Topic : Potty Training

  

My daughter is 18 months and showing a little intrest in the big potty. I don't think she really wants to go it's just to copy mummy. I'm toying with the idea of starting as it is our summer time, but I also only have 1 month till the next is to arrive and feel it may be too much for her to handle. Should I wait 6months? 

Any Advice? 

  

My oldest was potty trained by the time she was two (except for some night times), and she did regress some after her little sister was born. I don't think it hurts to sit your daughter on the potty if she is interested. Now, my youngest is a different story, she has been interested in the potty for a long time but would never really do anything in it, just once in a great while but nothing motivated her but she still sat on the potty when ever I would go in or she would go with her sister, on her third b-day this past week, I put panties on her which I informed her a week ago that this was goingt o happen on this day. and reminded her daily that she was going to bea big girl when she turned three, well, within two days, she was potty trained. When I pout pantis on her when she was 2 1/2, she had absolutely no desire to go on the potty and wouldn't even tell me if she was wet, it was no big deal to her even though she did set on the potty on a regular basis, but I guess for her, the magic number of three was it, she is now wearing panties through the day and pull ups just through the night. I believe that kids will go when they are ready but when they start showing signs of readiness, I say go for it, at least they will be used to sitting on the potty when the actual time gets there. :)

My son just turned 2 today and he will not leave his diaper on. He has been doing this for about two weeks now. I think it is just about time to potty train but now sure how to do it with a boy. PLEASE help *S*.

I don't have boys but worked in several child care centers where the teachers helped potty train and I have friends with boys and all of them basically started out teaching the boy basically the same way we do girls only make sure his penis is sticking down inside the potty. :) and of course put him on regualry and see how it goes, just don't stress about it, he will get it eventually. Pull ups are a little harder for them to get off.

Maybe he is ready for the potty or maybe he just doesn't like his diaper on and wants to run free.lol  Anyway, if he is ready for the potty ( I have a three year old boy) then invest in a potty chair and let him sit on it.  Bring in books and it may also help if you sit in there with him.  And if it is possible, let daddy show him how he goes pee in the potty, I know that worked well for us.  Us mothers do not have the same parts so it may help for daddy to show him a few times.  What I did was, as soon as he woke up, I would take his diaper off of him and put big boy underwear on and told him that if he had to go potty then let me know.  Now, I tried this when he was 2 1/2, your boy might still be a little young for this, I think the normal time for when a boy gets trained is around 3 to 3 1/2, don't ask me why.  Anyway, that seemed to work good, but he did not want to sit on the potty, he wanted to stand and would throw a complete fit if he sat on it.  I guess that came from watching daddy stand to go potty, but my little guy refused to sit.  He stands to go potty and has very good aim! lol  I remember there was a  time after my daughter was born that he was not interested in the potty so I let it go because I did not want to pressure it and low and behold awhile later he said he wanted his big boy underwear on and he has been doing good since.  Hope this helps, and remember, potty training takes a lot of patience so don't get worried if he doesn't take to it right away as he is still very young.

My 20 month old little girl said "go pee pee" so i took her to the potty and she went. We made a big fuss about it and decided we would start training her. I took her to the potty a few times that day and the next. She only went a couple of time. Now she wont go at all. She will sit on the potty if she has something to play with. But she wont even pee in her diaper. Her diaper has been clean and dry all day for the past couple of days, then she pees when she goes to sleep. I think she's on strike. How do i get her to go potty again? 

She isn't ready. My yougest was similar. you can still encourage her to sit on the potty and all but don't stress over it if she doesn't go. I didn't even attempt to sit my youngest on the potty(other then while running the bath water) for a while, I just waited for her to go on her own. Though my oldest was day time potty trained by the time she was two, my youngest just started ;ast week going and she just turned 3. They will go when they are ready with some encouragement but no forcing. My youngest also does not like a lot of praise with that, she would just rahter go and be done with it where my oldest that it was cool.

My almost 7-year-old stepson had an extremely difficult time with potty training for a couple of reasons-- there was a lot of turmoil at home (not abuse, by any means, but Mom was going through a rough time with her living situation, and it was difficult and confusing for the kids), I'm not sure his mom was very consistent, and he didn't care about being in wet pull-ups or even clothes.  He was finally potty trained shortly before the age of 5, but he STILL wets the bed, and it's EVERY night, even with his intake of liquids restricted! 

  

I've spoken with professionals who have told me that this every single night business is not normal, even among bedwetters.  His mother has taken him to the doctor to rule out any medical conditions that might cause it, and he doesn't have any.  So that leaves.... I don't know what. 

  

We tried sending him to bed in underwear all summer, thinking that the wet sheets would be uncomfortable, but it didn't phase him.  Neither did making him help with changing his sheets, or having barbie sheets on his bed when all the other ones were dirty.  In fact, we had to go back to pull-ups because he peed so much, it went through thick layers of towels and ran off the plastic garbage bags underneath and onto the floor.  We've tried making him shower(he hated showers) in the morning when he wakes up wet, but that's just made him not mind showers.  He's not a heavy sleeper, so I don't think it's that he doesn't wake up, it just doesn't bother him to be wet and gross (we know for a fact that he'll pee in a pull-up even if he's awake).  

  

I don't know what else to try! 

My son pees in the potty without accidents.  He used to poop once in a while in the potty, but now will not even sit on it.  I've tried everything that's been suggested here:  

• We tried using underwear, and stuck with it for months, but when we saw that wasn't working, went to pull-ups.  They're working fine and he hasn't regressed with his peeing.
• When he went in the potty in the past, we have tried all manners of rewarding him - parties, toys, hugs, special outings, candy, etc.  Now he will never go, so we don't get the chance to reward him.
• We've tried scolding him, but found out real fast that it was just going to make it worse.
• We've tried telling him he can't watch his favorite show, play with his favorite toy, etc. until he goes in the potty.
• We've tried being completely neutral about it when he goes in his pants.
• His preschool teachers (who know a lot more about that than I do) have tried everything they know to do.

To the person who suggested letting him clean himself, there would be a mess everywhere, and I'm a bit of a germ freak, so that wouldn't work out. 

  

He has indicated to us lately that he doesn't want to be a big boy, he wants to be a baby.  I'm wondering if this is the reason why he won't complete the pottying process.  If so, what the heck do you do about that?  We've tried pointing out fun things that he can do now that he's older that babies can't do.  Maybe we need to seek family couseling. 

My three year old son, was potty trained, until we had our daughter.  Now 8 months later, he still wont use the potty unless he has no clothes on, if he is wearing pull ups or underware it doesn't matter, he still wont use the potty.  He is very excited when he uses the big potty, but the minute we dress him, were right back to not using it.  Can you help me