Best tips, advice and ways to potty train a little boy. Thanks.?

Question

He's almost 3 now, and We've been struggling with potty training. Please help.

Answer 1

daddy should potty train him. if there is daddy. It's much easier for daddy to show little man what to do than it is for mommy.

Try fruit loops. they love the different colors. and they can learn their colors at the same time..

And reward is the best. one piece of candy or something that they love an don't get often.

With my son we danced have treats and just generally had a huge party every time he went potty in the toilet. We made a huge deal out of it.

Answer 2

It's almost always really difficult to potty train little boys. You should kind've demostrate what to do either with a book or you could do what my mother did and get one of his dolls and

use a little cup of water and show him how it uses the bathroom. When he finally uses the bathroom on his own and does it right, you should give him some kind of reward so that he know what he did was good. I hope this helps.

Answer 3

Some kids are really easy to train, their parents rightly feel really proud of themselves, but some are very, very hard, and since I've often seen families with BOTH easy-to-train and hard-to-train kids, I don't think some parents should take quite so much credit.  Lots of parents who brag about their first training in 2 days before age 2, are getting gray hair training their second, it happens.  However, once a child has matured to about 2 1/2 years old, they can be trained, you just have to take away diapers and be firm in your expectation that they will now use the toilet.  They won't be a leaky faucet forever, they will soon learn to go to the toilet.    

Here is a collection of some of the best Yahoo!Answers on how to potty train in a hurry!

1) The no-nonsense cold-turkey approach:

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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

2) The reward "being dry" approach

by K10

"Encourage him to stay dry. This simple change is what it took to have my son potty trained, worked almost immediately: The best advice I can give, is through out the day, ask if he is "dry." If he is, give him a small reward (We use a fruit loop-in his eyes they were a treat, since he normally doesn't get them) Don't use pull-ups, use underwear, there is nothing to soak up the mess, and he knows right away that he has to change clothes. Put the remains in the toilet (so he can associate where they belong) Never get mad, he is learning a new skill, like walking and talking. By changing the focus, my son understood that the goal is to stay dry."

3) The $1,500 expert approach

my friend has a 6 yr old non verbal autistic son who she had fits training. Last summer she hired a professional to come for a day and work with him. It cost $1,500 and with in 6 hrs he was potty ed trained. Here is what they did.. He was put in under ware and taken to the potty every 30 Min's when he did go he was rewarded. when he had an accident he was then taken to the toilet sat down after a few Min's. he had to put back on his soiled pants and returned to the spot of the accident. Then this was repeated 5 times. Hope this helps.

4) The 8 repetitions after accidents approach

I invested in ONLY underwear, no pull-ups--I allowed him to have accidents, and EVERYTIME he had an accident I would take him from his puddle to his potty back and forth 8 times for every accident. I would walk to the puddle and say "you use the potty" and then walk him to his potty. Again, I would repeat this for EVERY accident (8 times, each accident). With him having on the underwear, he quickly got used to the idea that he did not like being dirty--just be patient, and expect a lot of accidents...good luck!

Answer 4

Go to www.webmd.com and click on children and then on the main screen there will be a special part for potty training. My son is going to be 3 on July 20th. I potty trained him in 4 days!! (just this past week) He was stubborn, and told me that he would pee in his diaper. This is what the reading will tell you to do. You need to take a weekend and be prepared to stay home. Put big boy under-ware on him and tell him the diapers/pull ups are all gone. Even let him go without under-ware.  If your son  is  showing signs that he's ready, such as....telling you he went in his diaper, laying down as soon as he goes, wanting to be changed. OR my sons biggest thing was while potty training, he'd ask me to put a diaper on. Them were the signs that my son was ready. You may have to be a little strict. Also when he does go, reward him with a quarter....tell him to put it in his piggy bank. Don't reward him with Candy.  Good Luck to you! Its a hard job to do. I didnt think my son was ever going to go on the potty. My daughter was trained by the age of 2, so when they say boys are harder....They are right!! :)

Answer 5

we used a cheerio. a little boy cant resist trying to pee on something floating in the toilet bowl

Answer 6

Wait 'til he's ready. I agonized for months, and one day (on his third birthday to be exact) he just started going to the bathroom in the toilet.

Answer 7

throw a piece of cereal in the toliet and tell him to aim it work for my lil cuzzin!

Answer 8

Patience!! if u do not have him at stage 1 of potty training star there. Buy a small child size potty,they have a little hood cap that can be lifted to prevent "spill" in boys. encourage and praise trying to sit on the potty. Even if he does not pee. Reward he's every trial and accomplishment. Sit him first thing  every morning  and go from there. Then start training him standing up and moving to the regular toilet, you will be surprised how fast he learns. Then move to stage 2 also sitting down in his potty or toilet with child seat. DO NOT punish him over "accident" if he just started potty training they will happen until he has control. Just remember its a drastic but wonderful experience for both of you

Answer 9

I trained my boys outside. I put underwear on (only) when we went outside to play (in the back yard). I told them when they had to go, to go in the bushes. They though that was funny, so they did it.

However, they are now 13 and 16 and still can't hit the toilet. Maybe I need to try the Cheerios.