Help me potty train my boy!?

Question

My son is get this 4 years old! And I can not get him to potty on the toilet. I have tried all the tricks in the book and I can't get anything to work. This is very frusterating for me because I have 3 older girls that were a breeze to potty train! Any ideas please help. Oh he has also been through all the medical exams so we know it is not that!

Answer 1

My youngest daughter would not potty train until 2 weeks before she turned 5. We were sure she would have to go to school in a Pull-up (her birthday is July 25 and we started school the end of August) even though her doctor assured us that wouldn't be the case. We, too, tried every trick in the book and a few new ones. I have 3 older children and have been a daycare provider for 20 years so I know lots of tricks and have potty trained many children. She was so adamant about NOT going potty that whenever we tried to make her sit, she would stiffen up so straight we couldn't even force her to bend. She would scream and flail her arms and legs. What we ended up doing was just letting it all drop. No mention of going potty, no talking to her during a change of her Pull-up, no offers of rewards, no threats, no promises, nothing. We kept the Pull-ups in the bathroom and she could change them when she was wet. When she needed help cleaning up after a bowel movement, we took our time getting around to it and when we did we were very perfunctory in our clean-up - no talking, just took care of business and left. We kept underwear in a drawer where she knew where they were plus I would usually put a pair out with her clothes in the morning. 2 weeks before she turned 5, she got up in the morning and said she was ready to go potty in the toilet now. She got out a pair of underwear, threw away her Pull-up and was instantly day and night time trained that day. So, my suggestion is not to despair, make going potty a "non-issue" for a few weeks. Have him wear a Pull-up or diaper, whichever he wants. Take all emotion out of the subject. When and whether he goes will need to be his own decision at this point. My daughter is now 9 and she is the slowest person I know to get used to anything new. She still goes into things she is unfamiliar with kicking and screaming, but when she decides to do something, she is all for it.

Answer 2

My son did not like the little potty so what I did was go to Walmart and buy one of those Blues Clues toilet seats that you put on top of the toilet. I had him watch both me and my husband go to the bathroom and I told him lets be a big boy and try to go potty. I turned on the water to make it sound like someone urinating and when he did, I would make a HUGE deal by grabbing him and running around the house yelling "good boy" and singing "you went pee pee in the potty, pee pee in the potty!" Since we made such a huge deal about it, he wanted to go and within a week or two he was going potty in the toilet. I think that he was potty trained by 1. They say that it's more difficult to potty train a boy than a girl but to be honest with you it was easier with my son than with my two girls. It could also help if he had a sibling join in on the potty experience. My son (the youngest) and my middle daughter get along so well like best friends most of the time that when she would say "come on lets go potty" it would help too.

Answer 3

By showing you how potty training can be
easy... If you follow a proven plan.

Most parents potty train using trial and
error and *prolong* potty training by months
instead of just days if they had used a
proven plan.

The longer you wait to potty train your child...
The harder it will be for you... Even if they
are currently not showing any signs of being
ready.

Even if you had tried potty training in the
past and failed...

...Listen, it's NOT your fault.

I don't know for sure?

But this is likely the most important lesson
about potty training I could EVER share with you.

I say that because I've known parents who've
potty trained their children in just 3 days...

only using 3 simple tips Carol Cline suggested
to them… and now never have to pay for or change
diapers ever again.

If only every parents used Carol Clines method...
parents would have their child potty trained in
days... instead of weeks or even months...

Would you mind grabbing a piece of paper
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I truly believe this is THAT important to
your child's future....

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now or want start later down the road…this is
information every parents needs to know...

...Information from friends and family is NOT
enough. In fact, if they give you one piece of
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Answer 4

Well, perhaps he needs two things:

1: a potty. Nothing special. Just a basic potty.
2: A reward system.

For example buy a book of Stickers (whatever character floats his boat, for my 2 year old brother its all things Spider Man)

Try taking him to the bathroom early in the morning when he first wakes up and putting him on the potty before he's completely alert. Still wake him up though, wait till he goes then celebrate for him as he washes his hands.

Give him a Spiderman sticker and tell everyone in the family and have them clap for him. If he goes to the potty four times a day, he gets a Spiderman treat for desert. (something from the store with Spider man on the box, yogurt, fruit chews, gum, whatever.)

Or else just put spider man stickers on the yogurt cup when he's not looking. Its likely to be the same for him.

Answer 5

Hmm, I have a girl...but I know a lady who had the same problems, and at the time his favorite character was Spongebob. So, she found a place online to have Spongebob call their home and tell him what a big boy he would be if he would start using the potty for mommy and daddy. After that, she said it worked like magic.

Answer 6

I had to force my son to sit on the potty.. I did it as soon as he woke up and as soon as he peed in the pot I made a huge deal about it, and that's all it took!! Don't use pull-ups.. I just used regular underwear for him.. It can get messy, but pull-ups aren't worth the money.. It still feels like a diaper to them.. 4 is definitely old enough to understand the concept!! Have daddy help too!!

Answer 7

My son could have been the hardest kid to train ever.... we tried everything you could think of... what finally worked was - we decorated a small fish bowl together with a bunch of spiderman stickers and everytime he went potty he got a quarter (or whatever was in our pocket) and once a week we would go to the dollar store and spend his "Potty Jar" money, he loved it, and believe me we tried EVERYTHING else. Hope it helps

Answer 8

Stubborn little buggers, aren't they? My son is just about to turn 4 and he just potty trained. For us, I think it was a battle of wills and when we backed off, all of a sudden he decided he wanted to do it. Shocking, huh? So, if your kid knows what to do but just doesn't want to do it, try letting it ride a little longer. Its one of the only things they can control, after all. Guaranteed, he won't walk down the aisle in diapers! Best wishes

Answer 9

I told my son that they wouldn't let him go to school if he wore diapers. I had been trying for the longest time to potty train him and this had him potty trained in an instant.

Answer 10

I had a friend that told her son to go potty for her, in a sense he thought he was helping her. I know it worked for her, perhaps you could use it.