Help with potty training

hotstuff2

Hi
Im looking for advice on potty training. Ive been training my 2 and a half year old son for a month now. He likes using the potty and will go on it at home once he has no clothes on his bottom half. However once i put any trousers or pants on him he uses them like a nappy. He wears training pants when we go out and will happily use the potty when i remind him however if i dont get there quick enough he wees in his pants. Im wondering if i started training too young. Shd i just go bk to nappies for another few months until hes ready or will i make matters worse by going backwards? Should i just continue until it clicks with him? What to do, what to do....

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Keep going as you are. They will have little accidents..its part of the course. Dont let it worry you that he wants his trousers off when he goes.

My little lad is 22 months and my wife has put him on the potty since last summer.
He still uses nappies at night and when we are out.
Around the house he's in a pair of trousers/shorts and no nappy. There was a puddle on the floor this morning. My wife knows when he wants to do a poo.( i don't know how )

I was listening to a specialist recently on radio who said training pants actually did more harm than good as it lengthened the process.
i would think their are good when your out until he gets more control though.

We always make it a great thing when he uses the potty or toilet and its never an issue when he uses the floor.
She was trained at 12 months :eek:

January

I think you should stop and give it a rest for a month or so. It's obvious his muscles aren't strong enough to hold in a wee just yet. Is he aware when he pee's? Does he get distressed if he wets himself?

I tried to train my daughter when she was 2yrs 9 months and she wasn't ready to go, just kept weeing on the floor. 2 months later I tried again and it clicked with her straight away. She night trained a few months after.

hotstuff2

Thanks for your responses. I think I will keep going for another while. Health visitor told me never to go back to nappies as it will just confuse him. He is doing everything on the potty at home so dont want to start going backwards. Hopefully he'll get the hang of it soon.

Ickle Magoo

I think for some kids it just takes longer for the full-bladder feeling to be associated with the toilet in time...my wee man self-trained with no prompting pretty much over-night at 22months and yet by 3 my daughter was still struggling to get herself to the toilet unprompted day-time and wearing nappies at night. We let her pootle along - big praise for the hits and ignoring the misses and as January says, one day it just clicked and she didn't looked back but for whatever reason, it definitely took much more patience/perseverance.

All the best. :cool:

Zoria

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

I think for some kids it just takes longer for the full-bladder feeling to be associated with the toilet in time...my wee man self-trained with no prompting pretty much over-night at 22months and yet by 3 my daughter was still struggling to get herself to the toilet unprompted day-time and wearing nappies at night. We let her pootle along - big praise for the hits and ignoring the misses and as January says, one day it just clicked and she didn't looked back but for whatever reason, it definitely took much more patience/perseverance.

All the best. :cool:

I agree with you on this, particularly your first line. I think it would be a mistake to go back to full time nappy wearing, especially if a child is keen and quite happy to go on the potty. Stopping the routine would be counter productive in my opinion. There will definitely be a "click" moment when the toddler will associate a full bladder with the potty, but between now and then just talk to him. "You'll tell me when you want to wee won't you?" I've always said, and somewhere there between the "click" happens

highly1111

I personally stopped and started 3 times. 3 times lucky! I tried twice with him and he just wasnt ready - uses to get upset with the potty and found it too much. I didnt want him to form any negative associations so I stopped and tried again a week later. Then he was pretty much trained overnight and we've had no issues. I personally don't put a pull up on when when we're going out. I make sure he goes before we leave and I watch his fluid intake when we're out if there's no nearby loo. Haven't had an accident yet - but my lazy boy was 3 years 2 months!!

Das Kitty

We're getting to that stage now. He's asked for a potty as he's seen them in creche so we bought one. So far he's sat on it and that's about the height of it.

He's only just started telling us after he poos, still not phased by wee in his nappy. I don't want to push him if he's not fully ready.

I have a week off in a weeks' time. We're going to be eliminating the dodies and moving him to a bed. I think adding potty training into that mix would be too much for the poor fella all at once.

hotstuff2

Today was a much better day. Started putting him on the potty every half hour and no accidents at all. Will try it for a week and extend the time by 5/10 mins the following week.