It has been my summer goal to potty train Ivan. I can't say I've been successful. Well, I haven't gone all bootcamp on him, like I've been advised to do, to just do it one weekend.
I've had the best intention of doing so, but it's just been difficult to find a few days when we can be home, without going anywhere, to accomplish this training period. And I'd really like to fully train him over a long weekend, so he doesn't have too many accidents at daycare. It just seems like that would be unnecessarily embarrasing.
So potty training has been more of a gradual process, which started a few months ago when we bought the potty.
He knows when he needs to go--he's aware of the sensation to pee and poop. And if he's diaper-less, he'll tell us when he needs to go. Before bath time, he likes to sit on the potty and, occasionally, pee. Otherwise, if he's wearing diapers, he tells us (most of the time) after he poops. And he wants us to change the diapers then because he's obviously uncomfortable then.
The problem has been that he's absolutely adamant about not wanting to wear underwear. I've tried everything. I bought Elmo underwear. I keep talking about how both mamma and dadda wear underwear... But to no avail. He won't let me put them on. He asks for diapers.
I could let him run naked and have a few accidents, but I'd rather not. I want him to embrace underwear instead.
But since the summer is almost over, I'm thinking that Labor Day weekend is my last chance to do a bootcamp potty training session and get it over with.
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