Need Help Potty Training Twins.

Updated on December 01, 2008
N.J. asks from Osceola, IN
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My boys will be 3 in February and we are trying to get them started on potty training. I have 2 older children and don't really remember having a difficult time getting them trained. However my boys are causing some grief. They are showing all the signs of needing the change out of diapers...ie: telling me their diaper is soiled, wanting changed, having dry diapers through the night. Sitting on the potty though is another story. While I remember my older two being afraid of sitting on it...I don't remember them causing me so much trouble. I have given them pop while sitting there since that goes through the system quickly but they hold it until they get off the potty then will immediately pee on the floor or hold it begging for their diaper. I have cut off ALL candy to use as a reward for when they go potty but doesn't seem to matter. I thought they could look at older brother and want to do it or watch a boy that is younger than them at daycare going potty and maybe want to do it. But no luck. Anyone got any ideas that might help? Thank you for any help.

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M.P.

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Kids love to see mommy agitated. Be very matter-of-fact with them. Put cloth training undies on them. Tell them they are to use the potty. First get them up in the morning and sit them on the potty. No pants until they go. Don't get upset, don't yell, just very calm. If one gets up and pees on the floor, get him a towel to clean it up, a baby wipe to wipe himself, then put his underpants on him and tell him he will need to use the potty or he will be cleaning up again. If he poops in the pants, make him rinse them in the potty.
Keep at it for several days.
You can kind of predict when they need to go, every 1-2 hours, so you can ask them or just say "time to go potty" and sit them on it.
Rewards for potty use don't usually work. THis is something they must do. Don't make a big deal out of it.
Also, you might want to try a stool to let them pee standing up, going in the toilet.

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B.B.

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first of all they're old enought to use the toilet, not a potty. Buy or make a small stool for them to stand on. Have dad put fruit loops or cheerieos in the toilet and aim at them. It worked for me.

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S.H.

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i put my son in cloth diapers so that he would be very uncomfortable when he went and wouldn't want to wear diapers any more.

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R.T.

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Have you put them in real undies yet and made over them that way?? If so, have they wet in them??
Try to see if having the wet and dirty feel in real undies changes their tune!
Good luck, I feel your pain.
R.

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G.J.

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Although my son is grown now with Children of his own to potty train, I can still remember how hard it was. Sitting on the pot was very tramatic for him. A friend of mine taught me some great tips. First we got him a step stool to use when peeing and washing his hands. placing cherrios in the toilet and having them aim at them is great, keeps things clean and going potty becomes a game, eventually they can't wait to pee. Every time one of your older kids goes to the bathroom, take the twins, even with Daddy. It will be no time and they will be big boys too.

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S.L.

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Twenty years ago, yes I said twenty! this worked for me and all my girlfriends that had kids that needed potty trained. I would buy a cheap gum ball machine with sugar free gum and put it in the bathroom, when they went to the potty they got to put a penny in a get a gum ball, let us all know if this works,

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