My 2.5 year old won't drop a deuce in the potty.

[littlereddevil]

Tell your kid that their goal is to fill out this chart every time they go on the throne.

I know your wife, our kids are around the same age. We're in the middle of potty training too.

Monthly thing: After 2yrs, you go by halves: 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5...

I read somewhere that kids have this weird hangup: "Also, a lot of children think they have 'lost' part of their body when they make a poop and worry that their insides are going to come out and then disappear down the toilet! Saying a ceremonial 'goodbye poop' before flushing helps children overcome this anxiety."

I can believe having your kids trained fairly early. I taught Pux Jr. the sign language sign for milk when she was pretty young and the "toilet" sign is pretty simple to do, it's just getting to know your kids really well. Plus, my kids would always make this one particular face when she was trying to pinch a loaf, so I could sometimes get her to a toilet and I think this might have helped with her being comfortable around the toilet. (and if you remember a particular picture I posted in the poop vs. puke thread, you can understand my aversion to cleaning diapers Edit:link for the curious http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showpos...4&postcount=87 )

Does he have a sit down potty that is his size or are you using a seat on your bathroom toilet? We had her own down stairs and did the "run around naked" thing and let her sit and watch tv while doing the deed (although the new problem is when she sits on the potty, she's there for 15 minute, even for just a simple #1). Have you tried putting a potty behind the couch as well?

I think it's just persistence. Don't cave and put diapers back on, or you'll never gain any ground.
Good luck!

[JonDuke]

Thanks so much for all the help...even the smart ass ones which were a great laugh.
I love the idea of the chart and the "special" diaper and am excited to have him try them out.

[Ozy_Flame]

Can't you just let the poop fester in the diaper for 12 hours? Diaper rash is a good way to get the kid to enjoy pinching a loaf on the toilet.

[MotoRacer]

Snow him.

[Bindair Dundat]

My little guy (almost 3) has been "accident free" for about eight months now. I did most of the "work" with him, starting as soon as he could walk. Every single time I had to "go", I brought him along...before long it became a game and his interest soon got the better of him. I started with him flushing the toilet for me (which he loved) and he quickly started pulling his diaper off (all on his own) after being coaxed to "make a pee-pee like daddy" a few times. After joining me every morning (after that proverbial first cup of coffee) he also figured out that there was no reason to sit around in a pile of his own crap when he could just as easily pull his pants off and sit on his potty. He is fully independant now; even gets himself up and goes into the washroom on his own in the middle of the night.

Being a role model to your boy seems to go a long way in this "particular matter"...at least in my experience.

Getting him interested in "it" early on was likely the key thing.

[DuffMan]

get this book from Walmart even though you may not be a Hutterite and read it to him.


http://reviews.skbooks.com/?p=1188

Eddy is prepared to face the biggest challenge of his little life. His mother tells him that in order to officially become a big boy he must pass a certain test. And what is that test? He is instructed on how to make a rabbit or moch eh haselah when he sits on the potty. Eddy carefully listens to his mother’s instructions so that he too, can be a big boy and join the other children who help their fathers in the colony.
With the support and encouragement of his parents, grandmother and other members of his community, he learns that patience and perseverance will eventually accomplish his goal. When Eddy is finally successful, it is a milestone that is celebrated by the whole community. He is rewarded in a special way and moves on with confidence and pride. Eddy is now a big boy!

Me and my daughter bought a few of these for xmas last year and gave them to people who may or may not have young kids.

or just yell at him, he won't remember when he's grown up.

[oilyfan]

Our son is 2 years old and we asked the pediatrician when we should start potty training him, he said that the average age for potty training is actually 3 1/2 years. But he also said that you should look for signs like being uncomfortable or embarrassed when the child has messed themselves, or use their words to say that they need to go, that should give us a clue when to start.

There is evidence to suggest that children will regress and have a lot of accidents if potty trained too early.

[Table 5]

Potty trained at 3.5? Did this doctor go to the Pampers School of Medicine?

[Sliver]

Haha there is no way 3.5 is average. That would be on the absolute super high side of normal at best. I would think potty trained by 2.5 would be closer to the average.

[squiggs96]

Make him clean his own diaper. He's just playing you so that you clean up his dump.

[Huntingwhale]

Sometimes when I don't want to make stool, I have a quick read of one of these classics.

[oilyfan]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Haha there is no way 3.5 is average. That would be on the absolute super high side of normal at best. I would think potty trained by 2.5 would be closer to the average.

Looked it up looks like it is about 2.5 years, our pediatrician must be on drugs. http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/toilet.htm

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo

But who the heck wants to clean them? Cloth is a punishment for the parents!

Diaper service

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Can't you just let the poop fester in the diaper for 12 hours? Diaper rash is a good way to get the kid to enjoy pinching a loaf on the toilet.

Todays diapers hermetically seal the crap away from the kids arse and then give off a pleasing scent, I am of the opinion Pampers is planning on having us all wear diapers from birth to death eventually.

[flylock shox]

Sounds like a case of the terrible number twos.

I wonder what Freud would say about this.

[TheGrimm]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Haha there is no way 3.5 is average. That would be on the absolute super high side of normal at best. I would think potty trained by 2.5 would be closer to the average.

There is always a couple 30 year olds ruining the average for everyone else...

[JonDuke]

I'm sure the ideal post for many is not an update about how my son is doing, but I'm posting it anyway.

We were super excited after his first one. We had moved onto pressuring him, and thought it worked and we would move forward to success. He went a month before doing it again.
3 months later, and he's good.

I tried the cut out diaper, which I thought was a fantastic idea, but that failed for us. He still didn't want to sit on the toilet when he dropped one.

What did work for us was bribes and tons of praise. Showed him a "surprise" (chocolate, candy, or toys) that he would get if/when he did drop a deuce. It was super hard for the first month. Lots of crying, temper tantrums, and tears. The kid was pretty upset during this as well.
He finally started doing it and would get rewarded with the surprise and if I was there, I would call up my wife and have him show and tell her what he did and vice versa. Lots of praise, calls to granny so he could tell her, etc and it eventually worked.

It's been over a month now of him wearing "big boy underwear" and he hasn't had an accident. We still have him wear a diaper when he sleeps, although he hasn't needed it for about 2 weeks so that will go soon too. Even though the rewards have ended, he still gets super excited and lets us now know when he has to pinch one out, even if we are out at the mall or park. At home, he just goes by himself and calls when he's done. Now it's time to teach him how to wipe himself clean after, which will bring up one of life's biggest debates: Folded toilet paper or scrunched.

Thanks again for all the suggestions!

[CaptainCrunch]

Tape him to the toilet and feed him super turbo blow.

[Northendzone]

Originally Posted by Huntingwhale

Sometimes when I don't want to make stool, I have a quick read of one of these classics.

I want to change my CP handle to Senor CaCa