How to potty train a 4 yr old?

Question

a 4 yr old

Answer 1

Is there a reason that your 4 year old is not potty trained?  It would be the same as potty training a 2 year old.  Make sure that you take him/her to the bathroom regularly and reward them when he/she goes.  

Answer 2

This is what I did with both my boys.

No more diapers. Hes four. He should know whats going on, and right from wrong. So sit down with him/her and have the big boy or big girl talk. About what will be going on. It will take time. The only time he should be allowed to have diaper and by diaper i mean pull ups is out in public or at bed time, because some kids are distracted or shy and nervous in public they forget, and well my son will be 5 this year and he still wets the bed but still we don't let him have pull up, because we feel like it encourage the behavior to soil yourself, and it be okay. But in your case since he is just starting out give him about a year with pull up before bed then take it away. By then he should know not to soil himself. Also I have another son who will turn 4 this year and god bless! He almost never soils himself while he sleeping. One or  2 slip a month but that's nothing compared to his brother. :P

Most people monitor there baby, but the thing is hes not a baby and hes not in school. So you have to teach him when he feels pressure to a tingling feeling down there its time to go potty. By doing this you need to after eating if he drinks alot of water give him 30min and ask if he needs to potty. Take him in there and if he doesn't want to hop on right away then its okay. Wait another 30min and you need to do this constituent because then you will know how long it takes for him to go to the bathroom, and you'll be able to keep up with him more.

If he soils himself after telling him to go pee. Punish him by making him clean up his clothes. Tell him he has to take it off and put it in the washer. It gives him a responsibility which he may or may not like doing. Which then in return will tell him not to do it again or hes going to have to clean up after himself again. So go potty. When he does praise him by giving treats. =] It will be hard but you can do it. Believe in your little boy. Also it might even be better to start off with no underwear, because what a underwear does it makes them feel like they have a diaper on. So when there out running around and playing they tend to forget. That they don't have a diaper on but they had a underwear on. So try doing it with no underwear. Both my boys hated underwear from the start. They only wanted there diaper. They refused to wear it so. We didn't force them they were potty trained in a month to 2 months. =] So i'm not sure if that what made the difference, and by doing that they will feel the pee running down there whole leg. Also don't take him a bath afterwards allow him to scrub first with you showing how. Then at the end step in and scrub. It supports the thought of being a big boy but your still there with him to help him.  

Answer 3

Um, we've got more going on here than just potty training. Often this is a way for the child to act out towards the parent. Does he mess his pants even when he is not with you?

Answer 4

your just doing this now?  Put underwear on and make him/her go to the bathroom every hour, if hes still having accidents make it every half hour.  Eventually he'll get it, and the underwear works cause he wont like being wet

Answer 5

Put them on a potty schedule every two hour weather they have to go or not.

Answer 6

you should have started wayyyyyyyyyyy earlier, but the same you would as a toddler.

Answer 7

Hi I have already potty trained 2 out of 3 children and one is a boy and the other a girl. The way I did for them was to first buy a couple books related to this issue and read it along with your child. As well I made a chart And they got to pick a sticker to go on it every time they made an effort even if they sat there and didn't go ( at least they tried).

    Just make it a fun event and always give praise even with effort. And hopefully after awhile your child may very well go by themselves. Also I have heard that if you use the big toilet sit your child backwards i guess some have got a kick out of watching the water lol.... Good Luck!!

Answer 8

First of all, if it is a boy, I would use cheerios...seriously put cheerios in the toilet so he can aim at them.  I potty trained my son in one weekend.  I put underwear on him and socks and a shirt.  That way when he peed his socks would get wet.  He didn't like that feeling.  He did awesome.  Just take him to the bathroom every half an hour and be very encouraging, never punish him for having accidents or anything that can hurt his feelings.  This is very personal.  As far as girls, i guess just skip the cheerios thing.  I also rewarded, never punished though, my son with kissables or m n m's.  This worked really good.  Just keep reminding them to go potty.  Say you have to try.

I guess though if this child is four years old, there might be something wrong.  I don't want to sound mean but most children are potty trained by this time.  My son was 2 and a half and now is five and still pees the bed at night.  Oh well, just something you have to deal with.  But I would start by just taking him every half hour or so.

Answer 9

Seriously, by 4 years old, a child should be potty trained already.  I would think there is a problem somewhere if a child isn't potty trained by that time.

However, what I would suggest is consistency.  Whatever, you do, you will have to do the same time and the same place.  One thing parents doen't understand and that is that the parents' schedule will also have to change in order to potty train a child. If you work during the week, which I hope you do since your child isn't potty trained, then you will have to end up not going anywhere on the weekend until your child has some consistency in his/her life.  This is key. Any change in the schedule, there will be a change in your child's potty time.  So you will have to decide what is more important.  

I had my daughter potty trained in less than a month, by not changing her schedule and letting her run around the house nude during the day when nobody was here but the two of us.  She was 2 years old! And done by the end of the month; however, we did have accidents and that's common but by the time the child is 3 it should be over (the accidents).  However, I do believe every child is different! PATIENTS

Answer 10

if he is still wearing diapers throw them away no more diapers! put his butt in underwear and if he goes on himself make him clean himself up and his soiled clothes. limit his liquids and if asks for juice give him only a little so he's not going so much and tell him don't ask him if he has to go tell him to sit on the toilet. he is 4 the potty is to big for him put him on the toilet. tell him that he is a big boy like daddie and he has to use the toilet not a diaper and he can't go on himself. sit him on the toilet often like every 30 minutes or so. and don't give him rewards then he will think he can have rewards all the time are you going to give him treats when he's 8 ?no right? you can even tell him that he will have to sit in timeout if he doesn't go on himself and this may sound harsh but he won't like not being able to go back and play after getting cleaned up because he went to the bathroom on himself

I did this with my daughter and she is 3 and she has been potty trained for months.

Answer 11

a few good tips is reason with them get your toilet water blue buy the thing you drop in the tank ask them if  they want to make the water green or put some cheerios in the water and tell them to aim if you take the diaper off they will look at it before it comes out and run them to the bathroom the best thing to do is first thing in the morning when they wake up run the to the bathroom and take them every two hours to try

Answer 12

Give him some exlax and let him go!  =)