My son turned 2 in June & he was interested in using his potty chair, but not to poo in it. We have been gone a lot from home so we weren't able to do the naked most of the time kind of training. He will go pee in it, but not poo. I need suggestions & help. He knows what's going on , but just not wanting to do it. He has pooed 2 times in the potty chair, but looked kind of scared once he did it. Help please!!! Thanks!
My son was 3 years and 3 months before he was ready to put it in the potty. It will happen, but no one can tell you when.
I think the big accomplishment here is that he now has a potty chair and will get used to it being around to maybe use "someday". We got one at about 2 years of age for my son but he honestly didn't start "using" it for about 6 months after. I think it is scary. The slower you go with it all the less stressful it is for them. There is no reason to stress him out about it. The days he shows interest let him try it out. Otherwise don't push it. My son is now 4 and finally completely potty trained. One thing to keep in mind. Do you know any adult who is not potty trained? He will learn eventually and get past this hurdle but let him do it on his own timing. I thought it was taking my son forever but now that I look back I realized he was ready when he was ready period! good luck
It didn't click for my daughter until between she was almost 3. Don't rush it or focus too much on it because that might turn it into a power struggle.
LOL! Girl i'm in the same boat! my son just turned 2 in June and i've been working on him to go potty for some time now. He doesn't like using the potty chair at all, but he will tell me "mama poop" and we run to the bathroom and i'll sit him on the big toilet and hold him and he'll go with no problem, still working on the pee part though..I also have done encouraging games with him while he is on the potty and that seems to kinda help him relax and go. I also encourage my husband to go and take him to the bathroom so my husband will be on the toilet and my little guy on his potty chair and that seems to be helping too. It just takes alot of practice! We'll get there soon!
A lot of kids can pee in the potty for quite some time before they poop in it. You may just need to give him some time. My daughter was 3 before she was pooping in the potty. She did it a few times at 2 1/2, then waited to do it regularly until 3. One thing that helped her was those flushable wet wipes. It made her more comfortable and she was able to independently wipe sooner. But, even with that, we were making no progress until SHE was ready.
I like the previous suggestion too. My son at first loved pooping in the potty, then he seemed to be reluctant and pooped in his pull up at nap consistently. So , I went through his things and found small toys he probably forgot he had . . matchbox cars, small books, and went to the dollar store and bought a couple of things. I wrapped them up in paper and told him he would get a special present when he pooped in the potty. Also I would suggest to try to figure out when he usually poops. My son usually poops first thing in the morning and before bed. I make it a routine to sit on the potty at that time and read a couple stories. He usually goes and he hasn't pooped in his naptime pull-up in a weeks. Any suggestions for me? Im still telling him to try the potty. Check out my question. Hope I helped you. M.
I need to hear this advice myself............ Thanks!
I had sworn that I wasn't going to resort to food rewards to get my daughter potty trained...but I did...and it worked--I started with stickers but it just didn't hold her attention. It probably was so effective because we are a "few and far between" sweets household. I have a jar of M&Ms prominently displayed near the bathroom and she gets two for pooping on the potty. Sometime I know she needs to go because she doesn't tell me that she has to poop...she says, "I want chocolate!"
I also had an epiphany one day during the process...they pee a lot more than they poop so it is naturally going to take longer for them to reliably recognize the signal. I started my daughter at the beginning of August and it took 4-6 weeks to get her accident free. I only used diapers at night for the first 10 days...and then regular panties 24/7.
Make sure he gets plenty of water and a fiber-rich diet to keep everything moving with a minimum of strain. I also suggest that you get him on the big potty ASAP...it will make your life easier in the long run.
On a slightly grosser note, we made a pretty big deal out of it when she pooped. We'd take a look at it and say goodbye as she flushed. One day she said, "Look, I made a bunny!"
He still may be a little young to reliably recognize the signal. Conventional wisdom generally says that boys take longer than girls. But it may do the trick to tell him that he has to wear a diaper if he doesn't go in the potty--this did NOT work with my daughter...we had to purge the house of all diapers. And I had to relax a little bit. The less reaction when she had an accident the better.
M&M's or Skittles are a great idea for a reward.
Honestly, though, 2 sounds a little young, especially for a boy. The average child these days is potty trained around 39 months and that can be even longer for boys than for girls. I say use the rewards, but be patient. When he is ready everything will just "click".
well I am not sure i have muh advice but i can tell you that i have gone through the same thing with my daughter in fact we are still working on it...she got the hang of going pee in less then 2 weeks but she continued to poo in her underwear,then i got her to go 3 times on the potty but each time she would cry and i would have to hold on to her, then she just stopped going at all so for a few days i tried purn juice but still nothing she would cry that her tummy hurt but she just wouldn't go not even in her underwear...then i had to resort to suppositories cause it had been over a week since she had gone...as soon as i would put that in she would say she had to go and she would in fact the suppositorie would come out also so after having to use those 3 times and i would wait 3 days in between each one she finally decided to go on the potty cause she did not want more medicine put in her bottom...she has now been going poo everyday or everyother day on the potty...she still however does not like it and crys everytime but i just encourage her and tell her that it is okay!! So I am not sure that this will help you but just know that he will get it, it just takes time and a lot of patients...good luck!
I recieved this advice from a friend and it worked like MAGIC! Since your son is obviously favoring the diaper for poopooing, put the diaper in the potty chair basin and tell him he can still go in the diaper but the diaper is in the potty. My daughter thought that was clever and took to it... only twice did she request the diaper in the potty, after that she was ready for no diaper and now she LOVES to flush it down (gross, i know). And... we told her she'd get an ice cream cone if she poo'd in the potty, so a little treat inticement never hurts.
Give him time, he'll feel ready when he's ready. I didn't train my daughter until she was three. She knew the concept of what the potty was used for and what the pamper was for. Though when she started getting the hang of use the potty regularly, at night time I would put her a pullup(for the reason that is wasn't as bulky or thick as a regular papmer) as soon as I put it on she would poop. I would tell her over and over again that it was okay for her to poop in the potty, all she would do was agree. Until one day I guess she couldn't hold it in and the poop slipped. And ever since then she's been going. Give him time he'll feel comfortable enough to poop when he's ready. Just encourage him time and time again that potty is for pooping as well and once he does it on a regular basis reward him, buy him a new toy take him to his favorite resturant or something that he knows its okay to poop. Good luck! :)
This might sound really funny but buy himt the blue toilet paper from the grocery store. I just potty trained my 2 year old twins and when I was in the store I saw the pink and blue and thought it might be motivating. THEY LOVED IT!!!! All they wanted to do was use "their" toilet paper. Obviously for my son this meant poop. He was only allowed to use it when he went to the bathroom. It worked like a charm. Good luck.
