Hi, my 3yr old boy is potty training and need some help. Here are the details... he seems to be (maybe) afraid to pee in the real toilet. He goes to the bathroom when he feels the urge to pee or when I ask him to go to the bathroom. He has learned to sit down on a child's potty seat and now stands up to pee. Since he won't pee in the real toilet, I have provided him with a lower "potty", which is a pail (beside the toilet) for him to pee in. He is not #2 trained yet. Lately, he has been wanting to move around when he pees and thinks it's funny when the pee is aimed elsewhere other than into his potty. He has good aim but he just wants to aim it on the walls, on the floor, etc. Any advice about fine tuning his #1 and #2 would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot!
I heard that you can put a fruit loop or a cheerio in the toilet to give him something to aim at or try to sink. Sounded like a good idea to me.
try putting froot loops or cherrios in the toilet, make him shoot them. some one told me that
I'm the last person who should respond with potty training help, because my son is 3 years and 3 months and we still aren't there, but I do understand the potty training pain! I really thought I just wanted to let him potty train in his own time, but lo and behold, I found myself offering him chocolate if he would just please pee in the potty. But it worked! We are working on number 2 now. He's done it twice, but has pooped in his underwear far more times than that.
Here's what has worked so far for me:
- lots and lots of talks about how pee pee and poo poo go in the potty and not in your pants
- NO diapers, even at night (although I clean up the bed a few times a week)
- bribery (it's a sad thing, but it really works)
- and I act like he just climbed Mt. Everest every time he goes in the potty
My son was late on a lot of things, and it is hard sometimes for him to process the spoken language, so I think that's why the chocolate and no diapers approach worked better with him. The books all tell you otherwise, but if I ever wanted to stop buying diapers, I was going to have to take matters into my own hands.
Hope this was in some way minimally helpful!
-J.
I heard somewhere once that you can use cherrios to help them aim. You throw a few cherrios into the toilet and tell them to try and aim at them! It was said to be a fun way of helping with aim in the big potty!!
Good Luck!!
