Tuesday, May 12, 2009

I'm Potty-Training Owen

Yes, I decided I am potty-training Owen. And no, those are not his feet dangling up there. (Google Images is a great invention.) Owen is 28 months old and I have been thinking about doing this for a very long time (ever since he was 18 months). The reason I waited is because we had a new baby, but Dallin is now almost 8 months old, so I think the "major life-change" window is past and gone. Owen has adjusted to brotherhood just fine, so we're good to go...literally.

I have also read enough potty books to give me potty nightmares, so I thought enough is enough. I'm gonna do this! Here are some of the books I read: The Baby Whisperer, Potty Training in Less Than A Day, Pee, Poop and Potty-training, Teach Yourself Successful Potty Training, but this one, shown below, was my absolute favorite: (Diaper Free Before Three by Jill M. Lekovic, PhD.)



Dr. Jill, if your out there, this book described Owen perfectly, I almost looked for his picture in chapter three! Dr. Jill believes in early training, but also has a system for training after age two which is where I'm at. This book makes so much sense to me, I feel like she plugged her brain into mine. Her pace is great. Her method is clean-cut with no non-sense. Jesse is reading it too and has always been an advocate of early training. Maybe Dallin will be the guinea pig on that approach, but as for now we're a "go" with Owen. No pun intended.

4 comments:

Julie said...

Good luck! I hope it goes smoothly! Thanks for the recipe too, they turned out great, it's nice that it is pretty straight forward! It was great talking to you the other day, hope you guys are going well.

pam said...

Brookie! It was GREAT to see you at Race for the Cure! You look fabulous! Thanks for giving me your blog address. Your family is beautiful. Your boys are seriously just soooooooo cute!!! I'm glad to keep in touch! Are you on facebook? I'll try to find you.

Anna said...

I totally support training early. It may not work for every child but we had great success with Grant. Good luck!

Brooke said...

Anna - I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks early training is okay. You'd be surprised how wrong it rubs some people! Side note - Owen is picking it up just fine.