I’m beginning to wonder if Little Man will ever be potty trained. I have signed him up to start preschool two days a week starting in June. But, he has to be potty trained first.
So, I talked to our care provider, telling her, “I’m ready to go cold turkey on diapers!”
She looked at me shell shocked, saying, “well I can’t be cleaning messes all day. He must be ‘almost there’ before I can start.”
Almost there. Tell me, how do I get said 2.75 year old ‘almost there’ when she is with him 45 hours a week and she’s NOT participating. Hmmm…
Of course, around the same time, he lost interest in the whole process anyway.
So, I’m starting to think his start date at preschool will come and go… Although they will give us one more chance for next school year with a September deadline.
I keep trying on the weekends, but honestly, we do so much on the weekends that it’s a pain to have him wetting his pants while we’re out and about. If only I could outsource potty training…
If you can go the first 2-3 days, he will be 75% there. So maybe take a couple days off work to spend with him, and then send him to the sitter the rest of the week. We did cold turkey, and the first day was awful. By the second, he got it but coudln’t make it in time. By the end of the second day, he was finally getting it and the third day had way less accidents. Good luck!
Great point! Not sure I can take three days off, but your post did make me think about Memorial Day weekend in a new way!