help me! potty training?!

edited March 2011 in Parenting
I've been trying to potty train my boy for6 months now and no luck. H will be 4 by the time the new bab arrives ad iI would like for him to be outtadiapers before the newborn comes. I feel like i've tried everything. Any tips?! I would appreciate it :-D

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  • edited March 2011
    my little one is ganna be one in April and all im doing right now is showing him the potty where he can sit and enjoy. :) heard that it's harder to potty train boys then girls. I'm not really looking forward to it myself. great luck to you hun! Let me know how it goes.
  • I don't watch Dr. Phil or have any interest in him whatsoever but he has a potty training program that supposedly works in 1 day... google "Dr. Phil potty training" hope you find it, and I hope it helps
  • At this point anything is helpful. My mom told me run water while he sits on the toilet,Put cheerios in there,and leave him in underware all day. Well I would leave him on the toilet before takin him a bath and when i turned to get a towel for him. He took out his #2 from the tub. ugh and yuck!
  • My son will turn 4 in june hes been using the potty for a month and a half now...it tok me a while..just be patient but never give up..boys r harder to potty train than girls..like I sayd dont give up he'll let u know whenhes ready.
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  • I've heard boys are harder than girls and that he'll let me know when he's ready, I guess i just need to be a lil more patient with him because its the last thing he really needs to do. Getting him off bottles was easy, the paci was hard but done before he was 3. Preschools around here wont take him unless he knows how to go.
  • My son was pretty easy. He showed interest in potty training on his own, so I started putting him in underwear and taking him to sit on the toilet every couple hours. After a few weeks, he'd tell me he had to pee and would get rewarded in the beginning with M&M's. The one thing he wasn't too keen on was doing #2. For some reason it scared him. Anyway, consistency and really rewarding good behavior worked out for me. I never punished him for accidents or anything. He's been totally potty trained since he was a little over 2. Good luck! :)
  • You should buy a musical potty as soon as they go toilet it plays a tune.it worked really well for my son.befor that he had no interest in using a potty :-)
  • @rtmommy did you give the reward of m&ms before he peed or after?& should I buy under wear because pull ups are like diapers. Curious ...trying to train also,& I like that idea.hes 15 months and pats at himself AFTER he done his business :-bd X_X
  • My first son was potty trained around 2, but only because he kept getting awful diaper rashes. I told him if he went on the potty that wouldn't happen, and he started using the potty. I gave him m&ms too, when he told me he had to go and actually went. It took longer for him to poop in the toilet than pee, and I still can't get him to stay dry consistently overnight (he's 4 now). My step-son regressed horribly after his siblings were born and was back in diapers within a week (he was 3/4 at the time). When we trained him we let him run around naked for a while and that worked, but it was messy (it wasn't my first choice, but we had to follow his mom's lead). My second son is 27 months now, and though he'll sit on the potty, he waits until he's well away from it before he'll go pee. If he knows he has to pee he won't even let me sit him on the potty.
  • I just started a potty chart with my son on sunday and there has been not one accident since then...every time he goes he gets to put his sticker on his chart
  • I know it sounds bad but my dad had my son peeing on trees and off the back porch he made it a game to see how high or far the pee went. Potty trained him quick but the gad to break him of peeing outside when in town LOL also try putting a cheerio in the toilet and have him aim for it like a game! And rewards for going in potty my son got buzz lightyear when he didn't need diapers.
    My daughter learned best from other kids. Like how little girls all go potty together. She would go with her older cousin a lot! Learned super quick.
  • My son is 3 and he's been fully potty trained now for 6 months now..what I did was show him he could stand or sit and showed him how to aim and everytime he went I gave him a treat or candy lol it worked good and after a while he did it on his own.. now pooping that was tough and he still no matter what shat himself so this may sound mean but im telling u it worked.. took him outside bare butt and sprayed him with the hose.. he never not used the potty again lol
  • @Stevkam0911 I specifically put my son in underwear because pull ups still feel like a diaper on the inside. They need to be able to feel a difference when they pee their pants. It meant changing my son's outfit a few times here and there, but he very rarely has accidents now. As for the treats, he got them after he went potty, flushed, and washed his hands. I'm a strict mommy and pretty OCD with the hand washing so had to be rewarded after doing it all correctly. Haha hope that helps.
  • Do the treats like m&ms or jelly beans, 1 for pee 2 for poo. Let him wathc you or daddy go all the time.. Let him watch daddy aim for cheerios. and when you poop.. call him in there and say look im going poop! when im all done I get 2 candies. then whe you are done wipeing show him the poop in the potty and exlaim yay it didnt hurt, lets wash and get some candy.. then eat it so he can see it.. it will give him the will to want to and it will show him not to be afraid. No pull ups.. they take advantage of them, only good for night time or car rides... Letting them run arround nekid also gets them aware of the signs of needing to go. Be honest with him about the parts and have daddy if you are not cofortable to show him how to use it. And no fluids 1 hour before bed time helps witht the through the night.
  • Okay...so I'm a mommy of 3, 1 boy, and have a home daycare. Boys are harder but not impossible. Here are some of the things we have found to be most successful.
    1: underwear...dont go back and forth between pullups/diapers. keep em in undies even at night. Get a plastic mattress cover and some cheap white sheets so you can bleach them if you need to.
    2:reward them...i love sticker charts not food. At 4 you can give him a certain # of stickers to earn for a fun prize...the dollar store is great for this. Also, if you have a chuck e cheese near you they have charts on their website that earn free tokens.
    3: dont discipline for accidents cause this can scare them into regressing...but it is okay at 4 to discuss why its not okay to potty I.n pants.
    4: try not to plan long outings while potty training...take them every 15 mins till they get used to putting the place w the feeling. We also have books in there so they can read and take more time. Dont continually ask are you done...get to where you dont have to be right there the entire time.
    5: have lots of patience!!!

    Rewardi.g them with food is not the best idea...it sets their mind frame that good behavior rquals food and can lead to eating issues and weight problems later on.
  • what my step mom did and I am going to do the same is every time she has to go to the bathroom she takes her son and puts him on his potty and that will get him used to going in his potty and not his dipper
  • Some of us believe that treats such as candies are a good thing and dont lead to wait problems. All of my nephiews and neices and daugter all I helped potty train with canndies and not one of them has a weight problem. They are all happy healthy and in the 99% tile. all 10 of them. And it is good to teach children that they only get treats like candy when they do something positive. It teaches them that they cannot have it all the time that it is a Treat. If you are health concious try banana chips or naturaly sweetened dried fruit, they work the same way, they are a treat.:)
    And remeber that You are the mommy and what you do is great! NOTHING YOU ARE DOING IS WRONG! Advice is exactly that, advice, to be taken or to be put aside. The only thing you could be doing wrong is abusing you kid, and I highly doubt if you are on this sight seeking advice that you are doing so :)
    Patiance is a vertue! Wisdom is great, Live, Laugh And Love!
  • Thank you ladies so much! I greatly appreciate the advice and will try some. I really want to get him into school so he can socialize and so I don't have to worry about Doyle the expense for diapers. Thanks again :-D
  • I did a boot camp kinda thing I seen on dr.phil. I had him pantless for the day or 3 and if he went on the floor he would clean up his mess and frm there he just got tired of cleaning it up and used the toilet ..you need to have everyone helping you. Say your son goes to your moms or sister..make sure they don't put a diaper on him. I didn't like pull up cus they were like diapers still to me. And as a reward..STICKERS! One sticker..let him pick out one and put it on his potty poster you have by the toilet :)
    hope all goes well!
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