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damienmommy

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I having a question for you all who is parents. When did your daughter/son finally can go to potty by themselves? And when did you start to training them? And how?

My son is 2 half years old. He haven't go to potty by himself. I had to remind him all the time. He still using the diapers. Diapers is expensive, I am tired of buy it all the times. I am on tight money and even worst because christmas is coming soon.

He did pee and poop very rarely but not by himself, I told him to go sit on the potty. He stay there for long time then finally potty or poop.

p.s. My kid's class, kids is 2 years old, and everybody wear the diapers too. Nobody know how to go to potty either. And my teacher told me that normal is girls learn early than boys for use bathroom. And boys finally can do it at 3 years old. But my kid's dad said no, my kid is late for that. And my mom said no it's not late. Mostly start at age of 3. I am confused, so I asking you here.
 
Your son's teacher told you correctly. Boys usually are later than girls. You could start training him by putting him on the potty at the time he usually messes his diaper. Then praise him and tell him what a big boy he is for going potty in the toilet.
 
It takes awhile to potty train a child, sometimes. Most parents take their cue from the child that they are ready to begin potty training. Some signals that they made be ready is that they don't like the wet feeling, or they'll actually start to take off the wet diaper.

You can also introduce them to the potty and the flushing. Let them watch you and then flush the toilet and maybe have the kid wave byebye to it. Once they understand what the potty is for, you can begin to place them on the potty and see what happens. Rewarding them for a result in the potty might also be a good idea. And, I would say be PATIENT. Sometimes, it takes awhile to train a child. Boys tend to take longer than girls, so the teacher is correct. My neice was fully trained by age 3 yrs old. My nephew wan't fully potty trained until he was 4.5 yrs old.


Good luck!
 
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Yes, boys usually comes in later than the girls on potty training.

From my experience, What I did was take my son to the restroom every hour or every other hour to get him into the routine of using the restroom to pee or poop. Since my son is also deaf, I couldn't use the flushing sound or turning the sink faucet on to get him to have the idea of having the feel (or to hear it) of the need to go. Once he got the hang of it, He finally was able to pick up on it and understood what it felt like for him to have the need to go.

Rewarding your son is also a start too. You can give him like an m&m candy (of course not a whole alot - just a few) or something like that. A lot of praises are wonderful too because it also builds your son's self esteem knowing that he's a BIG boy now.

Good Luck! Let us know how the potty training progress goes.
 
Yes boys takes much longer and I know diapers costs a lot of money.

Let your son take his time & let him decide when he is ready.

What you can do is during the daytime (at home) start teaching him to wear his "big boy undies" and at night time "potty shorts".

Encourage him to wear his "big boy undies" at school and wear his "potty shorts" if he needs to. Reward him with praise and encouragement.
 
I potty trained my son close to 3 but it took me only 4 months to train him. Not too bad.

Remind him often, like every 1/2 hour to 1 hour...

good luck!

I would put him on underwear and make him feel uncomfortable with being wet.

My friend's 3rd son trained himself...they haven't taught him to go the bathroom! We were like :shock: :shock:, it happen when he was 2. Now he is 3. He learned from his brothers...now 4th baby boy will learn from them, who know! :hmm: Poor them they got 4 boys!
 
LakeTahoe said:
I potty trained my son close to 3 but it took me only 4 months to train him. Not too bad.

Remind him often, like every 1/2 hour to 1 hour...

good luck!

I would put him on underwear and make him feel uncomfortable with being wet.

My friend's 3rd son trained himself...they haven't taught him to go the bathroom! We were like :shock: :shock:, it happen when he was 2. Now he is 3. He learned from his brothers...now 4th baby boy will learn from them, who know! :hmm: Poor them they got 4 boys!
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My sister was like that. She took off her wet diaper and handed it to my Mother. :giggle: Mom took that as a cue to assemble the potty chair. Well, my sister didn't want that, either. She disassembled the potty chair and decided she'd use the big potty! Trained herself in a few weeks. She was about 2-2.5 yrs old.
 
damienmommy said:
p.s. My kid's class, kids is 2 years old, and everybody wear the diapers too. Nobody know how to go to potty either. And my teacher told me that normal is girls learn early than boys for use bathroom. And boys finally can do it at 3 years old. But my kid's dad said no, my kid is late for that. And my mom said no it's not late. Mostly start at age of 3. I am confused, so I asking you here.
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Not all boys are ready at the same, my oldest son was potty trained at the age of one, and he stopped using pull-ups before he turned 2. My youngest one start at the age of 2 and stopped using pull-ups before the age of 3.

Your son needs your help and guidance, use the potty toilet seat not those potty seat that goes on the floor because it's much harder for boys to use those than girls. I would buy a toilet seat that goes on the toilet and a steps along with it, the boys would love that. Remember it doesn't take overnight, it takes a couple months before a child learned not to wet in their pull-ups anymore.


For the first timer, use the child's toilet seating on toilet, and let your son sit on it even during the time he has to pee too, before he learned to pee standing up., Take him to the bathroom every hour as possible to use the toilet, every time he pees in the toilet, reward him a treat (fruit snacks) or his favorite snack for a job well done. And after he is done eating, take him to the bathroom within a half hour or 45 minutes. But, remember kids will have accidents, and that can happen because they are learning how to use the toilet. If anyone is watching your kid while you work, make sure they follow the same routine, it'll successful! Good luck girl!! :)
 
3 kids later, 2 boys and one girl , i can say boys do take longer but there is no reason why you cant have boys start early like at 2. I started out with just focus on pee during the day and then few months and then work on staying dry at night. Number 2 usually takes care of it self and kids do associate pee and number 2 together. my second boy took longer but i was willing to wash underwear and have extra clothes with me all the time since it was cheaper. Its nice to have garage sales to get really cheap clothes or friends give away clothes so i always have alot of extras. In the end , its all about patience , patience, patience.:lol:
 
Thanks to you all for help me with potty training's advice. I'll try to remember to make him go to bathroom every 1 hour. Thanks! I will let you know if it worked or not. :ty:
 
Oceanbreeze said:
My neice was fully trained by age 3 yrs old. My nephew wan't fully potty trained until he was 4.5 yrs old.
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Wow I never seen anyone fully potty trained at age of 4 half. My kid's dad keep telling me that he's late for potty training etc. So that's why I was worryin if he's really late or kid's dad might be wrong. I guess he's wrong. :giggle:
 
Jolie77 said:
Yes, boys usually comes in later than the girls on potty training.

From my experience, What I did was take my son to the restroom every hour or every other hour to get him into the routine of using the restroom to pee or poop. Since my son is also deaf, I couldn't use the flushing sound or turning the sink faucet on to get him to have the idea of having the feel (or to hear it) of the need to go. Once he got the hang of it, He finally was able to pick up on it and understood what it felt like for him to have the need to go.
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My son is deaf too. Thanks for explain about what to do w ur deaf kid for potty training.
 
Cheri said:
Your son needs your help and guidance, use the potty toilet seat not those potty seat that goes on the floor because it's much harder for boys to use those than girls. I would buy a toilet seat that goes on the toilet and a steps along with it, the boys would love that. Remember it doesn't take overnight, it takes a couple months before a child learned not to wet in their pull-ups anymore.


For the first timer, use the child's toilet seating on toilet, and let your son sit on it even during the time he has to pee too, before he learned to pee standing up., Take him to the bathroom every hour as possible to use the toilet, every time he pees in the toilet, reward him a treat (fruit snacks) or his favorite snack for a job well done. And after he is done eating, take him to the bathroom within a half hour or 45 minutes. But, remember kids will have accidents, and that can happen because they are learning how to use the toilet. If anyone is watching your kid while you work, make sure they follow the same routine, it'll successful! Good luck girl!! :)
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He's scared to use the big toilet.
 
damienmommy said:
He's scared to use the big toilet.
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Do you have something like this>>
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Or
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damienmommy said:
Wow I never seen anyone fully potty trained at age of 4 half. My kid's dad keep telling me that he's late for potty training etc. So that's why I was worryin if he's really late or kid's dad might be wrong. I guess he's wrong. :giggle:
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Four and a half is late. He really should have trained long before he actually did, but we had some extra issues we had to deal with him. Once we figured out what was going on, we worked with him on it and got him trained. It also helped that his sister was also starting to train and that helped speed the process along. Both kids are 15 mos apart in age, so when she potty trained, it was easier to finish training him.
 
mostly parents always can afford getting diapers at dollars stores or whatevers stores how much money of diapers im tell you!

my younger cousin Olivia who been training potty they finally learn become potty training very sucessful than older siblings who didnt train potty!
 
sara1981 said:
mostly parents always can afford getting diapers at dollars stores or whatevers stores how much money of diapers im tell you!

my younger cousin Olivia who been training potty they finally learn become potty training very sucessful than older siblings who didnt train potty!
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What??? One dollar store have diapers. Very doubtful. lol

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Yup! Dollarama (Canada) Dollar Tree (USA) carries diapers but they are in smaller numbers like 3's. They're great to have for daycare, travelling and purses.
 
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