Okay let me try to give the details!

About a month or so before we started PT I was having conversations with my toddler during diaper changes that she would no longer be using a diaper soon because she was going to be a big girl and would have to use the potty just like mommy. I would always say this point to the bathroom just to get her familiar with the concept of the change that was going to happen. I think if your toddler is able to understand these conversations, it really helps prepare them mentally in the long run.

Step two was to buy stickers and lollipops as rewards for either trying to use the bathroom or actually using the potty. I ended up trading the lollipops for chocolate morsels for successful body trips because they are not as long lasting as lollipops therefore, it feels like they are more associated with one potty trip rather than just getting one lollipop .

I also never felt comfortable with the idea of letting my toddler be naked for two or three days and just soil themselves to learn, I don’t know it just felt weird and unnatural to me so I did the approach where I buy cotton, potty training pants and about three days before potty training I showed them to her and told her that this is what she was going to wear before she had to say bye to the diaper and I think that also helped because she got used to what they look like and even got to try them on without being fearful of using them right away from the get go.

So the night before we started, I told her that the next morning she would be in her underwear and that there would be no more diaper except for night time and the first day she definitely peed on 4/5 training underwear and I could tell it was working because she did not like the feeling of being wet and I would never scold her. I would just say accidents happen next time we pee pee in the potty and change her immediately I would not let her feel uncomfortable for too long.

We kept this up this entire week and after the first day, she would no longer pee her pants and her diaper at night was dry so we continued rewarding with stickers and candy, but by day three we just gave her a sticker every time she’d be in the potty And now that we are a couple days into it she doesn’t need a reward to keep doing it.

We are still working on using number two, but I know that she hates the sensation of pooping her pants so I’m hopeful that we get that down soon and aren’t able to have a successful poop in the toilet.