potty training?????? boy almost three????

Answer 1

The only right reason for beginning to potty train your child is that your little one has show an actual interest in using the potty. You will also find that when your child is ready, potty training will be much easier. If you have not seen a strong interest, then your attempts will be useless, and you may find yourself becoming frustrated and even angry that the potty training has not been successful. The key is to begin potty training when your child is ready, not when you are ready.

Before you can begin to potty train your child, you must first ask yourself whether your child shows signs of readiness. The top five signs of potty training readiness are:

1. Your child can stay dry for a several hours or even overnight.

2. Your child knows when he has wet or soiled his diaper, and knows what "pee", "poop", "potty", and similar words mean.

3. Your child shows independence by wanting to do things by himself.

4. Your child can pull his pants down and up.

5. Your child asks questions and/or shows in interest when others go "potty".

If your child has most, and hopefully all, of the above signs of readiness, you may be ready to begin potty training. Here is the method I recommend that parents follow:

Buy Cotton Training Pants
First of all, do not use disposable training pants (such as Huggies "Pull-Ups"). They are too much like a diaper and very absorbent, and tend to confuse many children. My recommendation is to use plain cotton training underpants. These training pants are similar to normal underwear, but they have a little extra padding in the crotch area. Usually you can find these in any store that sells children's clothing. I recommend that you buy approximately 9-12 pairs of the underpants. You should also purchase several pairs of "plastic/nylon pants", which will be worn over the cotton underpants.

The Big Day Is Here
Decide when you will begin to potty train your toddler. Make sure that when you do begin, that there is nothing traumatic going on in your child's life and that you can give your child and the potty training your full attention.

On the big day, tell your little one that he is going to start using the "big boy" or "big girl" underwear, or whatever term you like, and start having your child use them. I would recommend using the underpants with the plastic pants over them, but the choice is yours. The plastic pants will help to protect your child's clothing.

It is also important that when you do decide to begin potty training, that you are able to follow the steps in a consistent method. If you child attends preschool, make sure the caregivers understand the method of potty training you are following and require them to follow the same method. You should also make sure that you follow the method when you are away from home or when you have company.

Wetting & Soiling
Be aware that your child may wet the underpants and soil them. Very few children will be accident free in the early days of potty training. As a matter of fact, this may happen over and over again. Just remember to remain calm and patient.

When your little one tells you that he has wet his pants, take him into the bathroom and sit him on the toilet as you remove the wet underpants and clothing. At this point you may wish to explain to your little one that he needs to remember to go potty in the big toilet. Let him sit on the toilet so that he will get used to the feel of it. After you have removed the wet clothing, get the clean underpants and other clean clothing, if necessary. When you have the dry, clean clothing ready, help your little one clean his bottom. After this, you can put the clean underpants and clothing on.

Personal Hygiene
Another very important step is to make sure to have your child flush the toilet, even if they didn't "go" in it. After flushing, go together to your sink and wash your hands together. Again, the handwashing should be done even if your child didn't actually "go" in the toilet. With the toilet flushing and the handwashing, you are getting your child ready for the routine of what happens when you go potty.

These are the steps and you should repeat them over and over, in a consistent pattern, until your child is fully potty trained. If your child is terrified to be placed on the toilet, or if your child continues soiling the underpants for days, with no urination or bowel movements in the toilet, then your child is not ready for potty training at this time. Stop potty training for a while, and resume again when your child might be more ready.

I also want to remind you to enjoy this time. Yes, enjoy it! This is a very big milestone for your child and although it creates a lot of work for you, it will all be worth it.
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Answer 2

Personally, I do not have kids, but I have taken quite a few child psychology classes and this was a big issue with one of the mothers in my class. She was told that all children are different, and that he would eventually gain more and more interest in learning how to "potty," but he would do it on his own time. It was also said that if the parents are too "pushy," the child could develop some type of psychological disorder, like OCD.

I think the best thing to do is encourage him, perhaps find a way to make it fun, but I would not recommend forcing him to learn to do it. There is no "magic age." Everyone is different.

Answer 3

He is aware of precisely what he's doing. It's turn out to be a recreation to him, be organization and inform him significant boys pass at the potty, when you hold messing on your pants we can have got to diapers on you, this will likely embarrass him sufficient to make use of the leisure room. I don't accept as true with spanking a youngster, it will purpose extra disorders then it solves on this case. Some time outs on a solitary position (a lesser used room) have been you'll assess up on him could also be a deterrent, a position wherein there's not anything to do or see.. Good success, I desire I used to be handy

Answer 4

yeah.. it's way overdue..
i potty trained my little boy when he was 15 months old.. and the way we did it was when ever he would attempt to use the potty we would throw a party (my husband and I put on party hats, threw confetti, blew whistles, and made a big tadoo about it .. i mean an all out celebration) my son knew real quick he was doing a good thing .. .. it literally took me 3 days to potty train him!! and in those 3 days no diapers, no training pants, just big boy underpants.. .. we never did use "training" pants
he felt right away that he did not want to teetee in his big boy underpants

Answer 5

It's easy just the right age ship him over to me and your baby will be potty trained in a day

Answer 6

Yes, its definately about time, 2 tends to be the time a lot of people start. Hopefully he's shwoing interest in going to the potty by now?

Answer 7

My grandma told me to put cheerios in the toilet and tell the boys to sink them. It worked, I potty trained two boys with Cheerios. What an amazing product, so many uses, so versatile,

Answer 8

Yes, it's about time. Pretty old to be potty trained if you ask me.

Answer 9

Easiest way is to play the game hit the target throw a handful of cheerios in toliet and have him aim worked with my sons

Answer 10

I wouldnt stress about it too much. When he is ready you will know and it will just come naturally. It will help to try every now and then and make it fun and exciting. But just to ease your mind. My oldest was so stubborn about it. Then the day he turned 3 it was like everything turned around. He just started doing it. (with a little help)