Fighting over the toilet and going peepee

I don't know if it's the competition or what. But now when every one of them announce that they gotta "go peepee" the other one RUNS for the potties and starts pushing and shoving to sit on the pot first!! :laughing: I mean, we've got two potties, so this shouldn't be an issue. Are we just getting to an age where they are going to fight over EVERYTHING? Please tell me someone else has kids fighting over who gets to go peepee (the fight happens even if the other one does NOT have to go). Or do I have a couple of strange ones? How did you handle it? I have seperated the potties (really, I'm trying to get them to use the toilet every time) and designated "this pot for you and that pot for them" but it doesn't seem to be working.

Thanks! LOL!



(I didn't put this in the PT section because it isn't really about PTing...just about fighting over toilets :laughing: )

 

We started really young with taking turns and sharing. I have one of those seats that fits on the big potty along with a potty chair (I have 2 but only have 1 down) They both usually want to use the potty seat but whoever asks first, gets to use it. If the other one wants to peepee, I ask them if they want to sit on the other potty, most of the time it is a no and they will wait for the other one to get off the potty seat and then use it. Although we haven't had any successful pee yet, but I'm not really pushing for them to use the potty either. I would work on taking turns and sharing the same potty if that is what they both want. GL!!!!

 

Not exactly the same, but I have a sympathetic peeer/pooper. Whenever DD has to go, DS screams he also has to go and they race to the toilet. I usually try and make DS wait, but when he says he REALLY has to go, I send him upstairs. If he really has to go, he goes on his own. If it is a competition thing, he goes back to whatever he was doing.

 

Yes, you see Nathan does NOT have to pee. He just want's to get to the toilet first and crys his eyeballs out when I tell him to get up. LOL

 

My boys now stand to pee so they pee together, someone is always being peed on. Yes, my boys do fight over it and they have 3 bathrooms to choose from.

 

QUOTE(mommy23monkeys @ Jan 6 2009, 05:02 PM) [snapback]1135300[/snapback]
Are we just getting to an age where they are going to fight over EVERYTHING?

Yes. :laughing:

Mine fought over who gets to use which potty also. For awhile we had two small potties set up, and they still fought over who got to have the one near the door -- or away from the door -- or near the bathtub -- or whatever. Now we only have one potty, and mercifully Amy seems to prefer the little potty while Sarah prefers the potty seat on the adult toilet.

But in general, potties are just one of the many things that, even if you have two, they always want the same one. Plus, there is the added factor that they know adults are very interested in who does what on the potty -- so anything pertaining to the potty is always a big deal.

 

Yes my girls fight over it. They used to do it more when they were younger but even now before bath we make them go and they will run to see who will ge there first opr if one is going poopy on the potty the other will stand there jumping up and down saying she has to go. We do have a second bathroom in our basement and we tell them to go downstairs if they really have to go. Sometimes they go and sometimes they just wait depending on how bad they really have to go. My girls used to stand next to the big potty with there undies and pants around their ankles waiting for their sister to get off. They have been fighting over the potty since about almost 3 and it has gotten a lot better through the years. Our rule was whoever said it first or got there first got to sit first (depending on if we told them to go before leaving the house or bath or if one said she had to go). But we would also make sure the one on the potty first didn't stay on it to long either. My one daughter liked to make her sister wait and sit on the potty longer and even made sure she had to do poopy (I think she can do it when ever she wants to) when her sister had to go potty.