How do i get my 19 month old son to start potty train?

Question

is there any easier way to get him to start going? i've been putting him on since he turned one

Answer 1

train him when he is ready, NOT when you are ready

Answer 2

No.  Your child will tell you when he's ready.  

Forcing them is not the best approach.  Mine fought it until he was almost 4, and then magically one day he started going on his own, and there's been zero accidents, even at night.

The child holds the game pieces when it comes to potty training.  Force them to do it, and they will rebel, causing you even more headaches and stress.  

Answer 3

Does he show signs of being ready? I know i potty trained my son when he was one and I just put underwear on him and asked him every 10 minutes if he needed to go.

Answer 4

This sounds funny but i had my sons dad sit down and show him how 'big boys' pee ( dad was sitting down) and when he got done I was like WOW! papa did pee pee and I gave his dad some soft candy. when my son say that he got right on and went!

Answer 5

The 'easiest' way is to wait until he is old enough to be able to do what you've been asking. You've been 'trying' for 7 months.  When kids are ready to train, they usually do so within a few days ... a week or two at most.

So put the potty away.  When he's showing clear signs of readiness and interest (which will probably happen somewhere between 2 1/2 and 4 years), start again.  Clear signs of readiness include:

1. The ability to talk about (and understand you talking about) potty training.

2. A desire to be clean/dry/wear underwear.  And a dislike for being wet/dirty.

3. The ability to recognize the feeling of needing to 'go', and take himself to the potty (or ask to be taken), where he can do what he needs to do with minimal assistance.

4. The physical ability to hold his urine/stool when he DOES feel that need to go, long enough to get to the potty and then voluntarily release.

Few children can do this much before they are 2  (Kids who are 'potty trained' earlier are usually just taken to the potty so often that they never have time to get a full bladder.  It's the parent who is 'trained.')

If you keep plugging away at it now, he MIGHT train in the next 3-6 months or so ... or he might get frustrated and upset with your attempts to make him do something he' isn't yet physically able to do.  

Answer 6

tell him that he wont be a big boy until he starts going on the potty

Answer 7

boys are harder to train than girls. i bribed my sons with everything under the sun! lol. gummy bears worked wonders for my youngest son. plus a lot of pretending to go potty from me and funny faces and laughing and then torturing him with not giving him the candy til he went lol. well not for too long, but it did work. plus if HES not wanting to, he just wont do it. just know your child and you'll know when the right time is.

Answer 8

The easiest way is to wait until he's at least 2. When he's ready you will know. All your doing now is making both of you crazy. Trust me, I've been there.  Boys don't seem to be able to feel the urge to go as soon as girls do. Let him lead you and it will be so much easier.

Answer 9

We did what everyone says not to do - BRIBE.

1 M&M for peepee

2 for p**p.

Trained within a month except for accidents here and there.  Pulled candy out after about 3 months.  

Answer 10

when he pee pees in his diaper , take him to the bathroom and set him on the toilet. explain what you are doing. when he poops, do the same thing and make a big deal out of dumping it in the toilet, and clap and yeall "yeah!" like it is the best thing you have done all day. then explain this is where it goes.

that is the way i STARTED with my son. you can also, make sure you are around the bathroom after he eats or gets up from a nap (make sure you aren't in the store or something) then just take him in the bathroom and stand/sit him and say "ok, its time to be abig boy. can we pee pee in the toilet today.

how i kept it going:: cherrios or fruit loops. (you can do this to get him to start  this way also) put some in the toilet, and make it a game to hit them. then let him flush and wave bye-bye. the cereal did it fo rmy son. he would go get his fruitloops out of a bowl i kept on the table , after a couple of tries, and he was putting the cereal in the toilet and going on his own.

funny thing: my son pooped backwards until he was almost 4!!! he would pee standing up of course, so he thought he had to sit that way to p**p!

also, if making him sit to pee doesn't work (it never did with mine-im not sure why) just let him stand on a stool. just make sure he moves away before he shuts the lid-so he doesn't smash his weenie. good luck!!

by the way-my son knew at 19 months what he was doing in his diaper. he was coming to me and saying "acky". so he was ready. 19 mo. is not too young to start trying! if they can recognize that they have a dirty diaper, they can recognize that they need to tell you they have to go!