Hello All,
My 21month old son was very excited about potty training and was doing well, but 2 weeks into the training he just decided to give up completely. I have no idea why! I would really like him to be potty trained right before or on his 2nd B-day. I heard about some Autism potty training classes here in our community that are for every child not just Autism children. I have tried surfing the web to find out more information on the class but came out empty. Do any of you know of such a class or any other potty training classes that my son and I can enroll in? Any information will help.
I don't have the answer you are looking for, but just one note: If your son is not ready to potty train don't push the issue. Having a potty trained baby by age 2 would be wonderful but many children, especially boys, are not ready till about age 3 no matter what interventions you may use.
I second what Michelle said. If a child isn't ready to potty train, it's not going to happen just because you want it to. Keep trying, but don't get frustrated. He'll take to the potty in his own time.
I trained my 3 year old boy in less than a day after trying many methods. My goal was to stop having 2 children in diapers (my daughter was 1 yr. at the time...sounds familiar). Answer: "Toilet Training in Less Than a Day", book by Arzan & Fox. Amazon has it. I followed it to a 'T' and it worked. In fact, so well that I trained my daughter at 23 months! But, you must do it exactly like the book advises. Basically, they have you use multiple motivational methods at the same time WHILE making staying in a messy diaper worse than going potty. If there is no discomfort (especialy with todays super absorbant diapers & pull ups), then why should a child be motivated to change? A child being 'ready' is not a factor for this method. It is about you taking control and motivating at their developmental level. Good Luck!
My daughter will be 3 in July and has been potty-trained a little over a month. I stressed myself out about it so much because I felt like she was using it as a control thing. But one day, I said, ok we are just going to wear panties during the day and put a plastic cover over them (like they use for cloth diapers) and in less than a week she was fully potty-trained both #1 and #2. We had a few accidents but nothing like what I was imagining in my head. And another plus to them being older, is they communicate better. Whatever you decide, I say put the underwear on him. He will figure out that he is not supposed to go in them. Good luck :)
I think we ALL would have liked our children to have been trained by the time they were two... unfortunately for most, it doesn't happen. Like the other mothers have said, they will train when they are ready. At least you're "planting the seed"... and you'll find that if you push too hard, they will run the opposite direction and fight you all the way. Been there, done that. When I quit pushing, I heard one day "MOMMY, I WENT POTTY!!" all by herself in the bathroom, without any help. She had taken her pants and diaper off and even flushed her pee down the big potty. She was just shy of 2 1/2. She's been in panties exclusively since then (except for pull ups at nap time and night. 99% of the time they are dry when she wakes up and we reuse them). Good luck!
I have to agree with all the responses... yes we all don't want to have to buy diapers anymore but especailly with boys, the hard you push, the harder they push back. It was probably going so well in the beginning because it was something new but now it isn't and so he doesn't want to. My son is almost four (in August) and we are still having the "stinky" battle. He might just be telling you that it isn't time for him yet and there isn't too much that we can do about that. I wouldn't give up totally but I would back off a little and like the others said... some just start doing it on their own.
