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| hello! I have a 3 and a 4 year old and I'm having a very rough time potty training them. I heard its very difficult with boys. |
| posted by Peggy on 07/17/2007 10:22 PM
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I've heard it is hard to potty train boys too. My cousin-in-law has a 2 1/2 year old boy and she said that she just put him in underwear so that he can feel when he goes, if he doesn't make it to the toilet. He is doing great.
My little girl is 1 1/2 and I'm working with her on using the toilet. She also doesn't tell me yet when she has to go, but I do the sticker chart with her (which she loves!) and I bought a potty book that she likes to read. I try to carry this with me so that she can read it whenever she needs to go potty. |
| posted by Mandy on 07/17/2007 10:38 PM
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| My daughter is 18 months and i am working with her. She doesnt tell me but i take her. She goes at least ont tome a day on the potty sometimes two. my sister had a rough time with my nephew. He was 3 almost 4. they said they were tired of buying pull ups so yhey put him in big boy pants and he caught on after just a short while. i think it was about 2 weeks. |
| posted by Natasha on 07/17/2007 10:51 PM
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| My daughter is 18 months and i am working with her. She doesnt tell me but i take her. She goes at least ont tome a day on the potty sometimes two. my sister had a rough time with my nephew. He was 3 almost 4. they said they were tired of buying pull ups so yhey put him in big boy pants and he caught on after just a short while. i think it was about 2 weeks. |
| posted by Natasha on 07/17/2007 10:51 PM
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| My son is also almost 2 1/2, he has only gone poop once on the toilet, I think he is just as confused by what pee and poop are, plus he doesn't mind being wet, so putting him underware doesn't work, he does great when he's naked. I read that try taking the poopy diaper off of them when they are on the toilet so they know where it is suppose to go might help. but my son seems to poop first thing in the morning when he gets up and during his nap. I would love to know what you do to make it work- good luck! |
| posted by Michele on 07/18/2007 02:05 PM
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| me too Michele !!!!! |
| posted by laura on 07/18/2007 02:29 PM
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My son is also 2 1/2 and I potty trained him in March. Until he really has the hang of it, he will not tell you he has to go. You just have to be really consistent when it comes to taking him. I did every hour or two until he made a pee or poop and keep doing that. As for poops, my son is pretty predictable when it comes to poops, usually about 15 to 30 minutes after eating and mid morning. I would take him to sit on the potty around his poop time and have him sit for 5 minutes and do that every 15 minutes or so and sooner or later he had to poop and did so. It took a few days but eventually it worked. I also constantly reminded him he was wearing underpants and he couldn't go potty in them. It took a good 3 weeks to a month before he was pretty much accident free.
Good Luck! : ) |
| posted by Jessica on 07/18/2007 09:22 PM
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| Also..pull ups are just fancy diapers, if it feels like a diaper he'll go in it. |
| posted by Jessica on 07/18/2007 09:24 PM
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Thanks Jessica
I also know exactly when je is gonna poop it is right after his first morning meal. I put him on the toilet he usually goes pee and i tell him to go poop and encourage him too. Bt he wont and sure enough he goes poop in the diaper within 10 minutes of taking him off the toilet......when u trained your son did u use diapers still ?
Laura |
| posted by laura on 07/18/2007 09:27 PM
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this is all such great advice!
Thanks everyone, I'm going to start doing some of this... my daughter is 18 months, but I feel like it's time to start. She tells me when she feels like she has to go, but won't go on her little potty. Maybe I should get one of those things to go on the "real" potty.
Any input there? |
| posted by Amanda on 07/18/2007 10:57 PM
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Yes amanda
at first i bought the whole potty kit nicky wuldnt sit in the potty seat thingy so I took off the top and put it on the real toilet and he sat right away and still does
good luck
Laura |
| posted by laura on 07/19/2007 08:22 AM
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| No, I put him in underpants all day and at night a diaper with underpants over the diaper so they get used to the underpants. I work at a daycare also, and have found with most kids if they wear a diaper while training that's where they'll go for the most part, b/c it's comfortable and what they are used to. |
| posted by Jessica on 07/19/2007 09:04 PM
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| also i forgot to mention, if the child is not quite ready...all the tricks and tips in the world won't really help and it may be best to try again in a few months. By then not only will they be familiar with it, but more mature and ready and it will be a snap. My son was telling me everytime he had a pee or poop and would try to take off his diaper b/c he didn't like feeling wet, but usually boys are a little later in potty readiness. |
| posted by Jessica on 07/19/2007 09:09 PM
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Thanks Jess
My son is the opposite he could care less if he is wet or dirty....but i have notices in the last week or 2 he has actually told me he has done poop( in the diaper) so i go change him this could be a big plus. I HOPE
Laura |
| posted by laura on 07/19/2007 09:31 PM
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Hi Ladies,
Thanks for the tips.
Amanda--My daughter is 18 months she seems ready both emotionally and physically. The only sign lacking is that she's not telling me before she needs to pee/poop, only AFTER, which as you know is not very helpful. I want to start training her.
Jessica--I've heard that consistency is THE most important thing. Should I start doing what you recommended and just start putting her on the potty after she eats and drinks?
Thanks. |
| posted by Sandy on 07/20/2007 09:33 AM
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| how do i go about just putting him into underwear ?? isnt it going to be a MESS ?? Im so confused cause i have never heard of anyone doing htis way for training but i thinnk im willing to try . |
| posted by laura on 07/20/2007 03:21 PM
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| my sister suggested putting them in training pants and then the plastic liners over them like for cloth diapers(by the way I found these at K-mart), I haven't tried it yet, I still holding off a bit since when I tried underware on and then shorts he seems to forget and goes in them. we he get on a roll he takes the diaper off and goes right to the potty chair. we have an extra incentive at our house right now, my dog just had puppies so he gets to see the puppies everytime he gets to flush the pee down the toilet!! |
| posted by Michele on 07/20/2007 03:39 PM
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| The fact that he is telling you he has done a poop in the diaper is a big plus. It sounds like you're introducing him to the potty and he is responding pretty well. Once he starts telling you almost everytime that he's made a poop in the diaper and is comfortable on the potty, I would definetely put him in big boy underpants. Once you put on the underpants, yea you'll have a few messes, but it may be messy for like 1 or 2 weeks tops if he is ready. It sounds like maybe he's not quite ready for that step yet, but it definetely sounds like he's making progress and will be ready really soon. |
| posted by Jessica on 07/23/2007 08:25 PM
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| Amanda- She won't tell you she has to pee or poop for a few weeks into actually potty training. They are just so used to just going right when they have to go, it's almost a reflex, they don't think about it. Once you start taking her regularly to the potty and she gets the hang of going on the potty instead of her diaper or panties, she'll understand that the potty is the place to go and will start telling you. If you are really consistent and are serious about jumping into potty training full force, it won't take long before she starts telling you. It took my son a few times to tell me, but he wasn't telling me everytime. It took him a week 1/2 to 2 weeks to tell me everytime. |
| posted by Jessica on 07/23/2007 08:29 PM
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| thanks Jessica and all u moms too. |
| posted by laura on 07/23/2007 09:26 PM
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| I never used the sticker chart, I just used a lot of praise and waited till she was ready We had a little potty for half a year before my daughter decided she was ready and I didn't force it. She also liked the seat that you put on the potty better at first, now she likes to go back and forth between the two. She pretty much trained herself and we only put her in panties after starting, no diapers(only at night) or pull-ups. After a couple months, she doesn't even wear diapers at night. Praise, praise, praise and wait until they are ready |
| posted by Abby on 07/26/2007 03:04 PM
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| I praise him everythime he pees on the toilet ..Im starting to wonder if he is totally ready yet. They say boys are very stubburn at this and it takes much longer. I cant aggue with that. But I wont stop trying ... |
| posted by laura on 07/26/2007 06:33 PM
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| I have a 3 year old daughter and my husband and I have been working with her for about 6 months, but we aren't getting anywhere. What can I do? |
| posted by Nichole on 08/08/2007 10:17 AM
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