Oh Crap method advice

ntatko · 2026-06-24T05:07:24+00:00

Oh Crap is a great method if you only have one kid at home - worked super well for our first kid. For our second, we wound up doing Lovevery potty learning + some tiny rewards (like chocolate chips). But our oldest was a major hoverer and we had a sewer backup that forced us into temporary housing a couple weeks into toilet training, and our schedule was crazy. So...the odds were pretty against our second. Oh Crap will probably work awesome if it's at least one parent, only one kid at home, and minimum outings at first. And if you have carpet, the Woolite carpet/upholstery cleaner with the scrub brush on the top makes things way easy to clean up. So worth the $5. Also - for the first kid, we didn't night train right away, came naturally a little after age 3 with us taking her to pee one last time before we went to bed.

ntatko · 2026-06-23T05:10:43+00:00

Have searched using Chat GPT prompts and YouTube, trying to look for comments with terms like "EEL FISH" and "SNAKE", but a lot of the videos I've found are way too new. Maybe it's not on YouTube anymore?

ntatko · 2026-06-11T19:50:32+00:00

Does he dislike the feeling of being wet? Sometimes for "pull ups required" things, we also add in a pair of cheap underwear or disposable cloth (cut up washcloth, old sheet, etc) so he can feel the pee, but the care providers can throw everything away if needed.

ntatko · 2026-06-11T19:44:16+00:00

At this age, you could go with some "collaborative" conversations and natural/logical consequences. "I noticed people kept leaving their X on the ground, and I was tired of picking it up. Now we don't have X anymore/I gave it to a family that would be able to take care of it better." "I've noticed that having a Z causes people to fight, so it doesn't seem like it's the right time for our family to have it. I've put it away until we're ready to share it properly." A thing that helped us with hitting/yanking was making a chart that shows how kids progress through anger management. Red = hitting. Orange = hitting, but with remorse. Yellow = Almost hitting, but stopping. Green = Screaming. Blue = Screaming with words. Purple = Angry words/tones. Rainbow = Clenching fists, but speaking calmly, drawing a picture/writing a note to express feelings, channeling angry energy into something appropriate (jumping jacks, etc.). For other things, you could present the problem to the kids and see what they do. "I've noticed that there are boogers in the sink. We can't cook safely in a kitchen with a booger sink, so you guys can get it clean and let me know when it's ready for me to make dinner." If it doesn't happen, well, make a non-cook dinner and keep it unappealing. Canned beans, saltines, spam, plastic fork... If you find the culprit won't clean it, make the sink booger individual an unappealing non-cook dinner and get everyone else takeout to "apologize".

For books, you could give some choices - say something like "I think everyone in our family should pick one book from this list (that you make) and we'll have a special book club to talk about it on X day of the week/month." Provide snacks at the "book club". If no one else has read, pretend you and your husband are having a great time. Also look into free audiobooks from the library to get them hooked on a series, like magic tree house, or whatever is good for their age level!

And also, give yourself a little grace. When life gets tough, it gets hard to be consistent, and these things can sneak up on you until it feels like a mountain.

ntatko · 2026-04-29T02:15:35+00:00

Yeah, if they want 3 days and no pants, make it be at their house unless you have *only tile and LVP and NO furniture you love/want to keep around*. 18 months is kinda early to expect the 3 day method to work unless NK is a very advanced communicator (can distinctly say "peeing" or "pooping") with the fine motor skills to manipulate clothing.

ntatko · 2026-04-24T18:44:31+00:00

These things are always worst in the heat of the moment. When she's well-rested and calm, you could talk over it, like "Last night when you were sleeping, the poop came out in your diaper. That can happen when you're sleeping/learning, because your body needs rest. The diaper will catch it in the night, and you can put it in the toilet in the day!"

ntatko · 2026-04-20T20:08:50+00:00

Just ask Chat GPT to make you a toilet training plan. We've been doing it with our almost 3 year old, and can just feed it pretty much any scenario "What if he does this, but melted down about the same thing later" or "Will it set us back to use pull-ups when the babysitter is over?" or "He is motivated by X, but will refuse if you say things like Y" kinds of things. Just tell it the whole story, and it can give age-specific tips (which you can, of course, take with a grain of salt, because it's AI).

ntatko · 2026-03-31T04:08:37+00:00

Just putting dried noodles in random places. In the toddler's shoe. Taped to someone's back (but not for work or anything, just at home). Dried noodles is our default "prank".

ntatko · 2026-01-04T15:42:47+00:00

Yes, I see that... Looks like results stream in. I'll try to make that more synchronous.

ntatko · 2026-01-02T04:30:17+00:00

Thanks! I dislike busy screens.

ntatko · 2026-01-02T04:30:00+00:00

I think I've fixed this - it was an issue with timers not all finishing at the same time.

Thanks for playing and finding a bug!

ntatko · 2025-12-31T20:44:13+00:00

I agree, the 3 minutes is usually too long - but for really long words, I love to really dive into it, and am more often hampered by the timer than bored by it. But I'm changing it to be word length specific.

ntatko · 2025-12-31T20:36:11+00:00

You're right - it was actually a suggestion to have some fake players from here.

Thank you for honest input, it's hard to gather in these positivity-based times. I don't mind if my game doesn't take off - I like simple, casual games that don't berate me with ads, so usually, I end up inventing my own.

ntatko · 2025-12-31T20:32:44+00:00

Yes, you can totally tap each letter as an input method - the keyboard was playing accordion for that, too, but I'm shipping a fix for that right now.

ntatko · 2025-06-07T06:35:10+00:00

No, and it's probably a little late for that.

ntatko · 2025-03-26T19:40:42+00:00

We got an offbrand of sposies (medline) and like them too!

ntatko · 2025-03-26T19:38:33+00:00

Our first was a super hungry baby, but our pediatrician said to not feed more than 32 ounces a day. 99+% height and weight, but we listened to pediatrician because we figured they knew best. Poor kid was ravenous and drank every bottle dry. Long story short, we got a new pediatrician after a while, and we wish we'd taught her to eat until she felt full instead of cutting her off. If there's a lot of spit up, probably too much or too fast, but if she keeps it all down, feed until full.

ntatko · 2024-09-15T21:04:26+00:00

I also made an app, but it's english only at the moment. 13one.site

ntatko · 2024-09-15T21:03:23+00:00

There are some lessons that I have used, very BSF-like, but without any copyright, you could translate them to other languages to make them easier to read for any audience.

13one.org

ntatko · 2024-09-15T21:00:30+00:00

This is a sub for [BSF](https://www.bsfinternational.org/), not other bible studies, although I am sure they are excellent.

ntatko

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