These days I'm trying to potty train my two year old son. Please help me if u have any good suggestions.?

Question

I make him sit on the commode twice everyday, but he would never potty. As soon as I put a diaper on he does it. I'm getting too tired of this thing. Please help! I always am very patient with him never scolding him about what he does, telling him stories of how his other cousins love to do it on the commode. By the way I have tried very fancy potty seats too. Nothing seems to b working :-(.....

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Boys are horrible for training! My girl has been cake compared to her brother. Don't fight with him though. Put him in pants...not a diaper! He will feel the wet running down his leg and not like it! And if you can do something like a swimsuit, better! This works better in the spring than in the winter, as he won't soil as many layers. Get a few pairs so that you can launder them and switch them out. Also, incentives! What worked for my son was a sticker book. He got to pick stickers when he went on the toilet. The fancy seats are just a way to separate mommies and monies...don't buy into that. My daughter isn't yet two and has decided that seats are no good. What she IS into though, are books! I let her look at books while she's on the potty and it distracts her. And believe me, the first time he hears the tinkle sound, he'll catch on. Make a HUGE fuss about how wonderful it is that he's on the potty. Every time! (My son is three, has been trained for a long time and still requires a fuss...) Also, pick set times during the day...like first thing in the am, after breakfast, after lunch, after supper before bed, and every time you go. This gets him into the idea that this is potty time. Even if he doesn't produce on the potty, he'll get the idea. Good luck...hang in there and don't get discouraged. With boys it takes longer. Keep being patient and it will pay off!

Answer 3

The suggestions from the pre-school teacher were excellent! Here's how I potty trained my son (at about 2 yrs. 4 mos.)...this only worked because I was with him nearly all day (I'm a teacher...I started training of the first day of summer vacation!).

Put him in underwear (pull-ups at night and when we had to go out somewhere that an accident would cause problems...otherwise he was in underwear). Bought about 2 dozen with all his favorite characters. Followed him around for a few weeks with a roll of paper towels...and spent a LOT of time outdoors!

Had potty chair and soft potty seat for commode, Cheerios (generic!) and even some blue food coloring (yellow and blue make green!). Within a couple of weeks he had only done #1 a couple of times in the potty, but at least he was running to the bathroom when he needed to go (and then squatting next to the toilet...easier to clean at least!)

About this time, I called in reinforcements...one of my best friends is a cheerleading coach...needless to say, she's very upbeat (bubbly even) and my son loved her! Every hour or so for the entire day, she took him to the potty and when he eventually did it, she did a cheer for him (pompom's and all!)...he LOVED it...he went again in an hour and then again...and was rewarded with an original cheer each time...by the end of the day, he was trained! From that day until today (he's 6), he had less than 10 accidents day and night combined!!! AMAZING

My advice...if you don't have a pretty cheerleader friend (my son like most boys loved pretty girls *smile*), then keep experimenting until you find a reward that does work for him. If he has a favorite adult friend (uncle, your best friend), see if you can enlist their help! ...and go overboard with the rewards whatever they may be. If your son likes ice cream, give him a huge bowl of his favorite kind every time he does use the potty...even if it might "ruin his dinner". If he wants to bang on your computer like a "big boy", let him crash your hard drive! ...whatever works to get out of that diaper stage is worth it in my opinion!!!

Answer 4

OK this may seem a bit cruel but its the ONLY thing that worked for my son after trying just about everything listed and more. buy plain undies put him in them make him clean up the accident when there is one and then HE rinses out the undies, sit him in front of the dryer and tell him he CANT MOVE until they are dry. give him a sticker when he does use the toliet or other reward and when he poops give him something better for pooping in the toliet. ask him many times if he has to use the toilet it will feel like all you did was ask all day but trust me. this works how many kids want to sit in front of a dryer waiting on something with no toys to play with for what like 30 minutes i mean i tried everything and when i got told this i said yeah right well by the time he hit 3 1/2 i said i will try it and BAM 2 DAYS 4 PEE ACCIDENTS AND HE WAS 100% IN THE TOILET.when no more accidents take him to buy cool undies like cars or superman whatever he likes but when training plain undies and no pants to get in the way GOOD LUCK

Answer 5

I was a preschool teacher for 5 years and had a class of two's (ten of them) which I potty trained all of them. What I found with boys is that some of them do better standing instead of sitting since it is more comfortable for them since they walk around and go whenever they want.

Also underwear make the difference. Most kids don't want to get wet so they will go in the potty so they don't get wet, or don't get their favorite character on their underwear wet! Also make a big deal out of how cool it is, you can sing to him why he is trying to go..

Example:

Ok Seth, go pee pee in the potty, pee pee in the potty, pssssssss, yeah Seth!!!

This usually gets them excited to go, also if they have a male role model let them go into the bathroom with them so they can see that they do it too.

Then there is always putting a few cheerios in the toilet to help with aim and maybe even get them to want to pee on the cheerios as gross as it is.

You can always try reward charts which lilfingers.com used to have that you could print out. stickers and stamps work on some kids too or a special treat.

Hope some of this helps, just trying to put out there some of the stuff I have done myself, and try to has him go potty more often, it may make him want to just do it so he can get back to doing other things.

Answer 6

I kept a basket in the bathroom with prizes in it. I'd put bouncy balls, little race cars, stickers, or anything else my son was into at the time. Every time he went in the potty he got a prize. He caught on eventually. Also I kept books in the bathroom just for potty time. He'd sit on the potty and we'd read a book or two and he'd usually go during that time.

Good luck!!!

Answer 7

I had a potty on the floor for my toddler. She used it maybe once or twice. At some point she became curious when adults when to "potty" and one day decided she wanted to use the grown up toilet. Her potty was actually 3 pieces--a base to flip over and use as a footstool, a seat you could put on the toilet seat (so little behinds wouldn't fall through) and a removable pot. I think girls train earlier, though. I'd keep using the toilet in his presence, and keep the curiosity level up for him.

Answer 8

boys mature slower than girls. He just might not be ready. The cheerios thing was going to be my suggestion, also. Have dad go in there with him and show him how it's done. If you aren't with the father, get a squirt gun...lol..don't do that. Seriously, a lot of boys don't go on the potty until they are 3.

Answer 9

its hard i know! its like potty training a dog in a way..but you gotta work with it! i suggest getting a lil toliet for him! and put him on a schedule...if your up in the morning b4 him..wake him up and put him on the potty..and tell him when he goes potty in the toilet hes gonna get a suprise and give him a treat! and after he has breakfast put him on the potty...and after snack put him on the potty..after lunch put him on the potty...b4 and after his nap put him on the potty...and bribe him each time! its going to take alot of time! and when he wants to wear underwear tell him if you go potty on spidermans head..we are going to have to put a diaper back on!

Answer 10

We have two boy's...we trained them by telling them the toilet is hungry and you have to feed it, the toilet likes to eat etc. This method is the ONLY one of many we tried...good luck