Potty Patrol Girls Starter Kit
Potty Training Alarm Diapers
I love my kids and I love being a mom, but that doesn’t mean I love every single little thing about my parental duties. The worst so far (and yes, this is just so far, I know!) is potty training. This whole process seems to last forever until one day it is like POOF – gone. At least, that was how it was for our oldest daughter Brooke. Then, I didn’t give potty training a second thought until – NOW. Baby Brie is doing all the early signs of wanting to go to the potty AKA HATING to have her diapers dirty. You know, where the child will take off to hide away to go and then try and take the diapers off themselves…all that fun stuff you can’t really explain to a person until they have been there.
Brie seems like she is ready to want to use the potty even though I am not sure if she is really ready myself. I do not want to push her, but then again, I don’t want to not help her out if she truly can do it with a little nudging. Then I started to add up everything. 1. Brie is staying dry at night, which I was not even thinking too much about until she said ‘diaper’ (or what sounds like bia-per) and tried to take them off in the morning. 2. She seems to even hate having diapers on her. I even put her in underwear one day and she stayed dry for hours until I got scared and thought she would go all over the floor. 3. This girl is even trying to STEAL her sisters underwear and put them on (over her diapers – ha!) because I think she really wants to be like her big sister. So, yes, she may be trying to tell me – HELP ME LEARN THIS POTTY THING, MOMMA! The thing is – you have to understand the entire process of feeling like you have to go potty with actually going to the potty and then actually using it. That’s a lot of steps for someone who is just 18 months old.
That is when I read about Potty Training Alarm Diapers and thought – YES! – this is a perfect middle road for gentle potty training based on an easy method. When the child starts to go to the restroom in their potty training diaper, an ‘alarm’ (which is really just a nursery rhyme song) goes off and you can take your little ones to the potty to let them finish. No more afterthought or not knowing when your child is trying to go. Pretty brilliant, I thought. I know parents that do this without using an alarm system, but more often than not, your child never ends up actually using the potty at all because you are too late in the process. So, we decided to give it a try and, since Brie’s at daycare during the day, we decided to start out over a long weekend and see how it went. Surprisingly, it went really well.
This is the gist of how the weekend went. First time, diaper alarm goes off – I say, “Uh oh! Time for the potty!” and rush her to the chair and let her finish her business. Second time, diaper alarm goes off – I say, “Uh oh! Time for the potty!” and rush her to the chair and let her finish her business. Third time, diaper alarm goes off – BRIE says ‘Uh oh’ and heads to the bathroom. While she didn’t make it in time to finish, she got there on her own. It started to feel like I wasn’t the one being trained to use the potty, Brie was and IS actually learning. That was when I started to just hang back and let her figure it out. While I have not been brave enough to start trying without the diapers yet, I do plan to stop using the alarm system first and then work our way into real underwear. I understand much better as a parent this second go-around that potty training is a process and it is something that (even if the child is capable) the child has to want to do and lucky for me, Brie wants to be like her big sister. At this rate, the child will be out of training underwear before she is two and I am sooooo good with that. Either way, I always heard other moms tell me when Brooke was potty training to ‘not worry’ you won’t be taking them to kindergarten in diapers – and how right they were! So if you think your child is ready to give the potty training a ‘go’ and you are looking for ways to try, I definitely recommend Potty Patrol. It has really helped Brie to start making connections on going to the potty without any parental reminder to build her confidence. To me, that is what potty training is all about; your child wanting to master control of their own bodies. Pretty cool. I think I’m ready to see my baby grow up. I think?
Potty Patrol Girls Starter Kit
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