For the last month or so, Noah has been telling me when he poops in his diaper and stuff, and I don't know if that means he's ready to start potty training or not. He's not quite two yet (he will be in February), and I was worried that it might be too soon or something. I don't know!
It means that he knows what's going on down there! Virginia is about the same. She tells me when she needs changed. What I do, is let her run around nekkid for a while everyday. Sometimes she goes in the potty, sometimes it misses. Does he have a little potty? If so, let him play on it, use it as a chair. Sometimes, sit him on it diaper-less and read to him. That way, if he just happens to pee/poo in it, he can see what a big boy he is. Just don't push him. If he shows resistance to the potty, let it go. Like you said, it's probably too early for him to have control over it right now, but you can introduce him to the concept of using a potty.
We started letting Dakota play on the potty chair when he was about 18 months old. On his second birthday I threw out the diapers and took a weeks vacation to work with him intensely. He is now 28 months old and is basically daytime dry. He has accidents on occasion, but they are more and more rare. He has finally started pooping in the potty too. I still put diapers on him at night. He doesn't seem anywhere near ready for night time dryness. Kathi
That is exactly how my little boy was. He started telling me right before or when he had did number two. He is getting close to being potty trained when he is starting to do that. What you can start doing is, when you see him doing the grunting thing babies do before they actually 'do it', you can sit him on the potty. He will associate booboo with potty and eventually start asking you to sit on it. The worse thing I did do though was teach my son how to pee sitting down first instead of standing up. Eventually I had to re-teach him how to stand up and pee. Too much work and frustration. Do the standing up thing in the first place and you will be a-ok.
He sees the toilet and says "pee pee," but I don't think he's actually totally put it all together yet. I do need to get him a little potty.... Are there any good books or websites that you would recommend, with tips and stuff? Thanks a lot.
He's probably ready to be introduced, but a two year old is too young to expect complete control. Of course there are exceptions, my middle child was fully potty trained by 20 mos. Just let him sit on a little potty if he wants, don[t push it. Some good books are "Once Upon a Potty" and "Everybody Poops" I loved that book,
What I learned from potty-training my oldest son is that it's better to let them guide you as to when they're ready. If you want, you can introduce a potty chair to him, tell him what you do, and encourage him to try it out. But if he's hesitant, just let it go for now. I tried early on to potty train my oldest son, and he fought me tooth and nail on it. Finally, I just let it go, and before I knew it, he was using the potty by himself. I'll never forget the first day he did it. I was so surprised! He had been running around bare-butt, went into the bathroom where I had his potty chair set up, and went. Just like that. Then he called me and said "mommy, mommy, look!" and sure enough, he had gone. I was so proud! I am no where near thinking about potty training my 18 month old twins. My boy twin knows when he's going to the bathroom, he'll stop whatever he's doing, look at me, and put his hand between his legs, so that's a good sign, but my girl twin has no interest whatsoever and will happily poop or pee anywhere when her diaper is off, and give you a huge smile after she does it. Their pediatrician told me to hold off until they were 2, but if they seemed ready before that, to go for it. I don't feel (mother's intuition) that they're ready to master that milestone yet, so I think we'll wait until their 2nd birthday at this point. I'm in no rush. Good luck! Much peace...
I feel so lucky. My daughter pretty much learned on her own. I put a little potty in the bathroom next to the big potty before her first birhtday, just so she could get used to the idea. But, she learned how to remove her diaper when she was about a year old and decided she didn't want to wear one anymore. She wore a diaper to bed for awhile after that, but not for too long. She would say that diapers were "nasty" and for babies. She was (still is) pretty precocious.
Wow, you ARE lucky! I didn't think my oldest son would ever want to quit wearing a diaper, he could care less! Peace.
Yep, I've got quite a girl. She's six now and hasn't stopped talking since she was tiny. But, she's a smarty and I am very proud of her.
