Poddy Training Hell!!

my son did the same thing! we tried everything!!!!! one day we were shopping and found a potty that plays music he loved it!!!! and along with the potty came the detachable seat he loved the music sooooo much he paid no attention to where he was sitting GOOD LUCK

I am in the same boat hun. I read through all the answers and have heard everything from big boy undies and pullups and everything else which granted i had tried also. What worked so far for me is instead of asking him to potty i take his diaper off and tell him toilet now! And off we go. ASking did nothing but make him have more accidents. I fnally just started telling him Go come on and in to the bathroom we went. Also if we are home alone i take his diaper OFF and let him walk around naked. He will tell me he needs to go in a hurry if there is no diaper to HIDE his accidents in. So you can try being firm. Also we got him a big dinosaur and told him if he stays dry for 2 days he can have it. If he wets or poops in his diaper it goes back on the shelf. So he knows he has to stay dry and clean in order to play with the toy JUST out of his reach and it is working well. Also i tell him big boys dont need diapers. I hope this helps

My advice is to just give up for now. If you push when he doesn't want to, you'll end up in a power struggle you can't win. He has control over his poop - you don't. We started with our son just before his 3rd birthday. I was trying to get him potty trained before preschool. But it backfired. Boy, did it backfire. He is very strong-willed and fought us. He would pee on the toilet, but would always poop in his underwear. He did it on purpose just to prove he was in control. It's been 1.5 years now... and I can finally say he's potty trained, although he still has the occassional accident every few weeks. It took more than a year before he'd tell us when he had to go poop and go. We still need to remind him to use the toilet a few times a day - especially when he's busy playing. We have a 1 year old daughter and we'll let her take the lead... I don't care if she waits until she's 5! I'm not going through that again!

Oh Hunny!!! I have been there also!!! My son was the same way!!! Well if this helps any....We finally went against all suggestions and realized he just wasn't ready!!! It must have been so because out of the blue one day he decided he would go potty and he would. He wore pull-ups and I would help him when he felt he needed to go!! I didn't force him and didn't make him wear undies...I tried that for a while also....but he just didn't care!! He would pee or poop on himself and just didn't care!!!

I let him wear pull-ups and we would just reinforce him with every change that he would soon be like the other big boys and lets keep trying!!! We also tried rewards....like 7 days of dry we would get a toy or movie. Finally he was about 3 1/2 to 4 before we got him trained. I know that he wasn't the only boy that has done this and we also talked to the Dr. about it!! He just now is starting to be dry at night!!! Just make a big deal out of it. Yeah!!! You can do it...I know you are a big boy!!! The last 3 nights have been dry!!! Yeah!!! The Cars movie is what he is working towards.

Just keep working at it, but don't force!!! Keep positive reinforcement #1!!! GOOD LUCK!! HOPE THIS HELPS!!! Feel free to ask me more!!

Well I we tried potty training my daughter at prolly 2 1/2 maybe earlier but it was a constant power struggle. Then we started giving her a sticker everytime she used the potty. That worked some, but she still would just go in her diaper to do it I guess....What really worked is that she wanted to get her ears pierced and had been for a while. So about the time she turned 3 we told her that if she stayed dry for 2 wks that she could get them pierced. She's been dry ever since and still to this day she wants a sticker everytime she goes at her great grandma's. But we decided to potty train her the day she hid in a corner and took her diaper off and pooped on the floor. Figured she was ready. But try rewards and be patient.

I made a calendar for my son on graph paper, at the time he didn't get stickers very often so that helped i think. I made the squares of the calendar the same size as the stickers I was using. The stickers that say good job, etc like teachers use. Each day he did his business in the potty, he got to put the sticker on the calendar I made. I had him potty(peeing wise) in 2 weeks, he still wore pullups because it took alittle longer to get him to poop in the potty. Like an extra week maybe week and a half. See if it helps

Hey E.--first of all let me start by saying don't push it too hard and definitely don't make it a bad thing because that just reinforces to him that it is not fun, etc...also, let me tell you about these wonderful things called PODS!! You can check them out online at trainingsolutions.com. I was having a horrible time getting my daughter to use the toilet and someone told me about these wonderful things. I won't go into detail about them since you can read all about them online at the website. Needless to say..I ordered them one day...had them two days later and my daughter was potty trained completely in 4 days!!! I couldn't believe it. She even sleeps thru the night without having an accident and she just turned 3 at then end of October. I HIGHLY recommend them to anyone and have seen only RESULTS--if you have any other questions just let me know. Hope this helps
T.

maybe he's just not ready for potty training. some boys mature slower and take longer to get used to the transition from diapers to the potty. just back off for a while and then try introducing the potty again in a few weeks. in the mean time try letting im go in the restrrom with dady and big brother and let him watch how the big boys do potty. if he's not ready that's ok, but give lots of praise for every effort...even if it's just to sit on the potty fully clothed in the living room watching tv.