Potty Training - Austin,TX

You may need to have him watch your husband or your older son go poo poo in the potty so that he can see for himself that it's okay (the dolls may not be enough for him to actually get it). I have only potty trained a girl so far since my son is just 7 months old, but she watches me go all the time (mostly because I just never get a minute to myself, but eventually it became a curiosity about potty training). It has been my experience with my daughter that the poop thing is the hardest part of training. She has been in underwear for about 6 months, but we still have relapses in that area periodically. As hard as it is (and I'm being a little hypocritical here since I have a hard time with this myself), try to keep your patience and just keep working with him on it. I wouldn't force him to sit on the potty because that will only scare him more. You could have him go pee pee first and get it all out and then let him sit down on the potty with a toy he likes that is just for the potty.

Letting him watch your hubby or son should help and there are also potty books out there that show boys sitting down to go poo poo and standing up to go pee pee. My daughter has the girl version and she liked it, so maybe try to find one of those.

Good luck! I know how trying this time can be, but he'll get it eventually. At least your son asks for a pullup, my daughter would just go in her underwear all of the time and never tell us. Ugh!

When potty training my son, I taught him to point his pee pee down when he needed to poop. I told him that he wanted pee and poop to go in the toilet since it is stinkly. My mother-in-law was able to find a training potty that had a protective guard in the front of the potty that would prevent his pee pee from spraying him in the face. Hope this helps.

Graco makes a potty with a flexible pee guard.

I always trained my boys/grandsons to sit on the toilet backwards and that way the urine and poop goes into the toilet. The only problem is they have to take off all of their clothes to go to the bathroom.

I hope this helps you out. I have my son hold it down when he sits down on the toilet seat to poop, that way it doesn't shoot pee up in the air. As he sits down explain to him to gently hold it down so the pee will land in the toilet and show him, by putting his hand on it and have him hold it down all by himself while he goes. Good luck!

I understand your frustration all too well, although I don't have a son to potty train yet, we have a daughter who just turned four and we just barely were able to get her poo poo trained as we call it; because she was peeing in the toilet since she was two...but for some reason letting go of her poop in the toilet was scary to her. We were pulling our hair out because we have tried every thing from videos, books, her little friend who pooped in the toilet to show her it was ok, treats, stickers...She would wait until night time when she got her pull up to poop. Everyone says not to punish for potty training (and I agree when they are younger) but when you know they are capable...Our daughter is very spirited in nature and her reluctance to poop in the toilet had nothing to do with laziness or lack of vigal. She would kick and scream and throw the biggest tantrums when we caught her trying to poop in her underwear to be placed on the toilet and if one does't have a spirited child it is difficult for others to understand the drama (because people have said to never punish we didn't force her to stay on the potty for more than 15 minutes if she didn't poop.) To make a long story longer...we realized that she was using pooping as a control over us as her fourth birthday creept nearer. We also knew we had to find that one thing that she couldn't refuse. Believe it or not she turned down a trip to Disney World if she pooped in the potty! Anyway, I was at my Dr.'s office who had a large aquarium with neat fish...I noticed my daughter was engrossed with the fish and didn't want to leave the office. So I asked her if she would poop in the potty for a big fish and she said yes! We thought we had her with the fish until she pooped in her underwear yet again! So we did what we said we'd never do...we warned her that if she did it again she would get a spanking (She is four) so she did it again and got a few good swats...it only took three times and a promise of a big fish, so she would want that over swats and now she only poops in the toilet. We made sure she wasn't constpated first by giving her Mirilax, so we don't sound cruel, however swats dont work with all personalities. Hang in there I know how horrible it feels when it seems everone else's kids seems poo poo trained but yours, it will happen and you're not alone.

When my son first started pooping in the potty we turned him around on the seat. It hepled his pee stay in the potty and he thought it was kinda cool to sit backwards. After he got the hang of it and grew a little we turned him around and taught him to tuck it when he went poop. I agree with the watching older brother or daddy. Even if they dont actually go poop, they could show him how to sit correctly like a big boy.

Bribery works!!! We used M&M's.......When he poops in the potty he gets 5... yay!!!

Mine is three and we just went poopoo in the potty. HOORAY!!!!!! My husband taught him how to "tuck" it so pee wouldn't go everywhere. He picked up on that quite well. He was the same way as your son on holding it until he had a diaper on. We never went to pull ups, but would use diapers. He would stay dry all day at day care, mainly because of the scheduled structured environment. Then he'd get home and me and dad weren't as structured. I'd give him a balloon for tee-teeing in the potty and was afraid we were going to have to move into the country and promise farm animals for poopoo. He'd always go at the same time every night. The other night he said "Bo bo." We went to change his diaper and it was dry. So we sat on the potty. I made the grunting sound and he followed. Nothing happened. He tried hard enough we still rewarded him with candy. (I always said I'd never use sugar as a reward, but it was cheaper than a pony.) Anyway, he really dug that. So when it came time to really poopoo, he told us and we tried again. No results and not much effort. We told him he would get two candies for poopoo on the potty. A little while later, he was ready and we went back. It happened. I was sooooooo excited. Daddy came rushing in with two candies. He even went a second time later that night. The next night (last night), he tried and tried and tried (to the point of tears). Nothing happened. Of course he asked for his candy. I told him only for poopoo in the potty. About an hour later, it happened again! He got his candies and he was delighted. We are on day three now and hoping for the same results. He has even become more proactive on saying when he needs to tee tee. It's a day I was beginning to wonder if we would ever see, but we are. Takes lots of patience and bribery. It will happen. Just hang in there. My son will tee tee standing and sitting. We have a small portable toilet and also a seat that fits on the toilet seat to not fall in. I let him pick his toilet and means of doing it.

Hang in there and keep persistent and soon you'll be telling the same story!