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HI I am potty training my 2-1/2 yr old boy now. my suggestion is to use pull ups and when he is at home let him where big boy pants as we like to call them. Also a fun thing to try is to get cheerios and put them in the toilet and tell him to hit the target.. that worked with my now 16yr old.. all kids are diffrent just be patient it will happen.. And to the ADHD my 16 yr old is also ADHD alone with a few others if you wanna talk or have some questions please feel free to ask. I have been dealing with ADHD for about 9 yrs..

You may want to try the little prince urinal for children. You can get it online from like Target or ToysRUs. Boys seem to like to pee standing up, and with this they can see themselves go and what's happening. Also, it's there size so they can stand, then you can convert them to the potty (get a child's stool). Once they'll go in the potty again, they'll be more likely to use it for bowel movements. Hope this helps.

I would not stress yourself over this. I hate when people worry so much about potty training. I did the same thing with my oldest and it was such a waste of my time. She ended up being 35 months old before she completely potty trained. My next daughter was also 35 months old and I didn't do a thing. She never even went on the toilet until the day she started to wear underwear. She told me one day she wanted to and that was it. She never had an accident. My youngest daughter was only 32 1/2 months old. She also told me one day she wanted to wear her Dora underwear. Same with her, she had never gone on the toilet. I told her no accidents, she had one a few hours later, but she never had another one. If you wait until the kids are really ready and want to do it, they basically do it themselves. Some people thought I was lazy about it but I just refused to worry myself. If by his 3rd birthday he isn't potty trained then I would start to push a little. Usually all it takes at that age is wetting their clothes a couple times and they realize they don't like that feeling. I do home daycare and I refuse to try potty training kids at that age unless they come to me and tell me they want to sit and go. So don't worry about him potty training now, enjoy the little person he is right now, and in 6 months you'll be thinking "wow that wasn't so hard!" :)

I agree with the other posters that you can't stress over it. My son would go number 2 in the potty once he turned three every time, but he would not get down using the potty for number 1. Finally, right before his fourth birthday it just snapped for him and he never had an accident afterwards. It seems from people I have talked to that boys will just do it when they are ready for the most part.

We had the same issue with childcare and actually had to move him because no matter what tricks we tried, he just wouldn't get it and then when he turned three, we had the new baby, which I think set him back even more (I have read that is common too), so there was not anyway he was going to be able to live up to the pressure being put on it.

I tried potty training my son at about 2 1/2 but my son just wasnt ready.so i left it alone and a couple months before he turned 3 he got interested and started telling us he had to go potty.My son also didnt like the diapers he wanted big boy underwear.keeping them in a diaper confuses them since theyre used to going in the diaper but you want him to go in the potty.maybe you could try keeping him out of school for awhile so you can try to train him.my son really liked the potty chart.everytime he went in the potty he got to put a sticker on the chart.when your husband has to go to the bathroom have your son go in and watch since he probably wants to be just like dad.well i hope this helps. good luck!

Hello C.,
Look at this website www.peterpotty.com Maybe this Urinal for him may help. It's something new to try and he can start by standing up just like Daddy. Good Luck, I know what your going through my son was the same way!!

We had the same problem with the childcare rules/state laws. I just took him out (killed me to do so since he loved it) but he just was not ready and part of it for us was that he is stubborn and will do it on his own time. 3 months after his 3rd birthday he finally started going reguarly pee in the toilet but it was all thanx to hubby. Our son would watch hubby go and they would end up peeing together..LMAO! So daddy taught him. Took another year for him to go #2 in the potty. Now just trying to figure out how to deal with the night time wetting since he doesnt wake up and that either means setting an alarm to wake ME up (hubby is in the military so doesnt work for him to do it) and I miss out on a ton of sleep..still working on other options..LoL

We also bought the potty dvd for boys and this wierd potty book that has a button that makes the flushing sound..oh and Bear in the Big Blue House potty dvd. We watched those two dvds over and over and over (did i meantion over) again.

We did try it the childcare way which was put him on the toilet and make him sit there once every hour. That did NOT work at all, he would scream the whole time and he stopped even going into the bathroom. So we stopped that.

I do say that pullups are just as bad as diapers because you throw them out and that means your attitude is a bit different towards accidents..if that makes any sense. My son had them and when he was in underware he would BEG to have a pullup because well they are just like diapers. lol

We did also try Dr. Phils way but that did not work either (buying the peeing doll, letting him pick out his own underware, etc) He was scared to death of the doll at first then wouldnt let up on drowning the thing..lol..and the character underware didnt work since most of the characters he has no clue who they are and so the phone call to favorite character once he went didnt make him want to go anymore than anything else cause he didnt really have a favorite and never used the phone before..

Anyhow good luck!

I am also a stay at home mom of two boys, going on 3 in march and 5 in april. With my first son he would poop in the potty before he would pee then we just kept getting him to sit rather than stand as we were suggested to do and he is completely potty trained however he does wear a pull up to bed at night only because he doesn't wake up. I worked when he was small so he was more of a struggle, but my youngest Chase started to pee in the potty months ago but only before bath and now will pee in the potty several times a day. If your boy is anything like mine we kept saying how much of a big boy he was for doing it and doing our version of the happy dance and now he just woke up this morning and said he needed to pee. Our pediatrician recommended that we didn't start to train till at least 2 but I was determined not to push him or add any extra pressure and let him do it on his own. He saw his older brother do it and he wants to be like him and that helps.

Good luck and rememeber that they go in leaps in bounds at this age and I am sure by 3 he will be out of diapers hopefully at least for school.

Hi there,
I started to potty train my son at age 3. He started preschool in Sept of 06 , so started potty training him in Aug of 06. We put a little jar of M&M's on the back of the toilet and everytime he peed in the potty he got to have 3 M&M's. He will be 4 next week and he still will not poop in the potty, he will poop in the bath tub, but he in underwear during the day and a diaper at night.

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Well, I have two boys and a girl. My daughter is not old enough yet, but I can tell you that my sons were VERY difficult and were not completely trained until they were almost five. I honestly don't think I knew what I was doing with my first and with my second, he attended an out-of-sight daycare that worked with the kids on a daily basis and he was almost there when we had to take him out due to moving. This was a tremendous set back for him and I will hold myself responsible. Right before we moved, we gave birth to his sister and a lot of things set him back for real. He didn't have a problem with peeing in the toilet, in fact he enjoyed the fact that he could do it. He would, however have accidents with poop, so we took him to a doctor, who thought maybe there was a stomach problem involved, so we took him to a gastro doctor who gave our son "homework". Every day he was to sit on the toilet for ten minutes with a book. We saw some improvement because it was getting him into a routine, but it didn't solve the problem altogether. One day, I caught him doing the "guy" thing of passing gas and this gave me an idea. I took my son to the bathroom and told him we were going to work on "homework". When he sat up there, I told him to try to pass gas and BINGO it happened and he automatically realized what it was supposed to feel like. I was a little uncomfortable at first because I had to be a little crude with him and talk at him like his dad and brother would talk to him, but ah...in the end it all worked out and fixed the problem. I hope this helps in some way.