Kids Health Notes give-away: Playdate Kids potty training book
June 9, 2008 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
After that other post, I guess we’ll talk potty training now…
One of my parenting hang-ups is potty training. For the life of me, I can not get my 3YO daughter to use the potty! I think I tried every trick in the book – rewards, stickers, calendars, motivation, and I hate to admit – frustration too. Still she would not. She knows how and will sometimes pee, but potty #2 is just a struggle. And I have a feeling I am not the only parent in the world that has this dilemma (raise your virtual hands, please!… please?). We can sure use all the help we can get.
Well… Playdate Kids just sponsored to give-away 10 copies of the award-winning book on potty training – “Island Potty Party” (Mom’s Choice Award Winner). Each book includes a CD, sheet music and simple dance routine to reinforce the lessons.
How to join?
- In the comments, share your tips on getting toddlers to potty train.
- Additional entry will be given to those who link this contest post on their site! You need to include your post URL.
- Eligibility – one entry per person per email daily (so you get more entries if you come back tomorrow, but I need different tips each time).
- It’s open to residents of the US. If you have a blog, do post your URL as well, as I love to visit my readers’ sites and catch a conversation.
Contest ends 12:00 midnight EST on June 23, 2008 (Monday). Ten winners will be randomly chosen and announced via blog and email the week after. If the winner does not reply within 3 days, he/she forfeits her winnings and an alternate winner will be chosen.
Playdate Kids Publishing is a multi-award winning children’s book & DVD publishing company. The company educates children during tough transitions and encourage them to develop strong and confident social skills. Endorsed by the child psychologist and marriage & family therapist (Annie Thiel, Ph.D.), parents can use the books as certified guides of instructions. The stories in the books are lessons without the heavy hand of instructions.
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Count me in!
I started out using pull ups because they’re quicker to get off than diapers and little ‘accidents’ were no big deal. Once my charge began to understand the concept, we transitioned to thick underwear.
The best tip I can say, is that pullups during the day are evil! lol It’s better (be it messier) to just switch them straight into undies. Yeah, more laundry to do, but at least they will know when they are wet & hopefully help them understand the whole concept of going on the potty better.
I’m in
Cheerios as targets work pretty well!
having a lot of trouble training my little girl. She is 33 months old. She says “No” to the potty and runs away. Tried the little potty, the insert seat to the big potty. Videos, etc. This would be a great help.
We are trying to train our 2 year old granddaughter. She’s been a challenge, and we need all the help we can get!
Tip: wait until he/she’s ready. And don’t expect perfection right away. They’re smart-they’ll figure out that clean pants are better!!
Having a hard time training granddaughter at 2 1/2.
our day care provider did most of the work
I really need this for my daughter!!
This would be great for my daughter who is will be starting to potty train her first.
Don’t try and start potty training if there are other big changes going on in your child’s life. Make sure there are no major disruptions, so that kiddo feels relaxed and receptive to your potty training.
Encourage them
Fruit Loops in the bowl provide colorful targets!
I only raised boys, they always went to the restroom with their dads or older brothers. Please enter me, thank you
don’t forget to install proper hygiene habits as well.
We are trying to potty train our son right now and we have a potty chart on the bathroom door. Every time he goes potty he gets to put a sticker on the chart. The chart is homemade so it was very affordable.
Reward system, using a chart with stickers. When she gets the required stickers (about 3 or 4) she gets a small reward.
I wouldn’t recommend getting a potty with too many gadgets/toys. We found a basic potty worked far better than the more expensive potty with all the bells and whistles: too many distractions.
I made a big chart next to his potty chair. I put stars on the chart which mean Gold-I did it! Blue-Almost and Red-I tried. My daughter really enjoys this as it not only encourages her to go but even if she does not quite make it, she still feels good as she knows I am proud of her for trying.
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I found cool tonka truck, put it on a shelf in the bathroom with a sticker card. After going potty in the toilet 10 times by himself(with help) he got his prize. To help him get better aim while standing I used targets that float on top of the water and when hit with urine sink.
I like the reward system idea and trying when they appear ready. Thanks
4 the contest!:)
great prize
Patience lots and lots of patience.
This is perfect. We just started potty training and it is not going well.
Tip would be working with your child and not waiting. Rewards and explaining! This all helps!!
Show your child how happy you are by his or her accomplishment even approaching the toilet! Pretty soon it all works out.
Oh wow, my baby is nearly a toddler and this would really be helpful! Cool I luv the jungle
My daughter is just starting to potty train again. We were at it for a while in the past, but then her brother was born and she sort of backslided and it didn’t want to push it while she was adjusting. What worked for us even though I know a lot of people don’t recommend it, was offering her a treat for going on the potty. I kept a jar of M&Ms and everytime she went she’d get 2. She was peeing on it almost everytime, we’re starting to work on potty training again, with Elmo’s Potty Time DVD. The M&M thing works pretty well though.
read stories to them
you have to be consistent with taking them to the potty
i WOuld love to win
My son found freedom and accomplished peeing while standing by peeing outside. We went walking in the woods and his father showed him how to pee. Care be taken, he liked to pee in our front yard after that so tell him when it is appropriate.
I have potty trained a girl and a boy, the boy was quicker. Girls don’t like to use “ugly” toilets while out shopping and boys can just pee on the grass. I am about to potty train my last child (boy) and I have waited until summer to do so since we live in New England.
I know they say to throw a party for a doll who pees on the potty. I wish my son would be interested- he wants nothing to do with the potty. He actually loves diapers and calls underwear “stupid”.
I think the best way to potty train is to let the kid decide when he is ready to use it and not trying to push him into doing something he can’t or doesn’t want to do yet.
I would so love to win this book
Keep the door open when you pee and wait for them to show interest.
Boys love to pee off the porch!
Don’t put them in those pull ups but just let them wear a nice pair of ‘undies’ that they can feel ‘wet’ when the pee and they will want to keep the nice undies dry and will try harder.
Consistency creates a routine
Ugh! My son is two and I am starting to stress about the whole potty training thing! We bought him a potty and he really has ZERO interest in it!! I have no advice to give but am desperately looking for anything new to try!
For boys: In the summer- let them run around naked. They can really feel when they have to go and they will pick it up in no time. They love to pee outside!
I wish I had some tips, because my 3.5 yr old boy is not making any progress.
My ideas are the many zillions offered: 1. Reward sticker programs; 2. The girls loved going on the muscial potty seat; over the adult toilet. Many Thanks SW
I posted earlier that we had used the Toilet Training in Less than a Day with our daughter and it really worked. One of the things that you will use if you use that method is one of those dolls that can go potty.
Always use positive reinforcement.
Don’t make a big deal of setbacks, they are inevitable and eventually the little one will get it down:)
we put the boys backwards on the toilet. it seemed to help.
I wish I had a tip for you. I’m in the same place you are. My 3 year old son refuses to use the potty. Knows how, just doesn’t want to, definitely not number two. I’ve tried lots of rewards. So far the best thing that’s worked is to put him in regular underwear around the house. There are accidents to clean up, but it seems to make him more aware of it, and he does try harder to keep those clean than a Pull-Up.