Potty Training - Corpus Christi,TX

What I did with my son when he was 2. I bought his favorite charter stickers and when he went poop in the toilet he got to have a big sticker, and a little one for pee.Then he got to put it on his chart that I taped to the wall. After a while he got to the point he did'nt need to be rewarded anymore.

My daughter is 2 and she is potty trained. I started it when she started telling me she was pee and pooping in her diaper. So we went out and picked out underwear that she wanted and I have potty books next to her in the bathroom. Now we have started working on night time training she has stopped wetting her diapers at night so we are no sleeping in underwears and doing great. Good luck and give it a few days to a week for him to really understand where he has to go..

Of course that means hes ready to get potty trianed honey go for it hes ready!!!!!!!!

I had to help potty train my little brother. when he starting playing in his poop, we went out and let him pick which little potty chair that he wanted. He picked one that played music when he went potty in it. We let him decorate it with stickers and he knew that it was a special potty just for him, so he was more willing to use it. he did have a few episodes of making a mess with his diaper so when he did that we took his potty away for the rest of the day and told him that if he would rather play in his poop then he didnt need it anymore. well apparently he REALLY wanted his potty chair. So the next day he got it back and we didnt have anymore trouble out of him. So the best advice i can give is to let him pick out everything for it, his own toilet paper and all. that way he knows that it is his special potty. Hope I could help. Good luck!!!

My daughter is going thru the same thing. She is 2 1/2. We decided to start potty training her at 2. Before we started she would go all the time. Now she hates it. She will not go anywhere near the potty. She tells me she is scaried. So I sit with her and we sing songs or read a book. I work full time so I do not get to work with her during the day. So that makes things difficult. Everytime her pull up gets dirty she will take it off and bring it to me telling me she needs a clean one. I tried panties. She pulls them down, does her duty on the floor and pulls them back up. Crazy right!!

R., My son was a "poop artist" too! We had some really messy times when he was training - "paint" on the walls, on his toys, in his hair, ears, you name it! We'd hear him in the monitor at nap and go up to find....Uggghh it was gross. Anyway, I started to freak out and talked to his doctor about it. Apparently, its very common at this age and doesn't mean there's something wrong with your child. It just means that he's curious and likes the way it feels. He did suggest playdough as a new option at playtime (supervised well of course). Anyway, we just would have him go stand in his shower and clean him off good. While cleaning him, we'd talk about how poop is stuff that our bodies don't need. How it is yucky and can make you sick, so we don't play with it. We kept repeating over and over and over that poo poo goes in the potty. Then, we'd have him sit on the potty while we cleaned and disinfected his room (again with the "Mommy doesn't want you to get sick, so we're cleaning up the poo poo" stuff). His bathroom is right across the hall from his room, so he could see my husband or me cleaning it up. Then, back to nap. Eventually, it stopped. The sooner we'd catch him trying, the better is was on us though, so I recommend keeping an eye on him when he's likely to have a BM. Also, my son was/is a nap-time pooper, so we started making sure to have him try before we lay him down - which works wonders as then there is no poop to paint with. He liked to hear the "plop plop" sound in the potty, so that was a little motivation to him also. We'd listen real hard, and giggle and cheer if he did it. To answer your question - yes, I'd say it wouldn't hurt to have him start trying to poop before he has a chance to play in it. My son was 2 1/2 at this time as well and was potty trained completely (night and day) and in underwear within a few weeks of this. If he just doesn't seem ready for potty training, I recommend putting him in a onesie so he has more trouble getting his hands down there and/or diaper off. Best of luck to you and I know you'll have some great stories for the baby book! :)A.

I would think that your son is showing signs of being ready for the potty. Does he follow you to the bathroom, or your husband? Does he want to flush the potty after someone uses it? It took my son til he was 4 to be fully potty trained. I hope that my daughter doesn't take that long, or your son. LOL! Good luck!

When I potty trained my daughter she was a breeze but my son he was a little more diffucult, someone told me to leave him naked for a few days execpt for when he was sleeping or if we went somewhere or had company over. Some people may think badly of this but it actually worked. He had nothing to potty in so he learned to use the toliet. I even had his little potty in the living room so the "Big potty" didn't scare him. In a few days with lots of patients, he finally got it. He had a ton of acciendents. It really took about 6 months for him to get it down and not have any acciendents during the day.

All, I know is that I went through the same thing with my son. When he took a nap, he would poop in his diaper and then take it off...I was so frustrated. I made him understand that I was not happy with his behaviour. He stopped taking the diaper off and started to tell me he had poopie. I think playing with the poop is just a normal stage that they go through. My son is almost three now and he has gone poop in the toilet a couple of times. I am so encouraged! What I am trying to say is don't get in a hurry trying to "train" him. He will go when he gets ready...