2.5 y.o Will Sit on Potty but Won't Go

Make it uncomfortable for him to not go on the potty. In other words don't put the pull up on him. Underwear with the pee dripping down his leg is a great motivator. If that doesn't work then you might just want to back off for a little while.

R.,

Sorry R. but he is not ready. Why put yourself and your little boy through all this now. wait another six months.

Good luck!

How about running the faucet while he sits down? Or try this: I have 2 girls and with one I actually had to take a bottle of luke-warm water and slowly squirt it between her legs to get her to go. I used my old peri-bottle from the hospital but have also used an empty Hershey's syrup bottle. They are so used to standing up and doing it, that they do not know which muscles to let go while sitting. Also, to keep her on longer we reserved a much wanted toy to only use while on the potty. In her case it was a little electronic book toy with buttons for the alphabet/sounds/songs/etc. that I could not stand to listen to but endured only if she was on the potty. Similar toy is this: http://www.amazon.com/LeapFrog-19138-AlphaPet-Explorer/dp... Good luck.

2.5 is extremely young for potty training, particularly in boys. He is interested in the potty which is good, but he's not really ready to associate a feeling of a full bladder (if he's even getting that bladder-to-brain signal) with getting to the toilet and then consciously letting it go.

He's just not ready. Relax, wait 6 months, and see if he's ready. My child was well past 4 when he finally figured this out. You can't teach him something his body is not ready for developmentally. He's trying to please you but he doesn't know how yet. Just let it be. Keep the small potty in the bathroom, and you can start with some books like Once Upon a Potty and Everyone Poops. But read them with the comments that "When you are older you will want to do this" and "You'll let me know when you are ready."

Good luck.

Hi R.. Our 28 month old thinks its great to pee on a tree. He also gets a kick out of pushing a stool up to the toilet and standing like daddy and big brother do.

Try having him stand up and try to pee on cereal.

Try two days naked...no pullups or underwear or anything.

Then, put away the pullups and switch to underwear for good.

If that still backfires, wait 3 months or so.

Hi,
try www.3daypottytraining.com Basicly you get rid of all your diapers & he is now a big boy. What she says is if you have pull ups it just confuses them. So you go cold turkey. It worked great. Of course It is a month after & we are having a little regression, but I think it is due to a daycare issue. This system teaches them to learn the signals thier body is sending. Good luck.

We started with my son when he was 2 and he wasn't trained until he was 3.5 (sigh). Boys seem to take awhile. So he might just not be ready yet if he's only 2.5. From what I've read, most boys are not ready until around age 3.

That said, have you offered rewards? We did this. One M&M for pee, two for poop on the potty. After awhile, my son lost interest in this method. Then we moved to an index card with drawn squares on it. He got one sticker each time he used the potty. Once all the squares were filled in, he got a match box car (which was on display but not allowed to be touched the whole time). Keep it to 2-3 stickers needed at first, then move up to 4-5, then later to 6-7, etc as he gets better at it. Eventually my son was peeing all the time on the potty, but not pooping. So we changed it again. Earned stickers every time he pooped on the potty, just an M&M for pee. Stickers earned him a Cars movie toy (even more exciting to him than a matchbox random car). And that finally did it. But again, by then he was 3.5. So you can try a reward system if you want, but he also just might not be ready.