Panties and potty

Got Julia panties and have been letting her learn to take them off. She has accidents in them though because they slow her down.

But the rewards keep coming...

I've been taking the potty around with us and when she peels the diapers off I aks her to "Go sit on the potty" and she does go to sit. Sometimes backwards. Sometimes sideways. But she's on there. I'm trying to get her to make the connections between need to go, take of diaper, sit on potty so she does it all in the correct order without my prompting her along the way. (Are you takign that off? Ok. Diaper off then. Off. The other side. Get up now. Up. Up. Up. Find Potty. Where's potty? Sit on the potty. Sit. Sit. Ssssssss....)

Last night she peed on the potty by herself... kinda. NO prompting from the side.

I'd JUST checked her so I knew she was dry.

So I set her down in the living room to play. I was on the couch eating a tangerine watching her. She messed with her blocks for a minute, stood up, went to the potty, tried to sit on it and missed. She was on the floor. I didn't say anything. I wanted to see her try to do it all alone. Julia stood up again, and sat ona blaock. She stood upagain and then sat on the potty sideways. She stayed there a while and sort of felt her diaper tabs through her nightgown but didn't know how to reach them. (Mental note -- keep her in T-shirts even at night so she can find the tabs easily.)

I went over to check her and she had peed! In her diaper, but on the potty! We went to tell Daddy and he was equally pleased.

Paul told him his mom told him she's really curious to see how Julia comes along compared to her aunt and uncles. My MIL said she didn't have the patience to start as young as we did but she started her kids as soon as they were walking and the potty trained by the time they were 18 mos. Accidents here and there, but mainly done. She also said that she thinks that if a child isn't potty trained by the time they are 2 or at least in the process of it by 2, the parents are just being lazy.

I have to agree. I don't see the point in delaying potty training for a healthy child. If there's some kind of medical issue involved that's something else but for helathy kid? Why wait?