Potty Training your little Boy is one of the most essential things to do once you feel that he is ready. Mostly this is done prior to your kid getting 2 year’s old. When my son Iñigo is about to become 2 years old, he doesn’t wear diaper anymore, except when traveling or going out and he is very independent already.
We potty trained him early. It wasn’t really hard to train him because my son felt like an adult, he even have this attitude of choosing what he wants to wear as early as 1 y/o. Perhaps it’s because he was surrounded by adults and young adults, with Amari as the youngest. He doesn’t really have too many playmates because there are no kids around. He only gets to see and play with kids at the mall.
The things about diapers is that, although they keep the baby dry and you don’t have to change his undies all the time. It saves us parents from all other expenses, as well as our time. If ever the baby poops or pees a lot, it could still get messy but not as much as when he’s not wearing any diapers. But the downside of it is that diapers are starting to cost a lot and the baby’s skin is likely to get irritated, and usually my mom say it’s the common source of infection in baby girls whenever left unattended. Lucky that we have a baby boy.
They say it’s harder to potty train boys than girls, but with Iñigo he was the one who showed interest in using the potty and he seemed so irritated having to wear his diapers, and he hates hit when it has poop on it that he want the soiled diapers to be taken off him immediately or else he would keep on crying. He felt more comfortable wearing kiddie undies alone without the diapers. And when he was about 2 years and four months old, we let him pee before bedtime, and his diapers usually has so little pee or it is dry until morning, and he would say weewee when he wakes up, meaning he wants to pee and he points at the washroom where we placed his potty training set.
The pooping part was easy but it’s the peeing ang aiming part that was a little challenging. Andrea handled the sitting on the potty when pooping but I had to train him how to pee properly which he has mastered by now, although sometimes he still misses the target especially when something else catches his attention. At first, I had to show him how peeing is done, the hardest part is that I don’t really feel like peeing when he felt like he was going to pee. There’s a technique I’ve learned from dad though, just the way he trained us. He would place that little bottle on the spot and would train us to aim on it. So I did the same and so far Iñigo has learned to do it, dad’s trick really helped a lot.
After he was potty trained, we only let him wear diapers before to sleep most especially when he’s been playing all day and night, or he’s very restless, or when we go out, but when he’s just home he wears nothing but his kiddie undies and shorts. He can pee alone, although we try to still watch over him because he might play with the water. When he feels scared, he either tells Andrea, Abuela Anna or mom, or anyone at home when he wants to pee or poop. I’m so proud of my little boy because he has learned so many things and is growing really fast.
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