How do i get my 2yr old to potty train??

Emily - posted on 01/20/2010

Thanks im trying to do these things but my son does not care if he is in poo poo or pee pee he is just stubborn i wish he would ease up on us diapers cost alot and wow we dont have alot of money so im trying my best with him i really am LOL but thank you all for helping me

Janice - posted on 01/20/2010

The only thing I can tell you is what I'm doing with my 3 year old. ..He's been in pull ups for a few months. I started with putting a potty seat in the bathroom when he was 20months. (as I'm typing, he's in "big boy underwear" just farted, and stated "no poo poo my pants" lmao) Anyway... whenever I'd go to the bathroom, I'd take him with me and set him on his potty. Pretty soon he wanted to pee pee in his potty. He went for about a month before he started recognizing when he needed to pee, so we switched to the pull ups. Just last week I started taking the pullups completely away during the day and putting him in the big boy pants. He's been really good with peeing in the potty, but he's had a few accidents with number 2. It takes consistency. ..I admit, I've had a few lazy days where I've just kept him in pullups all day long, but it takes some time. (And it greatly cuts down on costs when you need to replenish the pullups).

Kaila - posted on 01/20/2010

HaHa my husband says that he wanted a boy cause he was excited to potty train. He says to put cheerios in the potty chair or the toilet and let your son "aim" at them. Like turn it into a game and then the next time he goes hell want them to be there so he can aim at them haha and after so long hell want to be able to put his own in there. A friend of mine got her son a potty watch it was a watch that u set for 15, 30, 45 minutes or an hour and when it would go off it says its time to go potty or it sings a song or something like that and it was pretty much a reminder for her to put him on the toilet at that time and eventually he was telling her that it was time to go because the watch said so...and now hes going with out it.

Mistie - posted on 01/20/2010

my two year old son did the same thing. he would tell me he pooped and to change him after he already did it. pull ups didnt work for my son. so one day i bought him a pack of underwear of his fave movie "cars" and ever since i put them on him he always gos to the potty.

Whitney - posted on 01/20/2010

Hm... My daughter is 3 and she is now fully potty trained and she never had an accident the whole time I was potty training her. I would let her come into the bathroom when I was going and each time ask her if she would like to try. I also let her run around naked a lot so she would have to get used to having to tell me when she had to go and I would just put diapers on her when she told me she had to until she originated and was ready to use the potty. Then one day when I asked her she just decided it was a good idea and she started using the potty every time, I would just tell her how amazing she was every time she would go to the bathroom and made a HUGE deal about how exciting it was to wear cool underwear. So I would say overall just let them be self determined about it and if they don't want to go on the potty and they want to use the diaper every now and then let them. They will get it down when they are ready and you will get to avoid the accidents in the underwear which I really was not interested in handling.

Emily - posted on 01/20/2010

Thank all of you for helping me im going to try each one something needs to happen he is such a hard headed little man LOL but i do appreciate the insight because i was starting to lose my mind LOL

Crystal - posted on 01/19/2010

go let him pick out big boy underwear and buy them put them on over his diaper/pull up and tell him when he starts to use the potty then he can just wear big boy underwear with out the diaper/pull up and make a chart put it in the bathroom and list it form everything to trys to potty to him using the potty put a sticker on it and once he get so me reward him " its works even if he trys and doesnt use it still he attemped to and that a start it should get a stick thats how we are doing" Good luck

Victoria - posted on 01/19/2010

My son is the same way and he just turned 2. He freaks and screams change change f he has a dirty diper and he even says peepee on the potty but when we go on the potty he just makes a peeing noise with his voice and says all done...lol. Its frustrating. My mom keeps telling me to just stop buying dipers and have him wear only underwear or nothing for a few days or so and she claims he should pick it up with some positive feedback, praise and possibly a prize in no time. We'll see good luck to you:)

Karen - posted on 01/19/2010

Like Carmelia, I started putting my youngest daughter (2 1/2 yrs. old) in underwear, she started to go once in a great while to the potty. She knows how to dress herself, so, she'd just change her clothes right away. We did that for weeks. Then one day we only put her in diapers at night. When we finished the jumbo pack of diapers, we simply didn't buy anymore. She threw her diaper away in the am, noticed we didn't have diapers, and started going potty immediatly. (Outta sight, Outta mind) She made it 3 days and nights dry (of course we didn't give her much at all to drink after 7pm and made her go potty before bed.) She is still doing well and doesn't even think about diapers. She used to be attatched to them till we tried this. She has an accident every couple of days or so. (Mostly peeing her pants, she does excellent with #2)

Carmelia - posted on 01/19/2010

Make him walk around the house with underwear. I did that to my two year old n she messed her underwear up n she did nt like and ever sice then she has been going to the potty