Karenn
07-19-2004, 12:07 PM
I never imagined I'd be posting this question! In fact, on the day August Mom posted that Justin used the potty, I had to LOL because the only thing Colin had done that morning was pee all over the floor at the Y! I really wasn't planning on any sort of potty training until after the new baby came.
Yesterday I was cleaning out the closet in the new baby's room and without thinking, I pulled out the 2nd potty and put it in the downstairs bathroom. He's been using potty #1 as a place to lounge fully clothed for months now, so I didn't expect him to show any interest in potty #2. (He actually really didn't care for it when we'd had it out before.) Boy was I wrong! He showed immediate interest in it so I asked him if he wanted to sit on the potty without his diaper. He said yes and proceeded to sit there naked for at least 35 minutes to "wait for his pee pee." The pee pee never came, but he's since been on the potty sans diaper twice this morning.
So knowing that the arrival of a new baby often causes a regression in potty training, do I even want to go down this road? Can I avoid this road at this point? I'd hate to miss his "readiness window," but I don't want to set him up for failure either. Any thoughts at all?
Yesterday I was cleaning out the closet in the new baby's room and without thinking, I pulled out the 2nd potty and put it in the downstairs bathroom. He's been using potty #1 as a place to lounge fully clothed for months now, so I didn't expect him to show any interest in potty #2. (He actually really didn't care for it when we'd had it out before.) Boy was I wrong! He showed immediate interest in it so I asked him if he wanted to sit on the potty without his diaper. He said yes and proceeded to sit there naked for at least 35 minutes to "wait for his pee pee." The pee pee never came, but he's since been on the potty sans diaper twice this morning.
So knowing that the arrival of a new baby often causes a regression in potty training, do I even want to go down this road? Can I avoid this road at this point? I'd hate to miss his "readiness window," but I don't want to set him up for failure either. Any thoughts at all?