My son is 17 months old, should i potty train him now?or wait a few months?

Question

well, he looks at himself while peeing, and doesn't want me near him when pooping.

Answer 1

every kid is different. im starting on my daughter and shes 16 months. but i started because of these signs:

--she hides when she goes poopoo

--she obsessed with the potty

--when she pees, she looks down at her legs and feels, she knows shes going

--keeps a dry diaper thru the night, and can keep one several hours at a time, thru out the day..this shows some form of bladder control

just dont force it, or if he gets whiny, or wants to leave the potty, let him. or itll seem more like a chore to him, and not something he wants to do. my daughter loves it and is doing very well...but if she doesnt wanna use the potty, she doesnt HAVE to, you know?

and when he does "go" praise him *alot* !!

Answer 2

Wait. If you push him now it could backfire on you. He will learn to do it in his own time and you will start to see signs that he is ready.

Answer 3

i hear boys are harder to potty train. My daughter was 18 months when she 1st started to use the potty, but then she lost  interest. Now shes 3 and finally tells me when shes got to go. I think that trying when she was so young pushed her back. But every child is different and everyone tells me the same thing .... They will show you when they are ready and ONLY when THEY are ready.

Answer 4

Do it now before he's so big he'll have to wear his grandfather's Depends!

Answer 5

i would start asking him when you notice him doing these things so he can associate it with  

are you going pee? pee pee in the potty

are you going stinky? stinky monsters belong in the toilet

and then start working on a reminder routine.

Like when you go potty or your husband always ask him too if he has gone yet. sometimes the success in potty training is a schedule and remebering it.

ex. first thing in the morning before you change hime take him to the potty and put him on there and let him sit for awhile maybe something will happen maybe it won't, after snack, before nap time, after nap time, before supper, after supper, and before bed.  try to concsiously be aware of the time when  the are going so you get into there regular scedule.  

it is like most people, when they are regular they go at the same time most days. it the same things with kids but its easy to forget to ask them

Answer 6

def wait. my sister tried to potty train her daughter too soon at 15 or 16 months i think and she's 6 and still has problems with it sometimes. it def screws something up for them. my daughter is almost four and isn't potty trained yet because with ehr specail needs she isn't ready. but my nephews are 3 1/2 and 2 1/2 and had no problem potty training. my advice would be to not hide the fact that you use the "potty" but dont force him. let it be "his choice".

Answer 7

wait till hes 10 years old

Answer 8

it's probably a bit early - unless he is showing signs that he knows when he is going to go...

you can always buy a potty and introduce it as something fun - he could sit on it at the same time dad is going just to get used to the idea.  

But it will just cause more stress than it's worth if you start before he is ready :)

Answer 9

It sounds to me like he's showing signs of being ready.  Follow his lead.  Buy a potty chair or a seat the goes on the regular toilet to keep him from falling in.  Let him pick out some big boy undies.  

17 months is not too young to start.  My daughter showed interest at 12 months.  We would take her with us to go potty, bought her a seat for the toilet, got her favorite character (Dora) for her panties.  I tried to keep her on a schedule, taking her to the bathroom every 30 minutes.  Most of the time she just sat there, but we always wiped her and flushed.  She was potty trained by 16 months.  I didn't even realize that she was potty trained until the daycare told me that she would potty in the toilet but then would want a clean pull-up on even though the one she'd just taken off was clean and dry.  I did keep the pull-ups for bedtime for about 2-3 more months.  She would have accidents every couple of months until she was about 3.  Usually the accidents were more our fault than hers, like going on a long drive and not stopping often enough.  She's 5 now and hasn't had an accident in at least a year.

Don't get me wrong, we didn't force our daughter.  We let her guide us on how fast we went to the next step.

Good Luck!