Help With Toilet Training Pleeeeeeease!

[chubbybubby]

My son is 2 years and 8 months old. He seems to have no interest in toilet training! I have no experience with little boys, although I understand that they usually are much slower to start using the toilet than girls. If I put him on the toilet, he will often do a wee and get all excited. He knows when he needs to poo, because he goes and hides! But if I try and retrieve him from his hiding spot and say "lets go to the toilet" he gets all upset and poos as quickly as he can in his nappy! He then smiles and says "Oh, too late! Already done it!". :D He also doesn't tell me he when needs to wee. I have tried to explain it to him and have told him when he does his first poo in the toilet, he can choose a special toy from the shop. Am I expecting too much? What should I be doing? This is my first child and I have no idea what I'm doing!! :p

[cwsmum]

Do you put him in undies much?

My DS wasn't really interested in toilet training until I put him in undies for a few days, we also didn't go out at all for a few days. He got the hang of things pretty quick after that and was out of night nappies before he turned 3 as well. He was 2.5yrs old when we started.

[babylover111]

Yeah i agree with cwsmum, make it an adventure if you havent already bought him undies head out to the shops and let him choose his favourite pair. If he loves buzz lightyear get buzz lightyear ones and pop him into the undies with lots of encouragement, but prepare yourself for some messy mistakes! A little one that i look after has just been toliet trained and while she took quite a while with quite a few poos in her undies she is now successfully toliet trained thanks to dora the explorer undies :)

[Karizma]

My son has to have either buzz lightyear or superman on. He is 3 by the way. And when he just blatently didnt go cause he just didnt want to, he has to wear his boring plain undies and when he goes to the toilet again he gets his favorite ones back. It works most times, other times he is just a ratbag :D

[Terrible2+1cutie]

I just finished toilet training my son who will be 3 next month, up until now he has shown no interest in toilet training, have been trying for last 12 months. This time round i did it in 3 weeks, in the first week i sat next to him on potty and read him a book, i had him doing wee's in potty within 3 days. Poos was another story, i didnt have to toilet train him poos he just automatically went by himself. After a week and a half DS was even waking up dry at night so he no longer sleeps with nappies on at night either. We went through bucket loads of Underpants in the first week of toilet training him but he thought he was such a big kid and absolutely loves it. He goes to the toilet now without me having to ask him except when he is too caught up in his playing i have to remind him or when we go out because he doesnt know where toilet is when we go out.

Catherine

Mum to Blaze and Bailey

[camira1976]

I work in childcare and also have a four year old who was very reluctant to toilet train. We did try everything the bribes, new undies lots of praise but my son just wasn't keen. Eventually we backed off and when he was 2yrs 11mths he out of the blue took his own interest. He marched into the bathroom one day and came back without his nappy telling me he had done a poo. My first reaction was oh dear where has he done it!! Then when he showed me I discovered he had taken himself to the potty. From then on he literally was toilet trained and continued to take himself. What i tell parents at work is sometimes its good just to back off, if by 3 they are still not trained take them to get a check uo at the GP. Alternatively you could just keep going givind stacks of praise or rewards for the wees he is doing on the toilet and not saying to much about the poos in his nappy. Perhaps just gentle reminders or emptying his poo into the toilet with him watching. Eventually he'll get the idea. Anyway good luck.:wave:

[chubbybubby]

Thanks for the tips! I did get him some Buzz pull-ups, and explained that now that he was wearing "big boy undies" (which he was VERY excited about) that he had to go to the toilet. But he weed in them anyway. How often should I take him to sit on the toilet? He often wees if I put him on it, but never tells me that he needs to go. I don't want to pressure him but I am so sick of dirty nappies!! I am hoping to get him toilet trained before we have another baby - I don't think I could handle TWO sets of dirty nappies! :) Oh, and another idea I had was to put up a chart in the toilet, and every time he does something in the toilet, he gets to put a stick on the chart (he loves stickers). Do you think this could help?

[babylover111]

Yes definately!
Ive also used the whole sticker chart for a number of things including toliet training and it works like a charm :thumbsup:
Maybe rather than taking him to the toliet ask him if he needs to go so he understands that its connected the feeling of needing to go and getting himself there with your help in the beginning of course, just an idea but goodluck with it all!!

[Gemma]

grace is three and still not TT'ed...before prep would be nice :banghead:

[cwsmum]

Thanks for the tips! I did get him some Buzz pull-ups, and explained that now that he was wearing "big boy undies" (which he was VERY excited about) that he had to go to the toilet. But he weed in them anyway.

I found that once DS realised that the pull ups were like a nappy he wouldn't bother with trying to go to the toilet. As soon as I put him in 'real' undies...and he wet them...he wanted to use the toilet so he didn't have to change his undies, he loved his bpb undies .

[Karizma]

I don't think I could handle TWO sets of dirty nappies! :) Oh, and another idea I had was to put up a chart in the toilet, and every time he does something in the toilet, he gets to put a stick on the chart (he loves stickers). Do you think this could help?

I know the two sets of nappies idea is rotten, I have a 4mth old so the 3yr old just had to be toilet trained. The stickers idea is a good one too, my 3yr old loves them so I am gonna try that too :thumbsup:

[chubbybubby]

Well we had a semie successful day today. He woke up with a dry nappy (fluke) so I took him straight to the toilet where he did a HUGE wee, and then let him put on his "big boy undies". We then made a chart together, and he got to put a sticker on it. After breakfast I asked if he wanted to go to the toilet again, he said yes, and did another wee (so got to put another sticker on the chart). We went for a walk around lunch time so I asked if he wanted to go to the toilet before we left - he said no. But by the time we got home, he had done a wee. There's not much he could do about that. Then this afternoon he was playing in the garden, I asked if he wanted to go to the toilet, he said no, but then did another wee! Oh well - I think he's done pretty well so far. He is down for a nap ATM, so we will keep trying when he wakes up. :)

[twinkles]

I had a horrible time toilet training my step daughter when she was three, she had the tendency of pooing everywhere and our house was almost completely carpeted at the time - EWWWWWW!!!! In the end I found that the trick was to give her a big glass of water/juice and then pop her on the loo and put the tap on too, (my doctor who is a mother of 7 suggested it), and it worked first time. Poos were still a problem for a while, but once the wees were happening with the aid of the tap for a while, it was smooth sailing.

With my two eldest they simply trained when they were ready, with the aid of the water treatment. They were both 2 to 3 and when they made up their mind to do it, but there was no stopping them!:smiliedance:

My youngest little man is somewhat of a concern; he shows absolutely no interest in training and even though he can wee in the toilet, and has no problem with controlling his functions, actually prefers nappies!!!!!! He's just turned 4 - any ideas would be greatly appreciated - he has all his favourite characters in undies, understands the toilet perfectly, and is not being pressured in any way, because his personality simply does not respond to that kind of thing. Any :idea: ?????

[blessedmummy]

hmm thats a hard one.. when i was toilet training my eldest daughter, at first she had some interest, but then got scared, so.. to make long story short.. i backed off for a bit, and before i knew it she did it all her self in about a week! it was the best! poos took a bit longer, but got the hang of it soon after wees. anyhow.. people say stickers work on a chart, um... this is hard! um.. bribe? (LOL!) well.. all i can say is persevere! and eventually they will get it! hope this helps... :fingerscrossed:

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