Well my youngest is 22 months old today! Yay lil man! Well he's not the youngest since I'm currently pregnant with his younger brother! That's gonna be weird from him being the youngest to the middle child... But he's doing great with potty training he peed on the big boy potty last night after tubby time and again this morning after breakfast... Mommy & Daddy couldn't be more proud of him and his accomplishments... My 4 year old on the other hand... he's being testy with potty training ... he's been very hard... I'm trying my hardest not to feel like a failure but he's just not grasping it... I feel like I've done something wrong... my youngest has it down except of pooping cause he's still small and almost falls into the toilet every time... I'm trying not to make my oldest feel bad when his little brother gets praise for doing well on the potty... but the jealous of him over his brother getting rewards makes me feel bad...
So any parent's out there that can help me with potty training a 4 year old who just doesn't want to go potty on the big boy toilet?! My youngest seems to have it down and I'm very pleased and happy about it.
Any one who hasn't been a parent but worked with children is more than welcome to comment too! All advice is appreciated at this point!
Well continue to praise Chunky Monkey because you dont want him to fall back. But also remember that when Kayden arrives he may have a harder time with it. Have you gotten him big boy underwear? That would be a fun treat to pick out his own underwear!
ReplyDeleteAs for Sean try using big boy underwear (You can get those plastic underwear to go over if you wanted to) but let him feel how yucky it is to be in a mess. Maybe that will help. I have a hard time with Pull ups. Its pretty much like a diaper. Also make it a routine, every hour use the potty. My mum used to even wake us up in middle of the night to use the potty and it became a routine to where she didnt even have to get us after awhile we just did it.
Sean has gone with the underwear once and we changed him so many times it didn't even phase him... Connor isn't ready yet for the underwear since I we've only had a few days with potty training I wanna make sure he can do it do it ... I'm nervous when Kayden comes they both with stop completely... mother's worst fear ... I ask every 45mins to every hour and Sean doesn't like it...
DeleteDont ask just be like potty time. We did it in the day care.
DeleteI must try that... Hopefully something works cause three boys in diapers might just do me in ... lol that's gonna be a lot of money that we could use else were... since I haven't a clue what kind of formula WIC gives... yikes ... why can't they just stop changing crap
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