the big 0-2 is coming up… louise will be 2 on the 31st and we’ve got two big challenges ahead, kicking the deedee (pacifier) and potty training. louise looooooves her deedee so i know that will be difficult and potty training scares the crap out of me!! any advice?
p.s. i’m having random problems posting comments on blogger.com, so if you’ve posted and i haven’t commented, please know i’ve tried!!
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My daughter would never take a pacifier. There were times when i desperately wished she would have been happy about something, anything, but at least we never had to get rid of it later. My son looooved his pacifier, but then I was so worried about having a four year old with a binky that I got rid of it when he was about 6 months old. It was actually not such a big deal, we just cut tiny slits in the bottom and gradually increased the size of them until there was no “oomph” left at all. It took about four days. If I’d known it would be that easy I would have let him have it another few months, but he was at the point of needing it all the time and I was worried about his speech development.
As for potty training, let me know what you come up with. My son really likes to pee on the potty and is fairly reliable as long as he isn’t wearing pants. But even with just pajama pants on it doesn’t work. Undies, forget it. So, I let him go on the potty whenever he is naked and wants to, otherwise it’s diapers all the way. I’m not sure what to do next, but I think I am basically wimping out until it’s warm enough to just stay outside all day for a few days and see if he gets the hang of it. My daughter was about 25 months old and just said she didn’t want diapers anymore – she had used a potty a few times and decided she wanted pretty flowery underpants and that was that. So easy! Maybe Louise will surprise you?
Chocolate. Bribe with chocolate.
The potty training will come when they want it to.
You can’t force it. For us, we started putting Chunky on the toilet when he became interested in it. Then from there we let him roam the house with underwear so that he knew when he wet himself.
But I won’t lie, it was hard. I think it took more work and consistency on our part than his.
But be patient with it.
As for the soo soo…well started sending him to bed without it. We would distract him with books. He fussed at first but then got used to being with out it at night.
During the day it was another story but he eventually stopped using it on his own.
Again, every kid is different.
Be patient with them!
thanks for sharing lorraine, good to hear from you! how old was chunky kimberly?
I am with Lorraine. I tried and tried to get Peter to take a pacifier. ALL TITTY, ALL THE TIME was his motto. I am not even going to try and potty train Peter till he is 2.5, I don’t see the point for us. He is soooo not ready. But we do things like read potty books and whenever I go I bring him with me and explain what I am doing and tonight for the first time he went in the bathroom with Daddy and watched that. My neighbor ( that I like, not the crazy UBER MOM) says there is no habit you can’t break in three miserable days. So if it were me I would decide what is important and work toward that. Like… is it that you want the pacifier gone completely or that you don’t want it in public?
i think we will probably wean the pacifier down to naps and bedtime and as far as potty training goes, she doesn’t seem interested yet, but i am thinking of buying her some undies, letting her pee in them and seeing what she thinks about that.
I’m glad your trip went well! Good luck with everything, and happy (soon) birthday to a cutie!
Happy early birthday to Louise!!!