<p>Just thought I’d start a humerous thread since some of my friends are going through this right now with their kids… any funny stories from when you guys did this with your kids?</p>
<p>I don’t remember mine but I do remember when I was about 3… my parents were building our house and I remember being in the living room as they were working on the house… still had no working bathroom and I had an “accident” on the bare floor, lol!</p>
<p>We made no concerted effort to potty train our daughter. She had a potty available and knew what it was for. I belonged to a mommy and me/playgroup that met once a week. All of the moms, except for me and one other mom, were actively potty training since the kids were about two.</p>
<p>When the kids were 3 we had a group trip to Disneyland. The only two children who were not wearing diapers were the two who had not been “potty trained”. I didn’t say a word to the other moms but I found it fairly amusing. They had put in all that effort and their kids were in diapers.</p>
<p>^^^^
Totally agree with that. People start training but the kid will decide when. You might as well wait until they are three and then just throw undies on them. They will have a couple of accidents, feel uncomfortable and start using the toilet. Case closed.</p>
<p>As far as funny stories, I can’t remember anything funny about it!</p>
<p>I recall that D2 was very easy in terms of getting out of diapers. On her second birthday, she stopped wearing diapers 24/7. That is also the same day she got a bed. </p>
<p>I do have this photograph that I love of D2 sitting on the potty (kid potty) reading Goodnight Moon. Not sure about others here, but in our house, adults do read in the bathroom and so this was a photo of her doing the same. :)</p>
<p>Both of our kids were trained by the time they were around 15 months, give or take.</p>
<p>If we all remember, the first thing to do when potty training a kid was to make sure they could say number 1 or 2 (know the difference). In our house, pee-pee was for #1 and poo-poo was for #2. D1 wasn’t too good at distinguish which was which, so we practiced often. </p>
<p>One day we were at a fairly nice restaurant, she gave her indication she had to go. While I was in the stall with her, someone in the bathroom let out a very loud sound, everyone heard it, but we all pretended it didn’t happen. But D1 at top of her lung, “Mommy, she poo-poo?” She wouldn’t stop asking until I answered, so I had to say, “Yes, that was a poo-poo.” D1 was very proud she got it right.</p>
<p>With D2 if we have waited, she would have still been in diapers until she was 5. She was one of those kids.</p>
<p>S1 had one of those child size potties that had wooden back and arms and legs, and folded to collapse flat. Somehow, when it was open in the regular position, he picked it up, and put his head and torso between the seat and armrest and pulled it down to his stomach. Kind of like putting one’s head through the arm of a t-shirt.</p>
<p>It was TIGHT and I could not remove it. I was panic stricken and was about ready to call the fire department. But…this is a really small town. I did not want to look like the village idiot. We finally got it off, but it was scary. I ddn’t own so many tools then. Now, I’d take a small saw and carefully cut it off. Funny story now, but it’s taken me 20 years to recover…</p>
<p>I don’t remember anything particularly funny about potty training , but I do remember unsolicited advice from paternal grandmother , who bragged that all of her 6 children were potty trained at some ridiculous age ( like 9 months or something ) Really ? who was trained…running a baby to the potty so they could time it isn’t quite the same as the child knowing themself when it was time. I also used cloth diapers instead of disposables , so I think they were more aware than had they been in a disposable with all of the chemicals to take wetness away from their skin…</p>
<p>My older son started using the toilet at 18 months - he was always in a hurry to grow up and be like us. He also pooped at the same time every day which made at least that part very easy. Imagine my shock when my younger son was close to four before he would do anything. I think part of the difference was that the older son had cloth diapers which were far more uncomfortable when they were dirty.</p>
<p>(I see lje62 has the same theory about cloth diapers.)</p>
<p>I grew up overseas where there were no diapers or carpetted floors, and kids just wore thin cotton sheets folded as a diapers, and bedding was protected by “rubber sheets”. My stay-at-home mom was a sort of an “adopted mom” for all my cousins and some neighborhood kids too, and went through toilet training of more than a dozen kids. She swears that most were done by their first birthday, and she doesn’t recall anyone who, by 15-16 months, wasn’t for the most part trained.</p>
<p>And I contrast it with the statements of a pediatrician when we had young ones, that kids simply don’t have the physical ability to be trained at that age. I still suspect some well funded studies by the diaper makers are behind this.</p>
<p>DD1 was trained before she was a year and a half and DS by his first birthday, but DD2 who was cared for during the day by a stay-at-home sitter was in diapers on her second birthday and longer.</p>
<p>My D was eager to use the potty from an early age. We told her we would get her a potty seat when she was at least two years old. Around the time of her second birthday we saw a really cute old-fashioned potty chair at a church yard sale. D was so excited she sat down on it right at the yard sale! Of course we brought it home.</p>
<p>Things went fine, with D getting all the appropriate positive reinforcement for her effective use of the seat – except for the night our monthly gourmet dinner group was meeting at our home. We were sitting in our living room having wine and appetizers when D appeared carrying the plastic lift-out container from her potty. She had a large poop in there and was showing it off to our guests!</p>
<p>What an appetizer! :eek:</p>
<p>My best friend has had an awful time with her two (almost three) year old little boy. He would walk up to you and say I have to pee, then you would take him to the bathroom and he’d say nevermind. Then two minutes later he would walk up to you and tell you he needs a new diaper. So last weekend on saturday morning she woke him up and took all his clothes off and told him he was going naked for the day. He was super excited by this, but ran up to her around 10 AM and told her he had to pee. She goes “you know where the potty is, you better run… don’t want to make a mess on the floor!!!” (he hates making messes!) then she texted me saying “he #1’d on the potty!” a couple hours later I get a message “he #2’d on the potty!”… and at the end of the day she goes "we’re doing one more day of naked then we’re going to go let him pick out some underwear. Talked to her yesterday and she said he’s been doing his spiderman undies for this whole week with no accidents and is so proud of himself that he can pull them up and down and go to the potty all by himself.</p>
<p>Right before Christmas we were taking the same child to go sit on santa. She made him sit on the potty before we went because he was doing his little pee - dance. She goes come on, go potty please… I know you have to go. Then he reaches down and flicks himself. She goes excuse me, what did you just do? He goes what? She goes what did you do just now and he goes I flipped my switch. She goes honey that is not a switch and he goes LIKE A LIGHT BULB! and yelled it. I thought she was going to fall over laughing… I thought I was going to fall over laughing… we just were dying… she was like okay bud get up we’re going to sit on santa now… he goes OH GOOD! She slaps a diaper on him, the moment we get there he goes mom i need a diaper. lol.</p>
<p>I have a good one. DH took DS to the grocery store that was about twenty minutes away. I told him to take the potty meaning in our van and pull over if DS had to use it as when first potty training there isn’t always a lot of notice. I guess I didn’t make myself clear enough because later a friend told me she saw them in the store and DH was pushing the grocery cart with the potty chair in it! Luckily for the other patrons DS didn’t need to use it.</p>
<p>My cousins son is currently 4… going on 5… they live in a very secluded woody area… and naturally my cousin taught him that it’s okay to pee outside in the woods. (I don’t know how it’s okay to teach a two year old that, but ok…)… So they are coming over to my house about two years ago, and he’s standing on my front porch and drops his pants. (i do NOT live in a secluded woody area!) His mom was like what are you doing and he goes i’m going to pee outside now. She was like ohhhh no you’re not and picked him up and put him down on the toilet inside. About a week later she took him to a yard sale and was looking at things and she looks down at him and he’s peeing in their yard. She was like no buddy, you can only pee outside at our house. Actually, forget that, nobody is peeing outside anywhere!</p>
<p>We tried multiple strategies with my first daughter, and she was not interested in giving up pullups. She was 2 1/2 and two weeks away from starting a preschool that required potty trained kids and did not allow pullups. I went for the big bribes and told her that every day that she was accident free we would drive to Toys R Us after dinner and she could pick out another Barbie doll. Fourteen Barbie dolls later, completely done without another accident ever again.
My friends and my mother in law thought I was crazy, but it worked.</p>
<p>^^^ D2 was trained very early on, but she was a very deep sleeper. Even at 3, if she had a glass of water before she went to bed, she would end up peeing in bed. We made a deal with her that if she didn’t pee in bed for 2 weeks (we X each day off on a calendar), she would get a gift basket full of jewelry (she saw that at an auction and wanted it). Well, she did it, and I made a huge basket for her from Toys R Us. It was a happy day. She went in her bed that night again. H wanted to return everything in the basket.</p>
<p>I think some kids do not mind being “dirty” and not be in as big a hurry. Such was the case with both my D and S. As a result, they were both about 3 when they finally decided it was time to use the potty. My S could tell you he did not have to go, or that he wasn’t dirty, and win an academy award for acting. The nose knows differently…</p>
<p>My late, lamented pediatrician told me that if you start to potty train a boy at 18 months, he’ll be trained at 3 and if you start to train him at 35 months, he’ll be trained at 3. As the mother of 4 sons (all now potty trained LOL!) I agree with my doctor…</p>
<p>I began to train my first son at 18 months (before I began using that doctor). He was turning 3 and still not trained and was starting pre-school. I told him he could only ride the school bus if he was trained. That wasn’t true, but he didn’t know that. First day, we let him look at the bus, second day, we let him climb the steps and the third day, we let him sit on the bus but not ride it. He was trained by day 4!</p>
<p>We kept our second son in diapers till a couple of months past 3 because we were living at my mom’s house while waiting for ours to finished. We were 5 adults (including a senior citizen and one in a wheelchair), 2 trained kids, and my 2 youngest with ONE bathroom. It was easier to keep son 2 in diapers. He was trained within 3 days of our moving into our new house - he had to figure out where the BR was first.</p>
<p>Son 3 was trained by sons 1 and 2 when he was 2 years and 9 months. Two days after I came home from the hospital with son 4, I walked past the BR and saw my 3 older boys standing around. The oldest said to number 3 “You can’t be a baby anymore, we have a new one. You have to go in the toilet like the rest of us!” Two days later, he was… The youngest boy was trained the same way - by his 3 older brothers; he was about 2 1/2.</p>
<p>My only daughter would laugh as her older brother trained (14 months apart). She would stand next to the potty and laugh as she urinated on the floor! She would take her potty in to the living room and sit there while watching her favorite potty tape and then she’d pick up the potty, go back into the bathroom and pee on the floor next to it. She would poop in the adult toilet. Finally, when she was 2 years, 8 months we sent her to a summer camp. They were willing to take her in diapers. It was a small school with only 2classes so DD was in a class with kids going into K. She came home the first day and said “I don’t need diapers any more” and that was it. She didn’t.</p>
<p>last time I saw my friends son was about two months ago. Her and I were playing a board game at the kitchen table with a friend of ours. her son was sitting on a chair but then he climbed up on the table and was sitting on his knees. She goes buddy please get off the table, you can sit with us but you have to sit on a chair like a big boy. He goes no mommy. She goes please, you can’t sit up here. if you fall you will get a boo boo and you don’t want that. Why don’t you come sit on my lap and you can play the game with mommy? He goes because my diaper is full of poop and if i sit on it my hiney will be all dirty. She was like oh okay, well let me get you down from the table and you can go tell your daddy that story. He goes okay mommy!!! and runs over to his dad. lol.</p>
<p>Joan52 - I counted, you have 5 kids? Bless you. I bet that baby girl gets pretty spoiled by all her older brothers (pity her BF).</p>
<p>I didn’t push it with my daughter, although I did say to her “no more diapers after three” and the day of her birthday she reminded me, and went to big girl pants from then on. She had only one accident. I was amazed.</p>