Potty Training

wik

Hi Starnac....
I have to share how I got my son potty trained!! sorry to anyone squeamish lol!!!
he hated the potty! then one day a dead fly had fallen in it! and he thought this was super! and he just peeed on it!! so that was it... after every use of potty i had to find a dead fly! and after a few weeks we didnt need the fly any more

LannieDuck

I agree that watching Daddy might help. My little girl (2 years 11 months) is just about potty trained, and we started by letting her watch me on the loo. She loved getting her potty and sitting on it when Mummy sat on the toilet (even though she had a nappy on!). She could hear that I was doing a wee (sorry - TMI!) and saw me using tissue paper to dry myself etc, so it helped her to associate the potty with weeing. I wonder if your little boy just doesn't understand that the potty is for weeing, if he's never seen anyone using the toilet for that?

It also helped that she has a couple of afternoons a week at nursery, and her friends are starting to use the potty, so we could talk about how they were doing wees on the potty now etc.

Armchair23

My DD was having none of this potty training malarkey thank you, she was very happy in her nappies coming up to age three.

The she decided she wanted to do 'baby ballet' she'd seen another kid in a natty pink net number and I said sorry you can't wear a nappy under a leotard you'll just have to wait.

Potty trained in 24 hours, right little madam and no different now !

So it's a combo of age, physical ability and will. And who blooming knows when that happens.

If it's any consolation you don't see too many 6 year olds in nappies best of luck X

stiltwalker

Just popping in to say that for anyone whose little one has a speech delay, we used to have laminated cards about 3 inch square that say WEE blutacked to a couple of handy spots in the room for our DD to bring to us when she needed to go. She has complex disabilities and delays in most things however toilet training was not one of them and she went into knickers so early I'm not going to say in case it makes anyone fret. Our son (with the same genetic disorder) is now 3 1/4 and is just starting to show signs that he may know what is going on in the downstairs department but I'm guessing we are in for the long haul in getting him anywhere near dry. We had major celebrations last week as he pootled himself downstairs and got a fresh pull up out of his bag to wave at us.

HeavyMetalFan

A good friend of mine has a son who will be five early next year. Sad to say he is not toilet trained and often wears a nappy. I was visiting him recently and he was half crouching and grimacing. When I asked him what he was doing he said, without any shame or embarrassment, "I'm doing a poo". I don't think he was even trying to hold it or asking to go to the toilet.

I can't say anything as it's not my place, but I'm worried that he will be starting school shortly and this could make him an easy target for bullying. Can I do anything or is it just none of my business?

schwam66

starnac wrote: »

Hi, I hope it's okay posting here but I really need advice. My son is 2years 9months old and we are starting to potty train him. We have been doing it for 3 days now (I know that isn't that long) but he is refusing to wee on the potty. He has speech issues so is unable to ask to go on the potty but he does know he needs to go and knows what to do.

He happily pulls down his pants and sits on the potty but as soon as he feels like he is going to go, he gets up and either wees on the floor or pulls his pants back up to wee in. He refuses to put a nappy back on but I really don't know what to do now. I've tried praising him, letting him watch the iPad while sat on the potty, singing to him, reading to him. I've tried walking away and letting him do it by himself.

I'm getting so frustrated as I can see he knows what he is doing when we wees on the floor but I don't know how to help him overcome what I assume is a fear of weeing on the potty.

How can I help him?

Any suggestions gratefully received.

sound slike its to early for him, but if you can put a nappy back on him you might just have to press on....my son was the same way....speech issues made it hard to communicate and had the same issues on the potty we waited...think he was about 3 years old when we went back to it and took to it the first day!!! all the best and good luck

starnac

Thank you for all your help. He refuses to put a nappy back on so we have just had to press ahead. He is slowly getting the idea and is telling us when he needs to go now but it's still very last minute. We have to rush him to the toilet/potty. Hopefully it won't take much longer.

susancs

I found that getting to choose a sticker as a reward for a wee in the potty was a great incentive.

sacha28

Hi OP, sounds like you're making great progress I have a small problem with potty training too......my LB is 2.5 and is dry throughout the day and has been for 2 weeks but flat out refuses to poo on the potty!!! He will tell me he needs a poo but then all hell breaks loose when I dare to suggest the potty! The other day I refused to put a nappy on him so he could poo and he held it until I put his bedtime nappy on and, within 30 seconds, he said 'thank you mummy, I can poo now'!!

If anyone has ANY suggestions how I can get over that one please let me know!

ps I'm not holding out any hope that he'll be dry at night anytime soon but I'm not too fussed

mrsHall2b

my daughter wasnt even 2 when we 'trained' her (i hate that word, you train dogs, you teach kids but its not called potty teaching..)

when he goes to get up sit him back down, once youve sat him down and hes done it in the potty a few times he will realise thats where its meant to go.

it may also be best to skip the potty and allow him to copy you/your OH? my now 15 month old will sit on top of the toilet like we do (i am not potty training her she just copies everything we do.) kids love to copy parents, also talk to him about how hes such a big boy, big boys like *dad/cousin/uncle/friends* do it this way.

and i know it may be disagreed with by majority but we told dd that nappies where only for babies, big girls use the toilet. we used the same for her dummy when we got rid aswell. she likes to think shes a big girl so it usually gets pretty good results.

her nursery where very impressed when she started, no nappies, no dummies, no daytime naps and she walks a mile to nursery then a mile back every time she goes as shes not used a pushchair since she was 20 months.

good luck,