Potty Training - Mattawan, MI

My daughter did the same thing he will eventually do it on his own that is what she did she would pee and poop and tell me she did it. Well when I would ask her she would say no to the toliet so finaly I eased up a little and she started doing it on her own we also did a potty chart she would get a star when she went on the toliet and when she went 10 times we went to the store to get a present.

One of the first things I learned about potty training is to never let it become emotional or high stress for my child, that just makes him more resistant. Offer to change him every other time, since he is reasoning well, let him help you make a schedule for when to be changed and when to go potty, offer potty treats only when he goes on the potty ans make sure to praise him every single time he comes to you and tells you he has to go potty even if it is a you chaning him time. One of the things I did was reward my son with extra stories I read to him after he sat on the potty, even when he did not go. When he went on the potty he got a potty treat. Find something that he likes that is not helpful (like an extra five minutes playing with you, or a story, or something like that and offer it to him for sitting on the potty, eventually my son just started going. I never pressured him, because then it became unpleasant for him. And it was so much better to reinforce his love of reading than to argue with him!
Good luck

My son is the same age and doing the same thing. I'm keeping him in pull-ups and encouraging him but not pushing the subject too hard. FYI, my friend went to the dollar store and got a basket of treats for her son and he got to pick a toy each time he went.

I know it will be hard, but I have and would just use training pants(not the ones like diapers but the ones that are thicker underwear). It will get to where he don't like the feel and will use the potty to avoid the feeling. When I potty trained my son and daughter I only used pull up type things when I was out of the house and at night. Other than that I stuck to the underwear. I will admit it was hard and there will be alot of laundry but it has worked for me. I also do daycare and use it, along with the parents, on the daycare children. Hope this helps

He does sound like he's ready but he feels safe going in his diaper instead of the potty. Safety is a big thing when it comes to potty learning. Going in the diaper is all he's known all his life, and now the rules are suddendly changing!

My Son was 3 when he started acting like this...one day, the diapers were replaced by underpants (LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of underpants! at least 15pair bought bartered and borrowed even some little mermaid ones!) It took 3 days in underpants to get the idea that having wet cotton on your bottom is not fun at all, and it's easier to stay dry by peeing in the potty. Poop took about a Week to get the hang of (and there were still accidents of both occasionally until he went to preschool.

This is easy if your son likes cars. If he is a typical boy then he loves cars....What my ex did with my 2 yr old (now he is 21) was he put him on the tiolet backwards and told him that the lid of the toilet was the stearing wheel and the plunger was the stick shift that made the car go really fast. In order for the car to go your son will have to pee (put gas in the car) into the tiolet or poop in it to make it go really fast. Boys love to race so I hope that it works for you. The day after my son was taught this I was n the kitchen making dinner and I heard him yell out "VOOM VOOM" I walked in and saw him sitting on the toilet "filling up" his race car.

I have a son he is a little over 3 I potty trained him at a year and a half and what I did was just use underwear even to bed. Pull ups the kids just use like diapers i even tried the feel when wet ones they dont work. I used undewear and when he did wet himself i let him sit in it for about 15 minutes and he felt how yucky it was and i told him it was yucky. He finally started to use the toilet even after just a week of the underwear not even peeing the bed. Then my challenge cause I am a single mom was showing him to stand and pee and what I did was throw him some cheerios in the toilet and turned it into a game telling him to aim at the cheerios and that worked. while he is standing in the bathroom i repedily showed him, I sat the toilet seat down told him when he poops and toilet seat up is for pee and that also worked. I hope something in this helps you and good luck
P.S. You will need lots of undewear at first he will go through them

I don't have alot of advice, my son potty trained fairly easily. I see that you have a 5mo old, do you think that could possibly be contributing to his avoidance of being a "big boy"? I've heard that new babies can have that effect on toddlers, especially in the area of potty training. I see that you've tried M&Ms...have you tried any other types of rewards? Maybe a sticker chart, where every 5 stickers gets a small prize and once you've reached a certain number (say 15) then you get a larger gift (maybe a trip to Dairy Queen, or lunch at McDs). He obviously understands and is willfully refusing to use the potty; I think I might even try refusing to change his diaper; if he understands that he'll get a diaper rash, maybe your refusing to change him will actually motivate him to use the potty. I would also talk with your pediatrician for suggestions; I'm sure your not the first to have this problem. :) Good luck.
M.

All I can say is he is still young. My son was just over 3 when he finally trained. I would put him in boy boy underwear and he would wet it and just want to be changed. ALl of a sudden one day he decided he was going to use the potty and he did. So just keep up your persistance and try to stay patient :) :) It will happen :)

Hi T.,
I agree with Tricia. When a child is ready it will happen. My son on his third birthday just decided he would use the potty all the time. Up until then he would go back and forth. Time is all it takes. Don't push him.
Chris