Yeah...I'm feeling like its time to start training my littles....I've done it twice befoer but he is atotally different person than tehy were. Any suggestions and advice would be appreciated..

Note--I refuse to use pullups..dats toopid

Your post sounds like baby talk. :blink: SLOW DOWN WITH THE TYPING! :smack:

How old is your youngest?

My Mother did wonders in Potty training....

Garden hose.... full blast.....

She informed my neice that if she failed to use the potty again she'd get it again.....

My Neice was almost 5 My sister just didn't potty train her.. there was a lot going on in her life.

I put regular undies on both my kiddo's...They learned quickly how gross it felt to be wet. My older son learned in one day...my youngest took about 3 days :doh: of constant peeing in his pants. He HATED the feeling though and well - he finally caught on.
:stars: :clay: <--looks like toilet paper to me...

You're right! I don't know what happened with my typing... I meant the "dats toopid" though...

He is 19 months old..I'd rather have him trained at the same age as children were trained in the first half of the 20th Century---not the way it is now where many allow the kids to crap on themselves for years....

Wow, can you really train a kid that young and make it stick? I can't blame you though, I hate diapers. Hated paying for them. Hated changing them.

I never went by calendar age with my kids, just waited until they were ready. I heard from the pediatrician that when you train a kid too young they tend to have more accidents later on. It's like some kind of whiplash affect when they're 4 or 5. Usually in the form of bedwetting.

Sean has been tougher to train. I think being with kids in the preschool helped a lot. Plus, kids behave better for a stranger than their own family! So maybe it was just having to have his teacher change him that got him going too.

My oldest was trained by 2 and my youngest by a little over 2. It can be done.

It was ALWAYs done prior to the age of disposable diapers and super absorbant gels...

I have decided to wait a bit till it warms up. Right now we are frozen over--which almost never happens here in Oklhoma...we have actually been below freezing for more than 3 days! That's practically unheard of!
Anyway i think that I'll wait till the freeze passes so it will be warmer adn he can run around nearly bottomless...My house, which is celebrating its 65th year, is a little drafty, so I'll wait till the temps rise outside...

Hmmm, so you think that's why it's done later now? Laziness?

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From what I have read about the history of potty training and from my own admission. Yes. It is not just "what I think" There s a massive amount of evidence to back this up. I will certainly admit that it is a heck of a lot easier to put a diaper on than to have to wash out nasty cloth diapers, clean up wet messes, laundry, baths, etc. And I do believe because of this and my reliance on the diapers to contain the mess, is the reason my son wasn't traned until he was a little past three. I mean what other reason would there be for children to always be trained at earlier ages prior to the mid 20th century? (the disposable was invented in 1950) I have sworn that I will not allow myself to be lazy this time. My excuse last time was that I was pregnant and too emotional to have the patience I don't have that excuse this time so I am gonna go for it and accept the messes and the accidents and the extra laundry, the stubborness, etc...It will not be fun, and his personality is much stronger than the other two so I fear that it will be harder, but it must be done.

Potty training take stime and I do understand that many moms just aren't home enough with their kids to take the time to do it nad that is another contributor to later training..

Oh adn you mentioned bedwetting in an earlier post..Nightime enuresis doesn't happen because of early potty training. Having two bedwetters I;'ve done a lot of reading. Its mostly an inherited trait and occurs in about 50% of children. My oldest is finally growing out of it--doesn't happen as often as it used to. If I were to go by the "sign of readiness" of a dry diaper in the morning--my four year old would not be "ready" for potty training and my five year old will have just "gotten ready" So no, inability to hold the pee overnight is not realted to daytime toilet training..

Thanks String. That's interesting.

Bedwetting - yes, you're right. It is inherited in some cases. But it can also occur later on as that sort of, boomerang affect. It doesn't have to happen though.

neither I nor my husband were bedwetters, so I am not sure where it came from. He has a cousin who did and of course I know nothing of my biological father and that side of my genetic history so that is a possibility..

could be a sleep disorder....

That attributes to a lot of kids bedwetting that was my issue until I was about 12- 14.....

Yes I wet the bed until I was almost in HS... there have been a few nights in hte years since that I've still had issues..... If I can't wake up I can't go into the bathroom.....

My nephew couldn't wake up either. His parents stopped his liquids at 6PM, he'd use the bathroom before he went to bed (around 8) then the parents would take him again before they went to bed (10-11) and then one of them would wake up at night and take him again and then once more before the dad left for work (5AM). He doesn't go at night anymore - he's 9 1/2...