Why are unpotty-trained kids so un-open minded about using the toilet?

The toilet can be scary. It’s big, cold and makes a pretty loud noise when flushed.

Try using a potty chair and then graduate to the regular toilet.

Also, two is pretty young to potty train. All my kids were nearly three to three and half before they were ready. Each child is different. I found that when my kids were ready they were “trained” within a couple of weeks.

A bottomless hole that consumes anything that drops into it. Who in his right mind would get near it?

@ratboy Just wait until they get over that fear of and start flushing everything down lol.

Lol!

It’ll happen. Make a big deal when she does go potty, and express sympathy (NOT anger) when she messes up. Potty training is one of the first venues that kids learn they can have power over the parents.

There is also the powerful issue of feces and urine belonging to the child. They come from his body and therefore are important.

Children potty train when they are ready. Just because you decide to potty train a two year old, doesn’t mean the 2 year old is ready to be potty trained herself. I had one that trained herself at 18 months, and wet the bed every night until she was 4–½. The other one figured it out a week before her third birthday, had once accident the first day, and then never had an accident or wet the bed.

It’s not necessarily a battle of wills, it’s that she’s just not connecting the dots yet.

My grandkids get to go on a special trip to Disneyland with Gigi and Boppy when they get pottytrained. It looks so far like almost 3 is the age, but only three boys have had their special trip so far. The next will be a girl. She just turned 2 and is no where near ready.

It’s a trap!

lol @filmfann in more ways than one

Well I need some tips how to train her because her birthday’s feb. 22 Thats when she turns 3.

Here’s a good checklist

And remember just because her birthday is in February doesn’t mean she is ready. Try to avoid (at all costs) turning this into a battle of wills. Keep the process fun.

What I did was let them into the bathroom with me what I was using it. Eventually they asked questions and I answered them. I would ask them if they wanted to sit on the toilet for a few minutes and then sat them there until they wanted to come down.

If your child is in disposable diapers then you’ll want to change to training pants. The child needs to feel what wet feels like and the disposable diapers don’t do that. Ask you child if they want to try peeing on the potty. Eventually they will say yes. There will be many missed starts here. When the child eventually pees on the potty celebrate it like she just discovered the cure for cancer.

I then devised a reward for every time my kids made it to the toilet successfully.

I went through the same process for learning how to poop on the potty. This one is usually easier but my last child was a hold out. He refused to poop on the potty because his routine was to head under the dining room table and crouch there until he was done. No amount of cajoling on my part made him want to go on the potty. Until I struck on an idea.

I got my oldest son to “phone” my youngest son as Spiderman (he loved him at that point). Spiderman gave him instructions on what he needed to do.

After a few phone calls my son headed to the potty and viola! He went. I had my oldest son run upstairs and call him again congratulating him as Spiderman. After a few episodes like that he was trained.

Try to avoid (at all costs) turning this into a battle of wills. Keep the process fun. ‘Nuff said. She has control over this situation, not you….don’t let her find this out.

My son and his girlfriend are trying to potty train her 3 year old…I can tell you one mistake right off the top they’re making, and that is that the toilet isn’t really accessible to him. They have one of those seats that you put on top of the toilet, and they expect him to climb Mount Everest every time he has to go #2. For #1 they expect him to stand on his tip-toes and try to hit the toilet.

My son didn’t even know he could stand up to pee until he was fully trained. He came back from his Dad’s once, all excited. Couldn’t wait to show me what he’d learned! For about two months he just wanted to pee everywhere! Outside, on trees…once I had pulled the toilet to lay new flooring. He got all happy feet when he saw that hole in the floor. Wanted to know if he could pee into it. I said I didn’t care! And he did.

It’ll happen. Try not to stress.

Do you have any training tips for boys… The girl is a identical twin with a boy.

Cheerios in the toilet bowl. Ask him to hit them with his urine stream.

Or toilet targets… I eat cheerios for breaky!

Well, as I said, for a boy I wouldn’t push the pee standing up thing.
Other than that, it’s all the same.

What about poopy?

I found that training for that was easier as most kids are very regular in when they go. The outward signs are easier to spot.

Like I outlined in my post above: sometimes you need to be creative. Spiderman worked wonders with my son…but that was his “currency” at that point. Most kids just find they like not having poop smeared to their bottoms once they experience pooping on the potty a few times. As a parent you just need to watch them and gently remind them to make a dash for the potty.

ok.

I’ve always thought that it must be easier for a kid to control BM’s than urine. For some reason, people tend to feel like they need to get the peeing down first…anyway, you’ll soon notice, if you haven’t already, that the kids need to go #2 soon after they start a meal.

Wow this sounds easy…

It’s not easy in that it requires patience, and patience isn’t always easy to come by. Everyone thinks they have above average problems with potty training, but no one really does. I think part of it is they can’t imagine why a kid wouldn’t want to use the toilet instead of a diaper!

I know they feel all wet and sticky that can’t feel good:)