potty trainning advice please
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potty trainning advice please
| Wed, 09-15-2004 - 2:31pm |
my ds is three and 2 months and still not totally potty trained. he'll go pee if i put him on the toliet but wont tell me when he has to go. he wont go poop at all on the toliet. he has gone all day dry. how can i get him to tell me when he has to go? also i have him sit on the toliet when he goes pee figuaring it will be easier to get him to go poop that way but others have told me that i should have him go standing up. any advice would be helpful. i'm tried of all the "why isn't he pottytrained yet" from people but i don't want to push him.

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Poop takes longer. In fact, he would hide somewhere when he had to go, and do it in his pants. Yeah, yuck, I know, but at least he knew he had to go. Eventually he grew out of it.
I'd try real underwear if you haven't yet. Also, maybe rewarding him for telling you he has to go and not going in his pants - stickers etc. Try to have a regular schedule of going to the potty if you can.
And I wouldn't push him. Let the people who're asking stupid questions mind their own business. Every kid is different, and boys usually take longer than girls for some reason.
Good luck,
Galina
From the day care provider's point of veiw....
Boys do take longer...so don't worry.
Kim
Good luck.
Pooping was a little harder, and I did have to resort to a bit of punishment because I knew he was ready to go in the toilet. I put him to bed early one night because he pooped his pants. He was devastated, but I linked it directly to the pooping. He started going in the toilet after that.
I also found that in public I had to, and still do, remind him that if he has to pee there's a bathroom around, just to let me know. He had an accident when we were visiting one time, cause he said he didn't know where the bathroom was. So I will usually point out where it is to him so he knows where to go.
Just know that he will eventually get it.
Alison
Kim
My MIL is a firm believer that if boys can poo sitting down, then they can pee sitting down, too. It makes for a cleaner toilet area if you know what I mean.
LOL!!!!
Tyler has to go to the bathroom EVERYWHERE we go. Every time. We get somewhere new and I can see him scoping out the bathrooms. He pipes up "I have to go to the bathroom" and I just say "of COURSE you do. We're in public and you've not yet marked your territory!"
Drives me crazy!!!! ;)
Alison
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