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dm24angel
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by Ophelia
I don't understand this whole "understanding" aspect.
we feed babies with a spoon...do they understand what a spoon is? NO. they just know if they open their mouth for it food will enter.
most everything we teach our children is conditioned response. the word "NO" at 9 months Luce associates that with something he shouldn't be doing.
so shall he with potty and pee and caca.
eventually he will "understand" all of the functions of his body.
but I didn't wait to feed him until he understood the grumbling in his tummy meant hunger.
so I will condition him to the potty. I will have him associate the feelings in his tummy and the sensation in his penis to using the potty.
and I may have to take some snuggle time out to do it. but he is learning something. and I am ok with that.
and YES, I do use cloth diapers.
ETA: the ages people are throwing around are TRAINED BY ages, meaning they started sometime BEFORE that age and had success BY that time frame.
so, we are starting at 10 or 11 months (whenever I get the potty that was the ACTUAL reason for this post, but  ) and whenever he is trained, he will be trained.
that's all folks.
You dont have to defend yourself..and I dont have to defend my opinion...this is getting redudant...so Good luck to you!
we all do things our own way and for our own reasons.
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
I have thought of training early. Let me know what works and good luck!
P.S. My family has potty trained literally a dozen kids, and we never used a training potty, just a little seat that goes on top of the regular potty. You can give that a try. Less to clean up.
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
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maybesoon
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by SweetCaroline
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As for the potty training debate, I worked in an orphanage in Mexico & the little ones (yes 1 yos too)were all trained to go on command. But they all had their own little metal buckets. I assume you're looking for something more fancy for the Little Prince.
Yep, my sister, now 6, had a "bucket" and was trained around a year in her orphanage. When my mom got her home at 16 months and a friend gifted her a personalized beach pail, poor thing ran screaming, "no ca-ca" 
**** hilarious
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by dm24angel
Posted by tatuka
Posted by dm24angel
I think your MIL might be exagerrating a bit 
or maybe not I have never met a kid who was not potty trained by the time they were 1 or 17-18 months in Georgia (that's the country I am from) and for a kid not to be potty trained by the age 2 is almost unheard of. They start with elimination communication and it turns into a potty training, that's how they do it in Italy and many other countries as well. Me and my sister were potty trained by the time we were 13 months old (my brother was 14 months) and my sisters kids were both fully potty trained by the time they were 14 months old.
THERE IS NO PRESSURE, NO FORCING THE KIDS. If it happens it happehs, if not it's OK.
My DD was almost fully potty trained by by 18 months .
Just to clarify : I am not counting nighttime potty training, I am just mean during the day.
I think theres a big difference between a lot of the age frames people are throwing out. your saying a year - 17-18 months...thats a big difference....And the difference between the O/P's 9 month old and an 18 month old is like comparing a 10 to 20 yr old person!
my point was that almost EVERY KID I know overseas is potty trained by the time they are a year old (12 MONTHS) or under 18 months the latest. As I posted above my sister and I and my sisters kids we were all potty trained by the time we were 13-14 months old, that's not really too far from 12 months. and most of my friend's kids are potty trained and 3 of them are 13 months old. one is almost 14 months.
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by dm24angel
So I just wonder why people would push a baby to not be a baby?
In many , many countries all over the world kids have been potty training at a very young age for a very LOOONG time, no one is pushing anyone , you just have to do it right, there is no forcing, really, if it happens it happens, if not oh well..... But no matter how much I try to explain most people will not understand in the US, bc that's just not how things are here.
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stickydust
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by tatuka
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my point was that almost EVERY KID I know overseas is potty trained by the time they are a year old (12 MONTHS) or under 18 months the latest. As I posted above my sister and I and my sisters kids we were all potty trained by the time we were 13-14 months old, that's not really too far from 12 months. and most of my friend's kids are potty trained and 3 of them are 13 months old. one is almost 14 months.
I know this seems to be the standard in Eastern Europe but not neccesarily Western Europe and especially the UK where they emply a more "child driven" approach.
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by Ophelia
I don't understand this whole "understanding" aspect.
we feed babies with a spoon...do they understand what a spoon is? NO. they just know if they open their mouth for it food will enter.
most everything we teach our children is conditioned response. the word "NO" at 9 months Luce associates that with something he shouldn't be doing.
so shall he with potty and pee and caca.
eventually he will "understand" all of the functions of his body.
but I didn't wait to feed him until he understood the grumbling in his tummy meant hunger.
so I will condition him to the potty. I will have him associate the feelings in his tummy and the sensation in his penis to using the potty.
and I may have to take some snuggle time out to do it. but he is learning something. and I am ok with that.
and YES, I do use cloth diapers.
ETA: the ages people are throwing around are TRAINED BY ages, meaning they started sometime BEFORE that age and had success BY that time frame.
so, we are starting at 10 or 11 months (whenever I get the potty that was the ACTUAL reason for this post, but ) and whenever he is trained, he will be trained.
that's all folks.
 
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by stickydust
Posted by tatuka
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my point was that almost EVERY KID I know overseas is potty trained by the time they are a year old (12 MONTHS) or under 18 months the latest. As I posted above my sister and I and my sisters kids we were all potty trained by the time we were 13-14 months old, that's not really too far from 12 months. and most of my friend's kids are potty trained and 3 of them are 13 months old. one is almost 14 months.
I know this seems to be the standard in Eastern Europe but not neccesarily Western Europe and especially the UK where they emply a more "child driven" approach.
It is standard or very common in many other countries other than Eastern European countries . And potty training your kid at an early age doesn't mean that they don't "emply more child drive approach"
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by stickydust
I know this seems to be the standard in Eastern Europe but not neccesarily Western Europe and especially the UK where they emply a more "child driven" approach.
I will almost wager, that if you go back 20 years, UK was potty training by the time a kid could walk. All probably due to the lack of tech with regards to diapers. I think the motivation is mostly that the old school cloth diapers are a big PITA.
IMO, you cannot talk about "child driven" with regards to potty training, because its a societal thing, a child wouldn't have any interest in it, unless you teach them.
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by tatuka
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Posted by tatuka
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my point was that almost EVERY KID I know overseas is potty trained by the time they are a year old (12 MONTHS) or under 18 months the latest. As I posted above my sister and I and my sisters kids we were all potty trained by the time we were 13-14 months old, that's not really too far from 12 months. and most of my friend's kids are potty trained and 3 of them are 13 months old. one is almost 14 months.
I know this seems to be the standard in Eastern Europe but not neccesarily Western Europe and especially the UK where they emply a more "child driven" approach.
It is standard or very common in many other countries other than Eastern European countries . And potty training your kid at an early age doesn't mean that they don't "emply more child drive approach"
This is not my term - if you do some research on the "history" of potty training etc. this is the term used by the "experts". I certainly do not mean any offense in my use of the term but it does convey the current approach which is to let the child let you know when he/she is ready to be trained. It is not an offensive term in the least it is descriptive and really not pro or against any particular method. The current US standard is to let the child take the lead - it is of course as a result of the ease in use of disposable diapers.
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Nicole728
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
We have the fisher price potty that sings...DD will sit on it, has used it a few times, but has lost interest.
BTW, my mom was preaching how I was trained at 18mths, and she thought DD was ready, blah blah...well I tried, and one week DD loved to go potty, the next week she hated it.
Soooo, needless to say I'm letting her have some more time. I can't rush her...She'll be 2 next month...I'm sure she'll let me know when she's ready.
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
I dont have any experience with it, so my recommendation is just based on cuteness and not functionality, but i just saw this on Etsy and thought it was so freakin' cute! 
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jellybean78
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
Posted by Heather617
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We started potty training with DS around 19-20 months and he was fully trained by 23 month. We did not use a potty we used a potty seat. I did not want something else to clean. Worked great for us!
Can I see a pic of what you used? TIA!
BRU sells one like this. We had some one we bought from BRU but it was Elmo. We bought DS a stool and he climbed up and down himself.
This is what we do. DD goes straight on the toilet. My Mom bought her a potty and she never like it then we figured why train her to use a potty when she's going to have to get used to using the toilet anyway....plus less mess.
FWIW: DDs babysitter is Columbian...over there kids are trained much earlier than here.. She says Americans wait too long to start potty training. That said we started with DD right after she turned 2. She wasn't ready so we didn't push it. Now at 2.5 she's fully potty trained (except for nighttime). It was literally like a lightbulb went off in her head...from one day to the next.
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Re: Potty trainers, especially early trainers, recommend your potty
I'd love to hear some of your MIL's tips/strategies/methods.
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