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I also had a very difficult time training my son...until I went out and bought him a doll(my husband resisted this idea!), but it worked!! The doll was one that actually came with a potty and a bottle. The doll said when it was hungry, my son would give it the bottle with water in it; then it would tell him it had to go to the washroom. I had my son pull down the diaper and place the baby on the potty . The noise of the water and then seeing the potty full was amazing to him. Not only did it teach him how to use the potty, but also how to pull down and up his own underware. He took care of that baby for 2 years - long after he was trained. Sorry this is so long and good luck, it WILL happen.
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| I've had a 'big girl' bike in the back of my Aztek, where she can see it, for almost 3 weeks now and it has done nothing!!!! She talks about the bike and acts upset when I say 'no, you can have the big girl bike when you use the potty like a big girl', yet she is still going in her pants 60% of the time! ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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CRUISIN08
4/24/07 12:26 P
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| My Mom helped me out with some ideas when I was potty training my son. You might want to try this. Take him to the store and let him pick out a "Big Boy" Toy. Tell him when he has been using the toilet for 2 weeks straight with no accidents then he can have the toy. Put a calendar up in the bathroom so he can mark the days he's gone without having an accident. Also try using cherrios as targets in the toilet.
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SUPERMOMMY1
4/23/07 9:28 A
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Hi, about potty training, my four yr's was potty trained at the age of two but the more i made a big deal about her using the potty all the time was the less she started to want to go on the potty, once i stop the persure and made not such a big deal about, she went on the potty all the time, i would just keep telling her how proud i was of her and made it a postivie everydaything with her and from there on she went at her own free will every time.
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thank God I can see I'm not the only one!! I'm just so frustrated with it and feel like I must be an idiot because I can't get my kid to use the potty! She'll be starting preschool in September so I just hope she doesn't have any accidents there. At least they're only there for a couple hours....I'm assuming she'll see other kids doing it and decide its not so bad. I laughed when I saw that you toss the worst underwear, cause I do too!!! My mom saw me throw some out once and thinks its horrible, but I refuse to scrape out disgusting pantys!!!!!
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My son will be 4 in July, too, and is still resistant. If I put him in real underwear, it's just a big mess all day. He either says, "I just don't care, Mom, I want to wear diapers," or says he's sorry and will start going potty, which never is the case. I do know he is capable as he's done both before in the potty (this has been going on awhile, if fits and starts), and it's not like I'm trying it too young. It does get very old changing dirty underwear (and just tossing the worst), so it's that versus maybe giving up too soon and putting the pull-ups back on.
Oh well, anyway you can see you're not alone....
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| don't feel bad...my daughter will be 4 in July and she still won't use the potty every time...we are having progress by telling her that she can't ride a big girls bike until she poops on the potty, but there are still accidents every single day!!!! It's very frustrating that my autistic son was potty trained at 2 1/2 and my 'normal' daughter(everyone said girls were easier) STILL isn't!!!!
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JOLENE1014
4/19/07 12:55 P
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HOLLIEISBLESSED
4/18/07 11:45 P
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Jolene, Everything I have read and experienced says that your child will let you know when they are ready. I think we as parents are worried about what other people will think of our children it they notice that they have a diaper or pull up on instead of underware.
Children are so different, just reading these posts you see some kids potty train easily and some not so much (mine):)
Bottom line.....my pediatrician told me that some 2 year olds aren't even physically ready to potty train their bladders aren't developed enough.
Try some of the suggestions on this post but don't get discouraged he will go when he is ready.
Scott had a great post about how almost all adults know how to use the potty by theirselves so he will figure it out in his own due time.
Side note : I started my daughter with a sticker reward system everytime she went potty. That worked with learning to pee but still working on the whole poop thing.
Take care,
Hollie
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JOLENE1014
4/18/07 9:15 P
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I have a boy who just turned 2 in feb. and he will not have anything to do with the potty. anybody know what i should do? or is he just not ready?
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WYATTSMOMMIE04
4/17/07 7:32 P
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| Thanks I'll give it a shot!
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BROWNEYEDGIRL31
4/17/07 1:50 P
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I agree on big boy/girl underwear. Switching from underwear to even pull ups children just don't get it.
My son is getting better about going out in public. He will be three in May.
He would go at home and grandparents but not when we were out and about. I can't say I blame him though. I just carry extra and extra of everything in case he does have an accident.
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SAFOWLER10
4/17/07 1:38 P
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We put our son in "big boy" underware after about a week of using pullups. Once he learned that he should use the toilet (from being wet), it was only a week or two before he caught on and we haven't had a accident in over 2 months (he just turned 3).
My wife and I swear that putting them in real underware helps them learn faster.
My other advice is to not get discouraged. There are almost no adults that do not know how to go by themselves. Everyone eventually learns.
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HOLLIEISBLESSED
4/17/07 11:50 A
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Thanks Beckie.....good info. I think we are gonna try to get her used to the "big" potty by buying one of the seats (like you mentioned) to fit over the big toilet seat.
Wish me luck!
Hollie
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WYATTSMOMMIE04
4/17/07 11:45 A
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| I am also trying to potty train my 2 and a half year old son. He used to like to pee in the potty but now he just wants a diaper for both. I was told that putting him in underwear all day would get him to start using it because he would really know it if he was wet. I just don't know if that's such a good idea. I would hate to have to wash underwear multiple times a day. What do you all think?
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I think because I started early with mine it was a bonus in this area. I never used the little seat (I didn't want to clean it out) THe one we had the top would fit the big toliet but then it would shoot out the top. He was in underwear before age 2. And then we only had MAYBE 1 wet accident a day.
BUT I did have a freind whose son would go and get the pull up, put it on, then poop in it, then tell his mom. He had no problem with the peeing. But she ended up buying good size reward toys and told him he could not get it out till he pooped in the toliet. He didn't care too much. Didn't care that my son was younger and would go, Finally she told him that was the last pack of pull ups she was buying and when they were gone it was it. FINALLY he said he had to go, and they tried, she sat there with him. And he said that he was scared. He thought it was going to make too much noise. And after he finally went, he said "that wasn't so bad" She was so mad that, that is what his problem was. Too much noise.
We did cheap match box cars for rewards, then it went down to if he stayed dry all day. then we had relapse when brother was born, and we did suckers, if he went. (Thank goodness he usually didn't finish them) You have to find something that motivates them.
have you tried the portable fold up seats that fit on the big seats?
check out www.onestepahead.com they have them there. Maybe she is afraid she is going to fall in.
Beckie
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HOLLIEISBLESSED
4/17/07 9:14 A
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I have a just turned 3 year old and she is scared of public toilets (or any toilet) she will only use the small potty in her room. She also requests a diaper if she has to go poop, she won't go poop anywhere except a diaper.
We used a sticker reward system to get her to go potty initially, and have tried to continue rewards with the pooping but she is responding.
Anyone have any ideas???
Thank you, Thank you........I am hoping to get her in a preschool program and would like her to be diaper free.
Blessings,
Hollie
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