduce Lukas to the potty. This is actually a less intensive version of what Kalisa does--but she has both her kids potty trained before age 2. You might want to ask her she's more of an expert.
Anway, I don't want to push the potty on Lukas cause he still doesn't seem ready for it. So I bought some really fun sticker books, a paint with water book, Elmo potty book, just some fun activity books that he can only see and play with when he is sitting on the potty. So everyday (or every other) I'll ask him if he wants to sit on the potty and play with his sticker books. Usually he says no but about once a week he'll say yes. He'll sit on the toilet for almost 20 minutes (which is amazing for him)and only 3 in the last couple of months has he either peed or pooped (which I made a huge deal out of). I don't want to push to hard and for it and want it to be a super positive experiance so I let him lead the way. I think I'm going to do this for a couple more months and than when he's a little more used to the potty step it up in intensity. I don't know if this helps at all...I think having special things for them to do while there on the potty and only while there on the potty helps get them more motivated to sit there.
all of us could be more decisive. coby always asks me to just tell him what i want. i'd keep asking livie if she wants to and when she's ready she'll let you know. lots of kids wait till 21/2 or 3 so i wouldn't worry about pushing it.
I am trying to decide to potty train Sammy too. She kind of acts interested but not really. I am a firm believer in waiting until they are ready because it makes it so much easier for me. Less accidents. We waited until NIcholas turned 3 and he was so ready that he never had a pee accident the first couple days. Good Luck! We should get the kids together sometime.
I've been trying to potty train Ellie, because she is like oppessed with the toilet and says "potty" all day long. one day she wore big girl underwear all day long and had no accidents (I had to ask her every ten minutes if she needed to go potty). The next day we tried the same thing and she had 4 accidents before noon so we went back to diapers. Something someone once told me was the Elmo potty video is excellent when they are ready, so I just purchased it and will have to try it out and let you know. Also I had another person tell me you go to a dollar store and buy a bunch of $1 gifts and wrap them up. Set them on a high surface where the kids can see them everyday and tell them everytime they go to the potty they get to open up a present. Save a really good gift for the very end and let them know that now they can go potty all on their own. It sounds like it will work so I am going to try that too. We'll see, let me know what works for you and I'll tell you what works for me!
Well we had it kind of easy with Lexie. Debbie helped us out a ton! She told us to just monitor how much she drank. Then about 15 to 20min after she had a drink to take her into the potty and let her try to go. It worked very well. Lexie now does not even wear pull ups to bed anymore. It's great. Hope this helps.
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