Help in potty training...?

Question

My son just turned 2 last week and when he wakes up in the morning he always has no diaper on, and he fights with me when I have to put a clean one on him. Is this a sign that he's ready for a potty chair? I also have 2 other children, but they never pulled off their diapers so this is diaper pulling off thing is all new to me.

Answer 1

Being able to remove his own diaper is not a reliable sign he is ready for potty training, but it could be for him. It more likely reflects his pride at learning a new skill, especially delightful to him is the reaction it gets from you. You can try a few tricks I have used to keep a diaper on a child. The most successful one is to put the diaper on backwards so the tape/velcro is at the back of the diaper. Very hard to reach, but some kids do figure it out if they are determined enough. A little piece of duct tape over the diaper tapes can help, too. If he is mostly doing this in the morning, but not throughout the day, it is likely he is waking up and simply finding something to entertain himself with before you come and get him out of bed. It's actually a good thing that a child knows how to entertain himself, but give him some other things to do in his crib, such as a few books or a couple favorite toys. He is fighting you to put a clean diaper on because he just spent all that time getting one off. Another thing you can do is put a pair of training pants or big boy underwear on over the top of his diaper when he goes to bed at night. This will give him one more thing to figure out how to get off plus will give him the benefit of practicing an important skill needed when he is ready to potty train. Adding a onesie t-shirt (you can put that on backwards, too) under his pajamas will also give him another thing he has to figure out how to get passed to get to his diaper. If he manages to get past all your tricks and still get the diaper off, he is one smart cookie. If he does that, I'd accept his resource-fullness at getting what he wants and prepare yourself for life with a strong-willed child. More reliable signs a child is ready to begin potty training are he wakes up dry from a nap (my personal benchmark), has a vocabulary that includes words for urine, bowel movement, and toilet, and shows an interest in what goes on when others go to the bathroom.

Answer 2

Wow, that's odd.
But I think you should start potty training. I think this may be a sign that he doesn't want to be a baby, and wear a diaper anymore. Or he's starting his terrible two's and rebelling you. But I'm pretty sure you should start the potty with him.
My son is 2 1/2 And he almost is clean. So, this would be a good time for starting. :)
-London

Answer 3

Pulling off the diaper can be an indicator but the real sign to look for is bladder control. This means that you can say to your son, "go pee" when he has been dry for awhile, and he will go for you. If kids do not have bladder control, parents are just creating a stressful situation. My son wanted to be independent when it came to potty training. He did not want to use a floor potty and he did not want to be lifted to the toilet. What worked for him is The Potty Stool http://www.thepottystool.com This stool makes every toilet kid- sized. It really helped my children to have a SAFE and sturdy way for them to get to the toilet on their own. I like that this stool cuts potty training in half by eliminating the potty chair. This stool made all the difference for my kids. I hope this helps you.

Answer 4

You could try potty training him now, my son will be 3 in 2 weeks and he is finailly potty trained. I have been trying for at least 6 months if not more. He was one of those babies that liked to take there diapers off, and not wear one. My challange was getting him to wear underwear. Good Luck!

Answer 5

YES! be thankful you get this sign from him. Start him in regular undies right away "big boy" undies. Wake up and take him to the potty in the middle of the night. Also make a HUGEEEEEEEE deal out of him keeping dry. Rewards, rewards, rewards. Congrats. IF you think you need to go to pull ups before regular undies...don't call them "big boy" undies. Then when he does go to "big boy" undies make it a HUGE deal.

Answer 6

it could be, maybe he doesnt like the feeling of the diaper especially when its all wet. try to potty train him and see if he wants to go to the toilet instead. good luck

Answer 7

It really isn't a sign that he wants to be potty trained, but if the diaper is wet, it is a good reason to start the potty training. It means that he is now at the intelligence age of knowing that he has wet pants on and he takes them off because he doesn't like the feel. That is a good opportunity to start the training and the best way out there now is to get those pull up's that actually give him a signal that he is wetting his pants. When you do start the training, check his schedule of wetting his pants. Every bladder has its own letdown cycle. If you can pinpoint how long it takes his bladder to fill, then you can teach him a whole lot easier how to learn the feeling of having a full bladder and when to go empty it. When I trained my girls, I had them both trained in 2 weeks by doing that method and also by example. Since he is a boy, the best way is to let your husband train him. If you have a girl, then mommy trains her. Every time the mommy goes potty, she puts her daughter on her own potty like I did with mine and she learns by example. When mommy goes tinkel, she gets up and look in her potty and says "Good Mommy." Within no time, the daughter will be trained to do the same thing. Every time daddy goes potty, he takes his son and teaches him how to go potty and says 'Good Daddy' and in no time the son learns by example. They learn by example with everything else we teach them. Why not learning to go potty by example, which is a perfectly natural thing to learn. It worked with my girls. Also, do not give rewards or treats for going potty and do not punish if they go in their pants while you are training them. Every childs ability to learn is different and eventually his brain will catch on and he will basically teach himself. The best reward it to praise him and hug him when he does go in the potty and if he has an accident, tell him that is ok. He is just learning and he will learn it fine in no time. And, please do not get upset with him if he has an accident even as much as in the 3rd and 4th grade ages. There is a condition that effects 1 in 100 kids that keeps their bladders from maturing until they reach puberty for some reason. I had two brothers with that problem. It has something also to do with their sleep cycle abilities conecting with their immature bladders, so my mom would just wake up my brothers in the night until they could set their own alarm clocks and wake themselves up to go potty about half way through the night. My one brother had to be awakened twice in order to make it through so the last person in our house to go to bed would get him up for the first time and then his alarm clock was set for 4 am for the second time. It worked and he grew out of it. Children will actually teach themselves when their bladders are mature enough but we like to speed up the process ourselves for our own convenience. That is perfectly fine as long as we don't 'push' potty training on them and get them all stressed out. Then they will fight you about it and deliberately go in their pants. Good luck.

Answer 8

Its the sign yes.