Seeking Advice on My 27 Month Old and Diaper Removal

I have one daugther and my experience with her was little different but I trained her to go using a video.
I allowed her to watch it and I was with her singing the songs.
I coud tell that your son needs to learn to communicate his need. I'm sure you can teach your son. I was taking my daughter to the bathroom every 2 hours.
I said her name and then "Is time to go" or potty time.
like a game
She learned very quickly.

Also patience is very important.
I recommend you the potty video You don't need to buy a new one maybe the library has one available to take home.
here is a web for information on that subject.
http://www.pottytrainingconcepts.com/CTGY/How-to-Potty-Tr...

Blessings to you.
Bell

I would maybe get an extra potty for the bedroom since that is where he goes to do it. Make a big deal out of it in a happy positive way. Got to the store with him and pick one out- let pick the color he likes from the group you can afford. Then offer him a 'treat/prize' for EVERYTIME he makes it in there. It sounds weird, but my son peed/pooped to tattoos-he was quite a sight that summer! He loved those temporary tattoo's and I let him have one everytime to get him in the groove-it was something he picked and it just sorta happened. So, in the words of Dr. Phil, find his currency and use it! When my son mastered peeing, he had some trouble really getting the pooping part, so when he did go I gave him a tattoo, but we also worked a chart. He had seen a big art kit at Costco and got the 'I want it's'- so I told him if he pooped ten times in the potty I would get it for him- and he did. Making sure we NEVER missed marking that chart. It all worked and taught even more lessons on working hard for something you want- it's never to early for that! Good luck!

Try this.. Instead of putting a diaper on him. Take it off and hold a clean one in your hand and tell him he can't have it. Claim the hell out of it. He'll want it then!

It sounds as if your son is "ready" for the potty. Although it may sound a little strange,with all three of my children, I kept a potty in whatever room we were using. That way, when the urge hit, we didn't have to race to the bathroom hoping we would make it on time. It worked beautifully. Establishing a reward system is also helpful.

Talk with your son and, in terms that he understands, let him know to go to the potty, not the floor, or bed, even if you are somewhere else. A potty video or book might also drive your point home.

Good luck. This will get better. It may take a little time and a lot of patience in the process!

Hi,
I have a friend whose daughter removes her diaper at naptime and makes a mess frequently. Her solution has been to put a onesie over her clothes to make it more difficult to get at the diaper to get it off. I don't know if that would work for your son. Good luck!

If he doesn't keep the diaper on perhaps it is time to potty train him? AF

Like everyone else, I recommend DUCT TAPE! Don't let anyone give you a dirty look for ducting taping the diaper on your child. It doesn't touch their skin and it doesn't hurt them. It teaches them to obey mommy!

Try putting the diaper on backwards! It's harder to get off that way! :-)

Ooooooooooooooooooooh yes! I remember those days. Here is our old fashioned method.
We turned the diaper around, we closed it with duct tape, we turned the pjs around and closed the zipper with a diaper pin.
He would have had to be houdini to get out of all that.
Now we did this all in stages, mind you, as he figured one method out, we added another, but it worked!!!

Like you, I was sick of cleaning the crib, the floor, the walls!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck, and know that one day he will actually use the potty without any help. I am a witness !

It looks like everyone else has given you some great advise to use during "waking" hours. I can share a trick we used on my one daughter during nap and bed times. Since she was still in the crib when this behavior started (I think they all do it at least a few times-be thankful he hasn't painted anything), putting a potty in the room wasn't practical. We encouraged her to go potty prior to putting her down for nap or bed, then put her in zip-up jammies and pinned the zipper up. Make sure you use the safety pins, not the regular ones. She never figured out how to get out of it since she didn't have the finger dexterity to maneuver the pin (esp without being able to see it under her chin).

Good luck - this too shall pass.

S.

Put his diaper on backwards. Works like a charm. They have a tough time figuring that one out.

DUCT TAPE. I have 6 y/o twin boys who did the same with their diapers when they were that age. We started with small bits of duct tape just to cover the tabs but they shortly realized they could peel that off. So we took the roll and ripped a longer strip so it was only half as wide as the roll and wrapped it around the diaper so the ends met in the back where they couldn't get at it. We used half as wide strips so when you wrap it around, it doesn't stick to babys thigh (near the tabs where the diaper isn't as wide). This solved the problem and the tape just pulls off for you when your ready for a diaper change.
Good luck!!
Julie