I knew that when we were at home for the summer I was going to start working on the potty with her. She was showing so many signs of being ready so I thought this will be a great time to do it since we'll be home and I can really be on it 100%. Well of course Korbyn being Korbyn decided she was going to refuse to put on another diaper a little ahead of schedule. While we were at home during Memorial day she absolutely kicked and screamed when I tried to put her diaper on after her nap. So finally I said "ok, do you want to put on panties?" of course she shook her head yes because she still agree with pretty much everything we ask her. I took a deep breath and said "ok, here we go!" I had already promised myself that once she puts on a pair of undies, we will NEVER be going back into a diaper, no matter how many accidents she may have or where we decide to go because it would only confuse her.
I really didn't want to start potty training while she was at school because I didn't want to put that on her teacher, because technically they don't start working on that until they get into the two year old room. Tuesday morning I brought her into her room and apologized but made it very clear that I do not want a diaper put on her at all and if she doesn't want to mess with it I will come in and take her potty and clean up all her accidents. Thankfully her teacher is a sweetheart and she said not to worry that she'll do it. She said "what about at nap time?" I told her "NO diaper, if she pees all over herself so be it, I'll come clean it up." Well the first few days were full of accidents, as to be expected. I just made up my mind that every accident was an opportunity to show her how to do it correctly. Even though she would pee in her pants, I would still take her to the potty and sit her on it and tell her "we put our tee tee in the potty."
I think a lot of the teachers at the daycare and pretty much everyone else that knew I was working with her thought I was crazy because apparently she's "way too young." Well it just goes to prove that every kid is different, because after 2 1/2 weeks I can comfortably say that in a few weeks my 19 month old will be completely potty trained! Don't get me wrong, it hasn't been accident free the entire time, in fact our living room carpet is in dire need of a good shampooing! But I have to say, she caught on pretty quick. She's now to the point where she wakes up dry after nap and bed time and tells me when she needs to go tee tee, with the occasional accidents. The pooping part is still coming along, sometimes she tells me and sometimes she leaves me a surprise.
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