Potty training 2 year old boy

Re: Potty training 2 year old boy

• galbaby18 member

  July 2023 edited July 2023

  You can try getting him some “big boy underpants” with cool patterns and use that as an incentive.  Something like, “You know, if you start using the big boy potty, you can start wearing these cool big boy undies with dinosaurs on them.  Would you like that?”.  I’ve also known some moms who incentivized potty training with candy or other treats.  I personally chose not to use candy or treats because I didn’t want my son expecting a reward every time and potentially taking advantage of the system (also we aren’t big in sugar).  But, I do know that it works for some people.  You can also try letting him go naked during the day to learn about how poop and pee come out and gain more self awareness (I tried this for a couple of days but wasn’t a fan).  We incentivized our son with big boy underwear and also talked about how poop and pee are “kind of yucky” and it’s better to flush them down the potty than to have diapers. It’s also important to just make sure that you are bringing him to the potty regularly just to give him the opportunity.  

  
  

  Ultimately, I found that I just had to stay consistent with reminding him about the potty and trying to take him the bathroom throughout the day.  Then, one day it just clicked and he started using the potty all of time on his own.  It took a few months, but it worked.  I definitely wouldn’t recommend slacking off on potty training, even if it doesn’t seem to be working.  I had a friend who didn’t stick with it and figured she would try again at a later date, and her son is now 5 and still poops himself at home because he was used to wearing pull ups for so many years.  So, I think being consistent but not pushy is best.
  
  Good luck!

  Report2 Reply
• Loading the player...
• mamajamie88 member

  July 2023

  With my son, when he turned 2, every morning when he woke up I would offer him either a pair of underpants or a pair of pull ups and I would let him pick which one he wanted to wear. If he chose underwear I would tell him OK these are your big boy undies and when you wear these you have to put all your pee pee and poo pee in the potty OK? He would agree and inevitably have an accident and I would say whoops, when you wear your big boy undies you have to put your poopy and your pee pee in the potty remember? Oh well that’s OK and then I would put him in pull-ups. And I did this every time he woke up from a nap and every time he woke up in the morning. If he chose pull-ups that was OK with me which he chose a lot because he did t like having accidents. And then I would always just talk to him about pooping and peeing like I would say things like mommy puts her pee pee and poop pee in the potty and so does daddy and so does Grandpa and I will just name people he knows and tell him that and just have little conversations with him about it. Then when I could tell he was really starting to get it… Which took a few months I think he was almost 2 1/2 I just had him run around the house naked for three days. He was completely potty trained after those three days.

  Report1 Reply
• brendawjkh member

  August 2023

  Hello, when my son turned exactly 2 years old, he completely refused to use the potty. And already at 2 years and 6 months, he started asking to use the potty by himself.

  Report1 Reply
• j-redd222 member

  February 2024

  I did the 3 day potty training method and it’s worked great. I know some people want to let their kids choose to go to the potty and get nervous that making a hard transition will make them dislike the potty but I had the opposite experience. I waited for a time when both my husband and I were completely free and then we told our daughter that she is a big girl and it’s time to go to the bathroom on the potty, not in a diaper. We got her a cool potty that she picked out and had her completely naked for 3 days during the day while we stayed home and taught her. This made it impossible for her to ignore when she went to the bathroom. We set a timer for every 30 minutes and had her sit on the potty every time the timer went off. There were accidents and it got messy but after peeing twice and it running down her legs while I tried to get her to the potty as fast as I could she soon realized what it felt like when she had to go potty and where she needed to do her pee so she wasn’t uncomfortable. We slowly transitioned to just underwear or loose fitting pants and had her still go to the potty at regular intervals until she told us she had to go. From the day we introduced the potty, it was not an optional thing. She did push back slightly on it but we stood firm and she loves going to the potty so it didn’t effect her overall view of it. We celebrated and she got special treats when she went on the potty- stickers, a chocolate, a snack she really enjoys, etc. She has very few accidents now and has been able to recognize when she needs to go, pull down her pants and underwear and sit on the potty on her own without a timer every time she uses the potty. It might not be for everyone but it worked wonders for me!

  Report0 Reply