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How did you Potty Train? How'd that go? (lemmy.world)

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Getting ready for the literal and figurative shit storm that is potty training. I would love to hear some experiences-

What method did you use? Was it from a book or a parenting blog? How long did it take? What would you do differently? What did you do right?

I plan to record evidence of our triumph so I can show her when she get sassy and says I don't do anything for her. Welp kid, you'd literally be an animal defecating on the floor! Let's watch exhibit A, shall we?

(I'm not really recording my child, I feel like I have to say this for the former FBI agents who recently have so much time on their hands. I was being entirely facetious...which sounds like feces)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

We're potting training our daughter (2) now and she's instantly taken to it, we've barely had to do anything. We've just left her nappy off, left the potty in the room and she's just taken to it right away, giving her lots of praise when she uses it. She poos and pees in it without us having to really tell her to do anything.

It's a HUGE contrast to when we were potty training our son. It was an absolute nightmare and took years. He'd flat out refuse to acknowledge he needed a poo or had one in his nappy. At 3 he suddenly declared he didn't want to wear his nappy anymore, which was fine, and he did start to use the potty for wee's totally fine, but pooing was a different story. He'd end up holding it in for a week at a time, but kept dirtying his underwear, so we were changing his underwear about 8 to 10 times a day and constantly washing them, but he wouldn't acknowledge he'd done it.