I think im ready 2 potty train my son but need advice!!! ?

Question

okay so i have a 26 month old and a 14 month old and ill be having another in November. i would like to get my son potty trained before the new baby comes.. he has shown interest by playing with the potty, he will sit on it a lot and sometimes he will go. i asked him this morning if he had to pee and he laughed and i set him on the chair and he actually went with no problem.. he will tell me after he goes p**p and brings me a diaper 2. so i think hes ready but i just need some more advice and stuff...i dont want to have 3 babies in diapers all together!!!

Answer 1

The method I used to get mine potty trained was to just take her diaper off and tell her when she has to go pee or poo she'll need to put it in the little potty.  I put the little potty in whatever room we were playing in.

She hated wetting her panties so after about 3 days she was mostly making it on time.  

I didn't put a diaper on her at night or for naps, and now she's been waking up dry for about 3 weeks.  Yippie!

Anyway, I was told that letting a child take a cup, bottle or anything to bed at night might cause ear infections, so I would say not to let him take anything to drink to bed.  Plus giving him something to drink overnight might sabotage his potty training at night.

Answer 2

I would leave a diaper on at night - tackle one thing at a time :)  Have him drink a lot and make a weekend of focuing on going potty.  Give him a treat when he does something new. Like first time he tinkles or something then continue to make it harder to get the treat... Move to he has to tell you when he has to go. Biggest thing is to focus on STAYING DRY and not on NOT Getting wet.  The ultimate goal is not to go on the potty, but to stay dry and clean all the time and that means using the potty.  

Also- Most people have trained their boys to go sitting down first and deal with the standing part when he is older.  

To get the first #2 with my daughter we would spend 20 minutes or so reading on the little potty every day till one day - surprise it happened while I was reading - she tried to stand up and panicked a little, but I reassured her it was OK & she has refused diapers ever since. (25 months old)

If he is not ready - don't push it. Especially for a boy 26 months is young.

Answer 3

Well first off if you haven't already you need to go buy him some pull ups. Second off you need to ask him if he has to go potty at least once an hour, then take him to the bathroom. If he does potty appraise him and also give him some type of treat that you know he will like. Good luck, my daughter seems not to want to be potty trained on my end and she is 3 years old.

Answer 4

My sister gave me the best advice ever when I was ready with my daughter.  Get rid of the diapers, take the ones for your son and give them away or put them out in the car or at a relatives so you aren't tempted to use them.  The first days do underwear not pull-ups.  Yes, it might get messy.  I actually ended up cutting off really dirty underwear and throwing it away.   Use pull-ups only if you have to go out of the home, because it's not fun having an accident in public.   Dedicate one week to it.  And do use rewards.  If he has a hard time, stop for awhile (a week to a month) than try again.   Some kids aren't ready until they are closer to 2 1/2 or 3 your son could be the exception so don't feel bad if it doesn't work right away.  My nephew was three and so was my daughter.  My niece who is a smarty pants was about 2 1/2 but her Mom is very determined and strict.  

Good luck.  

Answer 5

About the only thing that helped my daughter along was everytime I went to the bathroom I'd put her potty chair in the bathroom with me and she;d sit down on her potty "to be a big girl like mommy. Might be a big difference between boys and girls