[Bre*n*Will=Reid]

I was reading and noticed that a lot of other kids Reid's age (Oliver, Landen) are starting to potty train and making progress. I even have a couple of friend's who have kids who are completely trained (Reid's age) - Anyone else still completely in diapers? I haven't really TRIED to potty train Reid, but he sits on the potty at least once or twice a day (for like the past 6 months....) and has NEVER gone. He asks to sit on it, but then just plays and tries to put toilet paper in the bowl. lol. One day I put him in undies to see what he would do when he peed himself....he FREAKED and started crying and then wouldn't let me put undies on him again So, that was the end of that for now.

[~*sierra*~]

maybe he's just not ready? i have no idea how this all works!

[Frozendesire]

Just keep talking/showing him potty stuff and things. Keep it in his mind and he'll show you when he's ready.

We got Curtis a potty for his 2nd birthday. He didn't have anything to do with it for a few months... then I kinda gave him a push. He would be completely naked and we'd clean up any accidents that happened. Then when he figured that out (we always had the potty in the same room as us) we moved to undies and then to pants/shorts. He wasn't completely pee trained until closer to three and we are still working on #2.

Just have to wait till hes ready

[.Brandi.]

We haven't with Preston, but I'm going to start next week.

[soImarriedAnerd]

how about having him watch you guys go, maybe some books about potty time, just keep talking about it... I'm sure it will click.

[Alison81]

I wouldn't push it. You can buy pull ups and say, have him sit on the potty a few times a day, in the morning, before or after lunch, and then before bed. Just to get him used to sitting on it. It also can help to read a book, even about going potty, while he sits. At 2 I wouldn't push, but once they get to 3 usually it's time to put them on a potty schedule, say, sitting every 1-2 hours during the day for a few minutes at a time, being neutral when he doesn't go, just, ok, get up, wash your hands, then go play. And then when he DOES go, really, really make a big deal and reward him. Elsa was 2.5 when I started her, put her in pull-ups at first, had her sit every hour, when she went she got candy, when she didn't, nothing. She picked up on it pretty quick and once her pull up was staying dry, I took the pull ups off and did underwear, still taking her every hour.

[Angelaosaurus-rex]

I have been working on it non-stop for a while now and he didn't really pick it up until about 2ish 3 weeks ago!!! I read him tons of books and let him watch me go but what really got him to do it was this potty movie I got at the library and a lot of motivation. I give him a sticker every time he goes potty and he puts them on his door to his room. I bring his potty in what ever room we are in and I ask him every 10ish minuets if he needs to go, and he is always naked (naked stage lol) so that helps. he is doing really good with pee but he refuses to poop in the potty. Since he is normally naked he will bring me a diaper if he needs to poop. LOL!

Don't worry too much he will go when he is ready!!!

[niknok]

Drake has no interest in it. He likes his potty, but only as a toy. I can't figure out a good time to try and do it since I work full time. And honestly, I'm not in a hurry. We are going to Disney in March, for a week, and I don't want to have to stop for the bathroom every hour while we are in the parks.

[Mars]

We've started but are taking it very slowly.

Don't rush him but you can coax him with some books and the Elmo's Potty Time DVD is not too bad either.

I sneak over to the potty board and try to get loads of hints. I plan to do the all day naked thing after the holidays since we're going to be out and about quite a bit over the next few weeks. I've heard by word of mouth that method is one of the most effective. I have not research it.

[Resi]

Bre, I bet he is ready and would really surprise you if he gave it a few days! I'd say Oliver is completely trained but can still have an accident from time to time (like 1 every couple weeks). I would have never thought he was ready when I started potty training him. I told myself I would give it a week and if no progress was made I would try again in a few months. I figured he would be close to 3 before he was PT. He was like Reid when I started. NEVER went in the potty chair, would not sit on the potty chair naked, and only sat on it for a few seconds with clothes on while I was on the toliet. What worked was letting him run around the house bare bottomed. THe first two days he peed on the carpet and had several accidents. I spent time with him in the bathroom reading books and making games to try to get him to sit on the potty chair naked. If he started peeing when he wasn't on the potty I would run him over to it. THe first couple days I made sure the potty chair was in the same room we were in. By the second night it started to click. I didn't think it was going any where but all of a sudden he went and sat on the potty and peed without us knowing! The third day and on he would tell me or go sit on it. He still would miss getting to it at times but he was basicly trained by the 3rd day. Next was him staying dry at nap time. I'd say after the first few days he was always dry after his nap. I would just have to take him to the potty asap when he woke up. Then maybe a month later he started staying dry at night time and has for the most part since then.

Never thought it would be so simple for us!! PT was maybe the easiest parenting thing yet! I thought it would be awful but not at all. Poop is easy too. The only thing with poop is he hates doing it because he says it hurts him but he will always go on the potty when he has to and stops fighting it.

Give it a try bare bottomed for 5 days and I bet he will catch on! Lots or praise and don't make a big deal if he makes a mess.

[Resi]

Oh and I wanted to add... I never put him back in diapers once we started except at night time. Ever when we went out I kept him in underwear (we stayed home for the first several days). I take a potty chair with in the car and he will use it if he has to go bad enough. Most of the time he will hold it for hours if we are out. He won't use a big toliet in public yet. I just make sure to pack an extra outfit in case he does wet himself. I personaly think that using a pull up is sending a mixed signal. To me it's like "am I using a potty or a diaper? why use the potty when I can just pee in the diaper like I've always been doing?" Or they feel the diaper and it doesn't click to go to a potty because they are trained to use the diaper from birth. I also think that at 2 they can be easier to train. The older they get the more set in their ways and it might be a bit harder then. That is just my view on it and with my child.

Oh and I asked Oliver like every 2 seconds if he had to pee or would remind he that we are potty training. I still ask him if he has to go to remind him but maybe only every couple hours if he hasn't gone in awhile.

[~Jess~]

I swear boys are harder than girls. Lyssa is fully trained, but neither of my boys was fully trained until 3+ and I had to fight them about it. Lyssa pretty much trained herself!

[SandKmommy]

I believe in letting the child tell you when they are ready not when you are ready. Seamus was 2yrs 9.5mo when he asked to go potty and within a couple weeks he was fully pee trained, pooing took till 3yrs 1mo but he got it. We're still working on night but the doc's said thats normal. Boys generally don't train till 2½-3½ they are slower then girls on that part.
Kieran is a few months younger then Reid and she wont be training any time soon even though I see tons that are born the same month as her or with in weeks that are training.

[ScottishBrit]

Oh Please!!! You know Cambria wants NOTHING to do with the potty! She's gone on it a few times but she thinks it's a game. She doesn't have that " feeling" before she goes. She doesn't even mind being wet or dirty! She drives me nut's. It's hard to train her with Baylen needing my attention. I think Im gonna buckle down more at the begaining of the year but I know she's not ready yet. Ive been putting her in pull ups and letting her pull them up and down but thats as far as we go. I did buy her some undies for her stocking though.

[Nami]

Chris will scream his head off if you try and put him anywhere near the potty! You can even ask him if he wants to use the potty and he just shakes his head and hand at me then walks away. I will not push it, he will potty on his own time. Of course I fully expect Chris to be in diapers even at 4, his diapers seem to be a comfort thing for him.

[Resi]

Originally Posted by ScottishBrit

Oh Please!!! You know Cambria wants NOTHING to do with the potty! She's gone on it a few times but she thinks it's a game. She doesn't have that " feeling" before she goes. She doesn't even mind being wet or dirty! She drives me nut's. It's hard to train her with Baylen needing my attention. I think Im gonna buckle down more at the begaining of the year but I know she's not ready yet. Ive been putting her in pull ups and letting her pull them up and down but thats as far as we go. I did buy her some undies for her stocking though.

Olive never ever cared if he was wet or dirty either. He never told me he had to pee either.

[**Jenn**]

Liam was 2 1/2 when we started training him--took about a week to be pee and poop trained. I agree about being bottomless--that's what really worked for us. I also agree about no pull ups, I think it sends a mixed message too because they really are just diaper you pull up instead of fasten with the tapes. Liam never asked to pee and never cared if he was wet or poopy until we switched to cloth. He freaked out the first time he pooped in his cloth--he hated it so much. He told me he wanted his old diapers back. I told him these were his new diapers so he either used these or he goes in the potty like a big boy. He chose potty. Now he had peed on the potty several times before that but I think it was more because I was sitting him on there at good times (like soon after he would eat and when he first woke in the morning and after nap). Like Resi we took the potty chair everywhere with us for the first month or two. I would line it with a plastic grocery bag so I could just tie up the bag after he went and throw it away instead of riding around with a messy potty chair and/or trying to find a place to clean it. Now he wasn't night trained until just before Lila was born, he is such a deep and sound sleeper he never woke up when he had to pee. Plus we have a long history of bed wetting in my family and I know that is hereditary so it wasn't something I wanted to push and make him feel ashamed about it when it wasn't something he could control.

Lochy was so super easy. It literally took 2 days for him to be completely trained, during the day and at night. He was just 2 (would have been sooner but I had to wait til my morning sickness passed) and wanted to be like Liam so that helped a lot. I told him no more diapers and that was it. He had a couple accidents the first day but after that, nothing. We did the bottomless thing the first couple days but quickly moved on to him staying fully dressed.

All in all I think we had a very easy time with potty training. Oh we also did rewards when they would go. One m&m if they peed and 2 if they pooped, nothing if they didn't do anything. And praised the heck out of them! I hope Lila is as easy.

[.Brandi.]

Originally Posted by ~Jess~

I swear boys are harder than girls. Lyssa is fully trained, but neither of my boys was fully trained until 3+ and I had to fight them about it. Lyssa pretty much trained herself!

Edward was a nightmare to train!!! He's 5 years old and we STILL struggle with accidents!!! Mostly I think the continued accidents are for attention purposes!

[Bre*n*Will=Reid]

Resi, you've totally inspired me. I think Oliver is a lot like Reid in most ways (from the things you say) - stubborn So, that gives me hope that he trained so easily! I think I will let Reid go bottomless for a while, but we go somewhere nearly every day What should I do then? Just bring extra clothes and hopes he doesn't pee while in a store? hehe.

Reid doesn't like being poopy - he will say down and hold his legs up and call out, "Mommy!! Reid poopy! Change the diaper!" hahaha.

I guess it just worried me because I DO put him on the potty a lot, I let him watch me go, and he still has never gone on the potty....not once. We don't have any books or DVD's but I will probably get some. He is very influenced by Sesame Street - like when he sees someone on TV eating a sandwich, he asks for a sandwich....when he sees people jumping or running, he does the same. etc.

[JediRach]

Here are 2 sesame street potty videoes

YouTube - "Elmo's Potty Time" Trailer
YouTube - Elmo's Potty Time: Sesame Street