Potty Training a 2Yr Old

I have a 2 year old son, and he tells me when he has already gone. I put him in the pull-up pants so he realizes how often he goes. He will stand up in the tub and pee and he knows what it is. But I don't think he is ready yet. I bought "Potty with Bear" in the big blue house. It's a really good DVD I think it is preparing him. But I don't know this is my first time around with the potty training.

Vocabulary is the biggest thing. He has to be able to tell you that he has to go potty. The fact that he holds himself really isn't much of a sign. I don't know of too many boys of any age that don't do that. My daughter will be two next month and the moment she goes she tells me. She hates being in a dirty diaper. She also likes to sit on her sister's potty. But right now she sits on it with her clothes on or just before she takes a bath. I'm still not sure that she really gets the concept of potting or if it is just copying her sister.
Definitely start him off with some kind of pull up with a way for him to really feel that he has done something. I personally potty train with sweat pants. You'll do a lot of laundry and it will be really gross at first but there is no question that he will know that he went potty and hopefully he won't like the feeling. Don't change them right away if it is a peepee you want him to really recognize that that gross feeling is because he peed.
Pick up a potty and start letting him experiment on it. if he resists drop the subject for a while he just isn't ready.

Good luck

I have 3 boys. What worked with one has never worked with another. With one exception. Don't push. You will always be ready before they are. My 13 year old was trained 3 times, no lie. He was in Kindergarten with pull-ups. Then, one day he saw that a frined in class had underwear. never wet in the daytime again. he was almost 7 before we could take night pants away. My 4 year old I started with at 2. he had accidents all day did not want to go to the potty. Then one day just beofre he turned 4 I had started trying again and he was soo excited about it. No more accidents. About 3 weeks later he announces he is a big boy and he doesn't want to wear a diaper to bed, he had not had a wet diaper in the morning since he started going in the day. So I said OK. has not had one accident since. My 3 year old I started at 2. Wet every pair he had on for a month. I stopped. At 3 I said don't you want to go potty like your brothers nd daddy, he said no. SO, I said OK well lets just wear underwear anyway. He loves Thomas the train I had secretly bought those. And I told him OK you do not have to use the potty but lets wear these and when you need to go you tell me and I will put your diaper back on. SO he was like OK cool. Well, next thing I know he is screaming I have to go pee mom come with me. SO, we did and bam he has not had an accident in the day yet. He announced tonight that he doesn't want to wear a diaper to bed so we will see what has happened in the morning or sometime tonight....Good luck but remember don't push they will know and they will share it with you....

Hi M.
me again, when I potty trained my son, he got pee down before he got the poop part down. That didn't come until weeks later.

I am not expert, only another mom =0) But when my son was about 2 1/2 I started letting him sit on the potty. Once they "accidently" go pee in the toilet, reward them like crazy! Especially put them on the toilet if they wake up dry or have been dry for a few hours. Depends on how much you want to invest, but we did a sticker chart, and we he got to the end of a row (usually about 5 times) he got a special suprise. I will tell you that I thought he was ready several times and he really wasn't. Then for some reason, just before his 3rd birthday it seemed to "click" and he went pee in the toilet almost 100% of the time with only a few accidents,which before that it was about 50% of the time. Poop was another story...he didn't care, and I think this is the case mostly with boys. It was at the time that he started using the toilet almost all the time for pee that he one day recognozed after a bath while naked that his bottom "hurt". I told him to run real quick and go potty, and he did! From then on it was only a few accidents over the next few months and he was trained. I just make sure he goes at night before bed and he makes it all the way through. All in all, my suggestion is rewards, although until your child is developmentally ready, he may not make the connection or may not be able to control or know the sensations he is feeling in order to understand he has to go. Sorry so lengthy, hope this helps!

Hi M. B. He will let you know when his is ready. My middle son was only 15 months old when he want to be like his big bro.and my old son was almost 4 years old.

That is funny and yet frustrating at the same time. I'm currently still working with my son who just turned 3. He is going potty on the toilet, but won't go poo except in his underwear or his pullups. He is now at the point as soon as he goes poo he'll tell me and go get his wipes and pullups to be changed. I found that when Dylan was getting closer to begin he began to follow EVERYONE to the potty (guests, grandparents etc) and would watch them go and clap when he heard you.(he only got away with that from us or grandparents)LOL.. So that is how it began and then we put him in a school here where all the kids are in the works of potty training so he watched his classmates and it was more fun and got stars, stickers etc as rewards each time he went or didn't have an accident.

You can start by buying underwear and I showed him how neat it was and took him to try and go pee pee every 30 mins or so. LOTS OF BATHROOM TRIPS and LAUNDRY!!

If you hear any tips let me know!

A. W.

There is a book called "The Potty Book For Boys" it worked for my son when I did him. I still have the book.. Do you want it?
T. K