HELP Potty Toilet Training Tips need to have him ready in 4 weeks!!?

Question

My son is now 32 months old a couple of months ago i tried to get him out of nappies with no luck , he's now nearly 3 we are going in feb on a disney cruise ,providing he is toilet trainned he can go in the 3-5 yr kids club with his sister aged 5! which he will be devestated if he can't go with her so i have given myself and him 4 weeks to get him out of nappies.
Today is the first day of which i have changed tactics like the get them trainned in 3 days method!I had a tea party with his teddies in his underpants, got him taking them to the potty, after about 45 mins removed his nappy and started to prompt him, well i had 6 wet pairs of pants, 2 hits on the potty which were only prompted by catching him starting a wee and running and sitting him on there but got some in there with BIG claps and praise! Shortly after he just squatted and poohed on the lounge rug!!I know i just have to stick with it, just wondered if anybody had any ideas to help the process, experience or idea's?

Answer 1

Honestly for me I have a 2 1/2 year old and I let him tell me when he needs to go but my parents took him for a weekend and when I got him back he was telling me every time he needed to go. They let him go pee outside on the trees and he like that so they told him he needed to water the toilet. We still have days where he screams his head off because he doesn't want underwear on but you really cant force it you just have to let them understand it and when they are ready it will happen. This all just happened for me within the last month and for a few days I got really upset because he wouldn't go so I tried to force it on him and it only made it worse, I tried reading his potty books to him and telling him what a BIG BOY he was and it didn't seem like it was working. We do the High Five when he is done and get really excited when he goes and he does OK, he still gets mad when it is time to change from diaper to underwear but then he gets mad when he needs a diaper to go to sleep so it is eventually going to work itself out.
Good luck with it and I hope that I may have been able to help or at least make you feel a little better.

Answer 2

The person who wrote that the more you push, the worse it will get, is correct! We learned this by trying to "force" our kid to eat...and he never did get into it (He's 16 and and at least 20 lbs underweight!). For some reason, we didn't pressure him about potty training (nor about bedtime), and he had no trouble with either.

It's not at all uncommon, esp. for a boy, to not be fully potty trained 'til age THREE. Just accept it and try not to make him feel weird or wrong. He will get it in his own time.

Another thing you should NOT do (with many things, not just this) is go overboard with praise) when he DOES what you want. If your kid is headstrong, he may be smart enough to rebel, seeing the over-praising as you imposing your will! Toddlers are a LOT like teenagers. You want to say, CALMLY, "Good show", and leave it at that...not go ape...or they'll definitely rebel!

The thing that motivated our kid the most (I can't speak for others) was being in day care, where he got to see other kids going off to use the loo. He wanted to be like them, so in a matter of a few weeks, he caught on! Maybe that could help your child.

Just don't freak out, and you'll be fine!

Answer 3

Take a week off work, take your sons nappy off and leave him running around the house with nothing on down below. Keep the potty handy. He will make a few mistakes, but don't shout at him, when he pees on the floor, tell him gently, next time he feels the need to try doing it in the potty. He will soon try, as he will not enjoy having wet legs every time. It worked a treat with my sons at 21 months. Give him lots of praise when he gets it right but never scold him for getting it wrong.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

hi. That's what i did with my twins boys 6 months ago :
First go to the shop and let him choose his own pants (noddy, cars, balls...)
Then put him on the potty, first thing when i wake up, then after breakfast... Ask him every five mns if he need to go to the potty, we never ask enough at the beginning. Maybe, he doesn't like the potty, try the adult toilet where he can choose between pee stand up like his dad or sit. Mine, prefer stand up, they find it easier,
you just have to hold it for him.
good luck. and by the way stop the nappies all together. And yes, you will have few accidents, but he will learn quickly that to be wet it is not nice
If there is an accident, just say oops, never mind, better next time. It takes away the pressure. And if he manage, praise him with stickers or books etc...

Answer 6

I've potty trained nine children (yes, really), and had a variety of experiences; they trained anywhere from 18 months to 4 years, with and average of 2 1/2 to 3. My most difficult one (the 4 year old) just didn't get it. He would sit on the potty until he had 'ring around the bottom', but still didn't go. I finally gave up, and my 18-year-old daughter asked if she could try. This is what she did (and it worked in two days).

She picked one bedroom in the house, and brought the television in there with a whole day's worth of videos and movies. She made two pitchers of Kool-Aid (a non-carbonated soft drink children love), and brought in the potty chair.

She had him drink a glass of juice/Kool-aid while he watched movies. Then after about 45 minutes, she had him sit on the potty chair. She had him try for a long time, and then let him up even though he hadn't gone wee yet. She did not allow him to put on a diaper (nappie) or underpants until he had gone potty (wee). She put him back on the potty every 15 minutes. It took two hours, but he finally had his first success. We all praised him a lot. He stayed in the room with her all day (he was never alone, and thought it was fun to watch movies all day with his sister). Every hour or two she put him back on the potty. If he went potty (wee), then she allowed him to wear his underpants for about 40 minutes before he had to try again. It was a long day, and we did it half of another day too.

My brother was so excited about our success with our son that he took three days off work to train his son the same way (his son was also very late - 4). His son was trained before the 3rd day was over.

It is a lot of work, but well worth it - as long as your child is really old enough to train. He may truly not be ready.

Answer 7

The big toilet is quite scary for most 2 year olds so I would keep her on the potty for a bit longer ;) I also have a 2 year old and we are slowly trying to toilet train her. I started by letting her play without her nappy and asking her frequently if she needs to do a wee...and if she needs to do one she has to tell me so we can do one in the potty. Of course she didn't tell me...until after it happened..haha..but I still rushed her to the potty and sat her down on it and told her she should do the wee in there. Don't get mad though, do it all in a good relaxed way. Then after a while she started telling me when she had to do one when she was just about to start...and a little had come out..but we could still rush to the potty and finish it in there. Then she got lots of cheers after and she felt really proud of herself. I then allowed her to flush the toilet after emptying the potty into it, which she thought was fun. After we called grandma to tell her the BIG news...my little one though it was great. We are still in training but she is starting to tell me more often when she has to go BEFORE actually going, however for her to do this she needs to be without a nappy. Even when she has the pull-up nappies she will just have a wee in there and won't bother about telling me.

Answer 8

try taking him to the potty/toilet every 15 mins yes very time consuming but he will soon get the idea,it may be a few weeks/ months but dont give up once he gets used to the idea he hopefully will ask to go, make him a chart to put a sticker on everytime he does "something" on toilet/potty he will be proud of himself (hopefully!) and want too keep being rewarded good luck!!! and remember DONT GIVE UP! p.s dont put him in pull up nappies as i find this often confuses the poor darlings pants all the way! (except at night!) and if your at home try to just let him be in pants and t shirt some times they cant pull their trousers down quick enough! (im a nursery nurse so hope this advice helps!) x

Answer 9

when i was potty training my girls i used rewards they soon caught on they used to love disney films so each week i used to buy them a video if they didnt have accidents (they are 14 n 15 now lol it was video then) but if he is really into something you could use that as a reward sounds expensive but it doesnt have to be. im sure he will understand if you explain the game as we know kids love a game, i made a star chart and put it at kid eye level so they could stick the stars on themselves each day i split the days into 3 morning/afternoon/eve its suprising how quick they catch on, it worked for me i had both mine out of nappies before they were 2 i hope this works for you think of the money you will save on nappies replacing for a short time with a toy. seein dad use the bathroom helps too so my sister says she has 2 boys

Answer 10

I had 2 girls which i believe are easier to train. I was told however that after every drink they generally need the potty after 10 mins, Sit him on it and read him a story. Hopefully he will go in that time and you have also spent some quality time with him in a relaxed atmosphere, He will then feel he can use the potty and associate it with nice time with mummy. Enjoy the holiday :-)