How Do I Know My Son Can Tell When He Has to Go Potty

with my children, I used an egg timer & carried them when the timer went off.

I started at 60 mins, and worked my way down until I 'caught' the time needed for them to 'go'. It was 9 mins for Si'Ara (groan!) and 20 for Mikey.

I had them both pottie trained b4 they were 18 mts old. I couldnt afford diapers, so I had no other choice...as a single Mom, with no support from anyone, I pottie trained them ASAP. and I am glad I did!

let us know what works!

I watch my brother's kids, two 4 year olds and a 3 year old. All of them pee the bed still. Each of them will wake up when they do it, take their clothes off and go back to sleep naked. The boy wanders around the house until he can find another pair of underwear to put on. He hates being naked.

I do not allow them to have anything to drink at least one hour before bed, take them to the potty right before bed, and wake up in the middle of the night to take them as well.

It is a lot of hassle, but if you do not want to do laundry every day, you have to sacrifice a little sleep.

C.,
for me I didnt use pull ups, becuase its confused my child. I put her in panties and she loved it, she didnt like feeling wet so it was a good sign. at naps she does wet, so I do put a pamper on her at nap time, but slowly I am wheaning her from them. Your son is ready when he goes to the potty himself or when you are with him. just have patience its gonna be just fine, he;ll be potty trained before you know it.

How old is your son? My son was 3 years old before he was completely trained. My dgt. was 2 years 9 months. Both my kids were completely trained (pee/poop/and nightime) in 1-2 weeks. You have to get rid of the pull-ups and just go with the undies. Is he dry in the morning? My kids were so I knew they could do it. When he has an accident, let him help clean up the mess. My kids had to help put the poop in the potty. After a few accidents, they decided they would rather go in the potty than clean up the mess. Good luck.

You may want to simply put him in undies and see what happens. Spread out the time that you take him in the bathroom slowly and see how he responds. I had the hardest time getting my daughter to poop in the potty. She would wait until I put her pullup on for nap or bed and then go. Then I definitely knew she was holding it. Once we switched to panties all the time it didn't take long till she realized she didn't want to be dirty. Once your not taking him to the bathroom as often and he has undies he will probably begin to respond to his own body naturally. It may take some accidents but he will learn. Good luck.

erin

if he can tell he will take a pause in what hes doing , may pull at the front of his pull up when he goes and for poo poo sometimes takes longer than pee. Put him on a timer every hr take him to the potty and sit him on it, if he goes praise like he just saved the world give him a treat etc. Tell him that when the timer goes off he needs to go try to potty that way he feels like he has control of his own potty training. When he poos in his diaper dump it in the toilet that shows him thats where it goes not in his diaper, and have him come with you to dump it and then wipe him with those toddler wipes that you can flush and flush it all down all with his help.

my daughter is almost 5 and still wets the bed sometimes so that will come later , some kids just take longer to get night training.

i put my son in underwear on a day when i knew we were staying home that way when he had an accident he could feel his underwear wet (although a lot of little boys don't really care anything about whether they are wet or dry). it helped him to notice when he went potty and what it felt like. i noticed that when i put him in a pull-up or diaper he would get caught up with playing and not tell me when he had to go potty. i also noticed that when he had to go potty he looked down at his pee-pee and would sometimes hold his diaper with his hand. i still can't figure out how to get him to poop in the potty, but i hope this helps.

I would have said the same exact thing as Erin C.... Get rid of the pull ups... there will be a few messes, but it's the only thing that worked for us!

I am a mom of twin 31/2yr old boys who have been potty for the past year. They started peeing on rocks out side and thought it was so much fun. That's when I knew they were ready. I tried many different things like Potty training in a day(it didn't work for me) You take a day totally devoted to your child, keep him in loose clothes that are easy to remove, take him to the potty every 2 hrs, keep him in one room that's easy to clean. Like I said I tried it with twins and gave up halfway through. I gave rewards (a chocolate chip) each time they used the potty that sort of worked. Then I tried a reward system. Each time they went pee they got a thomas sticker to put on their chart. When they went poop they got a big puffy Thomas sticker. When they filled their chart we went to the store to buy a "potty prize" thomas train. They loved it. I'm in a MOPS group and recently had a speaker called Potty MD. It's a doctor formed group to help parents potty train their kids. They suggested taking the kids to the bathroom every 2 hrs. Also try a bowel program meaning give your child some over the counter stool product like Milk of Mag or Mineral Oil to help the poop come out easier so when your child goes pee the poop just falls out too. They also said no Pull-ups it just confuses the kids. Hope this helps. J.