. I don't watch the show that often, but I'm glad I caught their Hot Topics in order to see her show this travel size potty. Like her, I'm potty training Dylan. I've had to take his big, bulky potty with us on walks and to the park. No fun. This On the Go Potty is soooo cool. It folds into a compact size, comes with 3 disposable liners, and its very own travel bag! I know, exciting stuff.
I ordered mine from Amazon (mostly because they had different colors. I got green and blue) and received it this week. I couldn't wait to try it out. So today we went for a walk around the neighborhood. I would ask him periodically if he had to go. Of course his answer was always, "No thank you. No go potty." When we finally get home almost an hour later, I see him grabbing himself--the universal sign that he's gotta go. By the time I get it out, he's already leaking. That didn't stop me from putting him on. And we still had some success! I love this On the Go Potty! It is so lightweight, folds and unfolds easily, and just so handy to have. One of the greatest inventions; right up there with the invention of the wheel. Oh, you don't have to order extra bags with the liners. I saw someone suggest using grocery bags and putting cut up sanitary pads in the bottom to soak up the mess. Great idea and saves money!
This potty training thing is definitely an experience. We've been working on it for a while and he's doing so well (minus the above incident). At first he would let me know when he had to poop. But he would go through phases of being diligent in telling me and then slack off. Also, with having a new baby, it was hard for me to stay on top of him going.
Once we moved to a house with laminate floors, I thought about just putting underwear on him and seeing what would happen. But before I decided to do something crazy like that and let him pee all over the place, I did a little research. I found this awesome web site, Potty Training Concepts, that told me how to potty train in one day. I didn't follow all of their advice completely, like buying a doll and its own potty or training pants, only because I knew that Dylan knew what he was supposed to do and didn't need a doll to show him how to do it. So I put some whitey-tighties on him and just let him run around the house like that. We had some issues the first day (like him peeing in my bed), but by the end of the day, we could see a noticeable difference. Bart thought I was crazy especial after he found out Dylan wet our bed. But now that he sees it working, he's very proud. He's gotta learn to trust me on some things. We're doing pretty well with that web sites help. He still has accidents ever now and then (like just now because he's waiting too long before saying something!!), but for the most part he tells me when he's gotta go. I don't like to use pullups with him except when he goes to sleep or on long car rides (though I may stop doing that now that I have On the Go Potty). I found that he would tell me at first that he had to go, but once he realized they were pullups, then he would just wet himself.
The thing that drives me crazy about Dylan is that he knows when he says, "Pooh pooh on the potty," I move. So if he's in time-out, in bed for nap/bedtime or doing something that he doesn't want to be doing, he says, "Pooh pooh on the potty." If I don't respond, there's always the chance that he'll wet or pooh on himself, which he has done in the past. Nothing worse than finding your son's hands covered in pooh after he's told you he had to go and you didn't believe him. I'm so tired of him crying "Wolf." Anyone out there got any suggestions to get him to stop? I'm open. I figured out that I can take him before nap/bedtime and before we get in the car. But when he's in time-out or whatever, he says it over and over again. I have started taking out of time-out letting him sit on the potty and then putting him right back in. Hopefully he'll figure out that it's useless to do that and will stop.
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