He's not ready, right?

sunandsand

DS is 33 months. He went potty in the little chair once a month ago, got a reward, we went crazy with excitement, and hasn't done it since. Every night he sits on the potty, but doesn't go. He gets in the tub and immediately pees standing up. Once I took the seat part out of the potty and held it up to his body and he peed in it while standing.

Is there something else I should try or should we just drop it for a few months? He starts preschool in the fall so I'd like to get the ball rolling but he doesn't have to be completely trained when he starts.  

 

Smores730

At 2.5 he's definitely capable of toilet training. The better question is: is he willing to learn? The only way you're going to figure that out is to push him. Having him sit on the potty and hoping that it coincides with him having to pee usually isn't enough to teach toilet training. He needs to learn what the feeling is that proceeds urinating/BM and then of course what to do about it. I'm a big advocate of the 3 day potty method-esque take on things. Pick a weekend, put them in underpants and make them learn by their mistakes (accidents).

queenie521

When teaching my kids to PT, since I have boys and they think passing gas is funny (we call it Stinkers), I put him on the potty and tell him to make a big stinker and laugh.  He thinks it is funny and squeezes.....this often results in him peeing and we laugh and high five and say "YAY, AGAIN, AGAIN!"  Now I can just tell him to make some pee and he understands what he has to do to make that happen.  IT is all about teaching them what muscles to use in whatever clever way you can.