We're working on potty training right now. If I didn't bug him about it, he wouldn't even try. When I found out my 3 year old was the only one in his preschool class still in diapers, I decided to buckle down. I put him in pull-ups during the day and for the first few days set a timer and took him to the potty every 30 minutes or so. I was very frustrated for the first day (lots of accidents), but after that it wasn't as bad--he seems to be holding it longer in between and having less accidents. But I still pretty much have to take him to the toilet to get him to go or he'll just go in the pull-up (he will also just go in regular underpants too and not even care, so for now he's in the ones that I don't have to clean up the carpet after he goes in them). He's just too busy to bother himself with going to the potty, it seems.

I HATE potty training. It stinks. We've been doing this for a week now. But for at least 6 months, we were letting him take the lead, which he never did. So, hopefully at some point he'll start taking the initiative and go potty without my badgering him to. But at least I feel like we're making some progress now.

He told me yesterday that he had to go, while he was going, all over my carpet.  But he didn't fuss when I set him on the toilet, he just wanted me to read him a book.  My mom said a long time ago she babyset this little boy that was stubborn, he absolutely refused to use the potty, so she sat in the bathroom with him for half the day until he started going in the potty. I've heard some parents do that, we've used the timer too, the incentives (a disneyland trip in October), but he just doesn't seem to care.  And it sure doesn't help when other parents (or family members) tell you how young their child was when they were potty trained - good for them for doing it early but don't make it sound like the current potty training parent isn't doing it right.  Tyler didn't even start talking full sentences until well after his 2nd birthday, now we can't get him to stop talking most of the time.  I'm debating about buying more pull-ups tomorrow while I'm in town or just use everything we have and be done - he still needs them at night, but I won't put one on him for naps.  I thought the 2nd child was supposed to be easier than the first!!

I've also started a kind of "penalty" for peeing in his pull-up, which has helped to a certain extent. If he pees in his pull-up, one of his trains gets put up on top of the TV cabinet to remind him to go in the potty. The next time he goes in the toilet, he gets it back. I kinda hate giving a penalty, but rewards really weren't working. I tried stickers, pennies for his piggy bank, ice cream, offered him a new train, but after the initial coolness wore off, he stopped caring. So, this is working for the moment, and we're closer to PTing than we ever have been.

He still hasn't pooped in the toilet yet, but I'm hoping the promise of a new train will help!

I know what you mean about people whose children PTed early. It makes me jealous. My mom told me that I PTed within a few days. That made me want to pull out my hair too, since my son is taking SO LONG to PT. *sigh*

His grandma gave him a new yellow yo-yo yesterday, maybe I can use that as a penalty - he can't use it like a yo-yo but he "walks the dog" with it, which is very funny to hear him talking to a yo-yo like it's a dog!!!

We all know it will happen eventually, them learning to eat with a spoon didn't happen in one day, but pt'ing just seems so much more frustrating when it doesn't happen quickly.

Let's keep each other posted, maybe all three of them will "get" it on the same day!!  Then we can all meet at the indoor bounce house for a playdate.