The Christensen Family: Pee in the potty now

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Pee in the potty now

I think he's got it!

Trevor is going to preschool in September. The prereqisite is that he is potty trained. Uhhhhh. So we started potty training the day before I registered him.
On day 1, he wasn't getting it at all. He peed his pants a lot, but pooped on the potty. He didn't know how to make himself "go pee". We spent a good deal of time in the bathroom. We got a potty that sits on the floor, a potty watch to sing to him when it was time to pee, made a potty chart, bought wonderful juice, and offered bribes (hand-picked treats by Trev from Target) for encouragement- still nada.
Day 2, he still hadn't gone on the potty, although we spent a better part of the morning in the bathroom. Finally at 11am, we went outside. He got in the hammock to relax, and he certainly relaxed! Ugg. At 1 pm, I took him to the preschool to meet his teacher. He peed on her floor. Mortified? Steve says the upshot for her is that we paid her a good bit to clean up that pee (it was the registration money, and yes, I did offer repetaedly to get the Resolve, but she refused.)
Day 3- still no pee. In fact, I was gone for 4 hours in the morning, and he still had on the same undies as that morning- but no reported pee. He was holding it, despite drinking plenty. Steve got home a bit early from work and "encouraged" him. I had lost some hope and put a pull-up on him after he flooded the bathroom with toliet water as he attempted to flush his undies when he stated that he "needed privavcies" to pee. Thank you, Steve. He finally peed that afternoon. Since then, he has done really great! 1 or 2 accidents, mostly associated with #2 now, is all we have had. He did great at church, and when we are out and about. He has "conquered the stream". I really think that once he felt himself pee, he recognized what he needed to do. Kids are funny. Yay Trevor!