Any advice for potty training??

I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???

On Dec 18, 11:52 am, mommak wrote:
I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???



I also have some information on how I have managed to wean my 1 year
old.

http://weaning-your-baby.blogspot.com/

mommak wrote:
I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???

#1 trained at 2.5; #2 at a little past 3. I would not bother trying to
potty-train a 1-year-old. YMMV.

Clisby

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mommak says...

On Dec 18, 11:52 am, mommak wrote:
I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???



I also have some information on how I have managed to wean my 1 year
old.

http://weaning-your-baby.blogspot.com/

Do you realize you posted this to the same Usenet newsgroup again?

Banty

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On Dec 18, 11:52 am, mommak wrote:
I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???



I also have some information on how I have managed to wean my 1 year
old.

http://weaning-your-baby.blogspot.com/


You are too funny! I was actually going to respond to your original query.

On Dec 18, 11:52�am, mommak wrote:
I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. �Any advice???

It is okay to explain that pee-pee and poo-poo go in the potty, but
forcing the issue can backfire, as in give them the recognition that
they can control it no matter how badly you want it. It is one of the
things that you cannot control and some kids love that. lol. My 2-year-
old has had 2 bowel movements on the pot, but that was because he was
constipated after a diarrheal illness and he needed my assistance. He
just happened to be way more focused on his discomfort than where he
was, but he pushed when I said push and I squatted down in front of
him so he could hug me through it and put his little feet on my knees.
(Some kids don't like their feet just hanging there, or at least mine
didn't.) Most days he is disagreeable to going on the pot and prefers
hiding behind a chair and telling me "no!" when I ask if he would like
to try the potty. He loves to sit on the pottie and pretend wipe,
flush, and wave bye-bye to his imaginary waste swirling down, but he's
in it just for that part of it so far. Some kids are scared of the
sound and motion of flushing too, but he isn't. He just recently
started telling me when he has poop in his diaper too, so he is
working toward potty-training in baby steps. We allow him to be in the
bathroom with us when we go now too, as that sometimes helps make a
connection, and we always put him on at key times during the day, like
first thing in the morning and before a bath in the hopes the timing
will be right one day. My first son took 'til probably age 4 to be
completely potty trained (night and day), as in no accidents and being
agreeable to stop having fun to do it and denying that he had to go
(he would even fake push and say he had none), but my daughter self-
trained at 18 months all on her own. I just noticed that she was
waking up dry consistently at that age so I started putting her on the
pot first thing in the morning. Once she went on the pot, the
connection was instant. She never had any accidents either. Each child
is different so you need to gauge as best you can how you think it
will go, but I would never force the issue at the age of 2. I know it
is hard to ignore all of those people who feel the need to brag about
how their child was trained, or all of their children were trained for
that matter, by XX months, but they aren't your children nor are all
circumstances the same. Some people are content with letting their
children run around nekkid and watching them like hawks to swoop them
up and run to the potty, some timing placement every 2 hours, and some
are content with letting those nekkid kids have accidents on the
floor. I'm not one of those people. I consider any excrement, human or
otherwise, not a good thing for my carpets. Maybe if I had hard wood
and tile floors throughout my house, but I didn't and don't. lol.

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:52:12 -0800 (PST), mommak
wrote:

I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???

Okay, even though it annoyed me that you spammed your blog yet
again.... I'll respond.

A year really is too young to even try, but I noticed in your other
post that you show her the toilet and talk to her about it. No harm
in that, but I doubt she's understanding much.

All 3 of my children trained well after the age of 3. I took a
complete hands-off approach and decided they would do it when they
were ready and not a minute sooner. Saved me countless hours of
cleaning up any messes and frustration.

Nan

On Dec 18, 12:28 pm, Banty wrote:
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mommak says...



On Dec 18, 11:52 am, mommak wrote:
I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???

I also have some information on how I have managed to wean my 1 year
old.

http://weaning-your-baby.blogspot.com/

Do you realize you posted this to the same Usenet newsgroup again?

Banty

Yes as a matter of fact I do. Why does it matter??????

On Dec 18, 1:15 pm, Nan wrote:
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:52:12 -0800 (PST), mommak

wrote:
I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???

Okay, even though it annoyed me that you spammed your blog yet
again.... I'll respond.

A year really is too young to even try, but I noticed in your other
post that you show her the toilet and talk to her about it. No harm
in that, but I doubt she's understanding much.

All 3 of my children trained well after the age of 3. I took a
complete hands-off approach and decided they would do it when they
were ready and not a minute sooner. Saved me countless hours of
cleaning up any messes and frustration.

Nan

I waas asking, because my Aunt has 3 kids as well and all of them were
pretty much potty trained by the age of 2.... But of course they still
had some accidents.

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mommak says...

On Dec 18, 12:28 pm, Banty wrote:
In article ,
mommak says...



On Dec 18, 11:52 am, mommak wrote:
I have a one year old little girl that hides when she is pottying. I
sometimes catch her behind a door or under the table. She will be in a
squating position and will be grunting. At what age were your children
potty trained?? Is it too early to start. When I catch her doing it, I
will take her into the bathroom and tell her you poopy in here in the
potty. Any advice???

I also have some information on how I have managed to wean my 1 year
old.

http://weaning-your-baby.blogspot.com/

Do you realize you posted this to the same Usenet newsgroup again?

Banty

Yes as a matter of fact I do. Why does it matter??????

Because it's a waste of bandwidth and is irritating. It's long been against
netiquette to do so.

Banty