any advice on potty training?
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Every child is different, but here's my experience with my two girls (boys are a bit different) ... I'm a father of 3yr old twin girls. They showed a little interest in toilets when they were 18 months old, so we were thrilled that we might have them out of diapers early. Such was not the case. They preferred to use their diapers and we decided not to make a big deal about it. Quite a while later we started to talk about 'being big girls' and how that included 'big girl panties'. We just continued to have these kinds of conversations now and then until they decided that they wanted to be big girls. It was pretty much a quick adjustment. Every time they went to their potty we would just make a HUGE deal about it .. call each other over, hugs & kisses & clapping. That was the only 'rewards' we used. I think my wife and I must have been quite a sight hopping around the bathroom! It became a fun game for my girls and they would often try to race each other to see who could 'go on the potty' first. We kept them in diapers at night for another couple of months. They both had a couple accidents during the day and night, but not too many and not for too long.
So, from my experience, Don't Worry too much about it. Don't do any of the negative stuff .. I don't see how it's really productive, and it seems just a bit on the mean side, to me. It never really made sense to me, Why make your children feel bad? or uncomfortable? or dirty?
They _will_ learn .. just let them do it on their own time with lots of encouraging words and actions from you
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I started singing to my daughter while she was sitting on the potty it relaxed her enough to go she had more stage fright then fear though
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Your son has an issue that cannot be resolved
while you are using the toilet put them on the potty but use air freshener before you start in your going to dodo. Don't' knock them out lol
try allowing them to do it on there own time or reward them when they do go
you have to start with peeing...make a game of it. Sprinkle a few cheerios in the bowl, and have him play"sink the battleships". After he is used to doing that the rest will be easy, cause he will have learned nothing is going to hurt him
Leave them on the toilet until they go. Give them some ice cream or something useful for a kid as soon as they are done using it. Its kind of like giving a dog a treat. ;)
If you can afford it, you can buy some musical potties. You can make your child sit on it even when they don't need to with their pants on. That way, they will not be afraid of it any more.
My son would not use a potty chair he had to use the "big boy Potty" I also had to put cheerios in the toilet and tell him to aim for the cheerios. Just be careful so he doesn't try to catch the cheerios to eat them. Also my son gets a kick out of the bubbles he makes. When I first started potty training he was scared of fallin in so I sat him on the toilet backwards so he was facing the tank and then he was just fine with it. Good Luck!
YOu can try getting a small potty with a character that he likes ie. Thomas, Bob the Builder, Diego
When he has to use the potty make it a game. Reward him with stickers to fro example go into the bathroom, pulling his pants down, sittign on the potty, wiping, flushing the toilet, pulling up pants, washing hands. Every step it takes to successfully go to the bathroom you reward. Make the new potty more inviting for him so he feels comfortable. Add soem book or toys in there at first so he can get comfortable with the idea. Hope this helps. My three year was potty trained at two and I used that method with her.
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Been there. No more pee pee on the carpet.!!!
I put a small piggy bank in the bathroom and everytime my foster child goes to the potty, I give him a penny. He then puts the penny in the piggy bank. I told him he can go to the store with his money once he fills the piggy bank up. This seems to be working and is the only thing that has worked at all.
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First your son is afraid of the toilet because you or someone let him see it get flushed.!!!!!!!!!!! Now the other thing is he has to be completely off the bottle including a pacifier. Than it will be fine. To relieve him of his fear of the toilet, sit him on a training potty until he is able to tell you he has to go. Them he will slowly adjust to the toilet.
Well first you need to learn how to sit on it. Then you wait, it may take some time but boredom or your most recent Cherry Coke will almost certainly happen. Try not to occupy yourself with other tasks, such as doing the crossword or watching TV. Make sure the potty is on an even surface (there's nothing worse than falling over mid-strain) Remember to remove your underwear first (the only thing worse is when someone puts cling-film over the toilet) Remember to empty out liquids (commonly known as taking the piss) You'll be there in no time!!
There is a book "Toilet Training in Less than a Day" by Nathan Azrin. Dr. Phil recommends it.
10 years ago I had a copy that got passed around our playgroup till everyone had the mission accomplished.
Good luck!
Hope you have tile and not wall to wall!
Poor little guy. You really have to put yourself in his perspective. There is a thing that is half your size that seems to suck everything near it down a little hole, never to be seen again. It may just be that he isn't quite ready. One fear a lot of little kids have is that they will get sucked down. So you need to explain to him that he won't fit down that little hole. Another thing is that they might think that their pee or poop is part of them. It seemed to make my son feel better when we talked about how his body didn't need those things anymore and that it was good for his body to get rid of them. We also did stickers and pee pee targets to help the whole thing seem more fun. My experience has been that kids will go when they are ready and that trying too hard before then (up to a point...like 5 years old or something!) is a waste of time and effort. Good luck!
I'm almost completely done training my 3rd son in 6 years(I feel like a pro). I understand completely where you are coming from, because 2 of my 3 sons have had a "pooping phobia". They were scared to death to go on the toilet and would do crazy things like cross their legs to hold it all in, hide, and hold their breath. I had to let go of the idea that they were ready, because I thought they were ready. Instead, we totally stopped training all together for 2 weeks. Don't mention it or make any reference to it. Then one day just start up again. I embraced the element of surprise and it seemed to work for us. We also had to do somethings like setting on the toilet for 20 seconds, getting off, and then praising..."thank you so much for sitting on the toilet, you did a great job." Increase the time each day and then they gradually become more comfortable with the idea. I hope some of this helps. Just know that every child is different and you know your child best. It's hard to be patient when you are tired of changing diapers isn't it?!
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