@Lisa – it is going to be something to be done with diapers! I had 6 months off between kid #3 and the birth of kid #4. And I had about 1.5 years between #4 and #5. But other than that…many many diapers for many many years.

I would normally not be pushing it at 2y 8m but he is excited about school, I’m pretty sure he’ll enjoy it, and this is the price of entry. So hopefully not too many accidents!

Yes, me too! And sometimes I use lecture writing as a form of writing procrastinating. Writing articles is HARD but prepping a lecture is satisfying, but not too taxing. I like to run two weeks ahead of schedule, but more than that is a sign I’m avoiding something.

Thanks Amy! Every 15-20 minutes sounds more manageable than every 5!

Thanks! I knew you would have a more chill method that I could relate to! Weirdly he’s been better about going number two on the toilet (I think he likes to see it, ha!) but definitely not there with pee yet.

I second the two day naked bottom , pump ten full of juice method, skip the pull ups. It worked well for us when he was just over 2

This is roughly the method we’ve used. Spoiler alert- they aren’t fully potty trained in 3 days. But in my experience so far (3 kids and counting all trained by 2.5) it gets the bulk of the accidents over with in a short time frame. My kids have been reliably in underwear by the end of 3-4 days. We don’t push nighttime potty training and use pullups for long drives.

https://www.lucieslist.com/guides/introduction-to-potty-training/the-two-day-method-potty-training/#gref

@Jenn N – there’s no formal method. Basically, if you don’t have to achieve potty-trained status in a short amount of time, you can just have the kid sit on the potty relatively frequently (every 5 minutes is excessive – we asked at transitions, and encouraged every few hours). For a while we were giving a Skittle every time he tried but he didn’t seem particularly motivated by that. Since the kid is still wearing diapers/pull-ups, there’s no real pressure – if they need to be changed, so it goes, but you keep trying and eventually they pee in there and then you praise them lavishly and eventually they keep doing it, and at some point they figure out pooping in the potty (more challenging, since it happens less often, so less practice time!). You praise excessively for that, etc. Then we started putting him in very cool Lightning McQueen underwear for a few hours. Keeping Lightning McQueen clean and dry is the goal!