How do you make your child poo in the toilet?

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I can remember well when my son did his first big one in the toilet to great cheers from everyone, only to walk down the steps and pee all over the floor!

Goodness, I really did just do a LOL.

 

[Callie]

Maybe, but my mum doesn't post on the internet about my poo.

You should print out his thread to show to your little one when shes older

I must say Ive found it fascinating reading - all the things you think about being a parent entails - I never really considered having to teach a child to poo in the toilet

They should come with instructions!

 

[Callie]

She knows that we pee in the toilet and not in the potty or the garden or when we get in the bath, usually.

I suspected blagsta wasn't housetrained

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's a family toilet seat. Does nobody read threads before posting?

You posted a photo of a toilet seat. Not sure if I read, but I did look.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Eh? give her a nappy to do a poo in?
I have a child toilet seat. She has no problem sitting on this (she likes it) and having a wee (see the rest of the thread) but shes not done a poop yet and doesn't ask to go to the toilet to wee and poo. Though she does sometimes just ask to sit on the toilet for no reason.

One thing I'll guarantee you: she will end up pooing in the toilet. It just might not seem that way right now.

And count your blessings: boys are way harder to toilet train than girls.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well, my boy was still getting wee over the lavatory seat (too lazy to lift it) until the day he left home but he wasn't harder to get out of nappies than Pip.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

There is a picture of what could possibly be one but I didn't realise that until I went back through the thread.

Ditto.

 

[spring-peeper]

Well, my boy was still getting wee over the lavatory seat (too lazy to lift it) until the day he left home but he wasn't harder to get out of nappies than Pip.

I had two of each and didn't notice much difference either.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Not at all and in fact the question has pointed out the fact that the answer I previously posted to this question somehow turned into a double post of some other reply, so sorry about that.

I like the idea of my daughter knowing from the off that the bathroom is the place for toilet. She seems to enjoy the family toilet seat so I don't really think there is a problem there. I don't really like the idea of potties, sorry.

Also my wife is japanese and all the japanese books and DVDs about poop and wee involve the characters going to the toilet etc, I don't want things to get too confusing for her. Plus my wife doesn't want potties and says they are not considered normal or clean in Japan. Remember, this is a country where you put on special shoes just to go in the bathroom.

Here the crux of the issue: I don't think any of us can give useful advice on how to potty train someone in Japan. Here in Canada, and probably Britain, we'd get a little potty and put it in the bathroom for the child to use. We'd empty it and clean it when the child did use it.

But as you say, if you live in a country where they wear special shoes to go to the loo, there will be all sorts of unspoken taboos etc that we won't be familiar with.

 

[madamv]

This was amazing. The handles helped to re assure her and the balance aided confidence. It was in the lounge from a very early age and so she always knew it and played with it. Then when we decided to potty train, around a year, she wee'd and poo'd in it always. Never had a poo nappy after the first poo, but left nappies for wee for about a month longer..

I know you dont want to get a potty. I think the only thing is like others have said, lots of encouragement and in time she will get it. I used to just grab and plonk and it worked just fine with us...

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

This was amazing. The handles helped to re assure her and the balance aided confidence. It was in the lounge from a very early age and so she always knew it and played with it. Then when we decided to potty train, around a year, she wee'd and poo'd in it always. Never had a poo nappy after the first poo, but left nappies for wee for about a month longer..

I know you dont want to get a potty. I think the only thing is like others have said, lots of encouragement and in time she will get it. I used to just grab and plonk and it worked just fine with us...

I agree. Screw the Japanese.

You can't win anyway: you're a crazy gaijin to them, so they expect weird behaviour from you. Prove them right by making your child's life easy with the purchase of a potty.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Here the crux of the issue: I don't think any of us can give useful advice on how to potty train someone in Japan. Here in Canada, and probably Britain, we'd get a little potty and put it in the bathroom for the child to use. We'd empty it and clean it when the child did use it.

But as you say, if you live in a country where they wear special shoes to go to the loo, there will be all sorts of unspoken taboos etc that we won't be familiar with.

I think you misunderstand me. I am asking generally about the actual training not the product used. Tips on encouragement and timing. Actually anything is (and has been helpful) but we are not getting a potty.

Also I live in the UK not Japan.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I agree. Screw the Japanese.

You can't win anyway: you're a crazy gaijin to them, so they expect weird behaviour from you. Prove them right by making your child's life easy with the purchase of a potty.

Well my wife does have a right to say how we bring up our child and i'm not that keen on potties anyway. My daughter is not afraid of the toilet, in fact she seems to like it. It's about getting her on it at the right time.

 

[Hadjibashi]

SNIP!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

For the benefit of Hadjibashi. Please read this. It's a sticky in this forum.
www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=177080

I regard your last post as gobbing at a poster's wife.

 

[Hadjibashi]

Sorry.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Accepted, please check which forum you're posting in next time, this clearly isn't the Politics forum. They aren't potty trained.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I regard your last post as gobbing at a poster's wife.

Humm, that doesn't sound good.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I think you misunderstand me. I am asking generally about the actual training not the product used. Tips on encouragement and timing. Actually anything is (and has been helpful) but we are not getting a potty.

Also I live in the UK not Japan.

Perhaps I can't be of much help. We got our daughter a potty, we got her that book I posted before. We read it to her a lot. She liked it, and wanted us to read it to her.

We were pretty relaxed about it, tried to keep the tension to a minimum, as close to zero as possible. It just sort of happened. Lots of praise at the right times.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

@A-S
That was refering to the the part of suburban's posting rules that says this;

"I don't mind swearing here and there as long as it's more of a polite fart rather than gobbing at customers at other tables. Thank you."

 

[Cloo]

Gosh, who'd have thought the issue could be so fraught? Mind you, what isn't with babies?

Still, some very interesting ideas I'll bear in mind, though I imagine we're still at least nine months away from it.

It seems as though people used to start much younger than they generally do now - my step-grandma's certainly talked about introducing smaller babies to a teeny potty quite early on.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

We were pretty relaxed about it, tried to keep the tension to a minimum, as close to zero as possible. It just sort of happened. Lots of praise at the right times.

I think that is what I have got most out of this thread. No pressure, minimum tension, slow and sure. We have only been at it for less than a week so I guess it is a bit early to fret.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yes, Cloo. You sat a baby on a warmed enamel potty after every feed from about six weeks.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I think that is what I have got most out of this thread. No pressure, minimum tension, slow and sure. We have only been at it for less than a week so I guess it is a bit early to fret.

It is definitely a bit early to fret.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yes, Cloo. You sat a baby on a warmed enamel potty after every feed from about six weeks.

As in, a six week old baby?

You aren't being serious are you?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Mind you, I can see why earlier generations were keen on early potty training. Terry nappies, no washing machines...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

As in, a six week old baby?

You aren't being serious are you?

Yes, absolutely. It was certainly common until fairly recently, say 40 years ago.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Yes, absolutely. It was certainly common until fairly recently, say 40 years ago.

Oh.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Obviously a six week baby can't sit up on their own, you had to hold them but it was a routine thing. Truby King was the handbook that everyone followed but early training on a potty preceded him. It was Dr Spock that changed everything on the baby and childcare front.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

There you go...Truby King
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truby_King