Potty Training - Las Vegas,NV

It really depends on the child. My son was afraid to use the toilet(of any size) we even tried a small seat with his fav. character. He was just over three and I was getting worried. So, I just got creative. It may not have been the best thing but I did it and it worked. I took my sons fav. sugar drink and a popsicle and told him that he could only eat and drink it if he sat on the potty. We did that. I made him drink the huge cup of "monster juice" first. By the time he finished the ice cream he needed to go potty and he did. Then we did a "happy dance" and he got to put a sticker on his potty chart! I told him that if he got a whole row of stickers, he could go with me to the store to pick out any prize he wanted! (I took him to the local dollar store) After a short time, it just became habit, we got rid of the juice and popsicles and just did the sticker chart.

Hi A.,

Make sure that your child is ready and is showing signs of readiness like: telling you when he/she has to go, can stay dry for a couple of hours, doesn't want poop or pee in the diaper anymore, etc.

In the beginning it's going to be a little hard, but it depends on your child. Every kid is different, so don't be in a rush. Make sure to reward your child with stickers, little pieces of candy, or even a whole lot of praise! Make a big deal out of it, because it's a major milestone for them.

I had my son wear underwear and there were accidents, but that's how he learned. I also rewarded with stickers that he picked out and put on his potty chair every time he went poop/pee. He has yet to learn how to pee standing up. And a DVD I got really got him motivated to learn: 'POTTY POWER.' I believe you can find on Amazon.com or anywhere else. I was able to borrow it a while from my local library...my son really liked watching it!

it depend on boy or girl? Which do you have, I have both!

Little ones learn best by example. Fortunately, where my girls are concerned, I've never been overly self-conscious and had a pretty much open door policy since they were born. I potty trained by explaining and showing my girls how the potty worked since they were very young, then between 20 and 24 months I brought the potty chair into the bathroom so they could sit with me. They weren't really ready until they were about 3 when we picked out big girl panties for them - I made them understand that only big girls that went in the potty could wear big girl panties - and they only had a couple of accidents in the night from that point on.

This worked for both my kids and one is a girl and the other a boy. They were both very different and did it at different times but still when the time came this was the only thing that worked.

A week before I was going to start the process we went to the store and I let them pick out a pack of their new underwear with some kind of fun charter on them and everyday I reminded them we had them and tried to get them excited.

The Process:…Make them go naked except a T-shirt. In 2 days they will be fully trained. I told both of my kids on the last diaper or pull up....”That is it, that is the last one. They will not let me buy you anymore at the store because you are to big. Mommy can not go get anymore. You have to wear underwear now.

I did not let them have anything to drink past 7pm for the first week of underwear in the bed. To this day my kids have only had one accident each and he had it in his bed first thing in the morning because he forgot he was not in a diaper and that was the first week and she had if the first week because she was running to the bath room and did not make it in time because she was so busy playing.

I wish you luck and honestly the best tool is waiting until your child is showing signs of being ready....don’t set them up to fail. That does nothing for them. Just remember they will not be 12 and in diapers. The day will come but don’t push then and set them up to feel like you are upset and they have failed they will remember that for ever not the fact that they were the only one in their class in a pull-ups.

Be blessed, T.

I trained Dimi(28mo) in 3 days. My trick...? I just think he was ready, a few months prior we bought a potty seat(so that he could get used to seeing it)took him to the potty when I had to go, and finally the day came when I had 3 days off in a row. We woke up said bye bye to diapers and sat him on his potty. The next 2 days we didn't leave the house and he wore no undies. I put the potty in the den where we spent most of our time, and rewarded him everytime he went w/sugar-free candy.(I know it was bribary, but it worked!) On the 3rd day we got big boy undies. We even went to Target to pick out some more and while we were there he asked to use the potty. NO accidents, so far and he even went to day care. Its only been 2 weeks so I am sure there may be some set backs but so far so good! Good luck in this adventure!!

I have my own daycare and have potty trained all my kids. Yes I agree that all kids are different and usually girls will potty train faster than boys. By my rules most kids should be potty trained by or around the age of three. It is all about Committment and praise. I have potty trained a lot of kids and have never had a problem getting them potty trained by 3. the only problem I run into is when the parents do not commit. I would have to say that 100% of the time when the kids return on Monday from the weekend, I have to start all over again. Kids leave my daycare on Friday Potty trained or well on their way and when Monday comes around the parents say "Oh we did not potty train this weekend because we were too busy" This not only confuses the kid, but makes it really hard for me. I started offering a rate discount for potty trained kids and the parents seemed to help out a little when they knew they could save some money. This is pretty sad, but it does happen. You have to every hour take them into the potty. Yes every hour. After about 3 to 4 days, they will actually go. When this happens praise them with as much love and excitement as you can. this is what I do. With all the excitement I can gather, i pick them up and raise them up in the air like almost throwing the up and yell YEAH!!!! I put them down and do a potty dance. It is amazing how much confidence and fun they will associate with potty training. So as time goes on each time they go they look so forward to the praise and excitement that they will make an effort. I know it will be hard to do every hour, but trust me it will work.

Hi A.,
What has worked well for me so far is learning a little about your toddler. You have to put him/her on a schedule marking the time that you gave them a drink and then how long it takes for it to travel through the system. After 1 to 2 days, you will have this figured out. Then give them a glass of whatever you are giving them to drink, wait the period of time from above and then place them on the potty slightly before the time from above. An egg timer works well.

We just let him run naked for 3 days. He learned right away.

My daughter learned at 2 and a half. I tried every thing! The one thing that finally worked was I made a chart with a little girl sitting on the potty on one end and at the other end was Disney Land. Every time she went potty on the toilet she got a sicker and got one step closer. By the end of the chart she was completely potty trained!

My son was potty trained in 2 days time - and although he had an accident now and then for the first month, he's still never had an accident in bed and it's been a year since he's been trained.

Of course, as others have mentioned, all kids are different, and you have to make sure yours is ready. One sign is that they wake up in the morning without a wet diaper. That means they're likely ready from a physical standpoint.

The program I followed was given to me by a girlfriend. There are now over 20 of us has have followed it, and it's worked for every single one of us - for boys and girls alike, all around the age of 2-1/2.

First off, no training pants. Ever. We went straight from diapers to big boy underwear. We made a big deal about letting him pick them out, and then we threw all of his diapers in the garbage can. I took them out afterwards and gave them to friends, but we had a little good-by ceremony where he threw them away to signify he was transitioning from diapers to big boy underwear.

If you choose to try this, you will have to be prepared to stay home - or very close to a bathroom - for three days in a row. You start by encouraging your child to drink as much liquid as possible throughout the day. There will be lots of accidents, so be prepared. The first day, I think we went through ten pair of underwear ... we just had him in a t-shirt and underwear. Every time he'd start going potty, I'd pick him up immediately and put him on the toilet. If he finished it in the toilet, we celebrated and celebrated big. Stickers, calling grandma, etc. We never made him feel bad for having an accident, but we made him feel fantastic for finishing the job in the toilet. I swear, something clicked and by the end of the second day, he was using the potty every time.

There are a million different people who will tell you a million different things about potty training your kid. You know your child best and only you can determine what areas you need to work on. Your child needs to have the awareness of the physical sensations of needing to go potty. Your child has to have the ability to respond to those sensations. Your child needs to be able to hold it from that point and be able to have the fore thought to communicate to someone that he needs to go, unless he has the ability to take himself. He needs to be able to pull his own clothes up and down, or else you will need to be near by to help him with these things. If all of these things are in place, then put him in underwear and go for it. Good Luck!

Dear A.,

I am sure that you got a lot of good ideas about potty training. It should be fairly quick and easy since the baby is three years old. You need to make sure that he or she is comfortable on the toilet. It may seem pretty high up for her. She will have accidents, and you just need to clean her up without much comment, and take her to the toilet and put her on. She will not be able to 'go', but she will begin to get the idea. Just be watchful and try to help her get to the toilet when she needs to go. Staying on there for a long time is not the way to do it.

C. N.