Potty Training

When Landon was 2 years old, I found a book at a garage sale for $0.50 called Toilet Training in Less Than a Day. I bought it and tried it out on Landon when he was 2-1/2. It worked like a charm! I used it to potty train Gerren as well.

By the time Chase was ready to potty train, the boys were 5 and 7, both doing school. I did the one day of potty training, but had very little time to drop everything and run her to the potty the next day. After 4 or 5 accidents, I put her back in diapers. A few months later, she was asking to use the potty all the time, so we went back to underwear with success this time. However, on that day after potty training when she was having all the accidents, I said to Greg on the phone, "If we have any more children, you're potty training them."

I reminded him of this, and he agreed to potty train Carys. He read the book and set aside a Sunday for the big event. I took the rest of the kids out of the house (once they got their lazy bones out of bed). Before they did I managed to snap this picture.

You start the day by "teaching" a baby doll that wets to go "pee pee on the potty".


After the day was over, Carys was potty trained! Here she is in her big girl underwear.


As a side note, she was terrified to go "poo poo" on the potty, however, and would only go in her underwear. After three weeks of despair, I tried leaving her bottomless, so to speak, for the entire day. This has worked like a charm, and we plan to continue this until she has many days of success!