For two weeks Tyler was pumped to go to the potty. In fact, he was the one who wanted to go in the first place. We weren't planning on starting potty training for a while but he seemed interested which is pretty exciting. Almost every time we put him on the toilet he would pee. The past couple of days he's been anti. What happened?
Question for those more experienced than me: Should I keep working with him and try to potty train or wait. Do I need to buy a baby toilet? Please share.
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My expert opinion is that you should teach him all the other cool places boys can go pee. Then how could he resist. I mean I have heard lots of stories about the boys locker room:) Isn't great to have friends that are experts on all topics.
After my experience with potty training, I would personally say: wait. He's still pretty little. Next time his interest perks, maybe then hype it up again. Although, personally, I wouldn't get a potty chair. Just get a cool step stool so he can always go on the normal toilet. Much easier.
I am no expert by any means, Carisa, who just turned 3 in July, is pretty much pee-pee potty trained and we are working on the other, but I still wouldn't say she is potty trained yet and it's been a long and frustrating road. But, here are some things I have learned along the way. #1 It is going to be a long and frustrating road! #2 If he is showing interest I would go for it! #3 If you are going to go for it and start potty training and wearing big-boy underwear, just do it and don't go back. And only use the Pull-ups for night time. #4 Don't use a little potty. For one, Carisa didn't even like to use hers (and I've heard other kids that didn't like it either) and for two, after he is trained using that potty you will just have to train him all over again to use the big potty. And finally #5 A chart with stickers worked for Carisa with the peeing...she got a sticker every time she peed in the potty and a sticker got taken away every time she had an accident (but she didn't get in trouble)...then when the chart was full she got to go to the store and pick out a toy. Keep telling him that so he will want to fill the chart and not get any taken away. But, like I said I am no expert and the pooping thing is still a mystery to me. Good Luck!!!
I would wait...until he perks up again. My suggestion is to have a routine to put him on the toilet before bath time EVERY day so he stays familiar and of course make a big deal if he goes but no pressure. Put him on when the water runs and take him off when you are ready to put him in the tub. If he wants to go more or shows interest do it on his time clock. I wouldn't start again full force until at least 2 1/2. this area is where I wish kids came with individualized manuals. good luck.
Dude...Charly did the same thing. It was an off again on again thing for a while. Then we let her run around naked at my in-laws for 2 weeks and all of a sudden...she goes in the big potty! So my advice....don't sweat it...keep doing it when he is intereseted and keep talking it up...and get some awesome big boy undies! the elmo and tinkerbell panties are what finally did it for c. Good luck!!!
The Potty Training in One Day book (which I got at the library) gives a checklist of how to know if your kid's ready. I think sort of potty training confuses kids, so I believe it should be all or nothing.
The book's method is that when you and your kid are ready, you purposely give them lots of drinks all day long so they can practice over and over again. I think it also gives the idea of having your kid help train a doll (that drinks and wets) first. This was really fun for my girls to be the ones to "show" the doll how to do it.
It helps to have nothing else planned for at least a few days when you're ready to do it, so it can be more of a fun time together and less stressful.
Go Tyler! (pun intended...ha, ha.)
I wouldn't buy a baby potty, if he's nervous about sitting on the big potty, put him on it backwards- like facing the tank. Also, it's extra fun for boys to put cheerios or froot loops in the potty and have them see if they can "hit" them. The main thing I would say is keep the potty and bathroom familiar, and then keep your expectations really low. Be patient and relaxed, potty training always took my kids forever. But, it did get done!
I like what Fleur says. Eliott went off and on for several months before everything clicked for him. A sticker chart with a picture of "big boy underwear" at the end worked wonders for him. I personally did not like the idea of cleaning messes up all day so we made him wear a diaper until he'd gone pee and poo like 15 times each first and proved himself, so then the underwear, which he'd picked out months before, was a REALLY enticing reward after earning the required number of stickers. That goes against what others have said but it worked for us and it was a fairly painless process. T is still pretty young. I think the biggest thing is don't try to pressure or strong arm him into doing it, don't rush it, and don't make a huge deal of it if he has an accident. E had #2 down for a while before #1 and I kept wondering when the other would click and one day out of the blue it just did. Apparently I have a lot to say on the subject...
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I don't think I even answered your questions with that long comment. I say wait a few months to try a full out effort again, but keeping making it available to him and let him go when he wants to. We used a baby potty in the very beginning to get E comfortable with the idea but he wanted the big one within a short amount of time so I would just get a potty seat for the big toilet.
Maybe he got "anti-ed". What kind of kids has he been hanging around with?? Maybe some other kid told him you are trying to brainwash him.
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