Potty Training - Davenport, IA - Mom with 5 kids

I know this soumds crazy if you havent tried it but it really worked for my son. Get regular cheerioes and everytime that he goes into the bathroom, throw one into the toilet and tell him to "sink" the cheerio. Maybe if you make a game of it he will be more interested in the rest.

N.,

We did the potty chart with stickers for my oldest two. It said... I tried, I did (pee), I did more(poop). We also have done the time approach where you take the kid in every hour. We bought the character underware as motivation as well. Each kid is different when it comes to training. So, my best advice is try the different ways people have advised I am sure one of them will work. My cousin did the take the potty in the backyard and spend the whole day outside and whenever he needs to go put him by it.

Best of Luck.

It will happen.

A.

I found out when my son was going on 3 and still in pull ups that he just didn't understand the problem because he couldn't feel it-it sounds mean but he had to do it for his own reasons(feeling the "yucky"). We invested in some cloth underpants with the plastic outer liner and a plastic lined bed cover-within a week he was pretty much day-trained and the rest soon followed.

A friend of mine told me when training her kids(4) she did it in one day!She would send them out in the backyard during the summer dressed without a diaper and tell them to be sure to come in if they have to go potty-pretty soon they would come to her all wet and unhappy- she would say uh oh you didn't make it!After changing them she would repeat this until they would come in dry to go potty!

N.,
I just finished potty training my 2 yr old daughter, and let me tell you, i know what you are going thru!!
All I would do is grab a stack of books that she liked, and she would sit there and i would read to her, until she went. When she would go in the potty, I would praise her like crazy!
20 min later we would do it again. I did this for about a week and a half! it was tuff, but it worked. Maybe this might work for you.

First thing would be to have your doctor evaluate him to make sure he doesnt have the same problems as his mother. If that is not the case, remember he is under a lot of stress too, since you said you are in the process of adopting him. He is probably scared and reverting back slightly to a younger age. It happens in a lot of casing of stress, new home, new baby, new situation. Chances are once his life becomes more stable and constant, then it will come quickly. If it is stress related, there isnt much you can do except be consistant. I hope for the best for all of you, Good Luck!

I went to another site for moms when I was trying to potty train my two boys. Someone suggested that I let them go naked around the house. I tried everything else and then finally tried this. It took one day and they were potty trained. I do not know why but it worked for me.

I know this may sound wrong, but this is what it took for my son when I was fed up. He was 1 month from turning 4 and I had enough! I took him outside (privicy fenced yard) and let him run around naked. Within minutes he had urinated and he was amazed. I did it for a few more days and then took the potty chair out as well. He loved Army Men and I put them in the potty chair and told him that they were dirty and needed a shower and that we had no water. He then whipped it out and unrinated all over the Army Men. Then it was a game to him. Then about a week later we replaced the potty chair with the toilet indoors and replaced the Army Men with Cheerios. I told him to make the Cheerios go down. It worked!
Good Luck!
M. S.

Does he seem slow to you? I wouldn't jump to that conclussion right away though. My boy was around the same age when he potty trained. He wanted to go to preschool the next year, so that helped. I went and bought some new underware for him and didn't let him see them come out of the package and told them they were his friend logans underware and that he would be mad if he went potty in them. it worked for us... If he doesn't have any friends, does he have a certain charactor (scooby doo or sponge bob, elmo) or something that he just loves. you could try that too. Hey Sponge bob sent these underware just for you so don't go potty in them. It can be alot of work... they usually take to the peeing first and pick up the pooping later, and i would buy a cover for the bed, incase of accidents. and then when he does go potty in the toilet make a huge thing out of it. and when he doesn't potty in the bed then make a big deal out of it. well good luck to you
and congradulations on adopting.

Potty prizes are really neat. You wrap little keyshains, toy soliders, dinosaurs etc in tissue paper and place them in a bowl in the bathroom. When he uses the bathroom he gets a potty prize. I've heard this work with a lot of people. My oldest was 5 and youngest was 4 and still in pullups. When we moved into our new house I threw out the pullups and said enough. That is when they got potty trained. Making them go every hour is good too. Set a timer if you have to.