i want my almost three year potty trained!

Leticia - posted on 02/02/2010

I would like to know what to do too...my sone will be 3 yrs. old in May and he will not go on the potty only if he wants to. He wears diapers and he says he needs to go potty when he has already gone. when we are out he says he wants to go to the potty so I take him he never goes he just likes to flush the toilet. I don't know what to do to get him interested. I have tried giving him stickers when he goes, his potty chair plays music when he goes but he figured out that he just has to put water in it and it does the same thing, I cheer for him when he goes and get all excited it hasn't worked .......HELP!!

Marcy - posted on 01/31/2010

I am having the same problem too. Except I am not expecting another baby. My two and half year old girl, refuses to use the potty chair, we have bought 3 different kinds. She is able to tell me after the fact that she is wet or the other, but will not go in the potty chair. My mom bought her a potty watch, potty training underwear, bought the pull ups, etc... I feel we have done everything possible to get her to go, but we also get a lot of heck from other family members about how to train her. I personally feel that she will go when she is ready, this seems to be her temperment. Just give it time and it will happen, this is how I feel.

Hayley - posted on 01/30/2010

Make it a game, rewards are great. I said to my daughter "right, i have a new game for us to play! Whenever you need to go wee wee or poo poo, you tell mummy, and we go on the toilet. Every time you go on the toilet, you get a surprise!" When she goes on the loo, she gets a sweet or a small prezzie, and when she doesnt, i ignore it, and no treat no matter how much she asks.

Laurin - posted on 01/29/2010

i have heard its harder to potty train boys my best friends son is about the same age as my daughter and shes having trouble with him but maybe you (traci) should try telling ur son look at ur sister shes using the potty and tell ur daughter to help brother use the potty just somthing to try it might work

Nicole - posted on 01/28/2010

thanks everyone.. he's been doing really good the past two days.. he's dad is in the army.. so ive bought him some "army colored" underwear and tells him his daddy wears this kinda of underwear and he's gotta be a big boy like daddy.. and when he goes in the potty i give him a high five and tel him good job.. its been working really well.. we've only had bout 6 accidents lol 5 of them yesterday only one today.. but im still afarid to put clothes on him.. i dont wanna change everything.. lol thanks everyone

Traci - posted on 01/28/2010

Don't feel bad I am having the same problem. I have boy/girl twins that are 3 in April and my daughter has been potty trained for months. My son wants nothing to do with it. I just bought him Diego pull-ups and he really could care less. I also bought him tons of underwear and he doesn't care. My 19 month old son shows more interest then him. 3 in diapers was so costly and even two is. I am ready for him to be potty trained. I am reading all the advice...is it at all different for boys? Thanks for asking the question, I am getting some good advice

Laurin - posted on 01/27/2010

get him some underwear that he likes and a potty he likes also and constantly ask him if he has to go potty through out the day and even if he says no take him and sit him on his the potty trust me it works i got my daughter potty trained like that before she turned two she loves her elmo big girl panties and potty!!

Felicia - posted on 01/27/2010

What I had to do to my son was tell him that diapers are for babies not for big boys like him thats what I had to do to my son and every time he would use the toilet I will act really happy, I would tell him good job give me five!!!!!!!!!!! and when he went in his diaper I would act a little angry and put him in time out

Melanie - posted on 01/26/2010

I had the same problem. I am due in a few months and my almost 3 year old son was determined not to be toilet trained and there is no way we could afford 2 lots of nappies. I tried everything and nothing seemed to work but then I kept hearing that chocolate works so I tried it and it took maybe a day or 2 and he soon realized that if he went in the potty he got a bit of chocolate and if he went in his undies he got nothing. The trick is though that you can't give them chocolate any other time at all because if they are getting it anytime of the day what would be the incentive?? So far it has worked for us for the last few months. Also he loves to flush the toilet after you tip the potty in. Now most of the time he is more worried about the flushing part and forgets about the chocolate (which suits me just fine lol). I hope this helps a bit.

Cecelia - posted on 01/26/2010

I went through the same thing with my son. What I found was that the more pressure I put on him to be potty trained...the more he refused to do it. What I finally did was take a relaxed fun approach to it. When I relaxed....he relaxed and it got done. good luck :-)