Potty Training My Son! - Copperas Cove,TX

With my oldest son, we did a potty chart too. He received 2 stickers if he was dry and went on the potty and 1 sticker if he was wet and went on the potty. Later as he was dry more than not we went down to 1 sticker for being dry and going. When he had filled up the chart we took him to the store to "buy" a movie with the chart. I found a nice clerk that "accepted" the chart as payment for the movie of his choice and let me quietly slip her the money payment. He was so proud he had been able to " buy" a movie he chose by learning to go on the potty.

My son was so easy to potty train, but I rarely had him in diapers from the time he was really little. He absolutely couldn't stand being wet or poopy so I just held him on the toilet. Also, we made going potty a part of everyday life for the whole family. He watched his sister go, mom go, dad go, my dad had a "pee rock" outside that he taught him to aim at. My dad also made a potty stool so it was easy to climb onto the big potty or stand in front of it. I have a girl and a boy and neither would have anything to do with a little potty chair.
All kids are different and I think the main thing is to just treat it likes it's a natural thing. No pressure. Potty goes in the toilet. We flush it bye-bye. All gone. Yay!
I did daycare and potty trained kids. We just stood in the potty line and everybody took their turn on the potty and washed their hands afterwards whether they actually went or not. Just getting into the routine throughout the day on a daily basis like it's a normal thing until they actually go is a start.
Take your son into the bathroom when you go and then let him take his turn.
The good thing about the "potty line" idea is that the ones who really will go get to go first. Sooner or later, all kids like to take their turn at being first in line.

Hang in there!
Best wishes.

my first 2 boys were so obstinate about potty training. i finally had to just wait until they chose to go on the pot. but i do think the idea of something to aim at is fun for them. maybe cheerios or even some red or blue food coloring- so they can see the color change:) also my boys love to pee with their dad and each other. they play peepee sword fight and try to cross the streams (sorry tmi), but they love it. good luck to you and your little men:)

I am a fan of what my son's day care did to train him. It was so simple....

Timed potty breaks. Every two hours, he was encouraged to go potty, which meant being led to the bathroom and assisted in removing pants and diaper, and encouraged to sit on potty for a minute or two. At first, nothing happened. Then, after a few weeks, occasionally he would pee. This got more and more common, and subsequently his diaper was drier and drier. After about 2-3 months of this, I discovered that his diaper would stay dry for the full day. I swtiched to underwear during the day after about about a month of mostly dry diapers. Then, after about another month, I kept in underwear day and night. Tada! Potty trained little boy, no fuss, no muss.

Every time he went in potty, he got a treat (a mini M&M) immediately after. If he did not go potty, no treat, but lots of "that's OK, maybe next time" chats with him, to impress upon him it is still OK. At times, he would express desire to go but want to go in the diaper and not the potty; explained that was OK too. I tried the potty chart but found that he did not care for it, so I abandoned it.

Wait. So much easier on everyone. My son was a solid 3 1/2 before he got it. And he was in pull ups at night until he was in kindergarten-it took someone asking him to sleep over before he "suddenly" got night trained. My middle one was almost four before she got daytime trained and was 8 or 9 before she could go through the night dry. Very heavy sleeper.
The last was 2 1/2 and she trained herself.
They all did it on their own time schedules and once they got started-it took a couple days. Saves everyone getting frustrated.
My little one did try right at two and she could do it -but it was too much work for her I could tell and she took it very hard when she had an accident. So I suggested that maybe her body wasn't ready and we should try when she was a little older and that made her so happy. (She was/is very precocious and really got concepts the other two couldn't have.) Once we tried again-voilà!-it took a day.
If he gets it, great. If not, wait.
Good luck!

my pediatrician said it is not unusual for boys to not be potty trained until between ages 3-4, so you still have time. Just keep trying, reading the books to him and encouraging him. It will click eventually.

What did it for my son was that he got to pick out his big boy undies. He was about 3 1/2 when he was fully trained.

Good luck and hang in there!

Hugs...My son will be 4 in Feb and it wasn't until he started pre-k in August that we really got going with potty training - not for lack of trying though.

Good luck!

My son knew how to use the potty but kept refusing to actually do it. He would do it occasionally for a few weeks then stop doing it for a few months. That went on and off for a long time since I introduced him to the toilet at 9 months just so he wouldn't be afraid of it. Just recently I decided I had enough of diapers when he obviously knew how to use the toilet. I bought a good stack of Marvel character underwear and put them on him and told myself I wouldn't go back to diapers no matter how many nasty accidents we had. Going back to diapers, or using pull-ups, only asks for trouble since the child KNOWS they can potty in those just like a diaper and get very little on them but when they soil underwear it gets all over them.

Anyway, I am constantly telling my son he cannot have candy and he is always finding ways to sneak a piece here and there. I took our son to the store and let him pick out a large bag of small candies of his choice. He chose the small Hershey bars (the bag that has milk chocolate, dark chocolate, chocolate with peanuts and chocolate with crispies). Whenever he went potty in the toilet he got a piece of chocolate. I had the 2 year old potty train in one day! He was actually begging me to take him potty! We've not gone back to diapers and he does great at using the toilet. Granted, he was bouncing off the walls for two days but it was well worth it. On the third day I didn't mention the chocolate and wouldn't give him any reward unless he asked. By day 5 he didn't get rewards anymore because he forgot. Occasionally he will still ask for chocolate but that is once in a blue moon. I give it to him if he asks.

For the longest time we tried buying match box cars and rewarding him with those but they were not as exciting as the chocolate. Try chocolate or some other candy with your son. Let him pick the candy out at the store. If he doesn't like candy, or if it wouldn't work like it did with our son, find something else he is always begging you for and try that. If he gets excited about money, get him a little piggy bank and give him a penny or nickle every time he goes. Maybe you could incorporate counting into it too so he can see daily how his bank grows and learn counting skills at the same time.

Best of luck.

One day I put my son in underwear and told him no more diapers. At first I bribed him to sit on the potty (poptarts worked for him, since I never let him have them). It still took a day or so for him to recognize that "I need to pee" feeling. The first couple of days we celebrated everytime he peed, no matter where he was when he did it. After the first couple of days, I kept reminding him to sit on the potty every half hour or so. He still has accidents, but for the most part it took about 3 or 4 days.

My middle son was VERY hard to train. He would do great as long as he was naked and then put anything on him, anything... pull-up, underwear andything and he would pee immediatly. We got pretty frustrated for a while, then we got a book from the Dollar Store I think, that was Elmo, with a chart and stickers for going in the potty and he just ate it up and within like a week it was done. Also I know I used a lot of tips from Dr.Phil. He has a potty train in one day program, but I didn't try all of it. Good Luck and stick with it, he will get it soon.

You might want to look at these potty-training readiness checklists to be sure your son has the requisite maturity to make it work: http://www.parentingscience.com/toilet-training-readiness...

what worked with my little bro was giving him something to aim at. Throw a cheerio into the potty and have him try to hit it.

Also, if possible, perhaps daddy could show him what to do? my little brother always wanted to do it like the big boys (his older brothers and dad) which helped.

Maybe he is not ready. My son was almost 4 before he decided he was ready. He was in a daycare/school at the time and ALL the other kids were being potty trained and they tried with him but he was not ready and it was frustrating getting soiled underwear each day...I switched him back to pull ups and then one day the light bulb went off and he was ready and we never looked back! I really think people push potty training b/c of the age of the kids but it is a develomental thing...if both are frustrated, then he may not be ready. Hang in there! They won't go to Kinder. In diaper, so you are all good!

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Make it a point to sit your child on the potty several times a day, even if you’re not sure he needs to go. Toddlers don’t yet know their bodies well enough to decide whether they need to use the potty, so you will have to take some control over this until your child is able to recognize when he needs to go. If you need to, set a timer to go off every ten or fifteen minutes.

It is all about rewards and consequences. I work with autistic kids that are very hard to potty train and first of all you need to be all in at this age. By that I mean get organized and decide on a day. This is the day we are giving up diapers and you are going to use the potty like a big boy. Put him in underwear and plan on staying home near toilet till he is successful. Get rid of diapers and never go back. Going back delays the whole process.
Find a reward that he likes. and reward sitting on potty. Skittles, playing a video game something. Say good sitting and you get to do this blank minutes or you get a skittle for sitting this much. Yeah good job. Consistently reward any behavior that leads to the desired behavior of using the potty and sitting on it is the first step.
Give him alot to drink. Sprite or something and sit him on it and reward alot. Have him do activities near the toilet so you can go there frequently at first. BLocks, play doh near by and lots of drinking. Also if you kind of know when he poops, have him on the toilet and when he actually does something in the potty make a huge positive deal about it. Yeah! Good Job! and reward reward reward! It is a tough job but it is part of being a parent and you need to also put on your big girl pants and stick with it until it is done and ignore his fit throwing and be firm. It is time. Maybe put some big thing he got for Christmas up in the closet until he accomplishes this and then it can be a reward.