Potty Training My Son

I say let him be naked if you can. Then slowly start to put clothes back on him. Maybe start with a shirt. Then some socks. Then underwear. Let him get used to each article of clothing (could take days) before you add another one. Add pants last. Good Luck!

He may not be ready yet. At about that age my son would sit on the potty before he took a bath. Sometimes he would pee, sometimes he wouldnt. We started letting him pick a book to read and he would sit on the potty and I would read until he did 'something' and then he was rewarded with tons of praise. Eventually, he got the hang out it. Right before he turned 3.

He isn't ready. Hold off a couple weeks then try again. Keep it on the front burner, so to speak, so that he knows its coming even when you are not actively trying. By 3 he should be really ready! Good luck! Potty training is so hard!

A.

I know it would be great to finally get rid of those diapers, but it seems to me that he is not yet ready. It could be for a number of reasons, like they are afraid of the potty, they don't feel comfortable with sitting on the pot, or he's just too busy to show any real interest. You have a choice to make. You can fight him to train now, and when he's ready he will happily go to the potty, or you can wait, until he starts showing more interest. (mine started pulling off his pullups and climbing on the big potty, and I knew he was ready to start trying) Both ways will end up with a potty trained child when he's ready to and you will likely have little influence on that date. Boys have a tendancy to train late-fully trained by 4 is pretty good, my son was fully trained just after his third birthday, but he would not go potty anywhere but home and on one pot at the day care he attended. My son showed some signs of interest when he was about 2 and sat on a training potty for a while, then suddenly stopped being interested until he was about 3, then it seemed to happen practically overnight. Don't succomb to pressure from others, it has nothing to do with how good of a mom you are...good luck.

There's nothing better to get him excited about it than the Cheerio (or Apple Jacks in our house) game. He gets to throw some in the toilet and aim to dunk them. My son had a blast with this. I had one of those VERY difficult boys who just couldn't grasp the training. We trained for well over a year, then finally, with the Cheerio game, the help of his daycare teacher (who tried to get all the boys trained at once so it was fun for them), and a sticker rewards chart on the wall (for tasks such as getting it in the potty, flushing, washing hands, etc) it finally clicked right before his 3rd birthday. Thank god, because we had our second baby a mnonth later!

Good luck!

I just went through this with my daughter, who is almost three. I stressed about the potty training thing, frustrated both of us, and went crazy with worry that she wasn't getting it. Then, one day, she decided that she wanted to start using the potty and she went without any strong arming by me. I really think that there has to be a developmental readiness and when they're ready, they will do it. I hear boys take longer than girls, but I can't offer experience about that first hand. I offered little treats after successful pottying which seemed to help motivate her. Tried the feel-n-learn pull-ups, but that didn't seem to work for her. These are options you could try, though. After mastering the tinkling, she was petrified to poop on the potty for about a month. Again, I stressed for no reason because one day, she simply decided she was ready, walked over to the potty, and pooped. So I can't stress enough that sometimes you just need to let them develop an interest on their own. Oh, we also got potty books and Once Upon a Potty video and book to introduce her to the topic. Good luck! I think one of the big motivators also was the fact that she started a preschool class two mornings a week and saw the other kids there doing it.

Hello M.,
At 2 1/2 your son is more than ready. It is good that you have introduced him to the potty so he is familar with the process. The Dr. Phil method worked great for both my children. It is potty training in 24 hrs. I highly suggest it. Now what you do take diapers away and put on big boy underwear. Give your son fluids all day and every 15min or half hour or so bring him to the potty. When he uses it give him a sticker or something, and praise. Do this all day and he will catch on like a pro. Some kids need 2 0r three days so the weekend or if you have a couple of days off is best to start. I stopped fluids at night arround 7pm or so and put on training pants,I used real ones as opposed to disposables, so it feels more like underwear instead of a diaper. I woke them up a few times the first couple of nights and took them potty. At night was not as hard as I thought. In a few months they get up and go on their own and you don't even need to take them. Like I said I did this with both of my children and they were fully potty trained before the age of 2.

Remember sometimes it will make the process longer and harder than neccessary if you take baby steps, just jump in and do it. It is a lot of work for you for a couple of days, but that is better that months and months of being half potty trained. Taking them into public will get better in a few months, you will soon see them telling you instead of you asking and that makes it so much easier.
What ever method you decide, Good Luck!!
please let us know what you try and what works.
Renee

Hi M., Both my boys were 3 when they finally were potty trained. I know it is on the late side but they're were not accidents and they went from diapers to underwear. It was alot of work but worth it. I wouldn't use pull ups, not even at night. Good luck

Was the decision to begin the toilet teaching process started by signs of readiness in your son, such as him being uncomfortable in a wet or dirty diaper, or telling you when he had gone, or an interest in the toilet? If so, great! If not, he just may not be ready.
With most parents using disposable diapers and pullups, this doesn't give toddlers/preschoolers the incentive to use the toilet - even with those "feel wet" liners, when they pee, the moisture is mostly pulled away from their skin. A switch to cloth diapers or training pants can give them more incentive to not want to sit in a wet diaper, to know what happens when you pee (you get very wet!) and to know what it feels like just before that happens.

Telling you when he needs to use the toilet is often the last step in the process. With my daughter, she trained in 4 days at 3 years, 1 month. With my son, I started the month before he turned 3. I used thick cloth training pants with waterproof outside liner. I didn't wait for him to tell me or ask if he had to go. I just took him to the bathroom about every hour and a half during the day. The first couple of weeks, we went through every pair of training pants during the day, and after that, he figured out to wait to pee or poop til I took him to the toilet. It was about two months before he actually started telling us that he had to use the bathroom

Good luck.

Hello M.
From the soud of it ur son isn't ready for the potty. U said he'll only use it if he's naked. Also the worse thing to do is force him. I know the "ideal" age for training is now. But i have a little man to all thats going to happen now is you being fustrated and him in tears. Wait a half a year and try again. It might even be sooner. You'll know when he's ready

N.