on the verge of a break thru, one more potty training question

ok, so Jakob is in underware all day now, and a pull up night. he is waking up dry..
we are taking him the bathroom just every so often, not really a timed schedule.
but he rarely says he has to go on his own..once in a while, but mostly we just take him and he goes...
do I now stop asking and taking him and just wait for him to realize he has to go?

if it were me, I would try it for a few hours like when you know he should have to go and see if he wont come to you and ask or just try and go on his own. Or see if he will just go in his panties and then explain to him that he needs to tell you. Thats what I have done with Raygen

Lisa boys dont wear PANTIES!!!

I would wait also and see if he comes to you. Good Luck.

NO...don't stop taking him! Honestly, after training the kids that I have, I have learned this is something that may take awhile This may be something that you will have to keep up with for a few months before he tells you on a consistant basis. Kids get too easily distracted and usually will not listen to their body signs at this stage in the game as much. They get too busy, then oops...accident. What you can do though, is stop taking him less. Try more of a schedule like :
in the morning, at 9:30/10am, then after lunch/before nap, right after nap, right before dinner, right before bedtime. Something to that effect. And ALWAYS have him go before you leave the house to go somewhere.

This is JMO, but being this early in the process, I would not stop telling him to go.

ETA: YAY Jake!!!!

This post has been edited by Boo&BugsMom on Nov 6 2008, 10:36 AM

I was hoping you were going to post here!

I was hoping you were going to post here!

I can't never resist a good potty training thread.
On this subject, perhaps the term "Don't fix something that isn't broke" might come to mind. If he's doing great with what you're doing, then just keep looking ahead. Don't force the issue, since he's doing well with your sending him. You don't want to add anymore pressure to the situation, especially since he's come such a long way. If you stop telling him to go and he has a lot of accidents, then he might regress, and you don't want that.

Does this mean he got his birthday?

I was hoping you were going to post here!

I can't never resist a good potty training thread.
On this subject, perhaps the term "Don't fix something that isn't broke" might come to mind. If he's doing great with what you're doing, then just keep looking ahead. Don't force the issue, since he's doing well with your sending him. You don't want to add anymore pressure to the situation, especially since he's come such a long way. If you stop telling him to go and he has a lot of accidents, then he might regress, and you don't want that.

Does this mean he got his birthday?

he was able to participate in calebs day at chuckie cheese..but didnt really have his own.
so he said to me on the day of his birthday, "this is the badest day!" i cant tell you the GUILT I felt..and so we said well what would make this a good birthday for you? and he said well, a hotdog..so we went out and got him a hot dog, then we said ok, is this the best birthday ever? and he said no its the badest! I said why? he said well, there were no balloons, caleb had balloons..
so we agreed that if he went the rest of this week with no accidents, then he gets firetruck balloons and a firetruck cake and he has been asking for a piggy bank, he wants to get an allowance like caleb, but we told him he had to be a big boy to get money and have a bank..and that a big boy doesnt pee in his pants...
so he has earned it...

now if i can just find a nice plastic fire truck!

but man that was sure hard advice to follow!! but effective

I was hoping you were going to post here!

I can't never resist a good potty training thread.
On this subject, perhaps the term "Don't fix something that isn't broke" might come to mind. If he's doing great with what you're doing, then just keep looking ahead. Don't force the issue, since he's doing well with your sending him. You don't want to add anymore pressure to the situation, especially since he's come such a long way. If you stop telling him to go and he has a lot of accidents, then he might regress, and you don't want that.

Does this mean he got his birthday?

he was able to participate in calebs day at chuckie cheese..but didnt really have his own.
so he said to me on the day of his birthday, "this is the badest day!" i cant tell you the GUILT I felt..and so we said well what would make this a good birthday for you? and he said well, a hotdog..so we went out and got him a hot dog, then we said ok, is this the best birthday ever? and he said no its the badest! I said why? he said well, there were no balloons, caleb had balloons..
so we agreed that if he went the rest of this week with no accidents, then he gets firetruck balloons and a firetruck cake and he has been asking for a piggy bank, he wants to get an allowance like caleb, but we told him he had to be a big boy to get money and have a bank..and that a big boy doesnt pee in his pants...
so he has earned it...

now if i can just find a nice plastic fire truck!

but man that was sure hard advice to follow!! but effective

My mom always use to tell me "This is harder on me than it is on you", and I think most of the time she was right. It is SO much harder on us half the time. I'm so glad it's working though. Way to go Jake!!!

I just bought Tripp at $10 fire truck at Walmart that is plastic and makes noise - very cool. HTH and yea Jake!