This is what worked for Conor. From start to finish it took about 6 months.
This is what to wrote:
Potty training.. Oh boy! Okay, this is
lengthy, so I am going to lay it out in steps 1-2-3 that I did. I am also
attaching a photo of Conor’s Potty Training Chart that we used. We had one of
these charts at every house he went to. Home (in both bathrooms), each grandmas
house’s and his father’s house. When I was in the “planning stages” I took
photos of HIM going through the steps to make it more personal to HIM. He then
had to complete each step to get his tablet. You could use Legos or M&M’s
or whatever ******** is into for step #5. But these were the steps I followed:
1) I started with a little potty chair and put it in the living room and had
him just sit on it, fully clothed, to watch TV and stuff. So he could get
comfortable just sitting on it and wasn’t scared of it.
2) Every time anyone in
the houses went to the bathroom, we took him with us. Again, explaining
everything we were doing, showing him the pee/poop in the toilet when we were
done and then would let HIM flush it, so he wasn’t scared of it when it came
time for HIM to flush his own pee etc.
3) So after a few weeks of step #2,
every 15 minutes I would take him and put in on the potty (diaper free) and try
and get him to go pee. I did this for several weeks and the 15 minutes
eventually would go to 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour etc…. The KEY is NOT to
give in and give him his #5 (on the chart) until he went potty. There were times where Conor
would sit on the potty for 5 minutes or more before he would do anything.
4)
After a few weeks of this, I attempted to move him to the big potty. He was
hesitant and on occasion fought me, acting as if he was scared to sit on it.
Then, out of the blue he just started climbing up on the toilet totally on his
own. I then started the same process all over again, taking him to the big
toilet on a schedule. (Yes, Conor sits to pee. I prefer this, less mess. LOL
Easy to train. In my opinion, he can learn to pee standing up later, NOT peeing
in the pants/bed was more of a priority to me.)
5) After a few weeks or so, Conor
was 100% going pee on the big toilet on his own.
6) Now……….. Pooping on the
toilet, well, that is a whole other issue! Conor would go in his pants (in the
middle of the living room) and then take his pants off and run through the
house pant less. Knowing what he had just done, I would take him to his pants
and as gross as it sounds, I made him clean up his own mess. I would give him
paper towels and make him pick up his poop off the floor and make him put it in
the toilet. He needed to see where it was SUPPOSED TO GO versus where he
actually put it (on the floor or in his pants).
7) I had to be VERY watchful of him. Luckily, I read him
very well, so I knew the signs (for the most part) of when he was pooping or
about to poop or just had pooped. If it was a situation where he had already
gone, but not dropped his drawers yet, we would run into the bathroom and I
would simply pull his pants down over the toilet while everything in his pants,
fell into the toilet. Again, talking to him and making sure he saw it go into
the toilet and telling him repeatedly that the TOILET was where the poop went,
not the floor and not his pants.
8) After maybe 4-6 weeks this was pretty much
understood and he was running to the potty to both pee AND poop!
9) Then you
have peeing in public. Conor never really had an issue with this, using public
toilets isn’t an issue for him (like it is for many others – even me at times
LOL) and I contribute this to the steps above. Especially him watching adults
go to the bathroom and flushing for them, making him not scared of the toilet.
10) Then we moved onto bedtime.... Pullups vs Undies..... This too was a step by
step process.
11) First was nap time. When he would go several days without
peeing in his pullup during nap time, I started putting undies on him for naps.
Occasionally he would pee through his pants, but that didn’t last long, few weeks maybe. I
always made sure he went potty before he went down for his nap and always went
to potty the second he woke up.
12) Night time potty training…….. To my surprise,
this didn’t take as long as I thought it would.
13) First, Conor has a double
bed and TRUST ME when I say having a plastic waterproof bed liner is a MUST!
14) I started the nighttime bedtime routine around 730pm. He gets nothing to
drink after 7pm except for on small SIP of water just before bed. Going potty
is the last thing we do before he hits the sheets.
15) When I first started
this process, I would usually wake him up around 2am (most the time I was up
anyway and/or just getting ready to go to bed myself) and I would take him into
the bathroom to go potty. Most the time it was like he was sleep-walking-peeing
cause he was ½ asleep, but he was able to empty his bladder and MOST the time
he went right back to sleep. I did this for about 2 weeks or so.
16) I think the
nighttime training lasted about a month, in which he had maybe 8-10 accidents.
(Like I said, the waterproof liner is a must!) When he would pee, he
immediately woke up and would come into my room. He would tug on my arm or
start to crawl into my and that was when I felt him wet. We got up, cleaned up,
and he usually ended up sleeping me with that night till I could clean his
sheets the next morning.
17) I honestly can’t remember the last time he had an
accident in his bed.
18) NOW…… We are just getting the “behavioral, I’m too
lazy to go to the toilet, accidents”. For example, few weeks ago, Conor went
into the bathroom at Grandma’s house, shut the door, and proceeded to pee on
the rug and the floor behind the door. That same week, he was at his other
grandma’s house and he peed on the floor in front of the toilet (Grandma thinks
he just might not have gotten to toilet in time) but he peed on the floor in
front the toilet and then took his shirt off and put it in the pee (maybe
attempting to clean it up? IDK). So those are the small behavioral “I’m testing
you” instances we are dealing with now, but for the most part Conor is
99.9999999% potty trained and these are the steps I used.
Anyway….. I hope
something you just read helps. Keep me posted and let me know how things
progress would you please? GOOD LUCK!
I hope this helps someone else too.
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