Why has my son stopped telling me when he needs to go potty?

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  • MommyTails
  on Aug. 14, 2009 at 10:38 AM

• We are having that same problem!

  

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  • luvinitmom07
  on Aug. 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM

• I just made a similar post called backfired...so keep checking my post as well in case I get any advice!!!
  

  
  

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  • SarahR6
  on Aug. 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM

• Thanks to both of you for your replies.  At the very least, it's a bit of a relief to know that my son is not the only one who started doing this.  Oh, and luvinitmom07, thanks for the FYI about your post.  I'll definitely be checking to see if you get any advice as well :-)

     

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  • mom2aprincess
  on Sep. 11, 2009 at 12:26 AM

• This started happening with my 2 yr old DD last week.  She has been day and night trained for the last 2-3 months using the 3 day method and doing great.  She would always tell us when she had to go and did go outside of the house too.  But now she stopped telling me she has to go and I will have to tell her to go cause she starts twisting her legs and dancing around.  Come to find out she wet her panties a little and does the rest on the potty.  I am confused as to why this is happening and how to stop it and get her back on track.  Her motivation for training was stickers and candy.

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  • Andrewsmom70
  on Sep. 11, 2009 at 5:37 PM

• My son did this a few weeks after using the 3 day method but he was only wetting himself about once a day.  We were out of our normal schedule thanks to two weeks around Christmas going to visit relatives and that sort of thing and I think that's what got him out of whack.  What I did to get him back on track totally was to do a new reward (different than I had done originally during training) and ended the day with an extra reward for going all day without having any messes.  It took about a week to break the habit and get him back trained totally.

  Has anything changed at home at all, even if it's a good change (work schedules changed, other family members at home more or less than usual, move, sickness, etc.)?

  You can always try only giving a reward when he tells you ahead of time that he needs to go, even if there's a small spot of pee in his underwear before he realizes he needs to go.

  
  
  
  

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  • emlove240
  on Sep. 28, 2009 at 5:25 PM

• my daughter who is 2 does the same thing, I dont know what to do.

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  • ElizaDaniels
  on Oct. 8, 2009 at 12:35 AM

• I am curious.  I have seen the title "three day training method" several times when reading these posts.  What is the three day training method?  Also I have noticed that everyone who mentions it (that I have noticed) says that it went great for a few days up to a week and then... Poof!  They kid is back to not going where he or she is supposed to be going.

  I do not know if this will help anyone or not but my two year old son  is fully potty trained, and I did not use any "method"  I started taking him to the potty around 24 months old.  He would scream terrified of sitting on the toilet.  I would try two or three times a week, but nothing doing.  He would not go on the toilet.  So around 26 months I purchased a potty chair from Wal Mart for $17.  It had a cushy seat; the seat could be removed and put on the big potty, and the potty chair itself became a step stool.  For two weeks I worked with him sitting on the potty chair, and he went every time.  I would give him lots of praise.  He completely stopped pooping on himself after two days., but still had accidents peeing. After two weeks, I started putting the seat on the toilet. At first, he did not want to sit up there still, but I made a game out of it.  After one month he was running to the potty on his own.  He would climb up on the step stool (former potty chair) and be sitting on the toilet before I could get to him to aid him.  He is now 34 months old and rarely ever has an accident.  He can not stand to feel wet or dirty down there.  He will even poop with out my knowledge on the toilet, but when he gets down he grabs the toilet paper and brings it to me and says "Mama, ipe, my bobbum."  I am realizing that I have a rare gift here.  We do not use pull ups or diapers any more at all.  I stopped buying the, when I bought the potty chair.  One thing I noticed about them though: I still had some left over in the beginning of the training, and if I put one on him he woulduse it.  It was like he was thinking "hey that is what it is for!" I do not know what was going through his mind, but I would suggest never using using diapers or pull ups if they can be avoided, especially during the day.  Because maybe all kids are just so used to it being the thing they do that when they are put on them again the kid thinks it is ok to use it.  I mean that is what they were using before we put them up on the big shiny white porcelain throne right?  I do not know.  Just a thought.  Good luck all you moms having so much trouble. 

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  • Andrewsmom70
  on Oct. 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM

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  Quoting ElizaDaniels:
  
  

  I am curious.  I have seen the title "three day training method" several times when reading these posts.  What is the three day training method?  Also I have noticed that everyone who mentions it (that I have noticed) says that it went great for a few days up to a week and then... Poof!  They kid is back to not going where he or she is supposed to be going.

  Nope, that's not totally true about the 3 day method.  The biggest key to ANY potty training is consistancy.  Most times parents are crazy consistant during the first 3 days of the 3 day potty training process and then parents get less consistant and that might be the problem where kids regress a little.  But with ANY changes in a child's life, some of them do need more than just 3 days.  However, most people that truly do the 3 day method, being as consistant as possible, end up seeing a HUGE differences within the 3 days.

  There are tons of links all over this board with info about the 3 day method in them. :-)

  
  
  
  

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  • Mom2Just1
  on Nov. 6, 2009 at 6:35 PM

• I really dont know.  My son no longer tells when he has to go because he just sits on the potty and goes.  I did not use the 3 day method because we chose to wait for him to be fully ready and tell us.  Be consistence might be the problem.  However I really dont know because my son's potty training was all him with my husband and I praising along the way.  Good Luck! He will get it and all kids are different. 

  Just because we become parents, does not mean we stop being husband and wife.  That is our secret to our happily,ever after.
  

  
  

  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  
  

   

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  • Desiree030
  on Nov. 10, 2009 at 8:14 PM

• what is the 3 day method?
  

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