potty training help. pleaseeeeee.?

Question

my son is 26 months old and he's been hearing about the potty since a few months before his second birthday. we bought him a potty and left it out in plain view and got him used to sitting on it when he went (still in diapers). now that he's 26 months and wearing big boy underwear all day while he's awake, he will not tell me when he has to go. he's gone on the potty a few times in the last week but has just peed or had a bm in his underwear every other time. i'm not sure of any other way to get him to tell me he has to go. he sits on the potty every hour for at least fifteen minutes and usually does nothing, gets up, walks away and then goes while i'm not watching. i'm really lost as to what i can do. i've offered him treats and tried charts. summer is coming and i know that once he's outside all day he'll definitely be too busy to tell me it's time to use the potty when he has to go, so i'd like for him to get started now. any ideas?

i try to make him sit so i can get him to 'accidentally' go in the potty, to get him excited. he knows exactly when he is going because he'll yell 'uh oh mommy' as soon as he starts, but by then it's too late for me to get him to the potty. as for poopy, i can tell exactly when he's gonna go but he often leaves the area so i can't see him if he doesn't feel like going over to his potty. i just don't know how he's seemed so ready for so long but now shows no desire to use the big boy potty. my mother in law is so pressuring that he's too old for diapers now that i feel like i'm failing every time he has an accident.

Answer 1

A little trick i used to interest my son in using the toilet was putting fruit loops or cheerios in the toilet and telling him to aim for them and sink them. He had fun and stopped peeing his pants at the same time. Also, when you potty train it is your job to put him/her on the toilet every 15 min to 30 min. That helps them further understand that pee and poo are supposed to go there. It is not easy potty training boys. I don't know about girls though.
Also another trick get a manila folder and draw his name on it get some stickers and every time he pees he gets a sticker. every time he poos he gets 2. Let him put them on so he feels involved praise him and just make the biggest deal out of it that you can. good luck!!!

Answer 2

I wouldn't have him in big boy underwear if I were you. He doesn't sound like he's ready for the potty. If you think about it, we essentially 'train' them to go in their pants and then try to reverse it when they are old enough to understand the idea of going in the potty but by that point THEY don't see the point.

Rather than having him sit on the potty every hour for 15 minutes, why don't you try it right after he eats and actually sit there until he does. I have to sit with my daughter every time and i don't let her get up until she has gone. When she does go, we clap and say YEA! I start her when she was 15 months and she is almost fully potty trained at 18 months. She has potties that go over the big potty seat and when she has to go, she runs into the bathroom and puts her potty on the big potty and then waits for me. I tickled her stomach to start with and when it made her pee, I clapped and hugged her making a really big deal out of it. Maybe if you sat with him- does he have books to read? My daughter loves sitting and reading while she goes.

Really, he'll be ready when he's ready. Rushing him will cause problems and perhaps resistance. Put him in pullups; they do have kinds that let the child know if they're wet or not, maybe those would work? Ask your child what it feels like right before he has to pee and then tell him that when he gets that feeling, to come and get you....

I'm just trying to help....good luck!

Answer 3

Okay as a mother of 2 boys one whom is 4 and one whom is 19 months. I stress this to you. BOYS ARE EXTREAMLY hard to potty train. My 4 year old wasn't comply potty trained until he was 3. He knew he should use the potty but again you can't spank or disapline a child into going to the potty. Try the pull ups that have cool feeling when he potties in his pants. Also elmo has a potty time with elmo. you might try that as well as some books on potty training. Make it fun and use the reward system. If he goes potty give him a car the hot wheels that way he knows he did a good job. Also get some suckers and at bath time if he has pottied like a big boy give him a sucker in the bath. If you have him on a pacifer TAKE IT AWAY. That made my son potty train in a weekend. So make potty time fun sign to him and if this doesn't work he is a boy he will let you know when he is ready. Trust me this is frustrating. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I have two girls and one boy. Potty training the boy was defiantly harder. I also started trying at about 2yrs. I wasn't very successful. I worked in a day care for 3 years and one thing that I learned is that boys are slower to develop the muscle control that is needed to "go". I was determined that my boy would be different, but he didn't really get it until he was almost 3. The thing that really worked for him was: I bought a clear container to put his favorite treat in, (he loved M& M's) so he could see all the colors. If he went potty I would give him 2 M&M's, he thought this was the greatest thing ever! Also, I did keep him in big boy underware during the day and used Pull-Ups for bedtime hours. I was in tears many days, just keep up what you're doing. He'll get it.

Answer 5

It sounds like he isn't really ready yet, if he doesn't tell you then it may be best to wait. With my son (currently potty training) I act very sad when he goes in his diaper and overly happy when he goes in the potty. But he tells me before (and sometimes after) he goes potty. Good luck and keep trying it will happen eventually.

Answer 6

I know it is very frustrating for you as a parent, but as a mom of 7, and my first was a boy, I can tell you, that it is best to let the child let YOU know when he is ready. Like you...I spent a lot of energy doing the same things to get him, and his sisters to use the potty. In the long run, it is better to just encourage gently. My philosophy was by gently encouraging, and letting them take their time, you have fewer "accidents".
Whenever you use the restroom, just ask your son if he needs to use it too. You will be surprised at how quickly it happens, and save you a lot of frustration.

Answer 7

Your son may not be truly ready to handle this on his own- I too tried too early and ended up waiting till my son told me he wanted to wear big boy underwear and no more pull ups - I had stopped asking him if he wanted to try and even stopped talking about it all together. Friends even suggested having a peer / cousin go in front of him - would have been helpful to have an age appropraite peer but we waited (he's 37 months old) and very glad we did because he gets so excited eac time now. Good Luck!

Answer 8

wow, he might not be ready. my son, who will be 2 in june, lets me know when he has a dirty diaper, but still won't go on the potty either. my mother told me that i wasnt really potty trained until i was three so i guess that my son's taking after me there...

Answer 9

he sits on the potty for 15 minutes out of every hour? thats a long time, wow, at this point i would not sit him on the potty unless he has to go, ask him through out the day, do you need to pee? do you have to use the potty? but i dont think i would want much to do with it if i had to sit on it for 15 minutes out of the hour

Answer 10

It's so unique for all children. The secret is to comply with their lead and assume that it would take a even as. Sometimes, if it is not going good, you have got to take a holiday and return to diapers altogether. Also, consider that once they are potty informed, they're going to most probably nonetheless have the occasional twist of fate. Oh, and being potty informed in the course of the day does not imply they are going to keep dry at night time both. With my oldest, we purchased a bit potty and began speakme approximately it round 20-22 months. However, we did not quite begin potty coaching till 26-27 months (after our summer time holidays had been over). She was once frequently potty informed via her third birthday, however persevered to have the occasional poop twist of fate till practically three one million/two. She additionally wasn't dry at night time till approximately four one million/two. My more youthful daughter peed at the potty for the primary time at 15 months. I persevered to place her in pull-united statesconsidering the fact that I figured she was once too younger to be real potty informed. On her 2d birthday, I discovered that she was once dry all day lengthy close to everyday, and I eventually switched her to lingerie. She was once dry at night time beginning round two one million/two. My son was once absolutely potty informed via his third birthday, however I can not consider once we began. He's now five one million/two and nonetheless demands pull-united states night time considering the fact that he hardly ever remains dry.