Potty Training 1 of ....

So we are trying to potty train our 3 yr. old son Nicolas. For those of you who have tried this you know it can be a challenge. Children vary wildly in terms of when they are ready to learn to use the big boy potty and both of our girls were "relatively" easy.

The process basically let them run around either naked or in "nickers" so that they learn to recognize the feeling. Nicolas has shown basically no interest in potty training but we have a very busy summer so we decided to try to make summer travel and events easier.

So last weekend we tried to introduce him to the concept and although he was excited about the "big boy nickers" he missed the concept somewhat. For example Nicolas and I were out and did the drop by to our friends Darren and Carol last Saturday and i encourage him to go before we left, even held him over the potty and encourage him but nothing. So we went down stairs to leave, he put his hand in a fountain and instanly pees in his pants. Nice try.

Then we went to Target, again I encouraged him to go to the potty while we were in the store, no dice, we went to the car and he went #2. Ugh. No diapers, no more extra clothes.

We then added another dimension to the task. We enlisted the girls to help encourage Nicolas by offering them a licorise (same reward Nicolas gets) when he uses the potty. This as it turns out has shown some early success because the girls pester him to use the potty very often and he has shown more interest!

More later!

So we continue to try.