We did it a little different, we had a talk about not wearing a diaper anymore, we knew, that both of our kids knew when they had to go, it was just easier to use the diaper. We tried that sitting on it and getting used to it, but what worked the best for.both our kids was to take off the diaper, when we where home, we had some accidents along the way but they learned that pee and poop is not the nicest thing to outside the diaper