OK, so my DS #2 has taken after his mother :mrgreen: and decided to be hard headed. His, is just about potty training. :x So what advice does the 4042 peeps have that will make this easier. I'm about to lose my noodle....
Honestly, I don't know what to say. I've always heard that boys are harder than girls. DD#1 was super duper easy. DD#2 is already at 18 months starting to show an interest. Matter of fact, I think I'ma buy her a potty this weekend. I don't know girl.....I'll defer to the mothers of boys on this one.
My two DSs were easy. Never had a wet bed or undies. I didn't do anything special. But I did hear not to use the training undie diaper - Pull ups, things so I didn't.
My first ds was easy as pie. Put him in underwear one day and that was it!! No accidents no nothing!!! NOW!!! I am about to start potty training DS #2, I am just going to put him in big boy undies, we will see how it goes. I have heard not to use pullups because they are so much like diapers, but I am a firm believer in finding what works for you and going for it. Myself, right now I am just going straight undies.
Ok I did use pull ups but I had 2 reason's. DS was a big boy and diapers are only so big, second he was not a strip down kind of baby so this was an easy way to teach him to pull his undies up and down before we actually started potty training. Then one day when I was ready and he was showing interest we went straight to undies for day time only. He was very hard to train over night. He would never stay dry at night and still has some accidents even now.. So just do what works best for you and little man!
mine were 3, and then some....not quite 3 1/2.....what have you done so far? is he just not interested?
#1 was 3 and #2 was shortly before his 3rd bday. both boys. docs told me dont push it with boys, 3 is the norm.
he ain't ready girl....boys are slow.....what you could try to do is get some cheerios and/or fruit loops for him to 'hit the target' by throwing those in the potty.....and DH needs to take him to the bathroom every single time he goes (for #1 of course ) and see if he (DS) wants to play hit the target..... if he goes with hubby every time, he'll start to 'get it' and want to be like Dad....
Wow, how times have changed, the norm 20 yrs ago was 18months. It did help that they had to be trained by 2yo for any daycare to accept them. BTW, 3 boys and they were all pretty easy, 1st one wanted to do like Daddy and #2 and #3 wanted to be like big brother - also choosing their favorite character for the underwear was always a big deterrent for accidents:lol:
18 months? never.....only have to be potty trained for pre-school.....and that's age 4.....interesting how times have changed indeed.
Boys do 'catch on' later than girls most of the time, so you may be trying too soon. But with mine, we made it a routine thing. Sat him on the potty every 30min -1 hr (depending on what he'd consumed) and if he went, yay - he got a reward, if he didn't, that was okay too - but eventually he started going more often than not and did not have too many accidents thereafter. He's 21yrs old now - so I don't really remember at what age we started the training... :lol:
Waited until I felt mine were oldest enough and could easily comprehend why they needed to go in the toilet, and of course so there'd be less mess to clean up, which was about 2 1/2 - 3 years of age. At this age that have better control of their bodily functions and have a higher level of understanding of why they need to use the potty. One of my sisters was so determined to have her first child potty trained before two, a million accidents and 1 year later she had her little potty trained. She didn't try that with the others, just let it happen when they were ready.
I never 'sat mine' for #1....I got them a little step stool.....sitting came for #2...I figured they might as well start peeing on everything right from the start....cuz you know they are eventually....:mrgreen:
