3 Day Potty Training - La Jolla,CA

personally I say go for it but still do diapers at night and nap. I did the 3 day potty training for my daughter when she was 20(ish) months old. If you look at "my questions" on my bio you can see that I asked about the 3 day potty training thing awhile ago
Did it work YES...but not without accidents. It was a great platform. I STILL put my LO in diapers at night time....She was fully potty trained (on both) by 2 years and 2 months (26 months old) but I only stopped diapers at nap time about a month ago (well daycare did it for me)
Good luck..but dont sweat it....keep the diapers on when he is sleeping.

I've known quite a few kids who have needed diapers overnight well into their grade-school years. They all trained normally during the hours when they were awake and aware. I don't see why a naptime diaper should be a problem, either. Bedwetting while asleep is a completely normal situation for plenty of kids – they will stay dry at night as soon as their physical maturation allows.

As for the 3-day training, this seems to work fine for some kids, and not at all fine for many others. You can go for it, but don't be too surprised or disappointment if your son can't get there yet. He may simply need more time to reach the readiness milestones, or a different approach entirely. You can see a couple of readiness lists at this very informative website, along with tips on various training strategies, the best ages to start them, and the advantages and disadvantages of each approach: http://www.parentingscience.com/potty-training-tips.html

Night time dryness isn't a training issue it's purely a physical and psychological development. You can not train a child who's body isn't mature enough to send and recognize the signals to hold it or wake up in order to take care of going to the bathroom.
Waking them, limiting drinks before bed etc do not work.
You will need diapers or pullups until his body is mature enough to handle staying dry at night.

Oh geez.

Night time and nap time "dryness" is NOT something that is BIOLOGICALLY and physiologically attained, until even 7 years old. And is normal and per Pediatricians and is per a child's maturity of their organs/brain and nerve development. It is not per a 'method.'

My son is 5 and wear night time diapers for sleep and naps. He is still wet.
My daughter was 5 as well, and still wearing night time diapers.
ALL normal.

Put it this way: ALL of my daughter's Teachers from Preschool to Kindergarten to 1st Grade, ALL said that kids these ages still are wet at night and wear diapers and have accidents. It is childhood. It is their biological development. And our Pediatrician says the same thing.

All you do is, buy several waterproof bed pads to keep directly under the child. So that it makes cleaning up leaks, easier.
I have 4 of them that I rotate as needed, for my kids.
Still.

Even at 7 years old, my daughter still had night time accidents.
Normal.

I really don't believe in 3 day potty training.

Pull-ups for sleep is USELESS. Because, it does not hold much and it leaks.
Night time diapers... are BEST suited for sleeping.

I'm not familiar with the book you mention. Does she suggest that he can be dry and poop free both day and night? If so, I suggest that's unreasonable. Toddlers are physically able to be trained to stay dry in the daytime quite a long time before they're able to do so at night. And they're able to stay dry earlier than they are able to stay poop free. It's a physical thing. Their bodies are just not mature enough to stay dry at night while sleeping. And they aren't able to feel the need to poop as soon as the need to pee. Developmentally potty training is a process that cannot be completed in 3 days.

I'm sorry you have gotten so many negative responses. We used a 3-day method with my son when he was 20 months and it worked very well. We stopped having accidents at home fairly quickly, within a week or two. At school it took a bit longer because he would get distracted with his play and wait until the last possible moment to tell a teacher he had to go. Most of his accidents there were on the way to the bathroom. I think we averaged 1 accident per day for about 2 months, although it would often be 2 per day for a little while and then we'd go a week with none and I thought we were in the clear and suddenly he'd have an accident again. He is now 27 months old and we are down to 1 accident or less per week (except for the last 2 weeks because 2 of the kids he is good friends with are potty training and he suddenly thinks it's cool to pee in his pants again, but even so it's like 2-3 per week).

We started with diapers at nap and night and after 3 days I stopped them at nap time because he always woke up dry. I'm just not really willing to change the sheets all the time and he will sometimes go for 3-4 weeks with only one wet bedtime diaper. But just as soon as I think to myself that we are ready to get rid of the bedtime diaper he has 3-4 wet nights in a row. I'm not stressing over it and he hasn't had any confusion about the diaper at bedtime. We didn't use pull ups or diapers at all during the day after we started and I just explained that when he's sleeping he might not realize he has to go, so we have a diaper just in case.

Good luck!

You won't achieve day and night training at the same time. So, stick with Pull-ups for naps and night. It took our oldest more than two years beyond day training to master night and our youngest appears to be on the same track. If you have a sound sleeper, night training is a real challenge.

Go into three-day training with low expectations. We tried Dr. Phil's one-day training with our oldest and still laugh about it. Peeing doll, potty parties, etc. Our son just thought we were nuts and didn't advance at all with training. In the end, with both kids it came down to ditching Pull-ups during the day and committing to cleaning messes until they got it. Nothing fancy -- no rewards, no dolls, etc. -- just getting them to the bathroom and cheering when they made it in time.

Good luck!

I see most of the negative answers here.
We did this with both my kids. Plan to do it with my 3rd too. My first was 27months (girl) and second was 22 months (boy). With both of them they did well with it. My girl had 1 overnight 'accident' - and then seemed to get the night time thing too.
My son had accidents for longer overnight. I'd say there was about a 6 month stretch of changing his bedding 3-4 times a week. (That said, he is the one that at 22 months REFUSED to use his diaper, he wanted to use the potty.... I would have waited a few more months.)
She is 5 and has not had an accident for a long time. He is 3 now, and still has occasional accidents (mostly when he forgets because he is doing something else, or if he has a ton to drink in the evening, and then sleeps too hard).
Anyway... I say all that to set your hopes higher, but maybe at a realistic level. :)
I think you can go at your own speed. We did undies all the time, and it seemed to click. Maybe give it the 3 days, expecting accidents and see how it goes. They are pretty flexible... We tried pullups - and my daughter called them the pretty diapers... So much for that idea.
The point of her method is to get them to recognize the signs of when you need to go. That also needs to be learned for at night/naps - but it can be a two stage process. I would go with what you feel works for you and your child. :)
(That said, I would try the entire 3 days, as it might just click for your little guy. :) )
Good luck!

I think that it is difficult to potty train a child until they wake in the morning with a dry diaper. That is the signal that their body is ready, even if their mind is ready before that.

From what I have read (I have read a few books on the subject) is that you do not take the diaper off during nap or bedtime until you son's diaper is dry in the morning. This is an indication of bladder and bowel control. Given that your son is only 25 months, it may take a while before he has that kind of control.

i didn't put on a diaper at the beginning at night time so it wouldn't confuse my boy. once he got the concept during daytime I put him on a diaper at nighttime again.
good luck

I tried this with my daughter shortly after her second birthday. It didn't work for her, but I've heard it works for others. I figured she just wasn't ready. I would definitely still use some potty protection at night - one thing you do not want to do is hinder a good sleeping habit in return for early training. If your son does well with this training, perhaps you can try pull-ups at night so as to keep the whole "big boy" thing going with underpants. This way you won't totally disrupt the sleep schedule nor will you throw out all he's learned in his 3-day training. If this method doesn't take for your son, then try again in a few months or try the conventional method a little later. Either way, I learned that they'll train when they're ready, with encouragement from parents. Good luck to you!