Potty Training - O Fallon, MO

We went through this when my son was a bit younger too. I knew he was able because he had previously demonstrated it, then decided that he wanted to remain in diapers. I took him to the store with me, let him pick out his own big boy underwear so he could be excited about it. Then I told him we were all out of diapers and I was not going to buy any more and I made that very clear to him. One accident later, it was done.

As soon as he gets up in the morning put him on the toliet and put regular underwear on him. Everytime he has an accident make him change his underwear and clean the mess. Praise him when he goes on the toliet. This could take a week or 2, so be prepared to stay home, but then when he's got it there will be no more problems. Don't use pull-ups, they only confuse. Because of the earlier success, I'd say he's ready.
D.-mom of 9

My advice would be to let him get potty trained when HE is ready, not when society tells him to be. My husband was very rebellious and resistant to being potty trained when he was little, and all it took for him was for another little boy to tell him diapers were for babies. He immediately changed then. Up until that point, he just fought with his mother about it. Once he made the decision for himself, it stuck. Good luck.

Hi A., I have a 9 month 0ld Grand-daughter, who has been potty trained since she was 3 months old. We kind of made a game of it, I would just put her on the potty to get her use to it, no pressure, kind of distract her by playing little games, then when she was use to the potty and relaxed, I would put my hand on her stomach, to give her a little leverage and make little grunting noises, soon she had the hang of it and was pee-peeing and boo-booing in no time. Hardest part was getting the Parents to be consistant,(smile). Hope this might help a little bit. Kind Regards, Nana

So an idea that might get him interested in peeing in the toilet is putting Cherios in the toilet and trying to get him to "shoot" the Cherios. As far as the poop part not sure what to tell you but the other may help. Good luck!

chill out about it. he'll do it when he's ready

I know this sounds crazy but when i was trying to
potty train my first son i made a game out of it
i threw in a couple cheerios cerial and told him
to shoot tha cerial.he laughed and had fun it only
took a couple days.

Try putting the potty where he likes to "go." For my oldest, that turned out to be his closet, his favorite place to load his diaper.

In the end (pun intended), when a child is ready s/he will train him/herself. You're there to show how it's done, but they have to want to do it or life will become a needless battle. Make receiving an afore-promised reward an exciting event, once day-dryness is achieved; it will further serve to encourage the next pinnacle: night dryness.

Good luck,

C.

No advice I'm going through the same exact thing down to the letter I sympathize

Do not worry! My daughter is going to be three this month and has just gotten the hang of it. I had to give up on pull-ups and just go to the panties. She is really in to having her purse. So, I gave her one of mine and we put an accident kit together. That way she always has her purse and I always have a back-up set of clothes. You could use a small backpack for your son. We also had m & m's in a jar, so whenever we used the potty she got to get one out of the jar. That was the only time she got to eat candy. It will happen! Just do not give up! Before you know it he will be a potty pro!

I will be happy to email you the 3-day potty training guide. IT WORKED GREAT FOR US!!! You can check it out at 3daypottytraining.com. Don't purchase it because I have it..

our babysitter trained my son in about 3 days with this system:

NO MORE PULL-UPS or diapers during the day(not even at naptime).
set time for every 30 minutes.
have him sit on potty for a few minutes.
if he goes in potty he got to hand out gummy bears to all the kids in his daycare class.

So what happened is all the kids all day long asked him "do you have to go potty yet?" because they wanted the candy. So that encouraged him to go to make the kids all excited.

It was great. He only wet his pants once the whole time he was training.

I have a 3yr old little girl who I potty trained at 1 1/2 during the daytime hours. Then we went thru a time where she stopped. I would put her in big girl panties, and let her run around in them. If we were traveling I would have her wear a pull up. Give lot's of praise, try giving some kind of candy, do a wall chart and put stickers up every time he is successful. I had the hardest time potty training at night with her. I wouldn't take her cup away before bed. Just this last week she decided she was a big girl and didn't need them anymore. I really didn't push the night time and let her do it herself and she has been accident free. Hope this helps I know that it can be frustrating but maybe you can just wait till he's ready.

Hi A.,
Well I made a little game with my boys when potty training them.
I would put Cherie O’s in the toilet and told them try to sink them.
I also give them a reward when they did good.
Good luck with your potty training!

try putting cherrios in the toilet and letting him aim at them its sorta like a game

My son, who just turned 4 in November, did the same thing. When he turned 3 he was real excited about using the "big boy" potty for a little while, and then started fighting with us about having to go to the bathroom. I have 2 older children and with them we just introduced them to the potty and they never looked back, so with my son we just decided to let him choose the right time. Then right before he turned 4 I decided to put him in underwear and that's the end. He loves going to the bathroom now. I did have to remind him at first to go potty every hour or so, but then he started doing it all on his own. My advice is be patient, don't force it. Introduce going to the potty a little bit at a time and he'll get there. Good Luck!

My son will be 5 in July and we went through the same thing. I thought - 'Great, he's going to start early' and then decided he wasn't interested. One thing I know is that if you push them to do it they will definitely not do it. We tried making a big deal and marching/singing to the potty and also giving stickers everytime he went (the stickers did help some). One thing we did (when it was warmer) was that we let him run around the house most of the day with no clothes on for about a week and then when he had the urge to pee he would go to the bathroom. I think we might've had one accident. We also bought something called a "Peter Potty" (you can find it online) it's a kid size urinal and he absolutely loved it. We didn't do pull ups because I noticed that it didn't stop him because it was just like another diaper. Be patient and good luck!

Hi A.,
My kids are grown and gone with kids of their own now.
But when my son was that age, he had his own potty chair.
He didn't want to go either. So I made it interesting and fun to go potty. I would put a couple of Cheerios in the bottom and tell him to aim and hit the hole in the Cheerio.
It worked and he loved going to the potty!! Seems stupid but it worked for me and a couple of my friends kids. Make sure you praise him for being a good shot too!!! Kids love to have fun. Let me know if you try this and if you do how it works out for you. Hugz, Susie

This is what I did for my daughter who turned 3 Jan 20th. I was using pull ups and she was using them as security. I would take her to the bathroom but she wouldn't go on the toilet, a few minutes later she would go in her pull up. I finally just said "ENOUGH" with the pull ups say good-bye to them because we are only going to use them at night. I dedicated one weekend to potty-training. We didn't go anywhere, just stayed home. I put her on the potty when she got up, then I put "Big Girl" underwear on her. When she had an accident, I had her change her own clothes. She didn't like that much. I noticed she was holding her pee in longer, the first day she had 3 accidents, 2nd day 2 and by the third day she was really getting the hang of it and was going on her own all though I had to help with getting her pants down and back up but I could live with that. She still has accidents occasionally but few and far between. I just stood my ground for those few days and it worked great. We only use pull ups at night now but she is keeping them dry of course on night I tried leaving her in regular underwear and she peed, go figure. Occasionally if I need to run several errands I will put her in a pull up but she tells me now when we're out that she needs to go potty and keeps the pull up dry. I told myself "I wish I would have done that a long time ago". They need to know what if feels like to be wet to begin understanding the process. She was still having #2 accidents in her pants which was a nightmare but I had her clean her panties out in the toilet and made her clean herself up and now she's going on the toilet and it's only been about a month since I started this process. It's not a pleasant 3 days but it worked for us. I sounded like a broken record asking her Do you need to go potty? every 5 minutes I think she got tired of me asking her.----Good Luck----J. C

I had the same problem with my son. He was completely trained and then he went to a public bathroom and the automatic toilet flushed, with him on it. Needless to say he totally stopped and went back into pull ups. Eventually though I coaxed him back into big boy underwear with little bribes. I would tell him he would get to go do something special if he would just go to the bathroom like a big boy, and it worked. Hang in there if your son did it before he will do it again. I have a daughter and a son and my son was by far harder to train. Good luck!

Hello I'm a father a 34yr old father of 3 boys & 1 girl my oldest boy is 17,15,7 my girl is 10 what we ended up doin with my youngest son, we started regular training asking him if he needed to go every so often and the answer we got was no well that wasn't working so we started having him sit on the toilet well that didn't work then one evening we sitting around and me and my gilfriend noticed a weird look on our sons face so mommy took him in the restroom sat him down and she knelt down and pretended to push and so he started doin the same and WAAAAALLLA he was done he was trained oh he had very few accident since that day i havent bought a pullup one and i've been a VERY happy man I think it was he just needed that little bit of encouragement and support from Mommy Thanks for listening hope this helps good luck

We had troubles with my step-daughter because she lived with her mom. We only got her every other weekend & her mom always put her in pull-ups. I don't like them & think they defeat the purpose, so I always had her in big girl panties so she felt the discomfort if she did have an accident. My mom had watched Dr. Phil & he had said to have someone call everytime she went to confirm that she was doing a good thing. It can be a cartoon character or anyone the child likes. I started calling my mom when she wasn't looking after she went on the big potty. My mom would then call & pretend to be Elmo & tell her what a good girl she was & that he was watching her. We repeated this every time until she got it down. Then she knew it was what she had to do & didn't expect those calls anymore! Good luck!!! :)

I know this is going to sound crazy BUT I'll share it with you anyway. I was having this exact same conversation with a guy at work & he suggested "Cheerios"...(don't laugh bare with me). He said he did this with his son....he's take about ten cheerios & throw them in the toilet & showed him how to try & sink the cheerios...knowing that he couldn't sink them but his son got a kick out of trying & the best part was he didn't even know he was being potty trained all at the same time. So every time he has to use it or you try to take him throw about ten cheerios in the tolet & tell him to aim at them & shoot to try & sink them. Let me know if it worked IF you decide to try this. Good luck & God Bless!

Peer pressure! It starts young. If he has friends who are younger that are potty trained, invite them over to use your bathroom. We had a few friends who stopped by and used our bathroom every day for about a week. My daughter decided she would do it shortly after. Good luck!

A., I know it's hard to hear it, but just be patient with your little guy- he'll pick up the potty training thing again when he's ready. In the mean time, don't make a big deal of it with him. Bring it up/ offer him the chance every few days or so and when he's ready he'll do it- kids really do have to take this step at their own pace. I have potty trained 3 of my 5 kids so far and each of them has done it at a different age and different pace. When he's ready, make sure he has the underwear he wants (super heroes, tv character, whatever...) and make sure a reward system is in place (stickers, candy, books, a toy....)

best of luck to you and hang in there- potty training is harder for the parents than for the kids! :)

A. D.