Hey Jen,

Brendan was starting to use the potty frequently as soon as the New Year started when was in january right after the ball dropped he walked and sat at the potty and went then it just continued and continued sometimes there were accidents but by the time it got to mid april he would barely have any accidents. He was 3 yrs 5 months old.

Brendan is now 4 and he does have some accidents and the only reason why is he either knows he has to go & starts heading there to go use the potty but if he sees his transformer laying on the ground or sees the cat he will forget where he was going and go mommy i went pee or sometimes he forgets when he gets busy playing or his attention is focused at one fun thing then it's gone from his mind .

Otherwise he does 'really good' I told him that his penis would tell his brain that he has to go pee and he had had no issues with going poo in there unless he gets the other kind he tries to make it but sometimes he's not quick in that area!

I never forced him or did any of that continous put on toilet every 15 min-30 min in the hr .

I first showed him the potty chair sometimes he would sit on it but not always and i even got a toilet seat lid for him to sit on.

I put a stool up there in case if the tallness of the toilet made him uneasy so he could support his feet.

He saw kids his age using the bathroom at his preschool last year that didn't really sway him that much sometimes they thought you should try & give him a treat after he uses the potty that didn't really sway him because too much of something can get you very tired of something .

On Christmas day he saw his cousin who is also his best friend who is 4 yrs older than him using the potty and it's like he wanted to be like him because a week later he was directing "himself to use the potty '

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Traci
Loving Single Mommy to Lovable Brendan and a proud cat owner to Wild Mr Blackie
Missing & loving my heaven babies Alizah 6/2002 and Trey 2/03