Jimmy is potty training!!! If we leave him naked he will pee and poop in his little potty! I discovered it by accident. Occasionaly I hold him over the toilet and ask him to pee. The last time I did it he peed! So I set out his potty and within a few minutes he'd peed in that one too! Took him a few accidents to get the pooping down, but I just scooped it up and put it in his potty and he got it. We bought him some training pants but if he's wearing anything he will wet himself. We aren't pressuring him at all but I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how to teach him that he can pull down his pants and use the potty when he's clothed?
with jar jar we did the same but offerd him a sweet when ever he did his business in the potty he soon cought on that the potty was a good thing
My son started peeing the potty well before he was 2 years old. He still was not potty trained until 3-1/2 after 6 months of being in underwear. Potty training was the hardest thing I've ever had to do, it is so frustrating. I had only one month of no child in diapers before my daughter arrived!
What I found out was that if you put your child on the pot every so often, it's not so urgent. Most kids that are ready, will pee/poo on command. That is how I eventually night learned my girls. I would wake them up and set them on the toilet, and they would usually pee. When you let the kid wait until they "feel" it, it's usually a "gotta go this second" thing. They don't recognize the "feeling" until the last possible moment.
what I have come to realise as time has passed that the point at which they potty train isn't really so important...it is the point at which they learn to wipe their own bums! :H any advice anyone?
great! This is a wondeful milestone! The girls were 2 1/2 when they were completely trained...even through the night. I was very lucky. Pull- ups/training pants are great, but you have to make sure that they don't treat them like a diaper. Because they will. I remember just switching them to big girl undies, and they didn't like to be wet. Once they pee in their undies, they realize it is not fun to feel like that. So alas they will resort to just the potty! And they just do it when they are ready, that is for certain! Keep up the good work and praise, and he will do just fine
well my son knows how to take off his diaper and shorts but for some reason he wont use the potty unless he is naked. when i gave my son a bath this morning he got out and went poop on the potty for the first time i was exstatic and an hour later i saw him hiding in the corner (he was making his poo face) and i asked him if he wanted to go to the potty he shook his head no and ran. so i figured that he needs to be naked in order to use the potty otherwise he will jsut use his diaper. so i am on the same boat as you with.
Critter has the right idea... Getting a few pairs of "big boy undies" will go a long way. My son started potty training a couple months before his second birthday, and did a marvelous job, but every now and then when us adults got a little too confident in his skill he'd have an accident and it seemed like it would set him back a little, so I put him in training pants. Turned out they just felt too much like a diaper, and he'd remember that it's okay to do his business in a diaper. So we got him some big boy underwear and make a big deal about them, and how he could be a big boy and keep them clean just like "insert male figure" if he could remember to tell us when he needed to go. It worked out really well. He had a few accidents, but quickly figured out that it was no fun waltzing about in drippy droopy drawers. He motivated himself. We used lots of different techniques, which ever worked best at the time... You gotta experiment and see what works best, and go with your babies flow. Candy worked well... Little candies for pee, and something more special for poops, eventually fazing out pee candy entirely. Big boy pants works great for the youngsters that are born with a clean streak(my Leo was) and can't stand a dirty bottom. I even let him run naked in the yard since it was summer at the time and I live in the sticks... They get a first hand view of whats going on, they can squat and watch whats happening. I think that was probably the most important thing in Leo's potty training... Getting to associate the feeling with what was coming out during any particular action. Kinda gross, but it got my baby outta diapers in four months. Another thing... You might try light, loose clothing... Sometimes Leo would have an accident if he was dressed heavily, like it felt like a diaper or was too restrictive to feel the urge maybe? Leo still needs help getting his pants up and down these days too... It's a motor-skills/functionality thing. If he's not coordinated enough to get them down, even if he understands whats going on and where and how to do it, he'll still have an accident if he can't get his pants off or becomes too frustrated trying. Thats where loose clothing comes in real handy.
that is awesome! Just keep doing what you are doing, eventually just put underwear on him... stay home for a weekend or so and just remind him to go ALOT ... take him CONSTANTLY .... and he will get it! Lots of praise too of course!
I think you all have great ideas! I'm realizing that he's just very young and thats it. He's mostly non-verbal, though he knows some signs, so he can't really communicate to us and it's a pretty complex thing we're asking him to do. He also has a hard time with the pulling up and down of the pants. The training pants we got him aren't diapery at all, I think he just doesn't know how to get them down. Today he sat down on his potty twice, fully dressed, and did his business. So he's kinda getting that even when he's dressed he's supposed to use it. Time and patience I think! Thanks for all the great advice!!
