PT Questions...

Princess_Lily

DS is in Pullups during the day with offered pee breaks, and Diapers at night.

There have been signals of needing to potty (grabbing himself, telling me he needs to go, hiding to poop), but he still wants to go in his pullup/diaper.

Should we give him regular underwear in the day, offering to go every 1/2 hour?  This way if there is an accident, he recognizes its too uncomfortable to be in underwear, therefore it will encourage him to utilize the potty?

 

Also I can't find an insert that works for DS.  Our regular toilet seat makes him uncomfortable...and the inserts we have bought (2+) are too small and he ends up peeing on the insert.  Would you suggest teaching him to pee standing up?  He is used to the Baby Bijorn potty now, and sits to pee (random intervals).  Any suggestions? 

Brewtowngrl

We lets DS pick out is underwear.  He was really exited about it then.  

We have this instead of a ring.  

https://www.homedepot.com/Bath-Toilets-Toilet-Seats-Bidets-Toilets-Toilet-Seats/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbzay/R-202744923/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&storeId=10051&superSkuId=202751347

jlw2505

I personally hate the potty chair things and just find them totally nasty so I never used them with my girls.  I have a few friends who did use them and they said they had to basically retrain their kids to use a real potty and being out of the house was an issue.  As far as moving to undies - I personally would wait.  I am not a believer if they feel wet it will make them potty train as it never worked with my kids - heck my 4 year old potty child would still sit in wet undies now when she has accidents - it just does not phase her.  When they are ready to train, a wet diaper or pull-up will feel gross enough to them.  With my older DD (trained night and day at 2 years 9 months) when she started asking to go on the potty most of the time, we switched to cloth training undies with a plastic cover and she only used those for about 2 weeks before she was ready for real undies.  The cover simple made the clean up from accidents less of a mess.  My 4 year old was a nightmare to train - she was ready for pee at 16 months but refused to poop on the potty until right before she turned 3.  We tried going to undies but after a month of daily accidents (2-3 a day) we moved her to pull-ups - it gave her the ability to go on the potty if she wanted but it was not a big deal for her go in the pull-up.  She knew the difference between a pull-up and diaper as at that point, we still had her sleeping in a diaper as she was very wet at night.  She most often would pee in the potty and poop in the pull-up.  Once she started pooping in the potty, a few weeks before her 3rd birthday, we moved to undies and she moved to a pull-up at night.  She was night trained a few months before her 4th birthday - she told me one morning she was done with the pull-ups and has not had a night time accident yet and it has been about 3-4 months.  Follow your childs lead - reward with something simple when truly ready (and that being your child telling you he needs to go and not you taking him to the potty and making him try).  We did a Skittle for every pee in the potty and a few Skittles for every poop.  Once we started being mostly dry, we moved to a Skittle at the end of the day for every dry day and added bigger rewards for going a week dry and then 2 weeks dry, etc.  For every regression, we go back to the Skittle a day thing and it works wonders for us.

Jena503

We have the built-in seat that was posted, and it works well but sometimes still gets wet with a "crazy pee". We just taught him to point his penis down. He still sits. Oh, and we have a potty chair too, a little cheap one from ikea. He likes both and he like to be able to choose. When he started out, he used the chair more, but that might have been because he was following DD to the bathroom and they pottied side-by-side.

We've never done pullups as their daycare doesn't allow them. He spent most of last summer naked while at home and had only a few accidents. It took a little longer for him to figure out that he couldn't pee in underwear, but eventually it clicked and he's been day PTd since January. I'm about ready to toss the night diapers too since they're usually dry (if he does night train soon, he'll be years ahead of DD who has only been out of night diapers for 6mo, so 4.5yo).

I have no idea when we'll teach him to stand. His one attempt at it did not go well (this was grandma's idea and, thankfully, at grandma's house, so it was pretty funny)

My only tip is to make sure you always put poop in the potty and that he sees you do it. I think it was helpful for my kids because they knew that no matter what, poop goes in the potty so pooping on the toilet was never a big deal for either of them.