What should i do or can i do if my 3 yr olde doesnt seem interested in pottey training?

Question

he knows what the training chair is and what its for ..he even puts his stuffed animals on the toilet and tells me they are going to the restroom but when i sit with him or try to get him interested in doing it himself he doesnt seem to be the bit interested. well he went pee once i think just to get me to quiet my advances. but other than that nothing

Answer 1

The problem is is that you let him treat it like a toy by letting him put his animals on it. He thinks it's a toy, so he's treating it like one. You didn't pee in/on your toys when you were his age did you?

Make it clear that it is a toilet--not a toy.

Answer 2

As wonderful as it is to have a child no longer in diapers, it can make the process 100x more difficult if you try and push your child to use the toilet. Having the chair around and talking about it once in a while is a great way to start things off but let your child show you that he is ready. A lot of people say that it just takes boys longer to be ready to use the toilet. Some signs that they may be ready:

-consistently dry when waking up after naps
-their diaper is wet/soiled on a fairly regular schedule
-they let you know when their diaper needs to be changed
-they are interested in talking about the toilet, sitting on it, etc.
-they are able to put on and pull of their pants all by themself

the website www.parenting.com has good info that relates to potty training as well as age appropriate advice

Good Luck! This process can be frustrating at times but in the end when your child is truly ready they will let you know and he'll be potty trained :)

Answer 3

I suggest you stop for a week and then try again .Maybe even show him how to do it.When I potty trained my son we put one of those attachments on a regular toilet and my husband showed him what to do , we told him he was big now and needed to use the toilet like a big boy.At first he wanted no part of it but we gave it a break for a week and started over , he was potty trained in no time. Sometimes kids are just not ready , give him time he'll get it eventually, Dont push him into you know how rebellious toddlers are.

Answer 4

We let our daughter run around naked and put the potty chair in the room we were in. She did have accidents but we just told her that she should have done that in her potty chair. After a few weeks (yes weeks) she started running over to the chair and peeing. She was so excited, and so were we! We went and got her big girl panties and moved the potty chair closer to the bathroom. It took a good month start to finish, the chair ended in the bathroom and she wanted to use the toliet and now she will go on her own. Good luck, remember don't force it and if the child doesn't want to sit on the toliet DONT make them.

Answer 5

Try sticking to every hour or so and undressing him and sitting him on the pot. Reward the times he does go and then, according to parents magazine, take away a toy or treat for the times he goes in his diaper once he seems capable of going on his own. Realize boys take longer and perhaps your husband or an older male role model can help him be able to emulate wanting to be "like a big boy." I dont' have a lot of advice, however, my 3 year old niece rarely uses the potty as well.

Answer 6

My pediatrician told me with boys you should not expect anything until closer to 4 yrs old (she had boys too). This is one thing I learned not to stress about. I told myself, "he will graduate high school with a diaper still on!"
Boys have a harder time understanding that "feeling" when it time to go. After potty training 3, here is my best advice:
Try different things, something is bound to catch his attention. We have used potty videos, potty books, observing older siblings and dad, float cheerios and fruit loops to aim at, small prizes or candy when he goes. The best thing for us was letting them go naked. They soon realize they don't like the feeling of it running down their legs (buy carpet cleaner in advance)
My youngest was the easiest to train, this is what I did:
Nothing. I told him all about it, showed him how to do it, let him watch the videos and read the books, then I did nothing........one morning he came to me and said "I have to go" and that was it. He never had an accident, no really I am not lying, I was so shocked and amazed. I wish I had done that with my older 2!
But I have to say, I gave up on any certain age a book would say they had to be trained by. I forced myself to not worry about how old he was getting to be, when HE was ready, HE did it. He was about 3 1/2 yrs when he did.

Answer 7

Skip the training chair and get the little seat you put right on the toilet.

He needs motivation that he IS interested in. Sometimes picking out "big boy" underwear (that he will get to wear once he's potty trained) will do the trick. I know of two kids who were "instantly" trained because they just had to wear the cool underwear.

Answer 8

he will do it in his own time. you've never seen a 5 year that's not potty trained, right? i know it's expensive but let him be and he will come around. think of it this way. girls with anorexia or bulimia normally have the problem due to "control" issues. that they don't have control over their surroundings, so they control the one thing they can, their food intake. a child has no more control of what happens than an anorexic, so they try to control the one thing they can, their bodily functions. with my son, he would go pee but not poo. he just flat out would not and he would go days w/o having a bowel movement until i would have to put a diaper on him so he'd poo. one night, one week before his THIRD birthday, he runs to the toilet, PO PO , PO PO , and does his bm in the toilet. i almost had a party for him right then and there. and he has never used a diaper since. you see, i quit pressuring him and when i quit, he decided "okay, i won, now i'll go"

Answer 9

Just as a general rule for all children being potty trained is to put them on the pot first thing in the morning (to start).

Then allow them to drink as usual and then make your best guess for the times to follow. Allowing him see an adult standing is also a very good idea. Kids will imitate anything they see.
Hope that helps.

Good luck

Answer 10

I tried potty training my son the same way, and it wasn't until his dad got involved and showed him how to urinate standing up that he really got interested. Try having a male figure in his life let your son watch him go to the restroom. Then, make a game of it. We put Cherrios in the toilet and he would practice dunking them. Works like a charm...good luck!!!

Answer 11

There are all kinds of great products for the stubborn pottier. Like stickers you can paste in the potty that change color or these little floaty fish there great for boys because they can aim and fire. My son loved when id put a few cheerios in the bowl. Hed say mama ready aim fire it really took the chore out of potting and made it fun.