Potty Training Take #3

I Survived Potty Training (But Mom is still recovering!)


My Checklist
1 two and a half year-old
1 Costco size bag of m&ms
1 book of reward stickers
1 empty chart to fill
1 box of Capri Suns
1 carpet cleaner filled and standing ready
1 Potty "George"
6 new pair of Dora underwear
1 previously chosen reward for a completed chart (the guitar)
26 Leapster letters
good weather (essential for this process, since I do "naked training")
1 eager mom (really eager since grandma is coming for a visit soon and has a much earlier timeline for potty training that she enjoys bragging about)

I can't say I approached potty training any better with my third child, than I did with my first. They are each so different and I don't always adapt well. But, after discovering that Dessie would stay on the potty much longer if we practiced her letters and the sounds they make, I was very prepared to camp-out at the potty until we got the job done. Let's just say I didn't get anything done for almost 10 days. But, the good news is that now I have a two-year-old who is potty-trained and knows all of the sounds in the alphabet. I'll take it!

I think you will enjoy this video :)


“It's been said that adults spend the first two years of their children's lives trying to make them walk and talk, and the next sixteen years trying to get them to sit down and shut up.

It's the same way with potty training: Most adults spend the first few years of a child's life cheerfully discussing pee and poopies, and how important it is to learn to put your pee-pee and poo-poo in the potty like big people do.

But once children have mastered the art of toilet training, they are immediately forbidden to ever talk about poop, pee, toilets and other bathroom-related subjects again. Such things are now considered rude and vulgar, and are no longer rewarded with praise and cookies and juice boxes.

One day you're a superstar because you pooped in the toilet like a big boy, and the next day you're sitting in the principal's office because you said the word "poopy" in American History class (which, if you ask me, is the perfect place to say that word).”

Dav Pilkey, Captain Underpants And The Preposterous Plight Of The Purple Potty People