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Post by supermommy on Feb 4, 2012 16:29:43 GMT -6
We took of Ds1's diaper at 9 am this morning. He has held both his urine and stools since then, re refuses to go on the potty. He also refuses to have an accident. It is our first day really potty training him. We are at a loss on how to get him to go. We make him sit on the chair every hour on the hour and he has also sat a few times on his own here and there in between those times. How do I get him to go!? I have a feeling he is going to wait until 7:55 when we put his nighttime diaper on for bed.
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Post by cwolbeck on Feb 4, 2012 16:57:44 GMT -6
Take the potty to the living room, and put on a show that he likes. Make him sit while he watches and eventually he will go in the potty. This worked for my son.
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Post by supermommy on Feb 4, 2012 17:38:48 GMT -6
we did that...he sat for an hour and never went. He ended up peeing through his underwear at the dinner table. So no progress was made today :-( Hopefully tomorrow.
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Post by jrose on Feb 4, 2012 18:16:21 GMT -6
I had DD2 run around bare butt so she didn't have ANYTHING to go in but the potty it worked but the next day we tried undies and she decided it was ok to pee her pants. So for now she is back in diapers....she's being a little stubborn about the whole thing. Good Luck!
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Post by cwolbeck on Feb 4, 2012 19:49:32 GMT -6
Sorry it didn't work
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Post by sharon on Feb 5, 2012 10:39:09 GMT -6
Has he ever gone on the toilet? What were the circumstances? Can you figure out what makes it comfortable for him?
It definitely sounds like he has good control if he can hold it that long!
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Post by supermommy on Feb 5, 2012 13:28:53 GMT -6
He has never gone up until a minute ago. He went a teeny tiny bit like maybe a tsp full. We have tried in front of the tv, reading books, talking to him, leaving him all alone, two different potty chairs--one on the toilet and one normal potty training chair. We make him drink a ton and sit--that is what made him go a little bit this time. He peed through 7 pairs of underwear already. We ran out and had to do pull-ups now. Maybe we will try sitting him on the chair every 30 minutes instead of every hour...
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Post by dara1012 on Feb 5, 2012 15:31:24 GMT -6
DS took forever to potty train....he just wasn't interested. He told daycare he would try at 3. He wore pull ups starting at 3 (due to health and hygiene at daycare they can't wear underwear until potty trained). She had him sit on the potty every 2 hrs and we did the same at home. Eventually he started going mostly on the toilet but was still have 1-2 accidents a day in his pull up - this lasted about 6 months. Finally he decided he wanted to be done and declared himself potty trained, he started wearing underwear and has only had 2-3 accidents in 4 months.
Your DS just might not be ready for underwear. The more we pushed the potty training the more he didn't want to do it, when we stopped pushing it and he had control it went much better.
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Post by beemama on Feb 5, 2012 19:42:45 GMT -6
One thing to try is to pour warm water over him while he's on the potty. Sometimes it helps kids "go with the flow". That's what helped my 2 y.o. go and learn what "go pee on the potty" actually meant. Now he can pee on command, but he can't hold it in yet - so we're still in diapers. Oh, we also got some books about underwear from the library - helped a little with understanding what those crazy adults were talking about.
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Post by mommylinz on Feb 7, 2012 7:54:33 GMT -6
I started having my DD sit on the potty before baths, while the bath warmed and filled up, at about 18mos so that she would learn to pee in the potty. When we went to full potty training at about 2 and 1/2 we had success with a Potty Bucket. It was an easter basket full of treats, candy small $1 toys, stickers. She was all over it at that point and she usually picked the candy. The daycares I've used also have used candy as a reward. I know some don't believe in rewards, but I am all for it! And it was not hard to stop the rewards either, once peeing was down the rewards went to pooping.
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Post by slufoot on Feb 7, 2012 8:26:19 GMT -6
We're just starting with my DS, and I found before bath time is the easiest time for him to go. Also for him, if we get him to concentrate on his penis (looking down), he is more successful at peeing. He thinks it's fun to watch himself pee:)
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Post by danikasmom on Feb 8, 2012 18:02:14 GMT -6
Just keep trying. Every kid is different. One of my daycare boys had a whistle he got to blow when he went potty and he loved it and it helped. I do agree if you do push it and they push back I would give it a break and try it again. Just try for a week before you give up. Just remember some days are good and then some are hard. Just remember you won't have to buy diapers as much once it is done.
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Post by bumblebee23 on Feb 10, 2012 9:34:50 GMT -6
My boys where fairly easy to potty train. I made DH take my oldest into the bathroom with him. (DH worked alot and DS was really attached to him and wanted to be with him all the time) He wanted to do everything daddy did so it made sense. When I was at home I usually let him run around without a pullup or undies on. I had is potty chair in the living room. We had a potty book explaining everything and I bought him and elmo with a cup and a potty chair. He would drink out of the cup and tell you he had to go potty and if he didn't get on the potty on time he would have an accident. It was a good tool for him to have. So maybe a character that he like with a potty chair or something would help.
Good luck.
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