Need Help - Gainesville,FL

My 5 yoa was very hard to train he refused to poop in the potty. But i kept pushing him and finally he got the hang of it. Try to sit with him or there are several potty books my son really liked to sit and read them while we waited for him to go keep it up he will get it

My mom used to throw cherrio's into the toilet so that it would be an aiming game. They also have those musical potties at walmart so that as soon as he actually pees in some melody plays. I am a full time college student as well if you need someone to hang and chat my little girl just turned 3 last week. ###-###-####

HI E.,
Remember to be patient. They are going to do it on their time. You can try to reward him with stickers or something else he enjoys that isnt costly. Let him go without a diaper while around the house and you could also pull his potty out into the room where he plays, so that hes familar with it and not afraid of it. He may not have complete control of his bladder yet and when he feels the sensation it will be close by. teach him to sit down instead of aiming until he gets better control. some children feel that pull ups are too much like diapers and dont understand, you could allow him to wear "big boy" undies and when he wets them and wets himself, he may understand the sensation better too. Just have lots of paper towels and cleaner. I hope you don't have all carpet for this. I hope this was help. Good luck
C. T.

E.,

This advise will highly depend on your personal opinion, and your privacy level in your neighborhood. My friend was going through the same problem, so she started with letting her son go on trees or bushes outside. He loved it, and would run for the back door to go outside to go. Soon after this, she enforced that he use the big boy potty like daddy. It worked. It only took her 2 weeks from that point.

If you get any leads on potty training let me know!! My son won't even go in the bathroom!

My son just turned three in August. And we JUST got him potty trained and even then there are accidents. Here are some of the things that we did that suddenly made a difference. First of all, we never used pull-ups. We went to Target and bought the thick cotton training pants. Those were a huge problem though and he just kept going in them. It was a nightmare. My husband finally figured out that as long has he had something on he would go in it because it'd hide the fact he was going potty. So we stripped him LOL We left him bottomless and suddenly he was racing to the potty chair. Also, we found that when we'd put the thick cotton training pants the pedi suggested he'd easily have accidents. So we said forget it, went back to Target and bought the thin regular underwear. They have it in their size in the baby section. That has helped big time and he even picked the underwear out himself. Now he doesn't even want the potty chair he uses a step and a potty ring. We're hoping to move to peeing standing up so that's up next. Good luck and keep me posted!

Hola E., no se si hablas espa�ol, pero espero que si, cuando yo empeze a entrenar mi hija la llevaba al ba�o cada hora, y me quedaba un buen rato esperando que hiciera; y por supuesto se hizo pipi muchisimas veces en los pantis pero fue cuestion de 3 semanas y ya estaba lista pidiendo el ba�o.

Hi E.,
my son is 15 months old and he is almost potty train i brought one of those potty that you can put on a regular one and i sit him on it and i brought a little shower radio and i turn it on and as long as he has something in his hand and the music playing he won't try to come off the big potty. and when he is done doing his job i clap and make a big fuss. my friend told me about this and i never had a problem it work really well for me. good luck
kimmy

E.,
Try throwing a few Cherrios in the potty and have him aim to hit them. This worked wonders when I potty trained my 14 year old. I plan on doing this again with my little guy. They also sell potty targets. You can get them online. If you make it fun, it will all fall into place. Good luck

I help my son along with stickers. I taped a piece of regular
8x10 paper to the back of the bathroom door and put his name
on it. Then told him that everytime that he goes potty that
i would give him a sticker of his choice for him to place by himself (like a big boy) on the paper. He loved this and even started picking out his own choice of stickers at the store to
use for his reward. At the end of his potty training we had
4 full sheets and i now have them in his baby book that we
look at and he still remembers the stickers. Hope that this
helps you.
L.

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My friend was having the same problem, until the pedi. told her to put froot loops in the potty. It took one time and he has been potty trained since. Not sure what makes it work...but trying to sink the froot loops is all it took.
Good Luck
G

this may sound a little weird, but when i potty trained my two boys, i had them sit on the big potty backwards. little boys love to watch themself go and this way they didn't lean back to watch and spray the floor. or you could have him aim at fruit loops or a square of toilet paper. also try to reward him by making a big deal out of it: high fives, stickers, matchbox cars, ect... and not such a big deal out of when he doesn't go (though i understand how frustrating this can be since i have done it twice!). simply tell him "big boys go on the potty and wear big boy underpants. don't you want to be a big boy?" my oldest who is now five would kick and scream every time i tried to put the big boy underpants on him untill i put them in his pants one day when i was getting him dressed (without telling him), then when it came time to change his diaper or have him try to go to the bathroom, i took only his pants off. i made such a big deal out of him wearing underpants acting shocked and so proud he was laughing and forgetting to be scared about wearing something new! if nothing else works, maby he just isn't ready. don't loose hope though, no one goes to highschool still in diapers!

My son was not fully potty trained until he was almost 4. He was so hard to train. We tried tons of different ways with no luck. I took any advice that anyone was willing to give and finally my mom suggested that we put a treat jar near the potty. If he went potty, he got a treat. We also did a star chart. When he successfully went potty a certain number of times he would get to pick a toy from the store. Nothing too expensive just a little incentive. This method seem to work well and he was finally potty trained. I wish you lots of luck because it is probably one of the most difficult things I have had to do as a parent thus far.