Potty Training Help - Colorado Springs,CO

DONT PUSH! Kids arent ready AT LEAST until 2 1/2. the more you push them, the more reluctant they will be. Just remember to always keep it fun and exciting. Take him to the store and let him pick out the big boy underware. He wont want to wear them everyday and let that be ok in the beginnig. Good Luck! Dont get frustrated. Remember. Accidents will happen, its just a part of it, STAY POSITIVE

Don't rush it. This is one of the few areas that your lil' man will learn he has control. You don't want this to become a power struggle.

For ideas on how to 'start'. You can educate him about the bathroom and the potty process. If you aren't already doing it, bring him into the bathroom when you go so he knows what the room & toilet are for. You can also begin changing his diaper in the bathroom instead of on a changing table so he begins to associate this room w/ getting rid of waste & getting clean. Another thing to do is to start washing hands w/ him and teaching him that this is all part of the process. Take it slow & keep it relaxed. When he's ready (and only then) will he be able to potty train you :>

A great resource for additional ideas - The No Cry Potty Solution. Very gentle, very flexible.

I felt the same way with my son. He is now 28 months, and just beginning to potty train. I would keep trying, you can give him a treat for when he does go in the potty. Get him to understand that the pee pee goes in the potty and not in the diaper, that is the easiest to start off with. Then everytime he goes in the potty give him a treat. I give Gerber puffs. When he gets a little older, make it a big deal and try putting underwear on him. Tell him that these are big boy pants and you have to use the potty. My son now, will actually hold it until he has to go pee when he doesn't have a diaper on. He will now tell me when he feels the urge to go. I am still getting him to potty train with #2, but i think that takes a bit longer. Just go at your son's own pace, he will show more interest as he gets older. Good luck to you! It will happen!

I am starting the process with my 19 month old girl and what totally helped with my 3 year old was putting them in clothe training pants. They don't like to be wet or messy. It may create a mess for awhile, but we have made our children lazy with the diapers. Pull-ups are a cruch I don't like to use. Also, take time to teach him to pull up his pants and take them down. Good luck.

My advice, don't push him. I know it's not what you want to hear, but the odds of him being potty trained before your daughter is born is not in your favor. The average age kids are potty trained is 3, and for boys, that tends to be a little later than that.

Two in diapers really isn't bad. Mine are 21 months apart. My oldest has had some interest in the potty, and has used it with some success but has no interest in keeping it up.

Good luck!

my son is 20months & almost potty trained,i started around 16months with him. what i did was start by putting him on the potty first thing in the morning, & right after naps to start. & once he got that down i would take him ever 2 hrs, & now he will walk to the bathroom door most of the time himself. also it helps to sing silly songs about using the potty.

I am a child care provider and I will say that boys do take longer and do it later than girls. I commend you for trying. Unless you are having long periods where your son's diaper is dry he is not ready. I do not use potty chair I use an insert I found at Home Depot that sits on top of my existing toilet seat and a stool (space is an issue in my bathroom). One trick I have used to expedite the process when I find the child's diaper is dry after a few hours is to sit the child on the seat, Pour warm water over their pelvic area and voila!!. This works to stimulate the release of the urine and then they get exited that they went in the toilet. I do use a sticker chart as a reward system. Chart is just a piece of paper with their stickers on it that I post to the mirror each day. BE PATIENT. I currently have two 2 year old boys in my care(they are 6 weeks apart in age.) one is totally trained the other we have lots to work on. I stillhave to keep track of when both last went the bathroom and remind them it is time again to keep them dry.

When I start to train the children, I wear a timer and I place them on the potty every 30 minutes this is usually for 2 - 4 weeks then I advnace it to every 45 minutes and then every hour until I feel or see thay are getting the idea.

If you find your son dry in the morning start with that. 17 months is really early for a boy. I have found that boys do take a longer time after waking before they feel the need to pee. I have a son he is 17 now and it amazes me that he does not feel the urge to pee as soon as he wakes in the AM like myself and his sister.

Best of luck to you,
D.

He is too young to be potty training most kids aren't ready until around age two. If you try to force him he will refuse and it will take even longer for him to be ready. We are potty training my daughter who is 26 months and girls are usually ready sooner than boys.

I know what you are going through. I have a son who will be 2 at the end of this month. Last Sept. He had two cousins come to town and they were being potty trained. After they left, we started potty training our son. One night at my in-laws and it was all over for him. It is a huge challenge at our house now, and I gave up for a month.

Try using pullups, if he is ready, he will love being a big boy and wearing big boy pants, they have a velcro type side to make changing him easy too.

Read "potty" books to him, there is one that you push a button and it makes sounds like a toilet flushing and a child cheering, there is the Elmo doll that is for potty training, and alot of books out there for parents. Not all of them will be right for you, but you will find one that is right for you.

Be persistant. If your son drinks alot throughout the day, put him on the potty every 30 minutes (wearing pullups allows you to see if he has gone---they have little designs on them that disappear or get blurry when they go-let him run around the house in a tee-shirt and his pull-up), if he goes, let him wipe (with help at first), and then flush the potty (makes them feel special and helpful), and don't forget to teach him to wash his hands with toddler soap (huggies has one with a purple hippo on it). Give a reward-a special treat or sticker after he does go on the potty. Let him call Daddy (or grandma) and make it a big deal, he will feel like a big boy.

If after the first week he isn't getting it, or not going on the potty, you can change the wait time to 15 minutes, or wait a couple of weeks and try again. But don't wait too long to try again. Get into a routine of going and that will help too. Do your best if you go to a mall or store and he tells you he has to go, sometimes they are not the cleanest bathrooms and are often times really disgusting, those are the hardest places to use the potties especially if your little one won't use those potties because it isn't the same as his at home...I tell my son that it is ok, just this once to go in his pull-up then try to get home before he has to go again.

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I have to echo the don't push it response. I have three children. My youngest will turn three in Febuary. She isn't potty trained. She will use the bathroom but not on regular occassions. She just doesn't know when she has to go enough. I have learned with my other two that training them before they are ready only makes it worse.

At 17 months I would not expect him to have any interest, or be bothered by his diapers. I have three kids, all out of diapers now, and the WORST thing you can do is push it. The more you want it, the less he'll want it. To add to it, even if by a miracle he got trained before your baby came, chances are good he'll regress, as even older kids will sometime start soiling themselves again after the birth of a sibling. Don't stress about it too much. The more you stress and try to make it happen too soon, the more frustrated you're going to get as the months, and YEARS even, pass by with messes and power struggles and disappointments. My older two are 18 months apart and I had both in diapers at the same time for about 3 years. It's not that bad. A little tip for later when he is ready... if you have a garden or back yard where it would be appropriate, let him run around with nothing on. He'll suddenly pee and when he sees it, it will surprise him, since before it just went subconsciously into his diaper. When he keeps actually seeing it come out, he'll get interested, and he'll start to make the all-important connection between what he's seeing and what he's feeling inside.

I wouldn't be too worried yet. I'm in the same exact boat. Our first started to want to wear underwear at 20 months. It was a few more months before our school schedule allowed for potty training, but it took 4 days. I have friends who swear by the book "Toilet Train Your Child in Less Than a Day". It wasn't for us, but I got a lot of great ideas from it. They suggest waiting until at least 20 months and if you use their schedule they guarantee something like 90% success rate. GL. I'm dreading 2 in diapers!