Time to Potty Train My 2 1/2 Year Old BOY??

My son is almost 4 and he was just totally potty trained right before Christmas so he was about 3 1/2. I really wouldn't push it. My son would pee in the potty for a long time before he would #2. Then one day he just did it. THat was it. He will do it when he's ready I personally think he may be a little too young, but you know your baby. Just try to not get to frustrated, it's a big transition for them.

First of all, I read all your responses and I'm surprised at how a couple of the mom's are acting like it's terrible that you haven't potty trained him yet. You are NOT way behind schedule so don't stress!

I have a five year son old that was potty trained by 22 months. He was just easy... my husband was off work for a week and in that week he trained him, no big deal BUT he is still in pullups at night because either his bladder is small or he sleeps too sound. (We've asked the pediatrician about it and she says he's not old enough to really worry about it).

Now..... I have a 2 1/2 year old son that I TRIED to potty train as early as we did the first one and it so did not work! He is a different kid. Unfortunately I didn't figure that out until about a month after I had tried everything possible and stressed myself out completely. I decided to finally stop trying because we were moving in with my parents and a month later moving into our own house. Now that we are in our new house for a month he has just now started wanting to go potty every time his big brother goes so we are about to lose the diapers (except for nights) and start Potty training boot camp!

I hope this helps...don't get discouraged, all kids are different and will train on their own time. OH! One more thing, my pedi says that with some children, it is completely a battle of wills. You know how willful two year olds are anyway, they can avoid pottying when over stressed about it just because it's not their idea!

My boy is 2 1/2 and we just got him potty trained. We started out around 2 letting him have periods of time in the evening where we let him run around without a diaper, like before and after bath time. He started noticing when he needed to go because he had no diaper. Then eventually he started telling us when he was running around naked that he needed to potty so we would sit him on the potty. Eventually we were able recently to just take the diapers away and put him in underwear and at first he had a lot of accidents, but eventually he got it and figured it out. We would just ask him to go about every hour at first until he started consistently telling us when he needed to go. I think the trick is taking away the diapers when you know he knows how to go in the potty, b/c with my little boy as long as he had a diaper on he did what he had always done and just went in the diaper. GOOD LUCK! He still does not stay dry at night though, so we put pullups on him. However all day he goes in underwear and has only had a few accidents in the past 2 weeks. Every child is different so look for his cues and give him the opportunity to learn by taking those diapers and pullups away for part of the day. Hope this helps!

When my son turned 2 I put out the potty, got books and videos from the library. He showed some interest but the novelty wore off quickly. He wouldn't even sit on the potty. I was in no rush so I put the potty away. I signed him up for a preschool that didn't require a 3yo to be potty trained so I didn't have any pressure. Just as he turned 3 he started showing interest so I pulled everything back out. Within a few weeks he was wearing underware all the time. He went to preschool in underware (after only a few weeks) and didn't have any accidents. He went straight from diapers to underware! I think he enjoyed the feeling of underware because he'd walk funny when we put his night time diaper on. He also had Bob the Builder, CARS and Hummer underware that he liked. I'd say, don't get bob wet or don't get the Hummers dirty.
As soon as he was daytime potty trained he stopped wetting at night and he would wet a lot at night so much that we used the Huggies Night Time diapers and he'd still leak. Within 2 months of his 3rd birthday he stopped wearing night time diapers. He's had some accidents and I've noticed a pattern so I can avoid them now.
My opinion is if you have no reason to push him being potty trained then don't. He'll do it soon enough on his own. You don't see many kindergarteners in diapers ;)!
FYI - On day in a restaurant my son was screaming 'I want potty train'! when I took his sister to the bathroom. It struck me then that he liked trains so I got him a special train that he could only hold while he sat on the potty, hence 'potty train'. It gave him a reason to sit and when he sat long enough something usually came out. He didn't start standing until he was 3 1/2. Sitting is much better for aiming issues. It's such an intersting topic!
Good luck and don't stress over it, he'll do it soon enough.

Hi L.,
Our pedi told us that when he started waking up dry it was time to potty train. Something about his body being able to control that function and send signals to his brain...I didn't get it at first, but when my son was about 3 months from turning 3, he his diaper was dry in the morning, and we started him on pull ups, sitting on the pot first thing in the morning, after lunch and throughout the day and within a month he was trained and it was that easy! I hope that helps. D.

U know I see sooooooo many mothers asking this question over and over again. I just don't get it. If ur child can say "poo poo" or ur child can walk......then potty train them! My daughter was potty trained by 15 mos. I'm not bragging here but mothers always ask if 2 1/2 is too young. I dont see how it is ever too young. The sooner they are potty trained the better but hey that's just my opinion.

No it is surely not to soon. We potty trained my oldest by 2 except for at night. At night he wore a pull up until he was 3. We start by making a game out of it. We have never used a potty chair only the toilet. Have him sit on it facing the tank because then you do not have to worry so much about the whole aming thing. We are now potty training the 20 month old. We reward him when he goes in the toilet and simply tell him that "pee and poop go in the toilet" when he does not.

Its time to potty train your son. My son was potty trained by two and a half. When he started walking I started walking him to the toilet!! I would put pull ups on him at night just in case he had an accident but he never did. After I saw that he wouldn't pee in the bed I put underwear on him all the time. I made it a big deal. I took my son to the store and told him to pick out his "big boy underwear". He loved the idea of picking out his underwear. U know to come to think about it my pediatrician had told me not to worry if he wouldn't go potty so early because she said on average a boy is still learning by the age of four. I was totally shocked when she told me this and I totally refused to have my son still potty training by the age of four. So thats why I started immediately.

We tried several different things that didn't work. Mainly in the end, we just made everything available to him. Books to read about going to the potty, the potty itself, a dvd about it. We just let it go and didn't do anything, do suggesting the potty or anything. In the middle of all this, we moved and were living in temporary housing. We made sure we had his potty there too. One day, in the middle of the afternoon, he went in, set up his potty (we were using it as a stepstool for brushing his teeth), and used it! I was sooooo surprised. He had a few accidents after that, but basically we made everything available to him and when he decided it was time, he did it on his own.
At night we still use pull-ups, but 98% of the time he wakes up dry, so we will start phasing out of those soon. I wanted to keep him in pull-ups for a little while so that if he did have accidents at night it didn't shake his confidence.