Potty Training - Toms River,NJ

have you tried a more event-like incentive ... Last summer (3rd birthday timeframe) I signed my son up for a toddler soccer camp.... told him all about it and we watched soccer on TV a little bit. He was excited. I explained to him there was one rule. There are no diapers allowed at soccer camp. He had to use the potty and ditch the diapers This was a dramatic improvement within days. My only mistake was that I started this story 2 months before the class started ... it took too long to get to that first class.. so we started to regress .... but once the camp started .... I sent him in underwear ,with success !!! ... and would you believe the 2nd day he asked to use the porta-potty in the parking lot before the class started..... (his dad pointed it out to him the day before.)
After that , he probably had an accident every couple of months...

Now my younger son loves planes... he is 2 1/2 and refuses the potty most of the time. When I told him we can go inside a plane while it is up there in the sky.. he was excited ...... and he couldn't believe I would fit in there too! hahaha
But I told him there are no diapers allowed on the plane. He instantly responded with "ok, I can go pee pee in the potty.". we'll see how that goes.... I think that just proves he could be trained now, if he just decided it is something worth doing.

Mine will be 3 in June, and will have nothing to do with it. We've tried all the motivation, and it's actually gone backwards. We were making progress, and now he won't go at all.

I'm not worrying about it. Everyone keeps telling me that he'll do it when he's ready.

My oldest potty trained at 2y 9m. My middle son was 3 in March and we potty trained in January. With both boys, I did the bare buns method. We had a snow week in January, so I took that opportunity to train my middle son. He just wore a shirt and socks. We have a lot of hard wood, so we stayed in the hard wood areas in case of accidents. I got a little potty ring to put on the seat--he also needed a stool to get on the seat. He had accidents the first 3 days. After that, accidents were very sporadic. He started wearing underwear on day 4. I didn't take him out of the house without a diaper until week 2. Every kid is different. Both of my sons were trained earlier than both of my nieces.

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My oldest potty trained at 2y 9m. My middle son was 3 in March and we potty trained in January. With both boys, I did the bare buns method. We had a snow week in January, so I took that opportunity to train my middle son. He just wore a shirt and socks. We have a lot of hard wood, so we stayed in the hard wood areas in case of accidents. I got a little potty ring to put on the seat--he also needed a stool to get on the seat. He had accidents the first 3 days. After that, accidents were very sporadic. He started wearing underwear on day 4. I didn't take him out of the house without a diaper until week 2. Every kid is different. Both of my sons were trained earlier than both of my nieces.

I have had friends that stay home for 4-5 days and bring their child to the potty every 20-30 minutes and have a trained child by the age of 2-2.5. That wasn't my style. I felt that when a child is ready they will initiate on their own, they grow up so fast and there is so much pressure on them to perform, why stress them and myself out. So with that being said, my daughter asked for underwear 4 months before her 3rd birthday and I think we had 3-4 accidents in the first week then never looked back. My son was a different story. He wanted NOTHING to do with the potty. When he turned 3 in June I decided to start talking to him and try to raise some interest. He kept saying " I will use the potty on Halloween" I thought that was pretty funny. Let me tell you, the kid woke up November 1st and has been completely diaperless since then. I guess you need to decide which style, staying home to train or waiting it out a bit, fits your son's as well as your own personality best. Good Luck!

For #1 my son was trained by 2 yrs. But for #2 He wasn't trained till he was almost about 3.5 yrs - 4.

This may be unconventional but for #1 we let him go outside. It was less messy and he was able to master aim and flow force w/o going all over the bathroom. Plus it was fun for him. When we were ready for him to go on the toilet inside the house, I lined the walls by taping cheap plastic tablecloths from the dollar store up, and the floors w/newspaper. This avoided alot of mess and smell, at least for me. And all I had to do was change the plastic/newspaper as needed.

For #2, we had been trying for almost 2 yrs to get him to go and it was 2 yrs of screaming and crying and begging and he REFUSED. He kept saying it hurt. I got so fed up, I put him back on baby food for a few days. That did the trick. It softened him up, made him regular and he didn't cry anymore while he was going #2. I started introducing solids slowly over the next few days and in about 2 weeks he was back on all solids, and going #2 w/o any drama. It may sound strange or mean but my kid was such a light eater giving him baby food wasn't a huge step back on his portions. Plus, you have to understand, I was DESPERATE.

GL and HTH

Hello! I have two boys they both were potty trained at two. It was a long four days with each of them,,,but once they were potty trained it was great!! No more diapers. I don't know if many moms would agree with my method..but it really worked for me. You have to have about 4 days of no plans to go anywhere.During these four days I had them run around completely naked, I would tell them it was time to go to the potty about every 20 minutes..every time we went in the bathroom and attempted they received an m and m. If they went pee the received 2 and poo was 3. So it was a very long sugared out four days... but at the end they were totally potty trained. The 3rd day you have them where underwear and the fourth sweats or something easy. I also taught them the potty sign because they could not say potty yet. My youngest was scared of the bathroom, so I started him outside, then we moved indoors. Since you already have days blocked out you could tackle night time to...nothing to drink 2 hours before bed, set an alarm and wake up every two hours and take them. Hope this helps.

My son and daughter both trained at the same age. I didn't do any kind of prizes or stickers. Toilet teaching wasn't a game for us or something optional, it was expected behavior. With my son, I put him in cloth training pants (the multi layer with waterproof outer layer kind) and took him to the toilet (the real toilet not a little potty) every hour and a half during the day. It took a couple of weeks for him to stop peeing and pooing in the training pants and waiting til the trips to the toilet. I didn't ask if he had to or wanted to go, it was not his choice and was not optional. With my first, I had been not pressuring, waiting for that magical day for her to tell me that she had to use the bathroom and that day didn't come. Don't depend on him to show interest. Take the lead and don't make it into a game. Boys do not have to train later than girls.