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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 526701" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I waited to speak on this because y'all will think I am nuts. I did not potty train ANYONE. EVER. I REFUSED. </p><p></p><p>I provided diapers, and when the kid asked, underwear. I think we used 1/2 pack of pullups because they were evil to change. A poopy pullup slid down legs? Grossest thing I ever dealt with - and I got that delight the first time in a restaurant bathroom that was nastier than the pullup. I tried to rip the sides apart like I was told they would work and my hands were not strong enough. I have always had arthritis in my hands and that was NOT doable. So we didn't use them anymore.</p><p></p><p>WIz was about 3. He wanted to go to 'school' and I told him he could go to 'school' when he wasn't wearing diapers or going potty in his underwear. Took him a week once he wanted to do it. Of course we had to be ready to take him to a bathroom when he said he needed one, but that is par for the course with any kid, in my opinion.</p><p></p><p>Jess? Saw kids at daycare using the potty and took her diaper off to go use the potty with them. Finally at 26 mos the teacher at daycare (same as school, Wiz just liked to call it school) told me that J really wasn't using diapers at all at school. So I gave the rest of our diapers to the daycare for emergencies for other kids and got her undies. She didn't want to pee or poo on Barney - solved the whole thing.</p><p></p><p>thank you? My thank-HEAVENS-now-ex sister in law decided that he was GOING to use the potty from then on during the one and ONLY time she ever was left alone with him. It was the day we took Wiz to the psychiatric hospital and both my folks had to be at work, as did the sitter. Jess, age 7, changed his diaper after having to SNEAK the clean diaper and wipes away from exsil. TOTALLY not the day to spring that on thank you. And he wasn't ready. If she had left him alone, he probably would have been using a potty in less than a month. But instead it took until Wiz was HOME from the psychiatric hospital because he linked Wiz going away with using the potty. I was so ready to kill that witch by the time I learned what she had done (it was NOT the only thing she did that really upset the kids that day - and everything she did was something we had specifically asked her to NOT do, grrr.)</p><p></p><p>My kids NEVER got out of diapers until they were BEGGING to be out of them. It worked. NONE of them took more than a week, and I did not have to chase them and be the one trained to monitor their toileting habits. Personally, I can think of few things less interesting to me than constantly watching to see if my child is getting ready to go to the potty. Just never seemed like something I wanted to invest in.</p><p></p><p>There was a point where Wiz was not going to go to the potty because the tv was on and he didn't want to leave it. So we turned the tv off for two weeks completely. I don't like when the kids won't do things because the tv is on, never did. Tv shouldn't be that important. But that was after we knew he could stay clean and dry all day.</p><p></p><p>There are very very few kids who end up in first grade or even kdg in diapers unless they have real problems. There may be something going on with Brandon on the autistic spectrum if he really doesn't 'get' toilet training. I would see if something is distracting him or he doesn't want to leave something to go sit on the potty. Each of my kids did have books that they only read on the potty and they each did get treats for using the potty. Wiz could not stand to pee because he had a birth defect that he had botched surgery for. We had to wait until he was 5 to have it redone, and that did delay potty training for him (he woke up as they started the surgery on that area because the anesthesiologist ignored the eleven times he was told they were doing two procedures - including DURING the surgery itself - and didn't keep Wiz under as they were starting the second procedure. This did delay things at least a year, in my opinion understandably. We learned that Wiz woke up from Wiz - who TOLD US about it.)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, other than a reward for producing and some cheerios or targets drawn on pieces of toilet paper, I would not worry overmuch. If you are really invested in this, then watch and chase. Otherwise, he will pick it up soon unless their are possibly some autistic things going on. Daddy being inconsistent wasn't a problem once Wiz found underwear patterns he watned and then I tossed the diapers. in my opinion having to WORK for those undies was the big deal for Wiz. We went and looked at them in the store and I refused to buy them until he was not using his diaper for a week. Then we had a dinner out (mcdonalds was what he wanted, of course, lol) and he got his special new undies to keep clean.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 526701, member: 1233"] I waited to speak on this because y'all will think I am nuts. I did not potty train ANYONE. EVER. I REFUSED. I provided diapers, and when the kid asked, underwear. I think we used 1/2 pack of pullups because they were evil to change. A poopy pullup slid down legs? Grossest thing I ever dealt with - and I got that delight the first time in a restaurant bathroom that was nastier than the pullup. I tried to rip the sides apart like I was told they would work and my hands were not strong enough. I have always had arthritis in my hands and that was NOT doable. So we didn't use them anymore. WIz was about 3. He wanted to go to 'school' and I told him he could go to 'school' when he wasn't wearing diapers or going potty in his underwear. Took him a week once he wanted to do it. Of course we had to be ready to take him to a bathroom when he said he needed one, but that is par for the course with any kid, in my opinion. Jess? Saw kids at daycare using the potty and took her diaper off to go use the potty with them. Finally at 26 mos the teacher at daycare (same as school, Wiz just liked to call it school) told me that J really wasn't using diapers at all at school. So I gave the rest of our diapers to the daycare for emergencies for other kids and got her undies. She didn't want to pee or poo on Barney - solved the whole thing. thank you? My thank-HEAVENS-now-ex sister in law decided that he was GOING to use the potty from then on during the one and ONLY time she ever was left alone with him. It was the day we took Wiz to the psychiatric hospital and both my folks had to be at work, as did the sitter. Jess, age 7, changed his diaper after having to SNEAK the clean diaper and wipes away from exsil. TOTALLY not the day to spring that on thank you. And he wasn't ready. If she had left him alone, he probably would have been using a potty in less than a month. But instead it took until Wiz was HOME from the psychiatric hospital because he linked Wiz going away with using the potty. I was so ready to kill that witch by the time I learned what she had done (it was NOT the only thing she did that really upset the kids that day - and everything she did was something we had specifically asked her to NOT do, grrr.) My kids NEVER got out of diapers until they were BEGGING to be out of them. It worked. NONE of them took more than a week, and I did not have to chase them and be the one trained to monitor their toileting habits. Personally, I can think of few things less interesting to me than constantly watching to see if my child is getting ready to go to the potty. Just never seemed like something I wanted to invest in. There was a point where Wiz was not going to go to the potty because the tv was on and he didn't want to leave it. So we turned the tv off for two weeks completely. I don't like when the kids won't do things because the tv is on, never did. Tv shouldn't be that important. But that was after we knew he could stay clean and dry all day. There are very very few kids who end up in first grade or even kdg in diapers unless they have real problems. There may be something going on with Brandon on the autistic spectrum if he really doesn't 'get' toilet training. I would see if something is distracting him or he doesn't want to leave something to go sit on the potty. Each of my kids did have books that they only read on the potty and they each did get treats for using the potty. Wiz could not stand to pee because he had a birth defect that he had botched surgery for. We had to wait until he was 5 to have it redone, and that did delay potty training for him (he woke up as they started the surgery on that area because the anesthesiologist ignored the eleven times he was told they were doing two procedures - including DURING the surgery itself - and didn't keep Wiz under as they were starting the second procedure. This did delay things at least a year, in my opinion understandably. We learned that Wiz woke up from Wiz - who TOLD US about it.) Anyway, other than a reward for producing and some cheerios or targets drawn on pieces of toilet paper, I would not worry overmuch. If you are really invested in this, then watch and chase. Otherwise, he will pick it up soon unless their are possibly some autistic things going on. Daddy being inconsistent wasn't a problem once Wiz found underwear patterns he watned and then I tossed the diapers. in my opinion having to WORK for those undies was the big deal for Wiz. We went and looked at them in the store and I refused to buy them until he was not using his diaper for a week. Then we had a dinner out (mcdonalds was what he wanted, of course, lol) and he got his special new undies to keep clean. [/QUOTE]
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