Potty training.

Boys stand to pee, not sit. Get him a little step stool to pull up to the toilet, toss in some cheerios and tell him its target practice. We never outgrow that

My 1st daughter (now 10) wouldn't poop her pants for nothing but she didn't stop peeing her pants until she was in 2nd grade, and stopped having accidents all together just last year! My 2nd daughter (now 6) was pretty easy, potty trained over night practially. But when I was potty training my now 4 year old daughter, she refused to poop in the potty, she'd go pee just fine but would rather poop her pants but she was still wearing pullups. She was also having 'hard' poops so her dr recommended softners to help things along and we started putting her in panties instead of the pullups, thank goodness she got out of that by the time she was 2 1/2 (we were soaking underwear quite a bit, yuck!). I only have one more left to work on, she'll be 2 next month, I'll pray for us both!

i live in europe and potty training is completely looked down upon here. i am american by the way but i live in europe so i'm doing it euro style as far as potty training. our pediatrician said that kids need to figure it out on their own. and the only way they're gonna do that is if they see the pee. seems silly but it's true. so we waited until the summer months and basically let our son run around naked. we let him pee in the grass, in the bushes, in the driveway...wherever as long as he could see it. my husband even demonstrated once! anyway, that is what my son does now. if we're outside and it's a hot day, he goes outside. if we're inside, he gets his stepstool and goes in the toilet. boys need to stand when they pee. the whole sitting down business is for girls.

now pooping on the other hand...that is taking a bit more time and practice. my son likes his privacy so he has yet to tell me BEFORE he has to go poop. so lots of times, he will go in his underwear. it's frustrating but it's a learning process. you have to learn how to walk (pee in the toilet) before you can run (poop in the toilet).

best of luck. patience is a virtue!

Is peeing or just pooping giving you trouble? My first child who just started kindergarten today had a lot of trouble potty training. By the time he 3 1/2 he pretty much had it down. Up until this year he always tried to avoid pooping. I think he just hated to stop playing and sit down. I always have to remind him to go poop or he will get constipated from holding it in too long. I let him sit when he was learning or stand it isn't important at this age to fuss over the details. If he needs help peeing try putting cheerios in the potty and having him try to sink them. It helps if daddy shows him how. He started out sitting and decided he should be standing like daddy. At first it is very difficult for some boys to aim so sitting may be easier. Sorry if this was just about pooping, i wasn't sure. I have an 20 month old boy who I am about to start *trying* to train now that big bubba is at school and I will have more time. I know some people who simply stop putting their kids in diapers during the day and make them go potty or be dirty. They clean them every time they have an accident and got thru a lot of clothes at first but it seemed to work well for their girls. Not sure if boys would be any different or not. Good Luck!

Oh and I wouldn't push it big time. Just really encourage it. Don't punish for accidents I think that can make the child associate potty with punishment. I would make them help clean up accidents though. I also bribed with a piece of his favorite candy. He finally quit asking for candy when he would potty on his own and it worth it to get him trained.

Don't force it. It doesn't work. We had to kind of force our son because we ran out of diaper sizes for him. We ended up doing a sticker book and small (cheap) toys. Stickers for going #1 and a toy for going #2. We tried the every 1/2 hour thing, etc. What ended up working in the end was we stripped him down while at home and he ran around buck naked on the bottom. He didn't to have an accident on the carpet, so it would force him to go on the potty. We also put his little potty in the living room (might be gross to think about but it worked!). So he could sit and watch TV if he wanted. Eventually he just got it.

Now for night time potty training, he kinda did that on his own. Just started waking up dry all of a sudden and that was that.

Now with his sister...she's just a stinker. She KNOWS she has to go on the potty...she just doesn't want to take the time! But she's getting MUCH better. She's pretty much all daytime potty trained, but not night time yet. We weren't as consistent with the stickers with her though because she seemed to catch on quicker than our son did. Oh...she turned 3 in March.

Don't push it, he will figure it out in his own time. Every kid is different, and there is no magic age to potty train. I wanted my 1st son to be potty trained before my 2nd son was born. He was about 3 at the time, and he had zero interest in the potty. I made him sit on it for a long time with a cup to drink and nothing. I even put the potty chair in the living room so he could watch tv, still nothing. I tried all the tricks and tips from everyone under the sun and still nothing. So I gave up and resigned myself to buying 2 sizes of diapers once the baby was born. One day when he was about 3 1/2 he decided he wanted to try the potty and we had success! After that he just ran around with no pants and would go potty several times a day on his own for about a week. Once I was confident that he would use it regularly I put pants and undies on him and he has been fine ever since. It was really easy when he did it on his own and I made it stressful for both of us in the beginning by trying to force him to do something he wasn't ready for

My daughter will be 3 next month and we just now are officially potty trained. Still wearing a diaper at night though, and she hates it. We never pushed her, just encouraged her.

We were at Walmart one day and she saw Lightning McQueen undies in the boy section and had to have them. We told her she couldn't poop or pee in them and she said okay, and since then she's been trained.

I guess I'm suggesting letting him pick out his own undies?

I also bribed with a piece of his favorite candy. He finally quit asking for candy when he would potty on his own and it worth it to get him trained.

we tried that and after 3 times of being rewarded she started to say she had to go potty every 5 minutes. she could dribble pee out if she desired.

potty training has been our biggest headache. at 3 we just put her in panties in the day and dealt with the accidents. she is pretty defiant and the more you want her to do something the more she will fight it. She didn't have accidents while we were out. At home we did and they were usually related to us asking her to use the potty. once we left her alone to decide if she needed to go and trusted her decision, she significantly reduced her accidents.

now we just need to work on the night time! she has never woken up dry and I swear she has an extra bladder.

Just wait. My son turned three on June 24 still in diapers and with no interest in the potty whatsoever. The following week, he suddenly started using the potty on his own. Follow your boy's lead and he'll let you know when he's ready for it.