He has been very good with peeing in his potty for about 2 months already. I have tried bribing him with all sorts and giving him plenty of praise but he waits until I have to put a nappy on him - even if it is all day, then he lets go.
2006-08-19 06:28:08 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
Don't put a nappy on him AT ALL. My three year old has been out of nappies since he was 22months. I did it by simply not putting a nappy on him (when in the house) at all and no trousers or underpants. Everytime he began to pee or pooh (I could tell when he wanted to poo) i would put him on the potty and after gave him 1 penny sweet (no other sweets at all for any other reason). Obviously there were a few accidents and wet patches but in less than a week he was using the potty himself, even if it was only to get a sweet he would do his business on the potty.
2006-08-19 06:41:47 · answer #1 · answered by Justme.X 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't put the nappy on him anymore. EVER. You have trained him, or maybe he has trained you, to wait for the nappy and then go. Leave it off. Let him walk around naked if you have to. He will eventually HAVE to go and either come and tell you or go on the floor--which isn't bad since it allows you to explain that we go in the potty AND have him help clean it up. He will get the point. I trained both my two year old son (now three) AND two year old sister (still 2) just like that...naked. And it only took my sister 8 days and two accidents. With my son, it took about two weeks and several more accidents. But believe me it was worth every second. Going down the baby isle for only lotion and NO MORE NAPPIES is a GREAT feeling.
2006-08-19 07:43:23 · answer #2 · answered by mysonsablessing 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start by taking him in the bathroom to put the diaper on. No pressure, just this is where we are doing it. Give that a week. Next, he can wear the diaper, buthe must sit on the potty after it is on. Then cut a hole in the diaper. Make this a slow transition, with many rewards. Bring his favorite book into the bathroom, buy treats, a little candy, or stickers, or something. Because poop generally happens only once a day, I rewarded with a short video. If you do this you can witach your video. I trained an extremely reluctant autistic child this way, it is slow, but it worked for us. As you get close to the goal, get a box, put in party hats, a present, nice new underpants, anything that might make for a special day, this is the party box, and when you poop on the potty, you get to have a party. After 3 years of diapers you need to reward yourself when you get there, as well. Go now and buy a bottle of champagne. When the child is trained, you get the champagne. Hang in there, one way or another, the child will get there.
2006-08-19 06:40:45 · answer #3 · answered by n_of49p 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take the long view. He's not ready, so chill about the situation for a few days/weeks. Keep dropping subtle hints about "big boys doing the business in the potty". Try and get him to tell you when he's about to go, and gain his confidence by letting him mess his nappy a few times. Then whisk him on to the pot so he has no choice but to use it. Bags of praise plus his favourite sweet afterwards and repeat, gradually changing the reward to hugs and kisses and then treating it as normal.
That worked for us.
2006-08-19 06:38:15 · answer #4 · answered by Si R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
just keep nappy off if he's peeing in the potty when he needs to go he will have to watch out for signs and get him on it he might be scared doing it first time just everyone make a fuss when hes does
2006-08-19 06:35:53 · answer #5 · answered by Nutty Girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is a nappy a diaper? Stop using diapers period. We learned that our son knew he could wait for it as well, and he eventually pooped in the potty after that because he knew he had no other choice.
2006-08-19 16:43:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
neither of my 2 boys would do a poop in the potty , i dont know why but then i got them straight to the big toilet and they did it every time on there, theres no right way or wrong way im afraid, each time you see him trying to go get the potty under him or put him on the toilet , if he does it make a real song and dance of it , he'll soon realise it was a fantastic thing he done and he'll love doing it!
good luck :)
2006-08-20 01:17:25 · answer #7 · answered by sam g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My grandson is exactly the same. The worst thing you can do is let him see it's important to you, otherwise he might get anxious about the whole affair. There's an amusing video and book called "I want my Potty" that you can read together which should help a lot. it has very good reviews.
2006-08-19 06:41:22 · answer #8 · answered by proud walker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we had the same trouble with our 3yearold just keep asking him if he wants to use the potty if he says no leave it till next time and ask again. our boy is now 31/2yrs and doing pees and poos on the toilet.thought we wauld never get there but we did.keep trying and you will get there soon enough.
have you tried a reward chart we bribed ours with chocolate footballs and it worked wonders.good luck.
2006-08-20 08:19:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does he have a potty chair or is he going in the big toilet?
Some kids are scared of the toilet. I was a nanny for a 3 year old boy that had the same problem. he would ask for a diaper and then poop. I started having him sit on the toilet and I would read stories to him while he sat. then I had the mom get him a "treasure box" and she filled it with little toys etc--cheap little things that he liked and anytime he went on the toilet he got to pick something out. We started out with treats for just sitting on the toilet. With a lot of patience it worked for him--at first he would only go for me on the toilet--but the first time he did it for his mom he called me at home--he was so proud of himself.
2006-08-19 06:34:36 · answer #10 · answered by creative rae 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋