Let me go ahead and say that if anyone is on the fence as far as potty training goes, everyone I have consulted with and used the three day boot camp method has had success with it. We were no different. Max first started going pee in the potty at 14 months. And although at the time we thought it was the coolest thing ever, it ended up being more of a curse. He became easily bored with it, especially when we were pushing it and none of the other kids in his class were doing it. It took away from his play time and he HATED that. For the next almost 20 months, he was inconsistent at potty time and with everything else going on we never really pushed the issue. Well, I just basically woke up one day and decided I was done with cleaning up diapers and oddly the same day my mom told Max she was not buying any more diapers. All week we told him we were going to be done with diapers and really talked up the boot camp and got him pretty pumped about it (even excitedly told his teacher at school "yay, I'm going to boot camp this weekend"), He even got so pumped about it he decided he didn't really want to wait and started going potty that Tuesday night before. So much so I even decided he was ready to be sent to school in underwear. He had a couple accidents Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday but it seemed to be all centered around when he was tired. So when his Mimi brought him to me Friday after school and had dinner with us he was already in big boy pants and ready to go.
Friday night after the cookout I previously wrote about, Max did have a couple accidents on the couch getting ready for bed (like his teacher told me, seemed to be when he was really tired) but slept approximately 9 hours and was dry when he woke up and immediately was ready to go potty. According to the potty training research I did, the first day we can go outside (normally just in the neighborhood) once and then the next day twice depending on how it goes and I stayed pretty true to this just going out in the afternoon to visit Melissa and see her progress on moving into Harley's and bring her some garden veggies and afterwards Brook and Amber and Mimi came over. I was however somewhat productive cleaning out the refrigerator and planning and getting future project advise from my dad when he came to fix the refrigerator door...
Sunday started out with a wet bed and therefore sheets in the washer which its Sunday so that would have been done today anyways. And he still had to go pee as soon as he woke up so I really think it was more my fault than anything. I probably should cut him off from liquids at a certain time so somewhat of a lesson learned for me. No one ever said potty training was just for the kid. Well I decided since I got two outings today that we would go outside and play in the hose during the morning. I kept him in his big boy pants and he went pee a few times pulling down his big boy pants while we were out playing so I was pleased with that.
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| washing his toys...among other things (mommy) |
I even let him drink from the hose...don't call DHR
Monday and the final day started out great, no wet bed, ready to go potty as soon as he woke up. I have been wanting to go hang out with Max at school since he so sadly asked me one day while I was dropping off "mommy, can't you just stay with me one time?" so I figured that could be our morning outing. He was excited to see his friends and go potty and get his sticker when he got there and had a blast playing outside, playing in the auditorium (since they decided after about 15 minutes outside it was way too hot), doing hand print art work, reading a book, playing with dinosaurs, and (one of his favorites) doing flash cards...
But after doing all that he was extremely obstinate in going potty and as his teacher pointed out to me before, seems to be when he is tired. He cried and threw two of the biggest fits I have ever seen him throw the next two times I asked him to go potty. One was at school and one at my mom's house afterwards (lives down the street from the school). Well luckily she was there and was able to calm him down and talk rationally with him about it and more importantly let me cool down and take me away from the situation. This was about the time I realized we had enough togetherness time and could use a break once this boot camp is all over with. I love my child but its only natural to get a little stir crazy about being around each other three days straight with minimal breaks and minimal outside the home time. He and I both are pretty on the go people so I can imagine after cleaning this dirty house he and I won't want much to do with it most of the rest of the week and this weekend. We were able to calm down and rationalize enough to go to lunch with Mimi, Aunt Cici, and Mimi's coworker Rhonda and he even went to the potty at the restaurant. After a dry nap time I started cleaning the house for which he wanted to help. I am all about letting him learn how to do things and help out; He even has taken over the responsibility at home of feeding the cats which is great because with everything else I seem to forget. And then Mimi came to the rescue and helped clean and watch him while I finished and heated up dinner. No peeing accidents at all today but pooping was another story. I really can't complain much seeing as we were 1 for 2 but he was scared and kept saying he didn't want to go poo poo while he was going in the potty. After he got done however he was super excited about it. But then while playing outside with Mimi he pulled down his pants to go pee and ended up going poop (luckily on the ground) but not so lucky he decided to put his hand it in and smear a small bit on his cheek. So thus the potty boot camp weekend ends but is far from over...
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