If you can, can you explain what you did to get him trained? And if you have more than 1 son I guess just answer the poll for your first born and then post how you did it with all of them! Thanks everyone, I posted a question asking about potty training my 16 month old boy and I was suprised everyone said that was too young so I'm just curious. Bump please!
Naked. No pullups, no diapers. Use cotton undies if you don't care for the bare butt look. But DO NOT use pullups. At the outset, I plied him with koolaid(juice is fine, but a treat type works better). All morning. Then every 20 minutes I had pee pee patrol. Gotta potty? Gotta potty? He said no, then peed his pants. That's the teaching moment. "Oh you peed your pants, let wash them & get dry ones. Next time pee in the potty". by the following afternoon he knew what 'Potty' 'Pee' and 'poop' meant and that he didn't want any of it running down his leg.
Some moms even said I was going to give him a complex(??) I wasn't planning on sticking him on the potty and holding a stick over him until he peed LOL I think I've decided to wait though because in May I am moving back to the States for a while to have this baby there, and I don't want to train him to move him and make such big changes and have it all go out the window. Last time I tried to put him on the potty he screamed and was quite upset so he isn't quite ready.
GL with your DS you must be such a patient woman, I admire you!
Quoting mommasbabies77:
My ds is 6 and still potty training. Obviously, he is disabled and delayed. But, I just wanted to say that age shouldn't be a factor but rather if he show signs of being ready. Gl.
They both showed signs of readiness when they were 15 months, but I did not train them until after they were two, probably around 2.5. They would randomnly go on the potty, but the older one was in daycare and they could not follow through with potty training there so I never bothered at that time. He would potty if he asked to. Then after two we did the sticker chart and little rewards.
My poor second little child basically potty trained himself, I was not ready yet to go out without a diaper. He decided that he no longer needed diapers and was trained overnight and with nap time as well, all due to great bladder control. He was naked a lot, he still is
We let them freely into the bathroom while we use the potty and they learned that is where big people go. They were easy to potty train. If you train early changes are pretty good that they relapse or that it takes much longer to potty train them fully
my son was potty trained two months before he turned 3.
i got rid of the pull-ups all together and just made him wear regular underwear. i set a timer for 30 mins and every time it went off, i took him potty. if he didn't go, then we would go every 5 mins until he went. then it was back to every 30.
day 2 i set the timer for every 45 and did the same thing as day 1.
day 3 we did the same thing, but the timer was set for every hour.
by the end of day 3, he was SOMETIMES telling me if he needed to go sooner. yes, we did have accidents, but throughout the week, they got fewer and fewer.
good luck!
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My oldest son wasn't potty trained until 2.5 years old. My husband had been really wanting me to start around 18 months. But Conner wasn't ready. The thing that worked for him was that he started to pee standing up and hasn't had an accident since. Going #2 was soon after. We haven't started training Gavin yet. He's only 20 months now.
My son is 6 and he REFUSED to give up diapers till almost 6. he is almost 7 now. He showed potty readiness signs at about 2ish. which we followed through with encouraging him and what not. he knew what to do before he was 3. but simplyREFUSED it became a power struggle. SIGH. in the end HE decided he was ready to give them up.
I want to see what other mothers have done. We are trying potty training with our 2 year old son. We just started last week. He will pee in the toilet almost every time we put him on it, but he hasn't quite got that the toilet should be the ONLY place he pees. He's also refusing to poop in the toilet.
I wouldn't even try to potty train ANY child until they were dry all night for a period of time. With my oldest son, he had daytime control, however, by just over 3 years, but the MINUTE he fell asleep, he'd start peeing, it seemed, and would wake up swimming in his own urine... THAT didn't resolve itself until he was nearly 4.
My youngest son, however, he was SO easy! He'd been dry at night for at least a month when he turned 3 on June 16, 2006. So we got him a potty chair. He looked at it and said, "No thank you". So we just left it there... moved it into the living room, even... thinking maybe he was just too "busy"... NO interest. SO, in the name of not fighting and fussing about it, which is ALWAYS the best way... I just left him alone about it.
On November 22, 2003, at 5:15 pm, he was on the couch performing "The Andy Show" for us while dinner was cooking, and all of a sudden, he went, "I GOTTA POOP!!!!!" and he ran down the hall to the bathroom, stripping off EVERY stitch of clothing he was wearing, dropping a dry diaper just inside the bathroom door, used his potty chair as a step to get on the big toilet, and did his thing. Asked for a little help wiping his butt off, got down, and said, "Can I wear big boy underwears now?" And we've never had an accident, and there was no frustration for ANY of us.
The moms who say they potty trained their child by putting them on a toilet every X number of minutes, that's not potty training a child, that's potty training YOU. If you have to ask constantly, "You have to go potty?" "Do you need to go to the restroom?" "How about we try to go potty again?" anytime other than when you're leaving the house for a period of time where a bathroom may not be available, or just before bedtime... your CHILD is not toilet trained, YOU are... I mean, really.
I know the desire to get a kid out of diapers is strong. But it does not make your child better than anyone else's to have him or her toilet trained by the time they're 3 minutes old. Nobody cares. You've never heard someone announced on a television show, "Now, our next guest is Bob Smith! Bob is best known for being completely out of diapers by the time he was 18 months old! Let's give it up for BOB!"
The less fussing and fighting about it, the better. There are so many other things to stress about with kids... why make a basic bodily function be one of them.
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