My son is 2 and half years old and he refuces to use potty.?

Question

He doesn't even sit on it and needs a diaper to go potty.When we stopped using diaper for 2 days, he used urinate here and there on the carpet and it looks like he still doesn't know when he needs to use tiolet. How can we get him potty trained. We need to send tohim to some preschool by March and we need to get him potty trained before that. Is there any videos or anything that could help him to develop an interest to get potty trained?

Answer 1

Our son was still in diapers when he turned four back in March. We tried everything!!!!!! But he just wouldn't use the potty. And we were in the same boat...he would start pre-school this past August and needed to be potty trained. Our end result was actually letting him run naked around the house. He never went on the carpet so he started peeing in the potty.

The next chore was #2. That was a nightmare!!!!! If he said he had to poo-poo...my wife and I would drop what we were doing and sit in the bathroom with him (longest time was 1 hour). This went on and on until he actually went one day. We had bought a bunch of hotwheels in a thrift store and would reward him every time he did it. Since then...no accidents at all!!!!

Now...our 20 month old daughter is a different story. She started telling us she was wet a couple of months ago and actually uses the "potty chair" once in awhile. Gonna be a lot easier with her. Point is...every kid is different!!

Answer 2

Don't stress. Boys are hard to potty train, my son didn't get it until he was almost three years old. We too were in a delemia. We needed to start him in a preschool (3 year old program) and we were worried. He just made it! I'm surprised that a school would expect a 2 year old to be totally potty trained, many are not by that age, esp boys. The truth is, he just may not be ready. Kids are different, some potty train earlier than others. Just so you don't think I am slack at potty training, my daughter was totally potty trained at 18 months! Does he tell you when he is wet/soiled or does he wake up dry in the morning? Keys to being ready. Take him to the store and let him help pick out the "big boy" pants that he wants to wear (you know, does he like spiderman, or superman?, they sell so many hero type undies for little ones!). Then tell him that he needs to use the potty and not wet his big boy pants. Take him to the bathroom every hour at first, and then you can slowly increase that. Praise him when he goes, maybe keep some M&M's or a favorite cereal in the bathroom and give him one or two as a treat for doing a good job! They sell a type of target on toilet paper for boys to hit! It makes it more fun for them to use the potty. I know there will be accidents at first, but you can't continue to revert back to diapers. If you catch him urinating on the carpet/places he shouldn't, let him know that the behavior disappoints you and that you thought he was a big boy. Then, no matter, take him to the bathroom immediately and put him on the potty. He'll eventually get the message. Good Luck! btw: The procedure mentioned above is the Fox-Azure procedure (taking drinks into the bathroom and giving fluids until they have to go -that's the basic idea, there's more to the method), it really doesn't work well with most kids. We tried it where I worked with some of our clients, and it bombed out. It tired out the staff and the clients, and was unsuccessful. It may work for a few, but won't for the majority, and believe me, will tire you out! Don't use the Fox-Azure method.

Answer 3

I am 18 and have a 2 year old brother who we are trying to potty train... He know he is supposed to use the potty but he gets lazy sometimes and he will even say i lazy when you ask him why he went in his pull up.. we actually bought a seat you put on the big potty and a step stool and he was using it for a while to go #2 but he still peed in his pull up so we found a urinal like you would in a mens restroom at walmart in the infant and toddler section it was like 39.94. He is so happy now he will actually use it and just letting your two year old run around in the nude does nothing..It just m,ake him think he can go where ever. You could go to a store that cators to teacher and get a chart and when he does what he supposed he can get a sticker and then at the end of the week treat him to something..like a new truck or something. Have you tried pull up also the have pictures on the fronts that fade when wet and cameron ( my brother) would run to the potty to not make the pictures dissapear.

Answer 4

I relate with you, my 2nd son is almost 3 & still in diapers. It's frustrating and messy, but if you put him in underwear and try taking him to the potty frequently then he'll (eventually) learn. I have been trying pull-ups and that's not working, but I think underwear are better during the day. I have to take him every 30 minutes or he has accidents.

I also reward him with an M&M candy... 1 peice for sitting down & trying, 2 for peeing, 3 for pooping. I have another son, he's about 5 so I give him candy too and say that he's a good big brother for helping mommy potty-train his brother. This makes him encourage his little brother to go frequently too! This way it's OK to stop playing.

There's several books out there, some make flushing noises, but it really hasn't helped me. Just watching mom, dad & brother run to the potty seems to make more sense for my son. Good luck with whatever works for you.

Answer 5

My son was 3 by the time he was potty trained. He's in preschool and when he moved up to the 3's classroom and saw the other kids going potty something clicked and he started going potty on his own!
He didn't want anything to do with the potty before that! Good luck!

Answer 6

We are in the process of potty training our twin boys and the best advice I can give is that if they don't want to do it they won't! This is particularly frustrating for adults who want children to understand the importance of being toilet trained - but for my boys they initially saw it as something to take them away from playing.

What we discovered was that neither boys wanted to use a potty they wanted to use the "big toilet" - so I bought these little steps with a toilet seat that fits on a standard toilet. We also made a big fuss of buying "big boy pull-ups". And we started a system where every time they did used the toilet they could put a sticker on a chart I made.

These days they are still not quite at the telling us stage when they need to use the toilet but they do hold on and usually are dry during the day. And thankfully we don't need to use stickers anymore.

Hope this helps,
mum2MH

Answer 7

Same problem here. Our solution? Elmo's Potty Time DVD, big boy underwear in his favorite character/cars and a Peter Potty. http://www.visionaireproducts.com/
Then, we took the pressure off of him and didn't even bring it up. Within a couple months, he was potty trained. It was the best money we've ever spent. I'm cheap, but it's still cheaper then another years worth of diapers/pull ups! Good Luck!

Answer 8

If you make this a big issue, it will be all that much harder. Back off for a week or two then - in a low key way - try again.

One thing that appealed to my son's sense of the absurd was letting him "aim and shoot" at cheerios I tossed into the toilet. He was happy to go to the potty when we did that. It took a bribe to get him to use the potty for defecating. Told him if he used the potty for 1 week he could go to his favorite toy store and choose a toy. We used stars on a chart to mark every day he used the potty. Two weeks later we had that trip to the toy store and except when he got ill, we never had to look back.

Answer 9

My sister read this in a book and to me it sounds more like a torture tactic for the parent than a learning tool for the kid but it worked!
Bear with me here...
Pack a cooler with drinks and snacks. Maybe a sandwich. Grab some books, coloring books, crayons, pillows, blankets. Whatever you need to make this a little more comfortable and a clock. Go into the bathroom and shut the door. Take off the kids diaper and wait. When he looks like he has to pee pee, put him on the potty. Hold him there if you have too. When he does finally go in the potty give him a prize. The book says to not come out for 5 hours but my sister did it for 3.

I made a sticker chart for my son. He got a sticker for telling Mommy or Daddy he had to go, one for being neat and clean, one for wiping, one for washing his hands, one for drying his hands. When he got all his stickers he got a prize.

Good luck!

Answer 10

My son grew to become 3 final month. We started out his potty coaching in July. He took to it suited off the bat. We went right this moment from diapers to undies. i become informed that youngsters do extra effective that way. they might sense right this moment whilst they have an accident and don't like it. I did have him placed on a diaper on an identical time as snoozing yet after some weeks with dry diapers each morning I went to undies at night too. I enable him %. out his undies and we went with a potty seat so he can take it whilst traveling family contributors. He has only had 3 injuries in view that he started out and a couple of of those have been in the 1st few weeks. stable success.