Potty Training a Boy - Richlands,VA

Hi,

I'm a 50 year old grandma of three and have potty trained a lot of kids, around 30 to be exact. They are all different but here is what I did. Some may approve, some may not. For the boys, including my son (who was potty trained at 18 months). I always made a happy game of it. I got him a big boy potty and put it in a special closet in the bathroom and he like going but sometimes he would be playing and he wouldn't want to stop...so I got the idea to use a coke bottle for peeing. I'd say, "Fill er up" and he'd laugh. Then we'd mark on the bottle how far he filled it. Next time he'd try to go higher. It was funny and fun and he never used pull ups. They didn't have them anyway. Pooping in the potty was never a problem. He didn't want to get it on him.

Hope this helps.

I think to that a child has to be communicating well. Johnny could say (believe it or not), sentences at around 18 months too. People would ask how old he was and he'd say, "I'll be two in July".

My second child was a little harder to potty train, but when the time is right she was fine. She was two.

Hope this helps.

Potty trainnig a boy is the hardest thing ever! My son has only been potty trained for almost 3 months and still has accidents (to be expected)He will be 4 in October. I put him in daycare and he was potty trained within the 1st week. I know it said you were a stay at home mom. But I have heard of Mothers day out programs where they go a couple times a week. It might help. Good luck to you! :)

My Mom and Dad were watching my nephew for a week, just for fun. They live out in the country on 10 1/2 acres. He kept talking about going potty, so my parents decided just to let him run around the yard nekkie. :) It worked he was potty trained in a couple of days. He figured out what was going on, and started going to the potty. He's been trained for about a year now, and had little to no accidents. They helped train my daughter the same way. There is something to be said for the nekkie approach. I would be sure it's summer, and not outside for all to see though. (being in the country is quite a bit different:)

My son,now 8, was about 3 when he finally decided to use the potty. I bought the singing toilet along with reward stickers. We even got the things they aim at to make it fun. Finally one long weekend we were not going anywhere and I put him in training pants along with the rubber pants. After 4 days without a diaper, excluding night time, it worked. Alot of his problem was I was working and he would wear training pants but on the car ride from baby sitters he would wear a diaper. This was a little confusing. So I think consistancy is the answer and time. Good luck!

i just potty trained my 4 year old this summer..he has physical issues..but still only took him a couple weeks to get the hang of it...i recommend..just putting him in regular underwear and putting him on the potty or toilet every 30 mins...the first day or so..there will probably be many accidents..but then after that it was much easier..

A., I am not sure what the program is that your son started but I thought that most places wouldn't take children if they weren't potty trained. The only thing that I know to do is tell him that he has to go because no matter what you do, from my experience, he won't potty train till HE is ready, willing and able.
Sorry... I don't know how this will help.\M. T

Please let me know what works for you, i too have a two year old son, and i believe he is ready to start trying. He knows when he is going both ways but doesn't want to sit on the potty to do it, or it was too late and he told us after the fact.

The easiest way I've found was to put real underwear on (never pullups). Take them every 30 minutes the first day, 1 hour the next day.. etc. If they have an accident, that's great because at this point, they need to feel that it's gross.
It may be easier if the kid is picky about things, to take him with you to go buy a potty chair and pick out some underwear he thinks is cool. He'll be less likely to potty on superman or whatever character he likes so get him the ones with cartoon characters and when he has an accident say.. ohhhh you went potty on Pikachu! Bet he didn't like that.. or something to that effect.
When it's time to learn to aim, throw a cheerio in the toilet and have him try to hit it with his stream. It's silly but it works.
Whatever you do, don't put your son back in diapers again. It confuses them. Even if you have to go out in public just keep his big boy underpants on. Every time he goes potty like he should, give him a treat (gum worked for my youngest son) and plan a big treat for him for when he goes a whole week without an accident like taking him to the park with one of his friends or something like that. When my youngest went a whole month without an accident, we celebrated by buying him a toddler bed since he was a big boy and only babies slept in cribs. Always use positive re-informant.
If you use a vinyl backed sheet at night on his bed, let him even sleep with the underwear on so he'll stop wetting the bed.
As for you, don't get stressed out over it because it'll make it harder on your son. Never yell and always make him help clean up the mess.
Best of luck to you both.

Hi I have a 7 year old boy and I trained him by takening him to the bathroom with me and takening him every 30 minutes to the bathroom even though when I took my son he never went but he learned hope this helps