potty trainning advice please

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Registered: 06-04-2004
potty trainning advice please
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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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Registered: 04-21-2003
Thu, 09-16-2004 - 12:29pm
I had my son trained right after he turned two. Maybe he was ready, maybe other reasons. Who knows? But I began placin ghim on a potty chair at 18 months to get him used to the idea that he would soon be doing this. He got stubborn too and I worried that he'd never train. He'd scream and cry on the potty. But I bought a book, "Once Upon A Potty". They have a girl's and a boy's version. It helped so much. He'd ask for the potty book. They boy's name in the book is "Joshua" but I substituted Dylan's name so it made it more personal to him. He loved it and eventually, he just went. I'd keep putting him on the potty every hour to hour and a half. Sure it was hard to watch the clock and make him do this and keep him there at least 10 minutes at a time, but he got the point that I wasn't playing. It wasn't that I was trying to push him. He was going to do it when he chose to no matter what I did, but I think by keeping a schedule with the potty, he began to expect it. First thing in the morning, right after breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, naps, and before bedtime. Anytime he would normally go. It got to where he had no choice but to go in the potty. I know you don't want to push him and I don't recommend it, but a little nudge is not too bad. Just some regularity on the potty schedule might give him some help and reward him when he goes with a big cheer. He'll know he did something great and want to do it again.

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