I have a 3 years old Boy N i am having troubles potty training him..I've tried everything

Sabrina - posted on 01/06/2009

I am having difficulty training my 3yr old too!  It is so frustrating!  I don't even know if he is aware of the urge, he is always so busy I don't even think he is paying attention to it.  He will tell me he has pooped after he has done it cause he hates the way it feels on his butt but won't do it on the potty!  Does anyone have suggestions cause I think I have tried everything including plastic underwear to putting him on the pot after he drinks.  Sometimes he will go a little while after drinking but that is only if I catch it before he goes in the pull ups!

Deborah - posted on 01/06/2009

I'm potty training my second son and with my first we used the old fashion underwear and plastic ones over to try to help with wetting the clothes. He would sit on the regular size toliet with a child little sit on it and was fine but I started him in spring and he was trained in 5 months. I have started my second and it has not been easy. I have not change to the old fashion yet due to he refuse to sit on the toliet sometimes.. Says it is to cold (babysitters house the bathroom is cold). So hoping he will change his mind in a couple of month since we want to put him a 3k program and they have to be potty trained.

Heidi - posted on 01/06/2009

I am having a similar issue. I have three boys. The oldest one, one day said I have to go potty and went on the potty and has never had an accident. He was about three months shy of 3 years old. Second one was potty trained right around 3 years old and we had to work with him a little. The youngest one doesn't really seem to care and will be 3 years old in two weeks. It is hard because the other two were at least showing interest and either using the potty full time or at least using it from time to time by now. We just got him undies and hopefully that will help jump start the potty training.

Kristie - posted on 01/06/2009

We're having problems as well. However, we have the pottying down. We've even been able to take him out in big-boy underwear! Our problem is pooping! He can tell us when he has to go he just refuses to. He did it once but it scared him to death and he hasn't done it since!

As for the pottying-we found just putting him in big-boy underwear instead of pull-ups worked better because its uncomfortable. the potty runs down his leg. I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown for about 2 1/2 days because I was contantly washing underwear but he finally got the hang of it! :) Take him to the store and let him pick out his own underwear!

Maymie - posted on 12/24/2008

I have a 7 year old son that we struggled with to potty train. And then one night completly out of the blue at bedtime he said i need to go potty... so i excitedly ran him to the bathroom and he did it... from then on it was no problem - I also have a 6 year old daughter she was a different story. She jumped in feet first and never looked back. Now i am working on a 3 year old son and he is just like his big brother He has really good days and then really bad days. i truly think that boys will let you know when they are ready for it and in the mean time all we can do is be patient (not one of my virtues) and when the time is right they figure it out!

Brenda - posted on 12/22/2008

When I was potty training my then just shy of being 3 yr old son, I had no difficulty getting him pee pee trained, but going stinky was a different story. He loved to watch videos. One day he asked to watch a video, and out of my frustration I told him he could only watch a video if he went poo poo on the potty. I kept to my word. Each and every time he did his business on the potty, he earned video time. Sometimes, he was able to watch two a day, other days he didn't get one because he didn't have a bowel movement. By the end of the week he was using the potty completely. I kept it up for an additional time just for good measure. I had tried M&M's, exuberant praise, etc. When I took video privileges away, I stumbled upon his currency. I unknowingly created a desire in him to want to make stinkies on the potty. I know it is very frustrating and seems like it takes forever before it clicks with them. Hang in there. It will happen.

Lisa - posted on 12/22/2008

I started my son with potty training when he was 3 years also. It took about a year due to the sitter putting diapers on him while I was at work but it was a difficult task. I was always told during that year that boys will let you know when they are ready to be potty trained...IT'S TRUE!! The only thing that I did was put BIG BOY underwear on him and ask him every 15 minutes if he needed to go. I put him on the potty anyway if his answer was NO. Every time he went potty I made a big deal about it, like clapping my hands and screaming "yeah" to show him what a big boy he was. After that grew old, I kept his piggy bank on the back of the toilet and when he went to the bathroom like a big boy he got a quarter that he could put in his bank himself. It seemed to work well. If anything, just keep in mind that he will reach that moment and start asking you to go on the potty. Hope this helps! ~ Lisa