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- So the last few weeks has been eventful
at the Ferrell household.
Charley has been a big girl.
Not only has she become potty-trained,
she moved to a big girl bed.
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So, yeah, it's really exciting.
We, I think in February, we tried potty-training.
Was that back in February?
- Yep. Yep.
- And we bought one of the step stools from Amazon
You can walk up to sit on the toilet
and she just really
wasn't interested.
Is that what you would say?
- Yeah.
- You would ask her,
so we tried every thirty minutes
we would ask her,
"Hey Charley, do you need to go potty?"
but she would never say yes. (laughs)
She would always say no and then
it just kind of was like "okay, she's not ready.
"I give up."
And then I guess two weeks ago,
I ordered one of the little
bitty potties which I said I wasn't going to buy this time
because Ryan didn't really like it but I ended up buying
it again because somebody recommended "hey, just try
"different potties."
And so we bought the one from Amazon.
We just put it in there and she was just like thought it
was really cool.
- With the help of gummy bears.
You think the first time she used it,
you said the first day we kind of just
had accidents all day.
She was learning.
She had to learn-
- She had to learn.
- She had to learn "this is what is means"
- Yeah.
The feeling that she had to go,
she had to learn that because by the time she
would tell us,
she was already peeing in her pants.
- Yeah.
- But she knew to tell us but she couldn't make it there.
- Dad, Bret, Dad has been a stay-at-home Dad while I
have been working at "Ryan & Rose",
so he's really had to deal with most of it.
I'd come home, like oh my gosh,
Bret you did it.
She's potty-trained.
Oh my gosh.
What did you do?
- Gummy bears.
So, you did say when she did go,
the first day where she wasn't successful,
she got really upset.
It really upset her.
You could tell she was trying.
Everyday she got better and you could tell when she told
you she had to got to the bathroom,
you had to go right then.
Because there was still a few times she didn't make it.
But she was trying.
She was learning that process.
- Urgency is what I figured out.
- Yeah.
- When she said, "I need to go potty",
she needs to go within seconds.
- (laughs) There is no delay.
- No.
- So when she goes pee-pee, she gets one gummy bear.
And when she goes poo-poo in the potty,
she gets a whole bag. (laughs)
And it's worked.
I mean there has been a few times lately she's had,
you know,
an accident.
- When she sits in the video,
she gets gummy bears.
- Yeah. (laughs)
Just like this.
- This is positive reinforcement.
- Yeah.
And I know this sounds kind of weird,
but me having to catheterize my whole life,
I don't know what that means to have,
teaching a kid to potty-train.
I don't know.
I can tell myself to go to the bathroom.
I have to catheterize.
So teaching your kids,
you know what I tell Ryan what that means.
I have no idea.
So it's very different for me teaching her
but she has done such an amazing job.
We said, "once she's potty-trained,
"we will give her a big girl bed."
And that's what she's got.
She been sleeping so good.
- She's a big girl.
- Even the other night,
she didn't want to go to bed but she stayed
in bed crying
and I was so, so, so very proud of her
- She hasn't been wetting her diaper.
- Right.
We still put her in one at night.
but it's been dry in the mornings.
- Yeah.
So, I think my biggest advice for y'all,
and some advice I got,
is wait til they're ready. (laughs)
Wait until they are ready.
Don't force it.
I think in my head with Ryan Rose,
I felt like Ryan Rose got potty-trained so much earlier
but she really didn't because it was Spring Break
and they have almost the same birthday month.
So really they both got potty-trained at two and a half.
Because remember when we went to Disney,
that's when she just started potty-training.
We were kind of worried about on the flight
and then she did have an accident.
This is Ryan at Disneyland.
So it's the same time.
I think don't rush it.
Try different things.
Some kids might do good with positive reinforcement.
Some kids might do with negative reinforcement.
I don't know.
I just think every kid's different and you just gotta try
different things.
I know a lot of people recommended sticker charts
and I know eventually,
when she just told us she has to go,
she has to go.
Even sometimes she's like,
"Oh, it hurts."
She has to go to the bathroom.
So learning your kid's cues
and what that means.
So we still have her crib in here.
We are going to take it to the office
but we decided to get a queen-sized bed
because Ryan,
when we moved her from a crib to a bigger bed,
we got her a full and Mommy,
when she had to come sleep her,
she had a friend over,
the bed wasn't big enough.
A lot of you guys have asked why we went with
the queen instead of a full.
That way she-
- One more.
- Can grow into it.
- What do you think about potty-training?
- (laughs) Are you doing really good?
- Did you go pee-pee on the potty?
- What do you get if you go pee-pee
on the potty?
- How many gummy bears?
- Do you get one or two or a bag?
- Three.
- Three?
You need to go?
- Ya!
- Okay. Come on.
Let's go.
Wait, wait, stop.
Go this way (screeching).
So this is the Summer Infant one that we bought.
I got it from Amazon and we were already
in quarantine season so I just bought it online.
But I liked it because it had a little compartment
here where you could put the wipes.
It also had a hook that you can put on the toilet right here
and hang the gray piece if they have started to-
I think it goes - right there.
If they have started to using the big potty.
But this one can also can fit right here when they're ready
to transition.
Do you like being ale to be a big girl
and go to the potty?
How old are you?
- Two.
- Are you two?
Are you almost three?
All done?
After you go potty,
what do you have to do?
- Wash my hands.
- Wash your hands.
(tap water running)
- (mumbles)
(tap water running)
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My hands are (mumbles)
Mommy, my hands (mumbles).
- So we hope that helps a little bit.
I think just patience.
It's going to come around.
I know a lot of people said, "we tried in the beginning
"every thirty minutes we set an alarm".
What we do with Ryan,
is she actually,
we did a different method with her.
It was on Spring Break so we actually put a dress
on her and she went commando and we just played outside
for the whole week so if she pottied on herself,
she didn't like that feeling
and so that taught her really fast.
Every kid's different.
That's like what we say at our business
because all babies are different.
So we hope that was a little good feedback for ya
and a little helpful.
Until next time.
(Charley clapping)
- Bye
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