2006-10-27 10:32:16 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Toddler & Preschooler
your 2 yr old will do it when he/she is ready. you cannot force it to happen. your 2 yr old may not be able to control his/her muscles in order to go to the bathroom yet. The child will tell you when they are ready or they will just go. If its still bothering you ask your pediatrician.
2006-10-27 10:44:19 · answer #1 · answered by Katie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
hi. it'll have be good if you said if it was a boy or girl...
You can start by putting your child on the potty at the same time every morning, before or after breakfast.
Depending some children don't like the potty, but prefer the little seat special for little bum, that you put underneath your toilet.
Be relax toward it.
You can buy some great stickers, and praise your child when he goes to the potty, even if there is nothing in it. Make it fun.
good luck
2006-10-28 23:47:46 · answer #2 · answered by boulonpitou 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By him special big boy underwear that has one of his favorite characters. Also, try to find a book with his favorite character. My son loved Elmo, so it wasn't hard for me to find a book, underwear and a doll. Dolls that use the potty work great. Let him see everything, put the underwear on him. He probably won't be into it the first time. Put everything up for a while. The book, doll and the underwear. Occasionally ask him if he's ready to try going potty. This part is hard because I really wanted to push my son. Its so much easier if you just let him come to you. If he knows that when he tries, he's going to get to use the Elmo doll, read the Elmo book and wear the Elmo underwear, he'll be motivated. My son was almost 3 before he learned. When he does come to you, be prepared to spend an entire day in the bathroom with him reading the book and putting 'Elmo' on the potty. My son had the hang of it by the second day and made it with no accidents after two weeks. From the minute he asked us, we never used underwear again and he was ok with that. My son got peeing in the potty after the second day, but it took until the second week before he was ok with pooping in the potty.
2006-10-27 10:54:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Encourangement. Put the little one in pants, and follow them around with a potty, catching them when they show signs of needing a wee / number 2. Once they have used the potty praise them, lots. And let them come to the toilet with you. Some children prefer the toilet to a potty, mine always preferred the toilet, mainly because I always told them when I was going to the toilet for a wee. They soon get the idea. Be prepared for accidents, at the end of the day whats a bit of wee on the floor, easy enough to clean up.
2006-10-31 01:05:54 · answer #4 · answered by Chickette 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Children learn from what they see. Their behaviour is a result of mimicking those around them. So... think about it...... how many times has your child saw you passing anything in a pot? Get a child's toilet seat that sits onto your toilet and encourage them to use that. It requires a lot of leg work in the beginning cos it will be a novelty. Take the child with you every time you go to see that it is not a frightening experience. I trained my son to sit down and pee at first cos I was his main carer. Potties can be used ONLY as an emergency cos children need to be trained to use their muscles to hold themselves, otherwise they become lazy. My daughter was 20 months dry during the day and a few weeks later for bed. My son, (boys take longer usually) was about 28 months. Good luck, and just remember that you will get lots and lots of accidents at first, so don't stress it.
2006-10-28 04:06:18 · answer #5 · answered by sugar blonde 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The trick is to stay consistant. Once the nappies come off they stay off regardless of where you are. (Once we visited a friend's house and had an accident, another time at my mum's)! Take your potty everywhere including Bluewater shopping centre and constantly ask / remind your child if (s)he needs to use it.
The thing that really encouraged my child to remember to use her potty was when we introduced stickers every time she used it and lots and lots of praise. She even asked to use the potty when she didn't need it as she was so desperate to get a sticker! After a few weeks we finished with the stickers and gave her a bigger gift as a mark of success and have never looked back!
2006-10-27 12:25:17 · answer #6 · answered by Joanne W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sit him/her on it every day, and read a story together. There are also some fun videos/DVD out about potty training that make it into a game (be prepared to learn some rather silly songs!). winter is not a good time to do this because of the amount of clothes they are wearing. Alternatively, just bite the bullet, and say "we'll go out to the park" and put no nappies on (take several changes in your handbag). The problem is that nappies today keep them so dry they don't feel the need to wee - so let them experience the "wet" sensation and to associate it to the feelings that come before that. And remember, they won't do it until they are ready and feel unpressured about it.
2006-10-27 11:42:31 · answer #7 · answered by Pat D 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I bought a star chart for my 2 year old. Every time he sat on the potty, even if he didnt do anything on it, i gave him a star! If he had 20 stars or more by the end of the week he got a reward. He is now fully trained!! Good luck.
2006-10-28 00:18:30 · answer #8 · answered by sarah w 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All i know is the answer for boys...I put some cheerios in the potty and told him to aim...make sure he can reach first...or you'll be cleaning a LOT! Tell him Big Boys use the potty. Try having a bigger boy/man take him in to the bathroom with them so they can see that Big Boys really do it and how.
2006-10-27 10:36:39 · answer #9 · answered by Sugar Junkie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard the best way is to get a doll that wets & have a training sessions for the doll, eventually the child emulates and uses the potty (girl): if it is a boy, you make it a game by tossing some cheerios in the toilet and seeing if he can hit them.
2006-10-27 10:36:23 · answer #10 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i found it quite easy to potty train, but it really depends on if you daughter/son is ready, explain to him/her that the toilet is for mummy and daddy and that the potty is for her,buy her/him some knickers/pants and explain to her/him that thery are big boys pants/knicker like mummy and daddy wear, the best time to potty train is in the summer as you can do it outside so it dosen't matter is there is any accident as there will be start of. what i did was explained to my daughter what the potty was and every time that she used it she got a sticker on her potty chart and when she had somthing like 10 stickers she got a suprise, the best thing to do is just take her/his nappy off and every 20mins or so put him/her on the potty. xx
2006-10-27 21:57:42 · answer #11 · answered by Dreamah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋