Morning: accidents 1 successes 0
hm.. by now something should be clicking. However, we sat on the potty for 15 mins twice this morning. he held his pee a solid 2.5 hours before his morning nap and I'm sure once his diaper was put on he peed in it. We are thinking that perhaps putting on loose underwear that will get all wet with accidents might motivate him a little more. Sadly though, I don't think the problem is motivation, he is clearly learning to hold it, the problem is the connection being made that pee goes in the potty. Since it hasn't happened, he has no idea why he is sitting on the potty.
afternoon: accidents 4 successes 0
ok so he's definitely holding the pee longer, but there is absolutely no connection at all of where it is supposed to go. He now enjoys 'potty time,' after we say "Joel it's time to sit on the potty." he says excitedly "Bot-tee Bot-tee!" and runs to his little potty where we show him youtube kid videos with songs, he never gets this anywhere else so of course he loves potty time! We got him to sit about 15-20 mins each time today so that is an improvement as well.. I guess. By 5pm we had officially given up and put a diaper on him to go on an outing to the park. If I really want to make myself feel better I could count that poop 'success' from yesterday and also today one of Joel's accidents went 100% into Daddy's shoe so that should count for something right?
The following article outlines Julie Fellom's Book and the 'Potty Training in 3 days or less' method which we attempted. At one point she says "if your child is having less than a 75% success rate or worse, or doesn't seem to notice the pee running down her leg, stop and try again later." I think that a 0% success rate would qualify. However, he did notice the pee running down his legs he would whine and look over at us, but he never did anything right before it. It was like the pee just came out to his complete shock every time! ha.
She also says "It's pretty much guaranteed to work for children who try it before 28 months."
LOL.
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