Tag Archives: potty training

     When Cooper was a newborn and I had just started blogging for Thiristies, I was already thinking ahead to the days we would be potty-training him. It’s not that I was anxious for him to grow up, but rather that I had heard cloth-diapered tots often potty-train earlier than their disposable wearing buddies. Could it be due to the fact that cloth diapers feel wet after a tinkle, unlike disposables, which thanks to being filled with  sodium polyacralyte, feel almost dry even when ready to burst? Or could it be that their parents were more motivated to have them using the toilet so they could stop washing poopy diapers? I had my theories. And let’s just say, Cooper threw me for a poopy-loop despite it all.

     Cooper’s two older sisters were potty trained just after they turned two. Once I was ready to be consistent and follow through, they didn’t … Read More

I think my son, Brennan, was a little over two years when he became obsessed with taking his diaper off. That was back in the day when diapers with snaps were a rarity so toddler removal was fairly easy. Thankfully, he grew out of the phase and I learned my lesson by putting him in pants that also had snaps. Then, a few months before he turned three he started the potty training process; we went with the naked approach which was effective, however, it created a little nudist! Many times I could be heard exclaiming, “Brennan put your clothes on!” Naturally, these phases passed but there’s one phase that we recently went through that had me wanting to rip my hair out!

It started out with an obsession with pajamas. Brennan would get dressed in the morning and by lunchtime he was in a new pair of PJ’s. Afternoon … Read More

At eighteen months Cooper is an adorable blond-haired, blue-eyed bundle of energy. Like a typical boy he’s obsessed with choo-choos, cars and balls. And also like many boys, he’s a little behind verbally. While both of my girls were singing and using short phrases at this age, Cooper still has a vocabulary of under twenty words and he often prefers to point and grunt and seems to get frustrated that I can’t read his mind. He often wants to be picked up and then points around the room as if to steer me, shaking his head and saying “No!” until I find the the object of his desire. And then there’s potty training.

Since he’s still showing very little interest in the potty, other than sitting on it for about ten seconds and saying “Pee pee, pee pee!” before he gets distracted and hops up, I’ve put it on … Read More

Cooper is officially a toddler. He’s no longer the walking infant he was at 12 months. He’s a chattering, running, flirting, tantruming little kid and we are enjoying every minute of him…remind me I said that when he’s screaming on the changing table, K?

He now says about ten words, the most used being: Ball, Mama, Baby, Toe, Dada, Baby and Girls. (He yells “GIRLS!” when he is looking for them the way I do when I am yelling at them) and he’s using baby sign language to tell me he wants “more” or to “eat,” and we are working on “drink.”

He’s also learning about his bodily functions. Thanks to the warm weather I’ve let him run around naked plenty and whenever I catch him peeing I make sure to say “You’re going pee-pee.” He can actually say “pee pee” as well but he isn’t telling me when he … Read More

So I recently wrote a blog called Owen: A Cloth-Diaper Wearing Baby Potty Trained by 18 Months. In it I describe how my sister successfully trained her son by introducing the potty when Owen was around one.  Cooper turned one in February and so I brought it out.  The Potty.

When Cooper was 11 months, I decided to try putting him on the big potty, with the potty-seat on so he wouldn’t fall in. I wasn’t expecting him to pee but I wanted to let him give it a try.  Much to my dismay, he arched his back, straightened his legs and began shrieking.  I picked him up and he clung to me, looking at the potty with a mixture of fear and loathing.  I tried again.  This time he was holding onto me so tightly his knuckles were white. I gave up trying because I didn’t want to … Read More