Potty training.

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  • tabbykat6802
    tabbykat6802 Posts: 233 Member
    Potty Training in our house has been hard from the very start! My older 2 boys didn't get a clue until right after their 4th birthdays. We used a coin jar w/ a prize of a toy if he filled up the jar. He got a quarter for peeing and 2 quarters for pooping(I think-can't truly remember-He's 8 now). It took a bit, but success happened. My middle son it was candy. 1 hershey kiss for peeing. 2 hershey kisses for pooping. He caught on in a bit. He's 6 now.
    My youngest son will be 3 at the beginning of Sept. His daycare has been working on potty training for several months. He supposedly goes for them all day w/ only a few accidents. At home, he rarely goes at all. He will sometimes tell us when he's wet/dirty or that he needs to potty,but nothing comes out usually. We are discussing if we should switch up putting the pullup on the top. One of the problems is that he will not go in a potty chair. It has to be the real potty. The closest bathroom is upstairs, so it is not quickly arrived at by his little legs. If he gives some warning, I can attempt to carry him upstairs, but that has yet to be successful to getting him up there in time.
    I am not pushing him per se, but since daycare has been working with him and they are leaning to having him potty trained by the time he turns 3, so that he can go successfully into the 3's room. It is kinda hard on me b/c there seems to be success there, but not at home.
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    Mine would pee, but he wouldn't poop. The daycare would send his underwear home with him, and I was getting really frustrated because I knew he knew when he had to go, he just wasn't doing it. Then I read in Dr. Spock's book that you shouldn't get frustrated with them because it's hard for them to let go of it. So, what I did was make up a story. I told him that there's a big poo-poo party where all the poops get together and have a great time, but the only way his poop could go to that party was if he went in the toilet. If you poop in your pants, that poop isn't allowed to go and it will be a sad little poopie. It worked!

    OMG, brilliant!!

    My 3YO has peed in the potty many times since he was 2 1/2 (he just turned 3), but now has no interest. I'm not pushing it. He'll go when he's ready. He knows what it is and how to use it, but until it's his great idea to lose the diapers, he will not do it.

    All kids are different. My younger son, 17 months, already tells me when he's pooped and needs a diaper change. He's just more independent.

    If you are a very, very patient person, go ahead and try to push the issue. I'm not, so I don't. Best of luck!
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    I felt pressured to do it because the daycare expected the kids to be potty-trained before they started pre-school. It was hard to keep my cool, but it all worked out. :smile:
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    I felt pressured to do it because the daycare expected the kids to be potty-trained before they started pre-school. It was hard to keep my cool, but it all worked out. :smile:

    I enrolled my oldest in preschool, but he can't go (and I will lose my deposit) if he is not potty trained by Sept 5. I'm fortunate to be a stay home Mom, so I'm not going to stress out about it. He can go to school in January.
  • ohmykai
    ohmykai Posts: 210 Member
    My son just turned 3 on the 27th on July, I won't lie in saying it was TOUGH... The thing that finally got him was being in daycare and seeing all the other kids on a strict routine.... He was fully 100% potty trained in 3 weeks, I kid you not ;-)
  • sevsmom
    sevsmom Posts: 1,172 Member
    My daughter, now 12 was a nightmare. But, in all fairness, the summer we were going to start was the summer her father decided he wanted a divorce. . .so at 2 1/2 she had way too much stress to try to grasp the concept of using the toilet.

    Flash forward to my now 6 year old. . . I'm remarried with 3 older sons and my daughter. The baby wanted to sit on the toilet and feel like a "big boy" but he would NOT go. He was almost 2 at that point. Then, 3 months after his 2nd birthday, he found a pair of his older brother's spongebob underpants and wanted to wear them. He did, made a mess in them. We sat him on the toilet to finish. About 3 days of "practice" and it was done. But, HE wanted to. That was the key. Do what you can to make it seem fun. Make up silly phrases. . .one of his was "super duper pooper" and "plop plop, poop poop" all in a sing songy voice. When they think it's fun. . .they'll try it more often.
  • CallMeCupcakeDammit
    CallMeCupcakeDammit Posts: 9,377 Member
    I felt pressured to do it because the daycare expected the kids to be potty-trained before they started pre-school. It was hard to keep my cool, but it all worked out. :smile:

    I enrolled my oldest in preschool, but he can't go (and I will lose my deposit) if he is not potty trained by Sept 5. I'm fortunate to be a stay home Mom, so I'm not going to stress out about it. He can go to school in January.

    Now that would stress me out! But I'm not a SAHM. If that was the case, I'd be cool. :glasses:
  • follmer20
    follmer20 Posts: 129 Member

    I enrolled my oldest in preschool, but he can't go (and I will lose my deposit) if he is not potty trained by Sept 5. I'm fortunate to be a stay home Mom, so I'm not going to stress out about it. He can go to school in January.


    I thought about a daycare just for a couple hours a week. So he could be around kids his age. He doesn't know or play with anyone his own age so maybe if he did, and saw them going potty he would wanna. Also might help with his sharing toys, especially with his 5 month old sister who he take ps everything from she gets her hands on!

    Thanks everyone else for the responses. Hopefully it's not much longer but not gonna push it! :-)

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