Little G goes Potty

Life had been busy. Little G is now three and I know we need to work on his potty. We are going to send him to school on fall and most schools don’t accept kids when they’re not fully potty trained yet. And we have hear so much stories that little boys are so hard to teach. I have read a lot of tips and tricks. Hit the cheerios. Let him watch Daddy go pee. Give reward after he goes to the bathroom. Let him sit with the iPad and install and new app that he could only play when he goes potty. Buy lots of underpants.

We did all those. except for the cheerios part. We started trying to teach him how to pee when he was about 30months old. And it was hard. He doesn’t seem to understand what we wanted him to do.

When he turned three, he started showing signs of interest on going potty. He has been watching Daniel Tiger and the neighborhood and one of the episodes was that Daniel went potty. Little G has been saying potty, potty. HE would go to the bathroom, sit down and pretend to pee then wash his hands. The singing part was very helpful. And we decided to take advantage of him going pee. We would have him sit on the toilet first thing in the morning and ask him to pee but still he cannot produce any urine. We gave him iPad to make him sit longer but no pee comes out. I bought starburst and told him that he would get one when he goes to bathroom and finally he was able to make urine. I told him he would get one if water comes out of his penis. Since he liked the starburst, he would always go to the bathroom and make himself pee. Thank God!

Two days! and yes in less than a week, we are diaper free. Little G goes to the bathroom and pee on his own. I wouldn’t say I really put too much effort. We probably only needed 10 starburst for him to ask to go bathroom. I thought the whole house will smell like pee since we have carpet but thankfully not.

It’s true what I learned on one of my mommy group. Boys learn when they are three.

Now next step is go number 2. We will see…