Potty training 2

[detroitguy]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my earlier post! The potty training is going well! Pithlet, the race car idea was a big, big help!

My son is still a little reluctant to do "No. 2" in the potty. He has done it, but doesn't like it much. For the time being, I've decided not to push it and let him use a diaper for that when he asks (as he has twice). But we now leave him in underpants at all other times unless he is sleeping.

When he does use the potty, he get a little celebration and a prize.

[Pithlet]

1. Good! I'm glad.

We're having number 2 issues as well. He was doing okay for awhile, but now he's completely stopped. We're at a loss as for what to do. Sometimes he calls it "scary poopy" so we wonder if there isn't something medical going on. We're going to ask the ped about it.

[cally]

2. First congratulations, then the bad news

My youngest waited 3 years, yep 3 years, to poop in the toilet. She was without diapers at 2. She would ask for a diaper to poop. Sounds good. Three years later it was not good. I got called from work to come get my daughter who had intense stomach pains. She got in the car and asked for a diaper and well, she was fine. Nothing worked.

I've posted this before but here is what worked. A long time friend who I rarely saw spent the day with us. She had a young baby. She was changing his diaper and explaining to my daughter that big girls like her don't need their diapers changed. My friend had no idea of the problems. I told her as my daughter left. My daughter brought all the diapers to the baby. My friend passed a few back to me but that was it. She never used a diaper again. Stickers, money, begging...nope. This worked. :eyes:

[Pithlet]

3. My son just turned four

and still won't poop in the toilet. He did for a little while and then just stopped. He has a baby brother who gets his diapers changed, and that angle doesn't seem to work. We want to start him in pre-school in the fall. There's still some time, but I'm worried about what we'll do if we still haven't mastered this come fall.

[cally]

4. Well, mine could last for about 7 hours before

I was called because she had severe stomach pains. :eyes: I think he will do fine if he wants to. She never had an accident and I only got called once or twice.

[SW FL Dem]

5. I remember those days. My son refused to poop in the potty

for almost a year after he was peeing in the potty regularly. He would hold it in until it hurt. Then he would run to his room put on a pull up and hide behind a chair and poop. His pediatrician recommended we give him mineral oil to make it harder for him to hold his stools. It was messy but it only took a few accidents for him to get the idea that pooping in the potty was a better alternative.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

6. That's interesting...

I'll have to ask about that if my son has that problem later, which I'm afraid he will. He's currently two. Right now, he'll only pee in the potty if he is naked. He never poops in the potty. He doesn't do anything on the floor. He goes and sits on the potty when he needs to pee, but he'll hold in his poop until nap time when I put a diaper on him again. If he is wearing a diaper, he will just poop and pee in it, and he will not ask to use the potty. However, he seems to like not having to wear a diaper. Whenever I tell him to lay down to so I can put his diaper on for nap time he'll say "pee-pee potty" and run over and sit on his potty for a few seconds. He'll do this over and over again until I actually pick him up and lay him down myself. I've been giving him little stickers when he uses the potty. He gave one of his stickers to his dad once and said "pee-pee potty" so he does realize that the stickers are his reward for using the potty.

I have tried putting cloth training pants on him, but he goes in those like they are diapers too. I'm going to try getting him some loose fitting shorts (ones with elastic waist band that are about two sizes bigger than what he would normally wear) and see if that will work better for him. I think he doesn't like to ask to use the potty and I guess I can understand why since his dad and I never have to ask anyone's permission to use it. I think the training pants I got for him are too hard for him to pull off by himself. He needs some practice with taking off clothes. I'm hoping the loose fitting shorts will help him get that practice so he can move on wearing underwear and then eventually pants over the underwear. I'm also thinking that if he poops or pees in the shorts it will go straight down his legs onto the floor. Both the cloth training pants and the diapers absorb/contain the poop and pee. He seems to know he is not supposed to go on the floor, so I'm hoping he'll pull down the shorts to use the potty instead. I'm going shopping this weekend, so we'll see if my theories work.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

7. It's kind of funny how just last night I wrote about how

my son only pees and doesn't poop in the potty, because just today he pooped in the potty for the first time. How weird is that? I totally wasn't expecting him to do that just yet. I could smell the poop and I naturally assumed he went on the floor some place, but I thought I was kind of weird that he would do that since he hasn't gone of the floor in well over a month. Normally, he would just wait to poop until I put a diaper on him for his nap time. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that he actually went both poop and pee in the potty (without me even knowing it).

I hope everything goes well when I try to transition him to baggy shorts next week (instead of running around the house naked). :)

[John Q. Citizen]

8. Definatly do not push it. Boys usually potty train later than girls and

some just take take longer than others. It's tough on parents but what did we expect?

I found that buying my son a small step stool to put his feet on really helped. He didn't feel like he was going to fall in the toilet that way.

[SW FL Dem]

9. I agree

Most boys I know aren't ready until they are closer to 3. My SIL insisted on trying to potty train my nephew at 2 - it took longer than a year. Based on our pediatrician's advice, we let our son tell us when he was ready. We had the potty and showed him at 2 but he wasn't interested. A few weeks before he turned 3 he said I want to go pee in the potty. He did and was pretty much perfect on peeing from then on. As I said before, pooping was a different matter, but he eventually got that right too. The best advice I have it is to listen to your kid, they will tell you when they are ready.

[wildeyed]

10. My son has become very interested in the potty.

I was surprised, he just turned two. His sis didn't train until three, and only when I really pushed it.

He is so funny, when he is running around the house nekked before his bath, he will stop in front of the potty and pee on the base. Clearly we have some work to do.......

This week I will start being more directive in the training process. For instance, I will explain, We pee IN the potty, not ON it! Some men never seem to get that distinction.