Comments on: Potty Training Regression http://www.ourbabyoflove.com/2009/10/29/potty-training-regression/ Blogging about our little Darius Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:11:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Laurie http://www.ourbabyoflove.com/2009/10/29/potty-training-regression/comment-page-1/#comment-1820 Laurie Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:34:13 +0000 http://www.ourbabyoflove.com/?p=5978#comment-1820 Dreamycat, I hope it's helpful for you to know that many others have experienced what you are experiencing with your boy. Infant potty training does not progress in a linear (straight forward) fashion. For 3 steps forward, there can be 1 backwards. When kids learn to walk, they stumble and fall many times but we don't get upset. When they learn to talk, they babble, mispronounce some words, etc. and we do not get upset. Toilet learning is another one of those important things our kids learn. He is progressing at his natural rate, thanks to your assistance. You are right that being nonchalant (no anger or punishment) about misses is a good idea. If he is happy when you take him every hour, great. If he starts to refuse, try to get his interest back in various ways. Try different things such as different positions, locations and toys/books. For example, if using the toilet, let him face the back of the toilet, see if he likes that. If using a potty, put it in different locations for a while (even outside if you have enough privacy and if weather permits). Dreamycat,

I hope it’s helpful for you to know that many others have experienced what you are experiencing with your boy. Infant potty training does not progress in a linear (straight forward) fashion. For 3 steps forward, there can be 1 backwards.

When kids learn to walk, they stumble and fall many times but we don’t get upset. When they learn to talk, they babble, mispronounce some words, etc. and we do not get upset. Toilet learning is another one of those important things our kids learn. He is progressing at his natural rate, thanks to your assistance. You are right that being nonchalant (no anger or punishment) about misses is a good idea.

If he is happy when you take him every hour, great. If he starts to refuse, try to get his interest back in various ways. Try different things such as different positions, locations and toys/books. For example, if using the toilet, let him face the back of the toilet, see if he likes that. If using a potty, put it in different locations for a while (even outside if you have enough privacy and if weather permits).

]]> By: Dreamycat http://www.ourbabyoflove.com/2009/10/29/potty-training-regression/comment-page-1/#comment-1818 Dreamycat Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:38:52 +0000 http://www.ourbabyoflove.com/?p=5978#comment-1818 thanks Laurie for the advice. Hopefully, he will be back to himself soon. I'm trying to spend more time with him and bring him to toilet every hour instead of waiting for him to let me know. Then, we won't have upsetting misses. I just can't help feeling disappointed that he has been doing so well for more than 6 months when he can't even talk. Now when he understands stuff & can even repeat some words, he went backwards. Instead of 'telling', he became not 'telling'. Margaret, yeah, it's so frustrating right when you know they want to go yet just refuses? For Darius, it's slightly different. He doesn't refuse for peeing. He just do his release everywhere, anytime. When I bring him to potty, he still can pee. But he can also pee again 10mins or half an hour later, no more holding it. thanks Laurie for the advice. Hopefully, he will be back to himself soon.
I’m trying to spend more time with him and bring him to toilet every hour instead of waiting for him to let me know.
Then, we won’t have upsetting misses.
I just can’t help feeling disappointed that he has been doing so well for more than 6 months when he can’t even talk. Now when he understands stuff & can even repeat some words, he went backwards. Instead of ‘telling’, he became not ‘telling’.

Margaret, yeah, it’s so frustrating right when you know they want to go yet just refuses? For Darius, it’s slightly different. He doesn’t refuse for peeing. He just do his release everywhere, anytime. When I bring him to potty, he still can pee. But he can also pee again 10mins or half an hour later, no more holding it.

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