POTTY TRAINING - How can we potty train our 3 yeard old? Nothing seems to work!?

Question

We've tried giving him treats when he goes potty, a chart with stickers, but he still continues to go run to a corner and do his business.....

Answer 1

Try being more scheduled about it. Also, try this method:
it has worked for my 2 kids,and others after I tell them........

1. get m and m's handy
2. get a small potty chair
3. get a couple books about potty
4. you need to be home for about 4-5 days straight
5. now you can start. let them run around bare-but
6. Set the timer for 1/2 hour. Tell him/her to sit on the potty for 5 min. (read them a book in the mean time if it's to long for them.) If they go, give lots and lots of praise!!! I mean go crazy!! Give them about 3 m and m's.
7. Set the timer for 1/2 hour
8. Avoid asking the question "you got to go potty?'
9. Timer goes off- ok! What does that mean junior? Time to go potty again he or she would say, or you say it if they don't
10. repeat process all day long. If they go # 2 in the potty, reward with a handful of m and m's. They are very colorful and kids love them!!

11. Praise praise praise. I do spank my kids for behavior problems such as lying, disobedience, and bad attitudes, but never for having an accident. If there is an accident, clean it up queitly, and don't say much at all. Remind them it's ok, but try to make it in the potty next time, or in your own words.

Good luck!!! Hope this helps you. My girl was potty-trained in two days with the method. Took my 2 1/2 year old son a week. Leave pull-ups on them at night just in case.
p.s. if this doen't work at all, try again in a few months.

Answer 2

i take care of 14 two to three year olds at a day care. I get the pleasure of potty training them all :-) one thing i tell my parents is to keep their child in diapers until they are staying dry for longer periods of time. At that time start taking them to the potty every hour, when they start going regulalry put them in underwear and take them every 1/2 hour until they get good at going on their own. Every time one of the kids in my class goes they get a sticker for their "Potty Chart" and at the end of the week if it is full up of stickers they get a "Potty Prize" and this system has worked wonderfully for me. The kids are potty trained within 3 weeks with the exception of a few stubborn ones that took maybe a month. I say stay away from Pull-ups or any kind of "potty training diaper" They desensitize the child to the feeling of being wet. So when they do make the transition to underwear and have an accident they dont care, they are used to it. Good Luck and i hope this was some help!

Answer 3

Sit his little butt down on the toilet every 20 minutes if you have to. Let him sit there for at least 5 minutes at a time without getting up. He will begin to learn that you will not give up and it'll be easier for him if he just finally gives in and goes #1 AND #2 on the toilet like a three year old should. Otherwise, you keep interrupting his play time with long potty breaks.

After sufficient warnings and doing that for a few days...4-6 days. If he still refuses to go on the toilet, let him clean the smooshed poop off of his butt on his own. give him plenty of supplies, make him wipe himself. Show him how nasty it is to be changing the diaper of a kid who is too big for pooping in his pants. Don't shame him or say how gross it is, just matter of factly say that he's a big enough boy and he is a smart enough boy to start taking care of himself.

I have never met a kid who liked wiping his own butt. "Yuck" "Gross" so tell him that if he poops in his pants he cleans himself up. If he poops in the toilet, you'll wipe him.

At age three he is probably turning on the TV, getting his own snacks, using his head, etc. He understands more than you realize.

If all else fails (and it usually fails because a parent doesn't have time or they don't realize how many repeat trips to the throne it takes....enroll him in daycare that helps potty train. Costly, but it works. They all day reinforce what you might not want to do yourself.

In our family two was the magic age for potty training. It just becomes habit if you start young enough. No, they don't tell you every time they have to go, but the get used to being put on the toilet so they gravitate there when they feel an urge.

Or...if he's a hider, follow him and don't give him his alone time to poop in his daiper in a corner. and then make the bathroom really cozy and like a secret fort....so he can "hide" when he's on the toilet.

Answer 4

Don't push them. It wont hurt their phyche....lol.... but a child is a child and children tend to do what you dont want them to do. I am a single mother of a boy so I had a male friend take him into the bathroom a few times to show him what to do and they made a game of it, but when no one was going pee with him hed wouldnt use the toilet. I never used a potty or pull ups. It makes more work, like you have to train them twice with the potty first with the potty then you have to train them to use the toilet. Too much work, and confusing for them, and pull ups are just diapers, so the child knows he can do his business in there. I used the old fashion thick underwear. The child knows when they are wet and cant hide it. After a few times of him peeing in those underwears which allowed him to feel the full wetness, he never did it again. We didnt even have problems with nighttime wetting. Hed just call me in his room to take him to the toilet. Plain and simply, make it fun, easy, and let them feel the nastiness of walking around soaking wet. No one...even a child likes that feeling.

Answer 5

Stop the treats now!! Don't bribe him you are the parent. Interrupt him during tv playing etc. Take him to the bathroom all the time. I have had the same problem with my 2 girls. What eventually worked was my daughter being ashamed for peeing in her pants at the park. I tried treats too but it never worked. He will get tired of you being behind him all the time. You could also treat him like a baby and make him wear a diaper, he probally wont like that. One more year until preschool. Good luck! Also he feeds off of your stress so keep cool.

Answer 6

If your son goes to preschool or playgroup, take it away and don't let him go until he wears big-boy underpants. Try getting those rubber pants and put them on over regular underpants- see how he likes having wet underwear on him. Maybe he will start going on the potty. It got to the point with my son that I wasn't nice about it anymore. He did good with the treats, but he expected a treat EVERY time- and he would use it to his advantge by going in and flushing the potty- sometimes not even going! So I took the treats away and told him no more preschool until you're peeing on the big boy potty all the time. We got him trained to go poopoo before the peepee by washing the poo off his butt with the detatchable showerhead set on COLD!

Answer 7

My daughter is almost 3 and we just got her pretty much fully potty trained about a month ago..I started out with the Pull Ups with the wetness liner so they can feel when they're wet..that really seemed to help.Just keep asking him if he has to go potty..don't wait for him to tell you he has to go..even if he says no sometimes just park his little butt on that potty.Be patient..he'll eventually get the hang of it..my daughter now only wears Pull Ups when she goes to bed..it's such a relief..a lot less expensive too!

Answer 8

There really is no way to "train" a child to go to the potty. That is some what of a myth. All you can do is introduce him to the potty, let him know what it is for, but it is really up to him to make the connection...and he will!

Answer 9

my son is the same way and he'l be 4 next month. i've finally got him peeing in the toilet almost everytime because i bribed him with those popsicles in the plactic sleeve everytime he peed. he doesn't get one everytime now, only if he goes a day without an accident. but he won't poo in the toilet. he did for about a week and went back to pooping in his underwear. i am so tired of fishing poopy supermans up and down in the toilet....so i know how you feel about this potty training thing! it takes forever but with kids like ours you have to find what they like and bribe them with it and then wean them off it slowly. after he goes so many times start making him be the one to ask for the treat and then start giving it to him for each accident free day.

Answer 10

My boy was not into training either...I finally got him wetting on a tree in the yard...it was a huge success. after that, I would explain "it is night time so you have to sit on the toilet instead of using your tree" and he is 4 1/2 and has been dry quite some time! Nights we just left the diaper on til we had one month dry...that was with me getting up once per night to take him to the toilet. He does it all alone now!