Two Year Old Obviously Ready to Be potty-trained...what Next?

I used the book Potty Train in Less Than A Day by Azarin/Fox. My mom used it 31 years ago & it worked great so I used it for my son and WOW it was easy & fun for both of us!!! It really did only take less than a day. He rarely had an accident afterwards and now he is 4. I am going to use it again when my daughter is ready.

Well, I find that first thing in the morning is almost a guarenteed potty on the pot. You just have to be very consistant with every hour or less placing him on the pot and not asking. However, do talk about it so he understands the potty language. He will catch on. Try to do any potty changing and cleaning up in the restroom so he understands where this business is done.

Good Luck!

Hi M.
I have a 2 year old daughter and a 5 year old daughter. Whilst I realise it's probably different to potty train girls and boys, I thought I'd tell you what has worked for me...

When you make the decision to potty train, you have to DO IT. So you take the nappies off, and put your child in underwear and that's it. There's no going back. Obviously they will wear nappies through the night until they've mastered the daytime dryness, but if you flit between nappies and underwear during they day, it creates confusion and 'accidents'.

I'm on Week 2 of potty training my daughter, and so far she's doing great. There are no nappies during the day, only for sleep times (she sometimes naps at nursery for half an hour, so they put a nappy on her for that, but she understands nappies are for sleeping).

The other thing I do is ask her to sit on the potty, rather than ask her whether she wants to use it. So I get her to sit on it every hour or so (depending on what she's drinking!) and that way, she will get used to sitting there, sometimes peeing and sometimes not. The important thing is that when she DOES pee, it is on the potty nine times out of ten. Now on week 2, she tells me when she's going to the potty, as well as me asking her to go and sit on it. Eventually I'll stop asking her and she'll tell me more and more....

Good luck!
C. x

what i do is take them first thing in the morning and about every 30mins after that. i dont give and liquids after 5 and make sure they go potty before bed. then before i goto sleep i would wake them up to go potty. i kept my nephew in pull ups (at night) until he went a week without wetting his bed. it took him about a month to catch on fully.

But the little potty in the same room that he spends his day,(make sure you put something under it (towels a large bag, etc.) for accidents). Morning pee is the easiest because they have held it all night. So the minute he wakes up put him on the potty and make him sit their until he goes, you can't hold morning pee forever. Then after a couple days (4-6) so he knows how to release it. put the big undies on. Remind him every few hours. But you will find that if the potty is right their they don't have to leave the room and miss something, after a few weeks move it alittle closer to the bathroom then after a few more weeks move it to the bathroom. Don't put diapers on ever again, it's not an opption not even to go potty. Then when he is a little older get him a stool and leave it in front of the potty and show him how to get up their and stand to pee. The older the better because boys think it's funny if they miss the potty altogether, and you need him to understand that's not ok. It sounds like you have him interested so this will probable come easy to him. But make it convenent for him and running around in undies and a shirt for a week or two is fine. Stay away from pull-ups they feel like daipers and they will just go.

Good Luck! J.

We tried so many things that failed. What finally worked, and worked fairly quickly, was "cold turkey."

We purchased several pairs of Gerber training pants (cotton underpants that are just a little thicker in the crotch). And went to a Thrift Store and purchased all the pants in his size that had no buttons (elastic waist, so he could easily pull them up/down by himself). Then we stashed extra underpants/pants in various places, so that we'd have them for accidents. Then told him he had to go, and dealt with the mess.

Poop took longer. Turns out he didn't like going poop in the big potty, but was okay with going in the little potty. We made it so that he had to clean himself up if he pooped (supervised of course) and then just dealt with it.

Nothing else worked. M&M's/stickers for good action didn't work. Bribes (which I believe in [grin]) didn't work. A sucker for the duration of sitting on the potty didn't work. Cold Turkey worked.

All kids are different, so maybe one of the others will work for you. But this worked for us. Good luck!!

Well potty training for me was difficult and my son was not even ready and he's about to be 4 i bearly got him out of diapers during the day ! Well he did not like the little potty and those potty seats he would get fustrated, then i started showing him that he could stand while he was going. He loved it, so i started leaving him naked so we wouldn'thave to worry about him to worry taking any clothes off. then when i notice he'd start dancing then we would run and then from there he started noticing when he had to go himself and thats when i would leave him in just in his underware and i bought him one with caracters, and I would tell him make sure you dont pee on them you dont want to get them wet. there was on occasion that he would have an accident or 2 he was so busy playing but from there he got the hang of it. Belive me i thought it was something that i thought was never going to happen *good luck

Hi M.! It's great that your son is interested and has even gone potty in the toilet so he knows what it feels like. For my daughter, I read this book about potty training. The steps can be found here http://www.ehow.com/how_###-###-####_potty-train-child-on... . Of course, every child responds differently. My daughter was actually more focused on the doll. But when we changed her to underwear. We made it a point to make it a BIG DEAL about her having big girl underwear. I took her to the potty like every hour, and if she went, we also made a BIG DEAL about it, screamed with excitement. I also asked her if she had a funny feeling in her lower belly before she was able to go. Then I explained to her that whenever she felt that feeling, it meant it was time to rush to the potty. After a couple of days of constantly taking her to the potty, we were able to ask her if she wanted to go, or just took her if she didn't go for a while. Some of my friends have done the same thing, so it seems to work. Just remember to praise him for every little thing he does right in the bathroom. Good Luck!

Put cheerio's in the toilet, have him aim at them, & just take him there every hour or so, according to how often you had to change his diaper, & let the water run while doing this, it worked great w/my son
Good luck

BUy him his cotton underwear and let him wear just that around the house.
set a timer and every hour take him to the bathroom and set him on the pot. You will need to do this for at least a week and then you should be good to go. This is for the day. Iy doesn't always work at night. I am not sure what happens there, but make sure no liquids for at least 1 hour before bed and make sure they go pee right before they go to bed.
You are lucky most boys don't care which way or the other. They are not usually ready until 3 or 4 so don't get frustrated when it doesn't work.

I did it this way, and it REALLY worked! Here's the link:
http://www.gomommygo.com/pottytraining.html