My son turned two in May.We are working on potty training him.The thing is he screams bloody murder each time we put him on the potty.I give him toys to calm him down,he does after 5 minutes of screaming.How can we make this less stressful?

DS is two and shows really no interest in sitting on the potty. We have it in a prominent area of the bathroom. Ask if he wants to sit on his potty and read. Got him potty books. Your child obviously isn't ready, so I wouldn't force him to sit on it if he's so upset.

dear august 26, i know what you mean, my girl was not potty trained till she was 3half, but she did sit on the toilet but did nothing, my peditriction told me when shes ready she will do it, or you can try rewarding him with something, but if hes only 2 it will take some time dont rush him mom everything will work out just fine, what worked for me i went and bought a toddlers little toilet seat you can put on your regular toilet it has handles on it, and the child cant fall in, and that helped my girl to start potting in the real toilet, you can buy them at walmart, there only $10 dollors, god bless you, i hoped ive helped you, take care. from gummymom

See I had trouble potty training my older son he's six now.It took him to age three to potty train.I'm just trying to get a head start on my 2yr old son ,he's turned two in May and we feel it's an appropriate time to start potty training him. He does make a fuss but he does use the potty even had a bm on the potty.Sometimes he sits on the toilet.But I will try books and other things to get him to go more to the potty .My husband even goes in while he's in there they both go lol.

I agree with the others. Don't push him. Wait until he's ready. My first decided when he was 3 and a half that he didn't want to wear diapers anymore, and that was it. He's almost six and has never looked back. My second (who's almost 2 and a half) has had phases when he's really interested in the potty and phases when he doesn't seem to care. We encourage him as much as we can, and cheer him when he makes an effort, but we don't get too focused on it. We figure he'll start doing it when he wants to. Maybe that's too laissez-faire for some people, but it sure beats having a kid hollering.

.........hmm .I don't send him to the potty every minute of the day,I just take him maybe once or twice. It's not a every day thing, i think some have mistaken thinking that i put him on each minute of the day.

i don't know about you but i have three kids first one was trained at 14mos second at 19mos but i am also havin probs with my third he will b 2 this mo he peed 2 times last mo but now he stopped and i have given him a brake for a bit now he pees in it once a week maby twice and hopefuly soon he will be done you might want to try that maby it'll work for you good luck



Thanks, I just feel that I should make some type of effort to start trying to put him on the potty.He will be three soon.I don't feel that i'm pressuring him at all.

Well i just figured that i would jump in here and put my 2 cents in as well as give some ideas to help with the potty training.

I am a mom to 5 children that i have had to potty train as well as i potty trained my niece and nephew while my sister was at work.
If a child is ready to potty train at a young age, that is great! I would attempt to train my children when they were about a year and a half old, if they werent interested then they clearly werent ready so i didnt force the issue. However, i felt that when my children turned 2 that they were not only old enough but mature enough to learn to potty train. So on their 2nd birthday or the next day, that is when the diapers were history and the training pants went on.

I never had an issue with the girls sitting on the potty or being "afraid" to sit and use it, however the boys were a different story. I didnt push the issue of sitting on the potty and pooping with the boys until they had peeing in it mastered. In my experience with my boys once they started peeing in the potty the pooping just followed like second nature.

Seeing the boys seemed to have a phobia of sitting down i found a potty seat that fit right on the toilet that had handles on each side with steps that came down the front. This allowed them to be able to stand on the step and pee in the toilet like a big boy! (I never used a floor sitting potty chair)

Another idea to get the little boys started peeing in the potty (besides giving them awards) is to make a game out of it. If you cant find the type of potty that fits on the toilet with steps, you can use a little step stool for them to stand on....then you can put some Fruit Loops cereal, cheerios, or even get some colored construction paper and cut small circles out and float them in the toilet, then have your little guys stand to pee trying to hit the circles!!!!

They absolutely love it! Making a game out of it not only takes some of the fear out of using the potty but also makes it fun so they want to go to the potty!!!!!

Good Luck,

Valley

So the other day I decided to put training pants on DS 'cuz someone told me that the reason children are pottytrained so late these days is because the diapers wick away the wetness from the body and it's not uncomfortable. So about 15 minutes later my MIL says, she smells gas or something and plop --- out falls a huge log out of ds's pants.

Then this morning he's in the tub and he says owie and his butt hurts. So I ask him if he wants to sit on the potty or potty chair. He's terrified. So I pull him out of the tub, get him dressed and a few minutes later, he poops in his diaper. Oh well, we'll get things figured out one of these days. He knows not to poop in the tub and he tells me before swimming lessons (we use little swimmers) "no poop in the pool"

.........hmm .I don't send him to the potty every minute of the day,I just take him maybe once or twice. It's not a every day thing, i think some have mistaken thinking that i put him on each minute of the day.

Hi there, If you have decided it is time to potty train as well as be successful, then i would recommend you coming up with some sort of schedule or "plan". Be consistant......once you start potty training keep going with it. When potty training a child if the parent isnt consistant every day, such as only putting them on the potty a couple times a day or putting the child in diapers one day but training pants the next, this will only prolong the potty training as well as confuse the child.

If a parent feels the child is ready and they start potty training them then they should go for it and keep at it being consistant.

Valley

So last night DS poops in his diaper and doesn't care. I go to change him and he says "No poop in the pool, no poop in the tubby". I said yes, no poop in the pool or tubby, then asked him "Poop in the potty?" His response was "Mommy poop in potty. Me NO poop in the potty". I swear he's doing this just to mess with me out of pure orneryness.

Hey. Okay here are my two cents.

My DS turned 2 this past March. I had started introducing him to the potty a few months before that. He was terrified of it. Every couple of weeks I would try to potty train him. He refused and I didn't push it. I had so many people tell me he was old enough to be using the potty and some even said to punish him for not using it. I was completely furious. I told everyone that when he was ready he would let me know. Well wouldn't you know a couple of months ago he we tried again and he started using the potty and has never looked back. I moved his little potty in the family room (no, its not nasty as long as you keep it clean) so he would see it constantly to remind him and we didn't have a minutes trouble out of him. He was also rewarded each time he used the potty. Nothing expensive just those toys from walmart that you get several items for $0.88 or some smarties candy. I bought a little plastic box with a flip top lid and decorated it just for him. When he used the potty he got to pick his prize. He is completely potty trained now (even night) and doesn't do rewards anymore. Also, he uses the big potty now.

Your son will get it. Don't force it and when he is ready he will start. Just be sure and try every now and then. As far as a certain age that a child should be potty trained I think that is a bunch of crap. Everyone child is different and mature at a different rate. He will get the hang of it. Just hang in there.