Donald Duck Potty Training

Potty training a child is no easy task. There have been many countless times that I had to fight with my toddler in order to get him to even want to go near the potty. I tried the reward system; if he peed he got a sticker, if he pooped he got a Hotwheel. However, to my surprise this system only worked for a few days, after awhile he gave up and I did to. I have to admit that this method was a little effective. He did begin to get use to the potty, but I needed something stronger, more encouraging to get him to use it on his own.

I thought that by forcing him to go on the potty just might do the trick. If I seemed more enforcing then maybe he would buckle down and do his thing. I had read in a book that you shouldn’t force a child to go to the bathroom because it will push them further away, but I had to see for myself. Just like the book had said, this method pushed him further away from the bathroom and deeper into diapers.

When his baby sister was born I knew that I would have even more problems with his potty training. Two kids in diapers were starting to get annoying and my husband and I couldn’t take it anymore. When we would ask him why he went to the bathroom in his pull-up instead of his potty, he would reply, “well the baby goes pee in her diaper.” He didn’t want to believe that someone was taking his place and that he was being forced into a whole new realm of life outside of his comfort zone.

One day my mother and her friend were visiting and I was discussing my potty training issues with them. My mother’s friend told me a story about someone who wore diapers to kindergarten and everyone teased her, so that was the day that she decided to stop wearing diapers. I couldn’t bear to see my three year old in diapers any longer. There wasn’t anyway that I was going to allow him to be in diapers in kindergarten.

I tried everything, every method that I could think of and my three year old was still in diapers. He knew how to spell his name, but not pee in the potty. I was beginning to get overwhelmed with the double diaper expense and no matter what I did he only seemed to be regressing instead of progressing.