I need help potty training my almost 4 year old son.?

Question

I have been trying to potty train my son for over a year. I am having no luck at all. I have successfully potty trained two other children but can't seem to get this one done. All suggestions will be greatly appreciated. My son is slightly delayed, due to being premature. He is just now being to talk good and will be 4 in Janurary. He will occasionally urinate in the toliet but nothing else. Please Help!

Answer 1

patience, patience, patience
NEVER yell at him
reward him every time he does it in the toilet or in his potty.
you can try to do it with stamps in the wall,
and of course a lot of verbal praise.....

Answer 2

My daughter was potty trained by the time she was 2. I let her wear pull ups to bed only. We had the potty chair in the hallway because she waited until the last seconded to go and never made it in time. I treated her like a big kid. They also have things to put in the toilet and have them to pee on them.
Since your child has a delay then it may be a while. My sitters daughter has Downs syndrome and she is still not potty train and she is almost 6. Children with delays take along time to potty train. When they get to school it is a lot easier because their Friends are all potty trained.
Maybe your son just needs more time.

Answer 3

If you stay at home with him you might just have to put him in underwear. My son turned 3 in July and was not at all potty trained and thats what I ended up having to do. It was a huge mess (they have some "plastic" underwear that you can put over the undies that help a little) .. but I would always just say next time go in the potty ok? Then whenever he did I acted ridiculous and would like jump up and down and cheer and let him call my mom to tell her. I made a HUGE deal and he thought it was so funny that even now he runs up and says GUESS WHAT I have to go potty! haha .. If you are working that will be pretty hard for you to do though. I would sit him on there every two hours when you are home maybe ??

Answer 4

My little girl knew how to go to the toilet, she just didn't WANT to... after she turned 3 she was still in pull-ups during the day and diapers during the night. I had had enough! We have tried the stickers on the chart, we had tried letting her run around the house naked, we even sat her in the naughty chair when she did it in her panties (not recommended they say)... So I finally just settled for bribery.

I went to the dollar store and just bought a whole buch of cheap toys. I asked my mom and my grandma if they could go and buy some little toys also. I put all these little toys in a big pretty gift bag and stuck a big bouncy ribbon it.

I told her if she pee-peed in the potty, she can get ONE grab. Poo-Poo would get her TWO grabs. I cannot begin to tell you how well this worked. She did, however, try to trick us by going pee-pee over and over again even when she didn't need to; but at least she went on the toilet! When all the toys ran out, I just told her "they're all gone, sorry!" and she still continued to go to the toilet.

If I would have thought to do this a long time ago I would have saved SOOOOOO much money in pull-ups and diapers!

Answer 5

I had successfully potty trained 3 of my own children and numerous daycare children when it was time for my youngest to be potty trained. I thought it would be a breeze since I thought I knew every trick in the book and some tricks that had never been published. But, kids can keep us humble. In the end, my youngest would not potty train until 2 weeks before she turned 5. She was perfectly healthy, just stubborn as they come. We tried rewards, punishment, every kind of panty and pull-up made. She absoloutely refused to even sit on the potty. Imagine trying to make a child sit anywhere when they stiffen like a board then scream and thrash all their arms and legs. As she approached the age of 4, I was completely exhausted and frustrated with this strong-willed child. In exasperation I said, "Well, when WILL you go potty in the toilet?" She thought for a couple seconds and said, "When I am 5 I will go potty in the toilet." So, we decided to let it all go after that. We didn't bring up the subject again. I moved the bag of pull-ups to the bathroom. If she wet them, she knew how to put a dry one on. If she had a poopy pull-up, she'd ask me to change her, but I would take my sweet time getting the task done. We got rid of the sticker chart, ate the Skittles ourselves, and ceased the sugary sweet, "Don't you want to be a big girl and go on the potty?" We made it a complete non-issue with her, even though I was a mess worrying that she'd never potty train and she WOULD be going to kindergarten in a diaper. She did occassionally go potty and we made a big deal out of it, but it didn't phase her any. 2 weeks to the day before she turned 5, she got up in the morning and announced, "I am going to go potty today." She got underwear out of her drawer, put them on, and was completely day and night trained that day. For her, it had to be her idea for it to work. She is 9 now and we still have little luck making her do anything, but if she thinks it's her idea she's all for it. She is extremely uncomfortable with anything she is unfamiliar with. Some kids just take their sweet time

Answer 6

my mother ran a day care out of our home for 15 years. the way we potty trained the children was with "potty treats" they got a treat like a tootsie roll whenever they sucsessfully used the toilet and we'd all make a big fuss and clap. if they pooped, they would usually get two tootsie rolls. if they made it the whole day without an accident they got to put a sticker next to their name on a board we had (the kids got or lost stickers for things such as this and their behavior) once they had a certain number of stickers they got a small treat, like a candy bar at the store or if they had a lot, a small toy.

Answer 7

Well I would just put underwear on him and take him to the bathroom every 2 hrs !! This is what I did with my daughter and she was potty trained b4 she was 2 !!! Do not let him wear pull ups or dipers at all this will make him this he can pee in them !!! Also let him pick out some underwear that he thinks are cool ( cars the movie, power rangers ) or any other fav character

Answer 8

I just wanted to say good luck to you, my son will be 4 on the 31st of Dec. and he is fully potty trained but only poops if we catch him squatting in a corner. I haven't pushed it because they will do it on their own time. I do give him treats when he does go and we make a big deal, so who knows why he holds out. He does have a younger brother that is almost 2, sometimes I think he wants to be a baby like his younger brother. But Lord help me two kids in diapers for 2 yrs.......
Anyway good luck to you!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

little boy are easy to potty train and it looks like your little one can do it if you know the signs and teach him in a nice calm way

Answer 11

you may have waited a bit long to potty train him but never give up hope!! NEVER yell at him and only praise him!!