These dads have done it. They’ve managed to get their kids potty trained and stopped spending $$$$$ on diapers. Here are some of the potty training tips they recently shared with a fellow Life of Dad user, because you can never have enough potty training tips when trying to get your son or daughter to use the toilet.
SUPERHERO UNDERWEAR
J.R. Braet: When we first tried, we put our daughter into underwear and she had three accidents in an hour. At that point she wasn’t ready. She eventually got super excited about wearing her Batman and Superman underwear, and now we’re on a week with very minimal accidents. She wears pullups in the car and at night. They’re her special travel underwear and special nighttime underwear. It’s worked so far, but they have to want it. This can’t be forced.
NO UNDERWEAR
Michael Walker: If you have tile floors, put her in dresses and no underwear. When she has an accident explain her body tells her when she needs to potty. Also, every 2 hours tell her to go potty. She’ll get sick of being told and will figure out when she needs to go. Before, it was about 6 months of trying. After, a little less than a month.
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!
Vance Clark: Buy about 4 to 6 baby bunny rabbits. Kill one every time she messes her pants. If she’s still doing it after 6 baby bunnies, give in and join her. Start messing your pants too, eventually she’ll decide to train you both. 😉
M&Ms
Matthew L Lautenschleger: I used the M&M technique. Put a bowl of M&Ms at back of toilet. Everytime she pees in it, she gets one M&M. When she poops, she gets 2 M&Ms. It took me 5 days to potty train my 3 year old.
CHOCOLATE CHIPS
Aaron Johann: Chocolate chips for a reward after using potty, which was a stand alone in his room with some car magazines and toys around. Make it into a schedule of using potty. Lose the diapers.
Flickr photo by Manish Bansal
CELEBRATIONS and GUMMY BEARS
Stephen Segal: We are potty training my 2yr old right now and our Daycare owner taught us a trick that seems to work. Now we are 2 weeks in and there have been some accidents but I will say this was easier with our other 3 kids.
Celebrate and Gummy Bears! If your daughter goes pee on the potty make a huge scene and celebrate then give her 3 Gummi bears. Don’t keep celebrating make it short and sweet but super exciting.
If she pees in her pants, do the old sad disappointed face and voice and say “aww you broke your panties/underwear” then end it. But genuinely act sad so she feels sad her undies broke.
Our boy is now at the point where he may dribble but holds the majority in and will finish on the potty. He can even do 1.5hr road trips without accidents.
All I can say is scrap the pull-ups except for nap and bedtime and celebrate big time!
COLD TURKEY
Nuno Aguiar: Cold turkey. My fiance put her in underwear she peed twice and one poop. She cried in horror……….. Bammmmm. Potty trained. In 2.5 hours.
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Title image Flickr photo by David D, used under Creative Commons license.