potty training tips (for my son ; not me!)?
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Get some underwear with his favorite action hero on them and tell him that his hero doesn't like to be wet. He can only wear his special underwear if he promises to use the potty. Then when he successfully uses the potty, have some sort of reward - like a favorite game or keep a chart with stickers on the fridge. When he uses the potty for three days he gets to go to the zoo or something special.
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Put some Cheerios in the toilet and let him hit them,,,, it becomes a game he will want to play....
I'd say, try to bribe him to going to the potty, example,"if you start using the potty more we can.. play hide and go seek! or watch the wiggles together!" or whatever he likes. and tell him he is bad if he goes in his diaper or whatever he is using.
PS: it takes alot of patients
Cheerios put them in the potty and tell him to aim at the target. it worked with my son
Tie it in a knot and only let him wee when he unties it sitting on the potty.
ok i no it sounds dumb but a friend of mine took a piece of cereal and gave it to her lil boy and told him to throw it in the toilet and aim for that piece of cereal it works try it!!!
Buy about 10 HotWheels cars,put them in a bag and let him choose a car to have when he goes potty.
Well I'm not sure if its the greatest idea but it has worked for me...You can get him a potty chair and try to find a video of potty training one that is full of cartoons or something really cute not boring and set him in front of the t.v well..not Right in front and just make a game of it and tI'mes you can ask him every hour or so say do you need to go potty and set him on the potty chair,im sure there's all kinds of tips out there in books and video just gotta look...hope you find what helps,good luck,sometimes they catch on quickly and others takes alot longer,they will do it when there ready..lol....My daughter did it quicker then my son.....he was 3 before he completely went on his own but he was sure trying,just takes time.
Wow, good luck. I am still working on potty training my three year old son. He will go number one on the potty but not number two. All the advise that I have gotten said to set a timer for 20 minutes and every time it goes off go to the potty. Turn potty time into story time. Then keep a sticker chart. When the chart is full he gets something like a toy or something special. This should work. The only reason it didn't completely work for me is because I started to late because of family reasons. (A death in the family) This plan has worked for everyone that I know.
Make a chart for him and put stars on the times when he uses the toilet. Then give him a prize after a week.
I trained my son in one week using this method when he was eleven months old. Every morning when he gets up, put him on the toliet backwards. He should be facing the wall with his hands able to reach the top of the toliet tank. Put a book, toys or what ever he likes to play with there to keep him entertained. He will eventually urinate or defecate when he does clap and praise him. Let him flush the toliet while he is still seated and watch the water go down with him so he understands that he will not be going down with the water. Repeat this process about every two hours for the next two or three days. At the end of the third day he should be wanting to get up on the toliet without you. Never use food as a treat for doing this task well, DON"T YELL OR HIT HIM FOR MISSING OR NOT DOING THE TASK , have fun with this, different toys or a new book is a good idea. Why this method works, children have a fear of falling into a toliet or being flushed down the toliet, with this method they feel secure, the toys distract them and they can let the sphincter muscles relax, which must happen for any of us to void or defecate. Good luck and do be happy with the child. You will not regret it.
The best advice my doctor ever told me about pt for boys was to let them in when their father went to the bathroom. He said that children learn from example. It worked real well. My son pt trained himself easily enough.
The other thing I learned was that when children don't have control over many things in their life, they grasp ahold of things they can control. Even ones as little as two. If they are given choices about a few things then they seem to pt a lot better. If they don't have many choices they will use the power they have to control their bodily functions, such as learning to pt.
What kinds of choices can a two-year old make you may wonder. There are many, they can chose to sit in a high chair or at the table with a booster, they can chose to color or read, they can chose which toy to play with, they can chose to nap on the couch or in their bed, (i always liked that suggestion, as I learned that even though it was there choice where, it was my boundry that they have a nap. It made a win-win situation.) if you look at the child's life, you can see that there are many ways to give the child choices, then when the child feels content that he is growing, he wants to get bigger and do things big kids do.
I want to add a bit of motherly advice, it is never ok to shame the child because he/she may advance at a slower rate than the nieghbor kid. The worst thing you can do for a child's self-esteem is to shame them, and the best thing you can do for the child is to encourage them and praise them when they do succeed.
lifting you on eagle's wings,
lily
along with the cereal idea you could also try putting bubbles in the toilet.
LOL wow i see you must have come across some of the people with nothing better to do here on yahoo . LOL [for my son ; not me ]
try placing him on the potty off and on throughout the day . dont force him to sit too long . he will que you as to when too long is approaching .
also allow him to see how a big boy goes potty by letting him in the restroom when you are going. if you havent learnt by now , all modesty goes out the window when you have children !
take the lil guy in with you and get all excited and start clapping your hands when you pee . i tell my daughter WOW MOMMY IS A BIG GIRL while clapping my hands . when he sits on the potty and does anything do the same for him . they love it when you make a huge fuss over anything they do.
realistically potty training may take a while to completely accomplish . persistance is the key and compassion is a must ! dont punish your child for falling short when learning . this will just make things take longer , cause more agervation, and can be emotionally scaring to him .
you can also offer a treat for going . cookie , sticker , lollie , icecream , anything he may take a liking of .
one more thing ! buy him a potty seat and let him get to know it first , give him a couple weeks just playing with it as a toy . most have seats that attach to the toilet lid . we gave our kids the new potty chairs to play with for a while , then started having them sit on it for a bit , then using it in the bathroom and having them sit on it . some kids fear the big potty . they have small butts and the seat is HUGE to their little bottoms. and falling in is a fear !
good luck ! it is a challange !
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mom of 5
what worked for me is bribary....... if your knickers are dry when we get home then you can.. watch fave dvd, habve sweets/ treats ect
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Buy some books about potty training for the both of you, so both of you can learn the best way.
Watch for your son interest in the topic. If he is not showing any signs, maybe he is not yet ready.
If he is showing interest, then start by using pullups, sitting him in the potty for a while. Do not scare him about this. This is something he have to do without being stressed.
The cereal trick seems to work, worked twice for me. Good luck.
dont miss the bowl
always keep the potty where he can see it and you must keep asking him every few minuets( do you want a we we dont wet them pants will you,) it gets a bit boring but you have To keep reminding him ,and use small pants they are better than training pants and shorts thay are easy'er good luck dont forget really prase him when he dose it,,
Try putting the potty in the toilet, when you go to the loo ask him to go on the potty at the same time.
He may prefer to sit down so don't try to stop him.
If he can follow a simple instruction like ' put ure shoes at the door please' then it's a good sign he's ready to start the training. I done it in the summer that way i could leave Sophie running round in just her pants, i choose a date to start the training and i just spent the week totally focused on the trainin, puttin her on the toilet once an hour and made it fun with no pressure, Drove me crazy runnin up and down to the toilet all the time but by the end of the week she was falling nicely into the pattern of using the loo when she need to go. Good luck honey x
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it seemed ages for my son to be potty trained i started to get wooried as my daughter was much ealier than my son then i stopped worrying about it i took him to the shop got him to choose his own potty brought it home and told him to choose a place to put it and when you want to use you know where it is he never went near it for a while then one day he took his nappy off and used it and never went back julie
they always say girls are quicker than boys my boys werent potty trained until they were nearly 3, the idea is not to rush them if they are not ready and you keep pushing it he will take longer.
all i done was put pants on them and kept asking if they needed the toilet,praised them when they went on the toilet but the worst thing to do is get angry when they have an accident, this is to be expected, just take them to the bathroom and put them on the toilet and tell them that is where they should do it.
a tip, always take a spare set of clothes when you go out, you dont want to get caught out,im talking from past experience.
I didn't bother training my son at 2 years old. It was obvious he wasn't ready as he wasn't happy sitting on a potty. So i just mentioned it and tried occasionally about once a month. Then when he was about 3 month short of his 3rd birthday i got him pull ups with his favourite characters on and said "don't wee on Tiger" in a jokey way....and kept reminding him during the day. After about 3 month of that I told him I'd run out of them and only had enough for bedtime so he had to have pants during the day. He only ever had about 3 accidents. Then about 3 month later I took them off at bedtime but put normal pants under his pyjamas as he "felt funny" with just pyjama's.
We only ever had about 3 accidents during the night too.
This way i never got stressed about it - i just let him do it when he was ready.
blimey mines 4 & he still won't...though he has mild autism...best idea is not to push it!!
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