It has been a month since he last had a pee accident. Hooray!
We went through alot to arrive at this day. I know the rule of toilet training is always to wait for the child to be ready for it. But Seth was kinda forced into it. Reason being diaper rashes on his butt that were results of perspiration from diaper wearing. The rashes were like little blisters and the hot weather was not helpful at all.
That started a series of intensive training that was both agonising and painful. For me! From months ago when he started off not even willing to sit on the potty, I managed to coax him to sit in front of the TV. It was an exasperating period as he could sit there for 45 minutes with no pee. And the minute I told him to get up he would pee on the floor and start crying. Sigh. I totally freaked out and lost my cool each time he did that.
Meanwhile, I bought him a cute little potty and started the ‘Stars Award’. Every time he peed into it, we would give him a star sticker to paste on the potty. It worked sometimes. We were happy. We finally saw some light at the end of the tunnel.
Friends suggested buying Thomas the Tank kids briefs for him so he may be happy to wear them and not pee on them. He was happy and excited about them. But that was until he had to pee. Sorry Thomas. Thomas the Tank became Thomas the Pee-Tank. But was he remorseful. He really loved those briefs and each time he managed to pee into the potty and not wet Thomas, he would happily put them back on like his trophy!
Sometime towards the end of June, he managed to ‘Pee-On-Demand’. This was a huge improvement to me. From having to ask him to sit on the potty and wait for Mr Pee to descend, he now holds the commanding post! I would ask him to pee at regular intervals and all would be well. We took this chance to transfer him onto a child seat on our adult toilet bowl. This saves us cleaning time and hopefully he would be able to use the toilet independently in the future. With this, he was able to pee on toilet bowls when we are outside too. We trained him to pee standing up too before his showers each day. That is helpful when we use the kids’ urinals in the ladies’ toilets in the new malls nowadays! No more stinko toilet bowls! Yay!
And so by the end of June, he finally made his first attempt to inform us when he wants to pee. We were elated. In order not to confuse him and ask him to pee in his diapers when we are outside, we took a lot of effort finding toilets during that period. We were proud that he was able to hold back Mr Pee and wait for the availability of the toilet each time.
He has been off diapers in the day ever since. Thou I still put them on when he naps, they have been kept dry till he wakes and asks for the potty. Night times are tough though as he drinks milk an hour before he sleeps. We would wake him up to pee when we go to bed but sometimes he would still wake up with a wet diaper. However, we are not too pushy about that now. He can take his time on night training. At least for now.
Alas, he is totally poo-unfriendly towards the potty. He refuses to sit and push Mr Poo out. We are totally defeated in this aspect and have tried everything to no avail. Sigh. There were accidents where he pooed into his pants and onto the floor. But it seems that he has now wised up and keeps his poo till night time when we put on his diapers for bed. We would often walk into a smelly bedroom and find him asleep in his poo. Totally Gross! =S
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