Potty Training Tips - Knoxville,TN

My little girl is the complete opposite. She loves to check out every public bathroom we come across, but it is so hard to get her to go at home. We also go through spells of good potty training only to revert back to not caring. Good luck with yours!

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It is new to him to go potty at home and it may be a little scary when you are out. When you are at home, does he use a potty chair or does he use the adult potty?? My boys didn't like using it out either when they were using the child size potty but as soon as i took it out and they started using the adult potty, they didn't have a big problem using it anywhere. being consistent is the best way. if you are out, make sure you take him to the potty about every 30 minutes if he doesn't ask to go. hope this helps.

you may have already found a solution, but I thought I would let you know that we were in Berlington Coat factory in the baby section, and they have a new training potty on the go. It is seriously this little potty that you can take with you any where. i have a bit until we have to potty train our newest little one, but I think that is a great new invention, and you may want to check it out!

Maybe it will help if he goes to the bathroom with his father. It may be that he's following by example - he sees his family going to the bathroom at home and maybe not enough in public.

That way, he'll pick up the idea that people go to the bathroom when out in public.

My son also will not use the potty when we go out. I think that it is because he has a small potty chair to use at home and when we go other places he would have to sit on an adult sized toilet. Hope this helps.

Hi im a sahm of 3. Their ages are 9,3,4 and my now 4yr old would absolutely not go to the bathroom in public. I live on post so we might hv been over by the mall and he would hold it til we got back home. He had it so bad that he caught a UTI from holding it so much. The way we broke him is 1 night he had to go to the point of starting to tinkle on himself and we pulled over and his dad got out the car and made him pull it out and go. He was worried about using the bathroom in public cause everyone else uses the same bathroom. It got alot better once he went outside that time. I dont think we can fool him to go outside n e more, but he will go at walmart and different stores..hope thids helps in letting you know it does get better

Hi A...Iam going through the same thing with my son! he will be 2 in May and he use to use the potty all the time like #1 and stuff! but now i cant get him to use it at all! I hope this will give u some reassurance that someone else is going through the same thing..Good LUck A.

hello ha i have kids my oldest is 17 years old and i can tell u ever child is diff just ive time...when he at home im sure he feel safe mabe he not sure about then when your out just keep askin him when ur out if he need to potty take with u when you go to the bathroom your our just tae ever now and then why u are out set on the potty and take to him about like u do at homw. and even if he dont go rght away are even puts up a fight about keep doing he well finly go and befor u know ever where u go he have to go potty... u well know where ever bathroom in town is LOL good luck and let me know how it goes....

I just went through this with my son. My biggest hurdle was making sure I was the one who remembered he had to go, even when I didn't! Sometimes I'd get so caught up in whatever I was doing, I'd forget to ask him if he had to go.

After a while I learned to ask; if I went to the bathroom, I asked him to. Before we left anywhere to get in the car, I took him to the bathroom and asked him to go potty. If he drank a lot, I'd stop whatever we were doing and check with him to make sure he was doing okay. He finally got used to it, and now he asks every time we go anywhere! (You'd be surprised the places that will point you to a bathroom when you've got a two-year-old who announces "Potty! Potty! Potty!")

Be prepared--sometimes those powerful public toilets with the automatic flush can scare kids. I've heard of a trick using sticky notes to block the sensor. Just something to keep in mind, in case it comes in handy.

this may sound a bit funny but i'm glad this question is about a son than a daughter or else I would not suggest this...but When I was first potty training my son he would go fine at home because I let him run around with no diapers just bare butt! But in public like out grocery shopping he would have accidents because he would not tell me he had to go.

I would have to contsantly ask him if he had to go to remind him to check himself to see if he did or not. We would still have accidents before we got to the store or before we got home. Ok this is the funny part recommended for boys not girls lol but whenever we arrived some where or was going to leave i asked him to try to tinkle right there in the parking lot. He couldn't hold it then long enough to get to a bathroom anyway. I started letting him "go tinkle" in the parking lot or before we went in the store now he is old enough to hold it so we can make it to the bathroom. Of course we stood by the car and so no one could see what we were doing but boys can kinda whip it out with pulling their pants all the way down ya know! Its Just a thought! it worked for me.

hope it helps some lol please don't think i'm crazy lol