Potty Traning

Go for it! Everyone told me boys are harder to train, but both boys were done in about two weeks and ready for the world in about a month. Also, both boys were around 2 years and 3-4 months. (Now they are 5 1/2 and 3) My tricks, go bold and go straight to underwear, big boy panties, no training pants at all. I think this confuses them, also if the get wet they do not like it. I also set a timer and made a big deal about going every hour, if we were playing outside in the yard I let them go outside on the bushes. They like this, a boy thing, and it helps them to see what is happening and train faster. Oh, and in the age of technology when ever they went poop in the potty the would send a pic of them smiling next to the toilet via text to their dad... Again a boy thing but it worked.

High fives and stickers helped, make a big deal every time. When they get to the point of venturing out of the house, please take them to public restrooms ASAP. The loud noises and other people are a bit distracting, but if you make it part of the deal they will get used to it fast. Now my boys think its fun to go in every one they can find, me not so much I have enough purell for the world lol.

Oh, no liquids an hour before bedtime and read your books then potty one last time before bedtime and rush them to the potty in the am and do the happy dance when he has been dry all night. If needed, get him up one last time to potty before you goto sleep, use a nightlight no big lights so he will learn he can navigate by himself if needed later.

Have fun!

We "started" a while ago... More like here's a potty and use it when you like. My 2 year 3 month old does ask to go, but usually AFTER she already did in her diaper. The chocolate treat incentive really helps. She's all about the M&Ms!

Not totally successful but at least she is getting familiar with it.

We are going to start this weekend as well...our son is 2-1/2 and appears to be ready to start. Good luck this weekend! Thank you everyone for the advice!

if you are old enough to be on this website, you should know how to go by yourself by now...

jus sayin....

we have a boy too. he was around same age when he started too! we went bare bottom for about a week- put the potty right in the middle of the living room. no underwear, no diaper nothing during the day. m & m's and stickers & tons of huge postive celebration worked really well, my son responded to this postively. then we slowly wiened off the candy & big fuss. kept the stickers as rewards but made less & less a big deal & sort of casual. then when we felt he was ready, we moved the potty into the bathroom. also we trained him sitting down 1st then when he again showed interest his daddy taught him how to stand & pee! they love that!

oh and don't pressure i think. if your son regresses too much, back off slightly. be firm but very gentle. it's a hard skilll for them to learn! also we found it helps to keep the bathroom door open so he could always watch both of us. we were very honest but matter of fact about the whole thing. now (he's turning 4) we are night training (going well) & starting to talk about privacy.

hope this helps! good luck!!!!

bump....i know my little one isn't ready yet, but he is also starting to get where he doesn't want mom changing his diaper and not really wanting to have one on and he is 6 and a 1/2 months old. The reason i am bumping it is this way i can come back and get advice on potty training.

My son is 3 and I can finally say he's potty trained! WOO HOO! My hubby and I have struggled with this for over 6 months. The first thing I will tell you is that it's absolutely true what they say. It's so much harder to train boys. My son for the longest time could have cared less if he peed or pooped in his pull-up. To get my son used to sitting on the potty, my hubby and I created a little reward chart. Every time he peed on the potty he got a smiley face. A poop got two. He could also earn a smiley face for saying he had to go on his own without prompting. After so many smiley faces, he got a train. (Feel free to plug in any type of toy you feel will motivate your son.) Once he got in the swing of sitting on the potty and actually putting something in there, we put ourselves on lockdown for a weekend and just had him in big boy underwear. No pull-ups. He hated being being wet. After 3 days (had to continue through Monday), we were good to go. Cameron has had a couple of accidents, but he's been really good about stopping himself when he starts to pee both times.

I also agree with the M&Ms. We used that trick because Cameron was petrified of using the "big" potty and would only use the little baby Bjorn potty.

Best of luck and be patient!

Use M&Ms as an incentive!! Good luck!!

^^^^This is exactly what I did. I got it from an old book called "Toilet Training in Less Than a Day"...and it worked. My son was trained in one day.

Don't use pull ups let them go comando, try not to leave the house for the first few days, have him drink lots of water and take them don't ask if they need to every 30 min. once they get the hang of it every hour should be good. Make a HUGE deal when they go!! And have everyone in the house take part in congratulating for good work! Just potty trained my 2 year old. 3 days of peeing herself but after that an occasional accident and the last one was about a month ago