Despite what I said about following through with the three day boot camp, I couldn't do it. Not because I'm lazy, but because Little Miss NAPB has developed some sort of potty phobia. Every time she sees the toilet, she screams and cries and refuses to go anywhere near it. And I don't have the heart to see her go through this ordeal. Now, I'm just hoping what I did for the past two days hasn't scarred her too much that she'll need diaper for life (just kidding!).
So here's what I think about the Lora Jensen's 3 Day Potty Training method. Whilst it may have worked for many, IT DIDN'T WORK FOR ME.
Here are some issues that I'd like to point out regarding why I won't recommend it to fellow parents, and I say this based only on my own personal experience, others might have different opinions.
1. Picking your child up while she is half way peeing, and rushing them to the toilet is not plausible. Why? Because when someone is "releasing", gets scooped up to somewhere else, in a rushed manner, she would PANIC. Who wouldn't? When she's panicking, she'll hold back whatever she's "releasing" (while you're running her to the toilet), and subsequently, she'll be SHOCKED to be placed on a "hole". Do this continuously for a few times (some apparently do it up to twenty times a day), and YOU WILL GET A CHILD WITH TOILET PHOBIA, just like what's happened to Little Miss.
2. If your child was previously okay with sitting on the potty, this is not the method for you. Little Miss NAPB was fine sitting on the toilet bowl for 5-10 minutes at a time, she's even done some poop on it occasionally. But I wasn't really toilet training back then, just trying to get her used to sitting on it. However, ever since I started the LJ 3 Day method, it backfired so badly now that she refuses to even look at the toilet. She actually peed into the toilet when I placed her down upon waking up the first day, it was only after I started rushing her into the toilet when she was having her "accidents" that she now refuses to be anywhere near it. So in other words, if you've tried your child on a potty/ toilet before, it's advisable not to try this method.
3. Don't attempt this method if you are alone with the child. Let's face it, it's not feasible to concentrate 24 hours (or 12) solely on your child if you don't have anyone to help cook or wash for you. Most of the accidents with Little Miss happened while I decided to do the dishes, cook dinner, go to toilet, etc. As a result, I couldn't even catch one accident, okay, maybe I did, just one though out of ten. The method says it will only work if you catch ALL or at least 99% of it.
4. If a child is bum naked and still refuses to do her "stuff" in the toilet, there's a chance that she might be holding it back, to a very unhealthy extend. The first night she was off diapers, she actually stayed DRY for TWELVE HOURS!!! No matter how I got her to the toilet (when she woke up around 8 hours after sleeping), she had nothing to give. So she slept for another four hours, and still woke up dry. Still she refused to "unleash" in the toilet, and gave me another mopping job thirty minutes after she woke up.
5. Last but not least, wiping pee off the floor continuously for two days let alone three will make you go crazy. Add that with a screaming toddler who refuses to sit on the toilet even though she's half way peeing. Go figure.
The only thing I can say is, "No one ever goes to college in diapers!" LOL
So we'll be backing off away from toilet training for now, so that Little Miss can get over her fear for toilets. Hopefully by then, she will tell me when she's ready to be a big girl.