Potty Training - Littleton,CO

I had almost the same situation about two months ago. Except that I had three in diapers (almost 4, almost 3, and 19 mo.). My oldest, a boy, had no desire to be potty trained. I finally just took away his diapers/pull ups except at night and we bought really cool underware (batman, spiderman, Diego and power rangers). He gets to pick out what he wants to wear for the day. He had several accidents at first, but I didn't make a big deal out of it I just reminded him to tell me when he needed to go potty and gave possitive encouragement (for the most part, it is very frustrating). I made him change his own wet panties and gave him a wash cloth to clean up with. If he tried "Mama do it" I simply left the room and stated that he was a big boy and wouldn't have this problem if he had used the toilet. It took some time, but we now have major successes including using self flushing potties!!
J.

I have a lot of friends who really liked the book "How to Toilet Train Your Child in Less Than a Day" I think that's the title or close to it. It didn't work for us, but that was a personality thing. I hope you find something that helps.

My mother sent us a video called "I gotta go," which seemed to help our youngest. I felt the principle of the video was to help kids realize the responsibility is not only fun, (with lots of songs and dances), but part of becoming a "big kid." You might be able to check it out somewhere. I was going to paste a link from Amazon's site, but it doesn't appear to be cooperating this morning.

Good luck...

We just had our first ever full day in dry undies!
And I can't say I have some magic answer for you. He was just simply ready... at least for today... who knows what tomorrow will bring. I'm hoping all the praise from today will motivate him to continue this tomorrow.

As for motivation to try the potty, our doc recommended little candies (jelly beans, m&ms). I was totally offended. Heck no was I going to bribe my child like I do when training a dog! But, it worked. My son was so not interested in being the big boy. He wanted to be the baby. No desire to grow in that way. But when I offered m&ms, he tried every time.

For our sanity's sake, I would try an "undies day" every 2nd or 3rd Sunday to see how we were doing. After waking up, I'd take my kids (3 yr old & 2 yr old) to the bathroom. If they went potty, they were allowed to wear undies. If not, no worries, we'd try again later that day. But, once the undies were on, I would take them back every 20-40 min. I learned real quick that an hour was simply to long for my son. Today, because he was doing so well, I let him keep his undies on when we left the house but put a diaper over them... just in case.

It is a long slow process and alot of it does depend on the childs readiness. The steps I've tried are just my little attempts to help my son along so that I feel like we are making progress, even if only a little bit at a time.

Oh, one more thing...
This week, I did start to read Elizabeth Pantley's book, The No-Cry Potty Training Solution. Although there really wasn't anything in it for him to read, he did enjoy looking at all the pictures of other kids on their pottys.

If you haven't already done so, you might want to:
*introduce him to some books about potty training
*let him be with you in the bathroom (if you're comfortable with it)
*let him choose some underwear / try it on
*let him wear the underwear (outside of diaper to see it or inside of diaper to feel it - just introducing the new sensation)

Hopefully some of this helps.

Good luck,
P.

Children learn at their own pace. I think a lot of kids are still in diapers though at age 2. Don't push him. It will just cause frustration on your part and his.

If you're son isn't ready to potty train, he won't, no matter what you do or say and you'll just frustrate him and yourself.
Signs of readiness: http://www.pull-ups.com/na/wtg/articles/start/quick/sor.asp

However, if he is ready, this worked for us: http://www.drphil.com/articles/article/264

Good luck!