Potty training , what am I doing wrong ?

Question

I need some help on potty trainng my 2 year old son, he has just turned 2 ...I tried to prep him early by just doing little things , around 18 monhs old , when changing his diaper i would verbaly tell him what each diaper had in to let him reconize what he was doing in the diaper , for example if he peed i would say "pee pee " you went pee pee " if he pooped i would tell him "poopoo" you went poo poo ..I even let him watch me go pee before to help understand what the big toilet was for ,I tried yesterday to put him on the big toilette and he was fearful of it and cried , so i bought him a kiddy potty cahit and put it in the bath room , when i have to go to the bathroom , i say mommy has to go potty lets go potty , i sit on the toilette so he can watch me , then i put him on his mini potty chair and he will NOT go in it...He then walks around the hoosue clapping his hands saying eww gross peepoo, but when i check him he is clean , and when i put him on his potty chair he still wont go

Answer 1

",I tried yesterday to put him on the big toilette and he was fearful of it and cried , so i bought him a kiddy potty cahit and put it in the bath room " was yesterday your 1st day? These things do not happen over night. A childs mind should not just be ready for potty training, also his body. His bladder function might not even be fully developed. At age two he is most probably still too small.
If you really feel that he is ready, ( be sure else you will do more harm than good) 1st remember to be patient and do not expect results the 1st day. When he is on the potty, sit next to him, talk to him, read to him. entertain him, so that he sits on the potty for a short while, do this a couple of times a day. If he uses the potty celebrate as if you have just won the lotto. And this should also not be a once off celebration. keep in mind that it will take quite a wile before he is fully potty trained and will still have accidents on the way.

Answer 2

So far you are doing all the right things: introducing him early, teaching him the terminalogy, modeling the behaviour, routinely taking him to the washroom, but you need to keep your expectations in check. He's two, and while that's a great age to introduce potty skills, it won't happen over-night, in fact, it may take a whole year and you have no control over when he decides to take the plunge. Avoid pushing him too much or it will work against you.

I've learned to be the QUEEN of patients! My son is almost 3 1/2 yrs and we've been working on potty training since he was 2. He hated me medling with his diapers since birth so I thought he might like the potty. Not the case. Every little step he made towards potty training we rewarded and then raised the bar a little. M&M's got him to sit on the potty while a book kept him there. We have used stickers on a chart to encourage washing hands, flushing toilets, peeing (even if it was a chance occurance). Our biggest break thru is finding his true motivation: the movie Cars. He began initiating going to the bathroom on his own for any reward related to the movie. Now the trick is to stay dry. Before daycare, I've written on his diapers "Try To Stay Dry, Love Mom" with a smiley face and a sticker. He knows that if he comes home with this diaper dry he will get a big reward: a model car (also from the movie). He's come so close and has been a little sad when it hasn't happened but we've always stayed positive and remind him he can try again tomorrow.

Other tools that helped: potty book (one for you, one for him), training pants (at Walmart, Toys-r-Us, Sears)-- NOT pull-ups...expensive and ineffective. I also got a video and while he likes it, I don't think impacted his learning.

Answer 3

I have 2 children my oldest is a girl I had her potty trained before age 1, my son is 3 and I just now got him almost completely potty trained (allowing for the occcasional accident). He started when he was 2 then all the sudden wouldn't go. Unfortunately boys take a little longer but all you can do is keep trying. The main thing is don't get angry, your son will get to the point where he doesn't like the whole diaper thing. Reward him for at least trying and be patient. It gets frustrating. My son would say "I peed, change me", at that point I decided to take his pull ups away completely. It was rough for the first couple days but once he figured out he didn't want his clothes to be wet and pee running down his little leg and taking 5 baths a day he decided to start using the potty. I just keep telling him now what a good boy he is when he goes to the potty and so far it's working. Good Luck, I know it's hard.

Answer 4

The truth is that your child will want to use the potty or big toilet. Some day. Maybe not as soon as you'd like, but it will happen. Your child has to be both physically and emotionally ready to use the potty. No matter how much you want it to happen, it's really up to your child. Toddlers learn to use the potty between two and four years old. If that span seems old to you, keep in mind that it's not until the ages of eighteen months to twenty -four months that toddlers recognize what it feels like when they have to go pee or poop. Before this time, these bodily functions just sort of magically happen to them

Answer 5

It took me over a year to potty train my son. It's just an issue that takes time. He will do it when he is ready but you do need to keep trying. I started potty training at 2 years old and he was over 3 before he was fully trained. I tried using a sticker chart, giving him treats when he went and what finally did it was putting a candy dish on the counter and after he went potty and washed his hands, he got to pick out a candy for his efforts. Even if he sits on the potty and doesn't do anything, praise his efforts! Good Luck!

Answer 6

He may be just a bit young yet. Kids are ready to be potty trained at different ages. I started trying to train my first at that age and made absolutely no progress for a year. I had her trained when she was three. I think I could have saved myself a lot of extra work if I had waited a few months.

Answer 7

i've got effectively potty experienced 3 young ones, yet have waited til they have been all a minimum of two...my son became right into somewhat later than that even. it ought to easily be somewhat early for him to totally understand, plus boys tend to be particularly weird and wonderful approximately poop besides...all my friends have got here upon this with our boys. What I did with all of mine however became into elect some days in a row that we ought to be staying domicile, an stored them fairly lots bare from the waist down...this helps them sense what is going on. Then, I set a timer for each 30 minutes, and that they've been given an m&m each and every time they tried, whether they did no longer pass. 2 m m in the event that they went! interior the commencing up there have been various injuries, yet I in simple terms skipped over injuries (no compliment) and easily made a popular deal whilst they went on the potty. Then, i did no longer pass returned to diapers or pull united statesa. all (different than for napping)...whether that they had lots of injuries. i've got faith that pull united statesare perplexing...they are particularly in simple terms like a diaper, and that they'd desire to sense themselves all moist whilst they have an accident. sturdy success!

Answer 8

My mother use to tell me that when they are to be potty trained it wasn't hard to train them. When I had my second child, she changed her mine. I had a hard time potty training my second child compared to my first child. I think a lot of it has to do with the training panties they have now. 20 yrs. ago when my first child was little we had cloth panties and they could tell the difference between diapers and panties. Now a days the child can not tell the difference. With my second child, she was almost 3yrs.old before I finally got her broke completely. I finally went and bought some little panties and told her that she was a big girl. At first she had accidents, but it didn't take long before she was broke.

Answer 9

does he go poo at a regular time? Like always after breakfast or something? If he does, work on training for poo first. After he finishes his breakfast.....or whenever his time is. Sit him on his potty. Be prepared to be there for a while. Even if it takes hours...spend the time reading, looking at pictures, singing songs, until he goes. Then make a big deal about it (Oh boy! You went poo poo! Your such a big boy!) Do it for a couple days until he realizes that is what he is supposed to do.

Answer 10

It would probably help to have a man try to train him. My son was potty trained while on a long car trip. We told him to pee on trees and bushes and stuff on the way. We made it fun for him.