Potty training advice?

I've just mastered the art myself.

I haven't had to potty train boys

Well I'll be keeping an eye on this, since I've been attempting to potty train my 28 month old. He showed more interest when he was your son's age (in the same way too) than he does now. He did go sort of by chance a few times last summer...but I don't have the patience to sit in the bathroom with him just so he can stand up and sit down over and over.

We were housesitting this winter, so I figured with the new room and other adjustments, I didn't want to push potty training. We're back home now, so we're going to start again soon...and I think this summer we're going cold turkey on diapers while we're in the house. My babysitter said that always worked for her...so it's worth a shot.

Sorry, it's been too long since I had to go through that.

Move the potty to a more convenient room in the house so that he can sit there as much as he wants. Keep it in the kitchen when you cook or clean...take it with you where you go.

Also, take him with you when you go to the bathroom. Tell him what you are doing and maybe even buy a potty book so that you can read it to him while you go. We have one that flushes when you push a button.

If you don't mind the clean-up you could put him in underwear, especially when it gets hot. He won't like the feeling and it might help him to go. Another route would be cloth diapers because they don't have the absorption ability of regular ones, but it will be easier to clean up than underwear.

My daughter hated the little potties and just threw her trash and food she didn't want into it. I got a step stool and one of those potty seats that goes on top of the toilet so they don't fall in and she loved it!

My 23 month old had been doing this for a few months. He likes to sit on the potty too. HE does tell us tht he has to go and he goes but then he wants to sit there afterwards for a while. I bought him a potty seat that makes noise , that has a flush so that he understands what to d when you are done going. Another thing I do is read him a book so he knows when the book is done it is time to get up. I picked a book about going potty and how after you are done you wipe etc .. so he gets the idea that we just don't sit there when he is done.

Good luck....my son basically pottytrained himself when he got chicken pox....one accident and it burned so much on those poor pox and he never had another one.

James will be 3 next month and we are still no success. We had him doing real good till I ended up in hospital with my last heart attack issues. Then he was doing real good again and we moved. I said something to the doctor and he said just don't force him. I do take him in there every hour to hour and half. When he goes he gets something special he don't normally get. It can be anything from a snack to just something special to do. Eric has as well started taking him when he goes. Has James sit on toilet and Eric goes when Eric goes he will tell James daddy is big boy then James will go. Unfortunately this isn't all the time. I have come to the conclusion some are easy some aren't. If you get success in some trick please let me know.

I dont have any little ones but it sounds right to me to take him in the bathroom when he says he needs to go. When he does actually go make a huge deal of it like you said. My sister in law rewards her little ones with tootsie rolls or other small treats.
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