The best way to potty train a three year old boy?

Question

he does good sometimes but not always

Answer 1

on a big toilet or a smaller toilet?

Answer 2

Hi I'm a daycare provider and mother of 4 kids.  The best way to teach him is to train yourself first.  You need to be diligent about putting him on the toilet every hour.  You don't ask him if he needs to go you tell him it's time to try.  Don't let the three year old lead the show.  I see so many parents make this same mistake.  Eventually, maybe two or three months maximum,  he will be so used to this routine , you can start fading your prompt and he will get it independantly.

Answer 3

Whenever my son doesn't properly use the bathroom, I rub his nose in it.

He is slowly learning.

Answer 4

well lets see..my 3 year old has been potty trained for about a year now and I did this by taking him to walmart and letting him pick out the underwear that he wanted (Superman) and when we got home I explained to him that he was a big boy now and that I was going to put his own underwear on him now and that if he used the bathroom on hisself (pooped) that I would throw his underwear in the garbage..that worked for about a month and then he reverted back to using the bathroom on hisself,then he wanted to start preschool and ride the big yellow school bus (thats what he call the school bus) and I told him that big boys rode the bus and not babies..that was the breaking point for him..he decided that he was not a baby any more and that he wanted to go to school..he hated being called a baby so Im not sure if it was the school bus or the calling him a baby..but one of them worked..

so try the letting him pick his own underwear and go from there :)

Answer 5

I just bought the Peter Potty and my 3-yr-old boy loves it. So do I. He can stand up to go pee just like a big boy and I don't have surprises on my toilet seat. For number two, my son had a "face", you know?, and I just ran him to the potty every time I saw the face, put him on the soft insert so he wouldn't fall in, and left him alone ( he finally told me he hadn't been going on the potty because he needed privacy) until he did something. Then he got a temp tattoo, flushed the potty (so exciting!), and we hugged and celebrated. Then he got to wash his hands all by himself with his special Kandoo foam soap (more excitement!).

Answer 6

From experience as a preschool teacher I have learned that in order to successfully potty train a child you need to keep them in underwear even if they are having accidents. If you put a pull-up back on them when accidents occur then they are more likely to not go in the potty. Praise is good and make a game of it. You can put cheerios in the potty and tell him to aim at them so he doesn't go on the seat. Have dad work with him and watch him do it.

Answer 7

Put cheerios in the toilet. Tell him to aim at the Cheerios, and sink the battle ships. I am telling you it works, we potty train all the little boys here at my daycare like that.

Answer 8

Every time my kid doesn't make poopy in the potty I lay the smack down. That's why my kids call me the hammer.