Parents! i need help i have a 3year old an i need help in potty training help!!?

Question

my knows every thing there is to know but he just dont know how to use the potty yet i have tried everything there is i can try thats why im asking you parents .....so help me if you can please just parents only!

Answer 1

If he is PREPARED (ie willing) to use the potty, half the problem is already solved. That means that he is bribable and is able to be trained.

You should start by putting him on the potty at regular intervals, at least twice a day. Try it once in the morning when he getting dressed and changed anyway, and once in the evening before a bath or being changed. Just sit him on it and tell him stories, sing him songs etc. Dont expect him to make while on the potty in this initial phase. Reward him for every time he sits on the potty with a treat or a sticker or something that he will like. Dont make him sit for longer than he wants to, and be consistent with your praise and rewards. Never show disappointment when he refused to sit and dont let it become a power struggle. You can make it like a priveledge to sit on the potty....

After he has become accustomed to sitting on the potty at regular intervals, you can increase the amounts he sits on the potty to 4-5 times a day. Keep it up and dont lose hope - one day, he will pee while on the potty! You have ot make a HUGE fuss of him, praise him and giev him a treat. I would suggest a sticker chart - a sticker for each pee, 2 for a poop, and a prize at the end (i started with 5 and then moved up with every chart).

If you want to allow him to run around without his pants and diaper, this is teh best way to train. the kid feels the pee running down his leg and makes the association between than and the need to go. He will soon get the hand of it.

Dont dspair - my son was 3.5 when we started traingin him, and it happened in approx 3 weeks! Make sure that he is emotionally and physically ready. Google training techniques and goo dluck!

Answer 2

Well I have a girl but on her 3rd birthday I put panties on her and told her we was going to the big potty for now on and everything was good. After a few accidents we was all done. My best friend has a boy and she is a stay at home mom, she let her son run around the house butt naked for a couple of day but put pull ups on him when she went out and he started to go the the potty just like that. I hope some of this helps good luck.

Answer 3

Hi and Welcome to Parenting....hehe The first time my son stood at a regular toilet to Pee, he stood there, and observed my boyfriend. We elevated him on a chunk of wood. He did very well.

I discovered that if I brought the little potty-chair into the main room, during which he had privacy also, he was much more willing to sit, and wait for transition time. He just didn't like being isolated, or in the bathroom. If it is Pee'ing, you can run the tap. I took my son to Stanford when he was very ill as a baby. They wanted to use a sticky tape type of holder on him, to get a urin specimen. I declined. No, baby fuzz leaving his body.

This great young Doctor endulged me, and held the door open with his foot, I ran the water, while the Doc held a specimen cup for a sample. Voila...it worked.

Continuity is important. Try to encourage him to visit the the toilet every couple of hours. Oh, I have an idea. Put a Rubber Ducky in the toilet, and give him points for peeing on it. Oh, couldn't resist those ideas that pop into my mind.

Praise is the best solution. Maybe his urethra is just not strong enough to hold his urin yet. Don't get discouraged. I've never seen a 21 yr. old wetting his pants. haha ...
Good on ya mom......

Answer 4

first off ,is he interested in using the potty like a big boy. Have you told him that he can be like daddy and go on the big potty? What about rewards, or what my parents did w/ my younger brother if I remember the story correctly, they put cheerios in the toilet nad had hi,m aim at them and shoot them. It was 1)a good way to teach him how to aim IN THE TOILET and 2)got him excited about going potty. Putting regular underwear on him should help. At least he can feel when he is wet. I know its tough, and for some reason boys are harder to potty train then girls, but maybe he's just not ready. I hate to admit it, but I get reminded every day, that I wasn't potty trained till I was 5. If you really feel its becoming a serious issue talk to your pediatrician, maybe he/she can help you out.

Answer 5

This is strange but when my son was going through this I had my mom sit by her phone or someone else that has the time and the child enjoys talking to and every time he used the pot he got to call that person and talk for a few minutes. Once he got the idea and it was down to just putting drops in the bucket so to speak I told him he has to go potty 3 times before he could call and each time I made the time longer. He was trained in one day and the extra attention that he got really helped.

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Answer 6

I've answered this question a lot recently :)! And I've had a lot of people write me and tell me it worked for their kids.

A lot of people give the “cheerio” advice which at this stage I think is silly – he’s not missing the toilet he’s just not using it. Usually boys start out sitting when the pee because they just aren’t tall enough and sometimes that’s just one more thing to frustrate him when he’s learning. I'm not sure if you have a boy or a girl so I will talk as if your child is a boy but this will work for both. You may want to get a potty book to read to your child I really like the Sesame Street one it's short and to the point the other's seem to be long and drawn out too much information.

First thing is to take him straight to the potty when he wakes up (after night time and naps), if he has been dry all night he will surely have to go in the morning. I did the rewards system at first with my child (gave him a sticker) but soon gave that up, most health professionals will tell you not to give the child a treat or whatever that the going to the potty like a big kid is the reward. So cheer and clap and make a big deal when he goes. I tried to potty train my son when he was not quite two and a half, he was pretty advanced in most areas and seemed interested in the potty. It turned out to be too early. He ended up holding his bowel movements and getting constipated so I stopped trying to potty train and just trying to get him to have regular BM's -TMI I know :)! So about 4 months before my sons 3 year b-day he was doing better with his BM and I could get him to go number 2 on the big potty if I caught him in his I am about to go squat so I figured he was now ready to start potty training again. I didn't mess around with pull ups I just put him in underwear (my secret was I put a thin panty liner in his underwear so if he did have an accident it wasn't that bad). I would then have him go to the bathroom every 20 mins and try and go most times he could squeeze a little out. After a couple of days with no accidents I would wait longer and longer between trips to the bathroom. After a while he started holding it on his own and I could then tell when he had to go and I would take him. He was fully potty trained in less than 5 days. If he won’t go to the bathroom and is intentionally peeing himself have him clean it up. Pull the shorts and underwear off himself and walk them to the laundry room. Give him a washcloth and tell him he has to clean himself up and then get dressed again. Give him a bath at the end of the day. After a while he will get tired of cleaning himself up and being in wet underwear. underwear are the key though and consistancy once he's in them he's in them, no more pull-ups.

I think what worked best for us was making sure he was really ready and putting him in underwear. I did use pull up during nap and bedtime for about 3 weeks but when he always woke up dry and put him in underwear to sleep in and he has done great. The "big boy" underwear act as a great reward for using the potty if he is having too many accidents you can tell him he has to go back to the baby diaper (not a pull-up) until he earns the underwear back by staying dry. GOOD LUCK!

Another good point is to be patient, getting frustrated with him for peeing on the couch will only make him more anxious. They don't want to disappoint so you just state things matter of fact, 1 time is an accident 2 times means we need to put baby diaper back on until we can stay dry.

Answer 7

Consistency, consistency, consistency. If its a boy. send him to potty with a man. Let them pee together off the back porch, in the toilet, or in the urinal at the store.
Its a man thing. Send him to potty with his dad every 2 hours. Pretty quick he will get the idea. When he has to poop, send him to the bathroom and let him poop on his potty chair with his dad while his dad sits on the big pot.
It works, really!

Answer 8

Having fun, huh? My little boy was afraid of the bathroom, but we didn't know that. I guess the toilet looked like a big white monster. After months of sitting in the b'room with him - he was too afraid to go - he finally drug his potty chair into the den and went then and there. Like you said, he knew everything, he just didn't like the looks of where he had to go. It just takes patience, lots of patience, and perseverance. Just keep taking them, and even use the toilet yourself. I did, and he grasped the concept but not the courage.

Answer 9

I have a three year old a four year old and a one year old what worked for me was putting them on a sticker chart and every time they helped me out or went potty they recieved a sticker it works great

Answer 10

Throw a handful of Cheerios in the toilet and let him try to hit them. Make it fun, and he should be more eager to use it. Or, buy him some underwear with his favorite character on it, and tell him he wouldn't want to pee on them. Not wanting to pee on Spiderman made my son want to use the toilet.