Potty training - please help me?

Question

hi, am trying to potty train my 2 year old. Is he too young ? He's almost 2 and half.

Answer 1

I HAVE THE ANSWER!!!!
My son will be 3 in March. I have been trying off and on to potty train him since last April. He wasn't ready so I put it off for a while but my husband and I have been getting tired of changing dirty pull-ups so i've decided to give it another try. I CRACKED THE CODE! It finaly worked, I just had to wait for him and myself to be ready.
Pick a week when you don't have to go anywhere, STAY HOME! It will take that long cause you son needs to figure out the sensation. My son doesn't tell me he needs to go, I put him on the potty and tell him to wait for the pee pee to come out.
My son is like any other boy who likes cartoons so I put his portable potty on a towel in front of the tv and put on a video.
(I used a towel under the potty for spills, I had to change it just about everytime he went. Alot of laundry that week)

He watches alot of videos that week. But it was all worth it cause know he goes by himself. I still ask him every once in a while if he needs to go but he say's no everytime even if he needs to go. He sat and watched his video and peed in the potty. When he would get up and I knew that he wasn't done peeing I would tell him to sit on the potty and sometimes he said no and i would turn off th tv and then he sat back down on the potty so i would turn the tv back on. When he did go pee I went over board with happyness. We sang the potty song "Russel went pee pee on the potty, Russel went pee pee on the potty Horray!!!!" and we danced. He was so happy to see me happy that he wanted me to be happy again and again. I found that the same routine worked.
be prepared to have accidents but don't punish him for it just say "did you have an accident? Thats ok go sit on the potty and see if there's anymore pee pee that needs to come out."
OUR ROUTINE:
Pee pee on the potty
Then he got 2 chocolate chips and we dumped the pee in the BIG potty and he gets to flush the toilet and say's "bye bye pee pee" and washed our hands. then he got a sticker for washing his hands.

2 chocolated chips for pee
6 chocolate chips and a lolly pop for poo (cause it's special)
1 sticker for washing his hands.

The first couple of days give him alot of juice and milk, everytime he's finished his cup fill it up again. I did this with my son and he had to pee every 20min. That means the more he pee's the more times he get's that sensation and figures it out. I bought a timer at the dollar store to remind me it's been 20min and make sure he was sitting on the potty. I gave him alot for attention that week, lots of hugs and kiss and I told him "mommy is so happy, you make mommy so happy when you go pee on the potty, i'm so proud of you!" "Your a big boy now that you go pee on the potty" and we would call his aunt and tell her over the phone and she would respond with pure excitment. That made him happy!
My son was going pee by himself after the 6th day but don't get me wrong he still had many accidents but its a work in progress, and we are still working on going poo. And he wears a pull-up at night.
By the way we are on day 8. I hope this helps. A friend of mine used mini brownies as a treat and her son was trained in 2 days. I wish!!! but you never know it might work for you!
best of luck!!!

Answer 2

No he is not too young. My son goes to day care and they start training them at 2. He is 2 1/2 now and is trained. He has accidents once in a while but that is to be expected. When I first started to train him, I went out and bought a potty. I thought that that was how all kids started. However, they have small toilets at daycare that they were using so I bought a little step that he could step up on at home to use the big potty. He did wonderful. Everytime he uses the potty I praise him, give him a high five, let him flush (he thinks it is wonderful) and give him a kiss and tell him that I am proud of him being a big boy! Good Luck!

Answer 3

No, he's not too young. Boys are harder to train than girls, but what they really need is for you to take a LOT of time with them and give them attention. Usually moms don't train until later because they're too busy. The mom who put the potty in front of the tv has a good idea, she just would have saved a LOT of diapers if she had tried it two years earlier. Kids are very smart, and capable of more than parents give them credit for.

Answer 4

no. start out with pull ups and the disapearing pictures. everytime you check him and he has all of his pictures and he has used the potty at least once that day, give him a special treat. when his pictures are gone, no treat, but if he uses the potty at least once that day give him a smaller treat. let him work for it. in the end he will just go to the potty on his own and you wont have to give him a treat. good luck!

Answer 5

It depends on the child really. My son was not ready until 3. I had several friends that forced their kids to be trained at 2, but then they ALWAYS had accidents, and their parents would get mad!

My son never had an accident because we trained him when he was ready. He still wets the bed and wears diapers at night because he can't hold it through the night, but it's not a big deal to us.

I would never punish a child for having accidents.

Answer 6

if he is telling you he is wet he is ready, but he should be at the right age. my son was about that age, what I did is I went and got him some underwear with the thing he liked the most of on the under wear. (super man) when i put them on him i him i said for him not to pee or poo on super man or he would fly away and be sad. that same day he was going to his potty on his own.

Answer 7

He may be a little young, but let me give you a tip. Get some cherrios, or any round little cereal. Put one or two in the toilet water and teach him to "shoot" them when he pees. There is an inherant urge to "shoot" stuff for boys and this is one way to get him interested in using the toilet. Give it a try?