Parental Thread

[Tapioca]

We did the 3 day method for both of our kids. We created a zone in the kitchen and spent a weekend supervising. They got it eventually.

We think it's effective, but you have to be dedicated.

[Eff-1]

Our daycare did a lot of potty training for us by getting him to start peeing after lunch on the potty. He was peeing on the potty at daycare no problem, but not at home, for the longest time.

Eventually we bought those toilet training underwears. They worked really well. Never had to do the 3 day thing.

He now has no problem with peeing and holding it. He hasn't had an accident yet, fingers crossed.

Poo on the other hand, that's been really hard. He's poo'd his pants so many times i can't count lol. But finally we think we turned a corner, the last 2 times he's told him mom he needs to poo and then runs to the potty. He starts preschool in Sept and he needs to have this nailed down by then. The pressure is on.

[Traum]

Originally Posted by AzNightmare

That sounds incredible your toddler would wake up at night, lol. From what I read, kids usually are older before they're ready to get potty trained for the night.

I should clarify that even though we had "potty trained" our kid, for another few weeks -- could have been as many as an extra few months -- we were actually still putting our kid to sleep while having him on a diaper.

Right after what we thought was successful potty training, we had mistakenly assumed that it would be OK for our kid to just sleep in his regular undies. I don't exactly remember what happened specifically, but over those next few days (or maybe a week or two), there were still 2 or 3 evenings when he had accidentally peed during his sleep. After the few overnight accidents, we figured we didn't want to take the risks of keep having to watch a wetted bedsheets + pee-proof liner, so only when our kid was going to bed for the night, we would put him back into a diaper. Over time, there were still some overnight accidents, but eventually that happened less and less, and he started complaining that the diaper was not comfortable, so we stopped using the overnight diaper.

And just to be clear, during this time when our kid was still sleeping overnight with a diaper, he is as potty trained as a kid can be during the day. There were still accidents here and there, but overall, it was not a concern during the hours when he was awake.

[6793026]

Originally Posted by Traum

F me, all of our chairs at the house are foam with cushion... wife is going to be pissed (no pun intended) when it all gets wet...

[Eff-1]

YOu can get those pee pads they use for training puppies. Put em on all your chairs and furniture.

[SSM_DC5]

Originally Posted by 6793026

F me, all of our chairs at the house are foam with cushion... wife is going to be pissed (no pun intended) when it all gets wet...

Extractor will be your friend! Find a Bissell for less than $100 on FB marketplace.

[EvoFire]

We bought our Bissell from Canadian Tire for $100. It goes on sale often and works well enough for spot cleaning. Just don't try to clean your house with it.

[AzNightmare]

Just a small update: It didn't take literally 3 days, but we kept going strong and to my surprise, we're seeing some significant progress. My In-laws have been watching my son during work hours and I bought the same potty for them too, trying to keep everything as consistent as possible.

My kid has been going to the potty on his own to pee. Sometimes he's a ninja and we don't even realize it until we notice there's pee in there. Poo is still a work in progress... but shit, if anyone asked me if this was possible a week ago, I would have said no way, based on the first 2-3 days of hell.

He's still roaming around butt naked though, so I'm not sure when would be a good time to introduce pull ups. I'm not sure if he actually knows how to hold his pee yet if he has to take off clothing. And he doesn't know how to take off and put back on clothing yet.

[Traum]

Originally Posted by AzNightmare

He's still roaming around butt naked though, so I'm not sure when would be a good time to introduce pull ups. I'm not sure if he actually knows how to hold his pee yet if he has to take off clothing. And he doesn't know how to take off and put back on clothing yet.

For me and my wife at the time, our kid was kind of doing what your son was. That is to say, when he needed to pee during those 3 training days, we were basically just asking him to tell us he needs to pee, and then we'd go to the potty together with him. I don't remember the details now, but I'm pretty sure we were the ones helping him take off his pants and stuff.

Obviously you're aiming for a further goal where your son will need to be able to take care of himself for the whole process -- take of pants, pee, put pants back on, etc. -- since you're really aiming to have him go to daycare. But for now, I would be satisfied with the small victory of him going to pee on his own, pants or no pants.

[underscore]

The technique you linked skipped over the main thing that imo made it a lot easier with our kids. Don't just let them run around and hope they notice themselves when they need to go, give them lots of watered down juice and take them to the potty on a timer through the day and have them try for a few minutes. I think we were doing something like every half hour. Doing that there were only a couple accidents through the weekend.

[EvoFire]

^ That works if your kid can be coerced into doing things. We are potty training our daughter right now and she doesn't take well to being told to go. It's been fun and a completely different challenge from the first one.

[supafamous]

https://www.richmond.ca/city-hall/ne...s04mar2025.htm

Popped into the Richmond Nature Park yesterday for probably the first time in 40 years or so and it's a neat little place to spend 1-3 hours. They have a bat exhibit right now that's suitable for kids from 5-10y.o (along with a small selection of reptiles and a live bee hive). There's also a decent playground with picnic tables and between that and the short, easy trails it's a nice place to have a picnic (like pick up a 10 piece from LA chicken) and hang out. There's not much of a breeze but there is decent shade.

[AzNightmare]

I thought things were going ok with my son using the potty on his own when he was ass naked. But ever since we put training diapers on about 2 weeks ago, he's just been peeing in it whenever he feels like it. We basically have to take off his undies and put him on the potty every 30-60 minutes if we want him to be dry. It's like as soon as you put clothes on him, he forgets what to do.

I know daycare has scheduled potty times, but it's a concern he doesn't know how to indicate he needs to go. So if the potty time interval doesn't line up with his time to go, then he'll just pee himself.

I'm not sure what to do at this point. There's a week left before daycare starts and he's not getting it.

[Mikoyan]

Kids all do it at their own understanding.
When potty training my first, he #2'd into his nighttime diaper right after we had him go use the potty.

"Why didn't you go in the toilet bud?"

"Diaper for poo poo."

I mean he was technically correct....

[supafamous]

So how far down the K-Pop Demon Hunters rabbit hole are you guys?

I think I'm at stage 2.25 according to this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNCZI...EycHF0a3g3aDY5

[EvoFire]

For someone looking for a less hectic excursion with little kids at the end of summer, we just came back from Parksville. We stayed at the The Beach Resort sitting right at the edge of the beach, they have sand toys, beach umbrellas, life jackets, boogie boards, paddle boards, adult bikes etc for you to borrow so you don't have to bring your own.

It was a good relaxing experience, we went to see goats on the roof, the butterfly garden, ate at the airport restaurant. The hotel restaurant was also mostly reasonable (the drinks were not). Not having to drive out was huge plus, we just walked on to the beach everyday, there's a really large playground a short walk away on the boardwalk, and not getting sand in the car and looking for parking was a huge bonus. Once we are done we can just walk right back to our hotel and take a shower.

A plus for us is they have a lot of free chargers and we got to charge up our PHEV.

The hotel was almost exclusively families with little kids or old couples.

[Mikoyan]

Originally Posted by supafamous

So how far down the K-Pop Demon Hunters rabbit hole are you guys?

I think I'm at stage 2.25 according to this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNCZI...EycHF0a3g3aDY5

3D printed a lightstick for the theatre sing along. Rumi sword for halloween is in the works......

[EvoFire]

To preface this, I have no way to prove this.

We bought a few jars of bubble solution from Superstore to use them to refill a few bubble wands for our kids. My wife did it and she spilled some in our sink and she didn't rinse it off.

This morning there was orange/brown staining on our stainless steel kitchen sink, and some very minor pitting. From my research it seems to line up with chlorine damage. The discolouration will not come out with a slightly worn scotch brite pad. I will attempt to polish it in the future, but the pitting is real. My finger nail won't catch, but a pointy pair of scissors will.

My guess is whatever the factory that filled/created the bubble solution has chlorine contamination. I can't believe I have to say this but be wary of bubble solutions.

Now I'm debating whether to just throw it all away or go return it at Superstore

[westopher]

I’d take it back, may be something that needs a recall or could end up with some sick or hurt kids somewhere.

[Oleophobic]

Those of you who've put your kids in daycare, how often have your kids gotten the stomach bug / norovirus and how often has it spread to you guys or your partner?

I've got a 1.5 year and I have to admit, I have a bit of emetophobia (mid-30s and haven't vomited since age 7 or 8) and everywhere I read online, people make it sound like it's a guarantee that you're gonna be violently sick at some point due to your child bringing it back from daycare.

Colds/flu/fevers / diarrhea etc. I can handle, just prefer to avoid vomiting.
I do have a couple of friends whose kids have never gotten norovirus from daycare and the kids are out of daycare now so that's great to hear that it's not actually a guarantee...

[supafamous]

My kid was in daycare for 3.5 years and we never got anything beyond a number of colds (and what we suspect was a case of COVID that we got from them but not provable). No norovirus or foot/mouth, flu etc. The colds were never that bad (coughs, mild congestion, mild fever), it was just frequent.

[Traum]

My kid have never picked up the stomach flu / norovirus from his year at daycare, although he has picked up something there from time to time, and gave it to at least 1 of us.

IMO, there are many factors that determine how easy it is for your child to pick up something from daycare and bring it back home to infect the parents as well:

- your kid's genetics / immunity
- your kid's cleanliness / habits -- in particular, hand washing habits and frequency, and whether he puts his hands into his mouth, or rub his eyes, etc.
- the daycare center's cleanliness
- the daycare staff's habits of reminding the kids to wash their hands

One of my nephews got sick pretty frequently when he was going through daycare / kindergarten, including having bad stomach flus.

Among others friends and coworkers, it seems to be a mixed bag of outcomes.

[68style]

I loved a good puke every now and then back in the day, sort yourself out and ready for battle again... you missing out bro!

[EvoFire]

We were at the aquarium today and sitting in the outdoors area by the stellar bay sea lions letting the kids eat their snack.

A few tables over a kid knocks over a cup of hot something and cries. The adults seem a bit unfussed as one adult went to fetch some water but the kid was crying. I decided to help out and went to the concession to ask for ice.

When I approached the table the kid is clearly in distress, the surface skin on the burn had already peeled off and what looked like a 1st degree or even 2nd degree burn and the adults were still quite unbothered.

I suggested that they go see a doctor or ER as it seemed rather serious for a 5 year old kid with an affected area of probably around 7 - 8 sq inches. The first aid team at the aquarium eventually showed up and they all left 5-10mins later.

My wife commented they were so calm cause she was getting anxiety from seeing them. I wasn't sure if they were being calm and handling the situation, or they were calm because they didn't understand the gravity of the situation. Ultimately the kid would probably make a full recovery but would be at least 2 weeks before he's better and there's the risk of infection when you lose. Am I over reacting or it is a serious enough injury?

[bcrdukes]

Originally Posted by Traum

My kid have never picked up the stomach flu / norovirus from his year at daycare

Wait until you go on a cruise with them. They might not get norovirus, they might buy overpriced Swiss watches.