May 1, 2009

How to potty train your toddler in 3 days

First let me start off by saying the two were hell bent against the potty. They would kick and scream if I even put them anywhere near the potty. So I tried to associate it with something they love. Chocolate!!!, yea I know I had to bribe them but so what, one weeks worth of bribery has landed me a whole lot of savings.

I potty trained them within 3 days. Of course chocolate was not my only method there was more to it then that.

Number 1 thing I did was I took away the diapers from the time they woke up until it was bedtime there were no diapers used, I replaced them with using tinker bell and Dora underwear.

I constantly reminded them "no pee pee in the panty"
and eventually they started repeating it.

Every hour I took them and had them sit on the potty for 10 minutes, while I sat there on the floor next to them and sang songs, played flashcard games and made it a fun "thing" to do.

Whenever they went "pee pee" I gave them a tiny piece of chocolate. Within 3 days they had the routine down pack, but I kept up the giving of chocolate for the week so they wouldn't back track.

I loved using panties to train them instead of pull ups because it saved me a whole lot of money and still does, the only time I use pull ups are at night. Now when you are first starting they will have a lot of accidents so just be ready for the mess!!!