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need to start potty training, any suggestions.....
I need to start potty training my 2 year old son. I feel i have no choice because he is getting to big for size 6 diapers, and he is leaking alot. but how do i get started???? I feel in some ways he is ready and in some he is not. He refuses to sit on the potty without his diaper on. He likes to pretend to go potty. Im not sure he gets it yet. Im just wondering what i will do when these size 6 diapers just dont fit anymore! How do i teach my son that we go peepee and poopoo in the potty, without a diaper on???? And convince him to try it??
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Hi! I have a 3 year old son and we started to potty train him at 2 years. We started by letting him pick out his own potty seat.....we bought a Baby Bjorn potty becuase it had a splash guard up front, but there are lots of choices out there now. We also told him how exciting it would be when he got to wear big kid underwear. We let him pick out a package of undies, whatever character he wanted. He was really excited about the underwear like daddy wears!
When we would go to the bathroom we would ask him if he would like to come along and sit on his new potty. Starting out he sat there with his diaper on. After a couple weeks we would have him pull his diaper down and sit without it. When we would go we would clap and get excited saying "mommy went pee on the potty!" etc. He would get excited and clap along with us. We would talk to him about going and how exciting it is. We did offer him a sticker if he would go on the potty but that didn't last very long for him.
When we first started he liked sitting on him potty but he didn't really want to go. We just kept encouraging him but not pushing. We backed off while we were moving (at about 2 1/2 years old) and then once we got moved we started encouraging him again. One day he just went in the bathroom and peed by himself. He was so excited that he kept on doing it. By 3 years we no longer had to remind him to go potty. He still has accidents some times at night, but they don't happen very often. : )
Potty training can be tough. It can be very frusterating at times. I have a good friend who's son was not potty trained until he was 3 1/2. All kids are different so be patient with your son and yourself! Hope this helps! : )
Jill
I am a babysitter and have potty trained 3 toddlers in the past year (including my own son!). What I did and it worked like a charm for all of them was just put them in their underwear and that was it. They all had accidents for the first 3 or so days (lots of accidents!). The key is to not give in because they want to stay in their diaper because it is easier for them. Once you stick with it no matter how many accidents they will realize that they aren't getting their diapers back and will start to feel pride in doing a good job on the potty. I also had a chart for their potty training week and every time they went on the potty they got a star sticker on their chart. Once they got 5 stars, they could pick a prize out of the prize bin (stickers, little toys). All of the kids were potty trained completely in less than a week. By day 4 they all were having only one accident and none by the end of the week. After two weeks they were ready to sleep in their underwear. Just never punish them for accidents, let them know that they are ok and they happen just to do better next time. Try this and you will see incredible results.
I started potty training my son at 2 1/2. I first had my husband take him to the bathroom every time he had to go so my son could see what to do. My son wants to be like his dad so i figured that if daddy does it he would want to. The second thing I did was I got several books for him about potty training. We have the following books: No More Diapers for Ducky, What color is your underwear?, and Potty time with Elmo. We also purchased the DVD: Potty time with Bear. All these things got him excited to start.
I used pull ups with him but than he got smart and would do a test squirt to see if he was wearing underwear or pull ups. At that point ,I got rid of the pull ups and went right to underwear. He has a chart in his bathroom and first he got a sticker each time he went. Now he gets a sticker if he makes it to the potty without having wet underwear.
I did not push him at all. He did it when he was ready. He still will have an accident from time to time but we do not make a big deal about it because I want the potty to be a positive thing.
Goodluck!